top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-15

Modern JavaScript Tutorial

https://javascript.info/

4 years ago

538 upvotes – 101 comments

Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

https://christine.website/blog/fly.io-heroku-replacement

4 years ago

528 upvotes – 299 comments

Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard

https://github.com/brickbots/framedeck

4 years ago

440 upvotes – 131 comments

The problem with Bitcoin miners

https://paulbutler.org/2022/the-problem-with-bitcoin-miners/

4 years ago

436 upvotes – 496 comments

Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Classic-Japanese-audio-brand-Onkyo-files-for-bankruptcy

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 290 comments

Cron-based backup for SQLite

https://litestream.io/alternatives/cron/

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 82 comments

`curl wttr.in`: Weather in your terminal

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

4 years ago

368 upvotes – 143 comments

The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option

https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/

4 years ago

344 upvotes – 149 comments

Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021)

https://www3.nd.edu/~dthain/compilerbook/

4 years ago

293 upvotes – 68 comments

Jabra denies support for Elite 85t Bluetooth earbuds on computers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31388163

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 214 comments

Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79&p=187#p187

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 247 comments

Taskwarrior

https://taskwarrior.org/

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 38 comments

Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16

https://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/1212022/

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 56 comments

How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/how-did-tropicana-lose-30-million-in-a-packaging-redesign-53d30a1e2b3a

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 266 comments

Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)

http://shadyurl.com/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 52 comments

Sleep helps process emotions

https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2022/media_releases_2022/how_sleep_helps_to_process_emotions/index_eng.html

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 70 comments

Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research

https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/20/minoan-language-linear-a-linear-b/

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 90 comments

Mainboard Terminal – A Retro-Style Computer with a Modern Core

https://github.com/penk/MainboardTerminal

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 40 comments

Web Scraping with Python

https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/web-scraping-101-with-python/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Why are people in real life so different?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31388731

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 246 comments

Heroku: Core Impact

https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/033-heroku

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 32 comments

See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment

https://thehustle.co/how-a-small-candy-company-became-warren-buffetts-dream-investment/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 203 comments

Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android

https://baak6.com/baikal-openbsd-fossdroid/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 61 comments

A lock-free, concurrent, generic queue in 32 bits

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/05/14/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 89 comments

I finally got Twitter after years of not getting it

https://martinboss.com/how-to-twitter-martin-way/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 215 comments

The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux

https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 30 comments

Liberating out-of-copyright photos from SmartFrame's DRM

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/05/liberating-out-of-copyright-photos-from-smartframes-drm/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?

https://astrid.tech/2022/04/05/1/dead-tlds/

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 133 comments

Communication costs are 35-fold computational costs in the human brain (2021)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2008173118

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 71 comments

Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words

https://twitter.com/npew/status/1525900849888866307

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

Golang Diaries: Generics

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/05/14/Golang-Generics

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 107 comments

Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/national-security-china-international-science-tech-talent

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 269 comments

Crowdsource by Google

https://crowdsource.google.com/about/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 131 comments

The tech sector teardown is more catharsis than crisis

https://www.ft.com/content/6a137523-26d5-4285-8b98-c273f1fb6d1a

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 246 comments

About iCloud Private Relay

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT212614

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 138 comments

Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/who-owns-the-copyright-to-my-medical-images/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: Senior Engineers with ADHD, any mental/physical structures for work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31389724

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 54 comments

Why a Zimbabwean firm offers pensions denominated in cows

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/05/14/why-a-zimbabwean-firm-offers-pensions-denominated-in-cows

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 85 comments

Linux for Networking Professionals

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Linux-for-Networking-Professionals

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

Tylr: A tiny tile-based editor

https://tylr.fun/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421522001756

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 76 comments

Sound Blaster (DOS)

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Sound_Blaster_(DOS)

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: KittenDNS – Easy to setup, rule engine, LetsEncrypt compatible

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31391376

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

How I Started to See Trees as Smart

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/how-i-started-to-see-trees-as-smart

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

DIY High Resolution Spectrometer (2018)

https://publiclab.org/notes/homechemist/08-24-2018/diy-high-resolution-spectrometer

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

The rebellion against the return to the office is getting serious

https://www.wsj.com/articles/remote-workers-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-office-11652500810

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 167 comments

Open Source Calendly Alternative

https://www.meetsy.xyz/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

What does code readability mean? (2018)

https://typicalprogrammer.com/what-does-code-readability-mean

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 71 comments

Operator precedence by textual substitution

https://www.kmjn.org/notes/operator_precedence_fortran.html

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Google Account has been disabled because of a Python code

https://old.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/ukaauk/your_google_account_has_been_disabled_because_of/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Is there hope for micropayments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386483

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 146 comments

CEO pay is up 78% over the past decade

https://jabberwocking.com/ceo-pay-is-up-78-over-the-past-decade/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

The Geometry of Polynomials (2018)

https://cre8math.com/2018/03/17/the-geometry-of-polynomials/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Intel can’t grow profits in a global chip shortage

https://theconversation.com/intel-cant-even-grow-profits-during-a-global-chip-shortage-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-175877

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 125 comments

Surfing the Gopherspace

https://charlieharrington.com/surfing-the-gopherspace/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

GNU Data Language

https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Run your home on a Raspberry Pi

https://changelog.com/podcast/489

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 85 comments

Networking FreeDOS

http://wisdomtree.info/dos/dostcpip.htm

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Brain FLOPS

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/02/17/brain-flops.html

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 101 comments

Breaking into the black box of artificial intelligence

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00858-1

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

Should We Celebrate Acquisitions?

https://nutcroft.com/blog/should-we-celebrate-acquisitions/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

Observability is not only for SREs

https://lightstep.com/blog/observability-mythbusters-observability-not-is-only-for-sres

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

https://deadmanssnitch.com/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

Fyrox 0.25 Feature Highlights

https://fyrox.rs/blog/post/feature-highlights-0-25/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Webpage List: Discover new websites

https://webpagelist.com/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Recommendation for general purpose JIT compiler

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31389024

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 47 comments

Thinking Machines – Introduction to Data Parallel Supercomputing (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8NTHfMw_WA

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

A Modern Space Cadet

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments
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