top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-16

Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem

https://yuri.is/not-julia/

4 years ago

Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots

https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/almost-all-searches-on-my-independent-search-engine-are-now-from-seo-spam-bots/

4 years ago

Nearly 20% of active Twitter accounts likely to be fake or spam

https://sparktoro.com/blog/sparktoro-followerwonk-joint-twitter-analysis-19-42-of-active-accounts-are-fake-or-spam/

4 years ago

Inkscape 1.2 released

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2/

4 years ago

Web3 is expensive P2P

https://netfuture.ch/2022/05/web3-is-just-expensive-p2p/

4 years ago

Many software companies are a joke

https://liou28335.medium.com/many-software-companies-are-a-joke-9f4b10378c7a

4 years ago

$3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/16/what-happened-to-the-bitcoin-reserve-behind-terras-ust-stablecoin.html

4 years ago

Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10261-5

4 years ago

McDonald’s to Exit from Russia

https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/en-us/our-stories/article/ourstories.mcd-exit-russia.html

4 years ago

Living Worlds: 8 Bit art animated with palette cycling (2012)

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/

4 years ago

The Modos Paper Laptop

https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-laptop

4 years ago

Common libraries and data structures for C

https://github.com/tezc/sc

4 years ago

Meld for Macs

https://yousseb.github.io/meld/

4 years ago

US Army's Land Trains (2020)

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33645/the-incredible-story-of-the-us-armys-earth-shaking-off-road-land-trains

4 years ago

New DigitalOcean Pricing

https://www.digitalocean.com/try/new-pricing

4 years ago

Court Ruling shows the GPL is both copyright license and contractual agreement

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/

4 years ago

Tell HN: Discord Ignores Right to Erasure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31397156

4 years ago

Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/not-a-single-car-was-sold-in-shanghai-last-month

4 years ago

Coloring computers: non-electronic computers that work when you color them

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYz7DPRWypGQcbAHr7Mi8EKB6ntSPsEnUsCXbAhBiHQZP/

4 years ago

GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

https://twitter.com/NeighborGeek/status/1526267594180857856

4 years ago

JSON and Virtual Columns in SQLite

https://antonz.org/json-virtual-columns/

4 years ago

Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping

https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio

4 years ago

Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed

https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/48.html

4 years ago

Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/finland-ger-natobesked

4 years ago

Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31393437

4 years ago

Off-Grid Cyberdeck with RPI and Pelican Case

https://back7.co/home/raspberry-pi-recovery-kit

4 years ago

Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database

https://github.com/stokry/wp-sqlite

4 years ago

VoCore – Coin-Sized Linux Computer

https://vocore.io/

4 years ago

Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale

https://shopify.engineering/shopify-ruby-at-scale-research-investment

4 years ago

Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEWi2nC-Wg

4 years ago

DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/new-4-dollar-droplet-updated-pricing

4 years ago

The Tools I Use to Write Books (2018)

https://thorstenball.com/blog/2018/09/04/the-tools-i-use-to-write-books/

4 years ago

OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL

https://www.timescale.com/blog/observability-powered-by-sql-understand-your-systems-like-never-before-with-opentelemetry-traces-and-postgresql/

4 years ago

Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography

https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/receiving-the-levchin-prize/

4 years ago

Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries

https://github.blog/2022-05-09-supercharging-github-actions-with-job-summaries/

4 years ago

FreeBSD 13.1

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/

4 years ago

The Worst (2012)

https://moxie.org/2012/11/27/the-worst.html

4 years ago

Sandboxie: Sandbox-based isolation software for Windows NT-based OS's

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

4 years ago

Korg NTS-2 DIY oscilloscope and wave generator kit

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/nts_2_pt/index.php

4 years ago

Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

https://github.com/mdehling/sun-fb-logos

4 years ago

Delhi suffers at 49°C as heatwave sweeps India

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-61242341

4 years ago

How I learned to stop worrying and love the YAML

https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/05/09/learning-to-love-yaml

4 years ago

Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time

https://blog.d46.us/advanced-emacs-startup/

4 years ago

RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History

https://github.com/curusarn/resh

4 years ago

Improving the foundation of our falling sand simulator

https://jason.today/falling-improved

4 years ago

Stealing checks worth millions and pwning a bank

https://www.jhaddix.com/post/stealing-checks-worth-millions-pwning-a-bank

4 years ago

Why Northern Ireland has no flag

https://samenright.com/2022/05/16/northern-ireland-is-the-only-country-in-the-world-without-a-flag/

4 years ago

A new career in software development: advice for non-youngsters

https://shape-of-code.com/2022/05/15/a-new-career-in-software-development-advice-for-non-youngsters/

4 years ago

Custom made synth, audio and retro-gaming gear

https://www.lovehulten.com/

4 years ago

Request logging and web vitals for Vercel apps

https://www.axiom.co/vercel

4 years ago

Zsh 5.9

https://zsh.sourceforge.io/releases.html

4 years ago

Ansible 2.13

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.13/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst

4 years ago

Researchers demo Bluetooth relay attack against Tesla

https://duo.com/decipher/researchers-demo-relay-attack-against-bluetooth-le-systems

4 years ago

In search of organic software

http://pketh.org/organic-software.html

4 years ago

Show HN: I built a minimal website for Los Angeles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31393542

4 years ago

The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics

https://leaddev.com/reporting-metrics/flawed-five-engineering-productivity-metrics

4 years ago

Calculating Go type sets is harder than you think

https://blog.merovius.de/posts/2022-05-16-calculating-type-sets/

4 years ago

Puzzling quantum scenario appears not to conserve energy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/puzzling-quantum-scenario-appears-not-to-conserve-energy-20220516/

4 years ago

Finger: The First Social Software (2019)

https://www.somanymachines.com/tx/finger-the-first-social-software/

4 years ago

Preston’s Paradox

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2022/05/16/prestons-paradox/

4 years ago

New WebKit Features in Safari 15.5

https://webkit.org/blog/12669/new-webkit-features-in-safari-15-5/

4 years ago

Job interviews that go too far

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220511-the-working-job-interviews-that-go-too-far

4 years ago