top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-20

“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti

https://howardchen.substack.com/p/this-amateur-programmer-fought-cancer

4 years ago

1143 upvotes – 329 comments

9-Euro-Ticket

https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en

4 years ago

875 upvotes – 585 comments

Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-an-unknown-extraordinarily-ancient-civilisation-lie-buried-under-eastern-turkey-

4 years ago

699 upvotes – 377 comments

PBS SpaceTime

https://www.pbsspacetime.com

4 years ago

526 upvotes – 145 comments

ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records

https://dl.acm.org/

4 years ago

473 upvotes – 51 comments

New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters

https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/2/24/22949795/new-york-rolling-out-noise-law-listening-tech-for-souped-up-speedsters

4 years ago

443 upvotes – 527 comments

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

4 years ago

432 upvotes – 178 comments

Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police

https://reason.com/2022/05/19/michigan-couple-says-town-seized-their-building-and-offered-to-return-it-if-they-bought-two-cars-for-police/

4 years ago

419 upvotes – 381 comments

Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k

https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-policy-punishes-disabled-people-who-save-more-than-2000/

4 years ago

398 upvotes – 382 comments

Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2022/05/20/tether-required-recapitalization/

4 years ago

340 upvotes – 323 comments

Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2022/05/19/speeding-up-sort-performance-in-postgres-15/

4 years ago

321 upvotes – 90 comments

HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS

https://hpdevone.com/

4 years ago

305 upvotes – 345 comments

Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31450713

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 478 comments

Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/frisson-song-playlist/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 150 comments

Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31445355

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 302 comments

Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook

https://www.trymito.io/

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 99 comments

Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

https://nschloe.github.io/2022/05/20/math-on-github.html

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 65 comments

Logging C Functions

https://justine.lol/ftrace/

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 59 comments

OnlyFans creator stalked and had sex with Meta employees to reinstate Instagram

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/kittylixo-onlyfans-instagram-employees/

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 238 comments

Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it

https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/netflix-bad-decisions-have-caught-up-with-it.html

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 465 comments

Flix – Safe, reliable, concise, and functional-first programming language

https://flix.dev/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 42 comments

Moderna’s HIV Vaccine Prepped for Trials in Africa

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/modernas-hiv-vaccine-prepped-for-trials-in-africa/

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 98 comments

Guide to implementing 2D platformers (2012)

http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 37 comments

My Favorite Liar (2008)

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/my-favorite-lia.html

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 76 comments

Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.reddit.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31444511

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 222 comments

Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders-trial-in-tesla-autopilot-manslaughter-case/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 345 comments

AutoAnimate – Add motion to web apps with a single line of code

https://github.com/formkit/auto-animate

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 37 comments

Memorizing Transformers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08913

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 32 comments

SQLite may become foundational for digital progress

https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/20/why-sqlite-may-become-foundational-for-digital-progress/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 120 comments

Graphene may have found its killer app

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/05/18/the-wonder-material-graphene-may-have-found-its-killer-app

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 142 comments

Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-contrast-fix/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 113 comments

LiveKit – Open source, high performance WebRTC infrastructure

https://github.com/livekit/livekit

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: WebApp to Create 3D Plants

https://plant.jim-fx.com

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 46 comments

Kosmos 482: questions around a failed 1972 Venera lander still orbiting Earth

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4384/1

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 67 comments

Lavender's Game: Silexan for Anxiety

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lavenders-game-silexan-for-anxiety

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 79 comments

Adaptive Cards

https://adaptivecards.io/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 35 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried Described Yield Farming and Left Matt Levine Stunned

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankman-fried-described-yield-farming-and-left-matt-levine-stunned

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 91 comments

How to Paint a Crosswalk

https://crosswalksla.org/how-to-guide.html

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 104 comments

Midnight Trains – A Hotel on Rails

https://www.midnight-trains.com/en/home

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 119 comments

Pixar in a Box: Collaboration Between Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 13 comments

The Pike Programming Language

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 61 comments

The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/18/the-cryptocurrency-sell-off-has-exposed-those-swimming-naked

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 173 comments

LWN Is Now on Mastodon

https://lwn.net/Articles/895898/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 35 comments

Quick fixes to your code review workflow

https://consulting.drmaciver.com/code-review-quick-fixes/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 44 comments

RouterOS – Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (2012)

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/CALEA

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 52 comments

When eBPF meets TLS. Defeating TLS encryption with eBPF tricks [pdf]

https://github.com/quarkslab/conf-presentations/blob/master/CanSecWest-2022/When%20eBPF%20meets%20TLS.pdf

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

How to stay informed without getting paralyzed by bad news

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stay-informed-paralyzed-bad-news/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 103 comments

People hated shopping carts when they first came out

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/business/grocery-shopping-carts-history/index.html

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 265 comments

The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture (2016)

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/the-constitutionality-of-civil-forfeiture

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 115 comments

Workarounds to computer access in healthcare organizations (2015) [pdf]

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/pubs/ksbk15-draft.pdf

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 88 comments

Building my first mechanical keyboard

https://not-matthias.github.io/posts/mechanical-keyboard/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 110 comments

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 82 comments

Ambitious Brain Recordings Create Unprecedented Portrait of Vision in Action

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ambitious-brain-recordings-create-unprecedented-portrait-vision-action

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

What Ever Happened to Scandium Bike Frames? (2016)

https://www.bikeblogordie.com/2016/11/what-ever-happened-to-scandium-bike.html

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

Winning solutions of Kaggle competitions

https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/winning-solutions-of-kaggle-competitions

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 2 comments

We are all confident idiots (2014)

https://psmag.com/social-justice/confident-idiots-92793

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

Nuclear fusion has encountered a shortage of tritium

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nuclear-fusion-is-already-facing-a-fuel-crisis

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 156 comments

Evaluating FreeBSD Current for Production Use

https://klarasystems.com/articles/evaluating-freebsd-current-for-production-use/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/05/18/whats-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 90 comments

Amazon Redshift re-invented

https://www.amazon.science/publications/amazon-redshift-re-invented

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

The madness of reduced medical diagnostics

https://dynomight.net/diagnostics/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: Updates on Jetbrains Fleet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31451561

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Bombe Machine on an FPGA

https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece5760/FinalProjects/s2022/az292_kw456_lh479/az292_kw456_lh479/index.html

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Is anyone still using assembly language? You betcha (2007)

https://www.eetimes.com/is-anyone-still-using-assembly-language-you-betcha-part-1/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 119 comments

Monitor Radiation with a Raspberry Pi

https://nbailey.ca/post/radiation-monitor/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

An AI system for solving crossword puzzles that outperforms the best humans

https://twitter.com/albertxu__/status/1527703889104863232

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

On efficiently partitioning a topic in Apache Kafka

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09415

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Fake Journal Club

https://www.gwern.net/Fake-Journal-Club

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Google Play has hidden applications permissions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31447716

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Aphrodite: ORM designed for Local-First applications and P2P data transfer

https://aphrodite.sh/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Searching 32M academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles

https://robmanuelfuckyeah.substack.com/p/searching-32-million-academic-papers

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/19/intel_immersion_lab/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 78 comments

Giant container ships are ruining everything

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/big-boats-are-ruining-everything

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II

http://beam-inc.org/abraham-lincoln-and-tsar-alexander-ii-part-i/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

‘Extortion’: Why Web3 is making a lot of software developers angry

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/extortion-why-web3-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-software-developers-20220516-p5alqd.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 165 comments

Ask HN: Where does your mind wander to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31447625

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 88 comments

GCC Profiler Internals

https://trofi.github.io/posts/243-gcc-profiler-internals.html

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Connecting an 8086 or 8088 processor to a Raspberry Pi

https://www.homebrew8088.com/home/raspberry-pi-second-project

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript

https://stripe.com/blog/migrating-to-typescript

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Credit Card Fraud and an Algorithm

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/seguridad/falsetti-el-estafador-el-canillita-que-descubrio-el-algoritmo-para-crear-tarjetas-de-credito-y-nid20052022/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Eigr: Stateful Serverless in the Beam

https://eigr.io/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Fanless Intel J4125 4x I225 Virtualized Firewall Appliance Review

https://www.servethehome.com/topton-intel-j4125-4x-i225-fanless-virtualized-firewall-appliance-review-pfsense-opnsense-proxmox-ve/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

We built the best search engine for coders – Introducing YouCode

https://blog.you.com/why-we-built-the-best-search-engine-for-coders-introducing-youcode-da38d058fe9f

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments
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