top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-21

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

4 years ago

703 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on

4 years ago

507 upvotes – 544 comments

Kinopio

https://kinopio.club/

4 years ago

499 upvotes – 139 comments

The balance has shifted away from SPAs

https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/

4 years ago

486 upvotes – 445 comments

List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide

https://github.com/hng/tech-coops

4 years ago

424 upvotes – 153 comments

Rustdesk – Remote desktop software, an open source TeamViewer alternative

https://rustdesk.com/

4 years ago

421 upvotes – 102 comments

On Aging Alone (2021)

https://thewalrus.ca/on-aging-alone/

4 years ago

383 upvotes – 316 comments

Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions

https://alexanderell.is/posts/wikipedia-over-whatsapp/

4 years ago

369 upvotes – 132 comments

Windows XP Delta Edition

https://xpdelta.weebly.com/

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 214 comments

Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare

https://lwthiker.com/opensource/2022/05/21/firefox-flagged-suspicious.html

4 years ago

337 upvotes – 168 comments

Teach your kids bridge, not poker

https://specbranch.com/posts/teach-bridge/

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 223 comments

We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service

https://blog.stablegains.com/were-discontinuing-the-stablegains-service-please-withdraw-your-remaining-funds-405e6bfb89c4

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 363 comments

.01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1527661935054962688

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 266 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re.verbose

https://death.andgravity.com/f-re

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 90 comments

Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1528063312461582342

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 238 comments

QCAD – Open Source CAD System

https://www.qcad.org/en/

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 46 comments

Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep burrito wrapped tightly

https://boingboing.net/2022/05/16/engineering-students-create-edible-adhesive-tape-to-keep-your-burrito-wrapped-tightly.html

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 210 comments

Surgery estimated cost $1,300. Then the Bill Came: $229,000

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/21/us/colorado-hospital-lisa-french.html

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 251 comments

Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?

https://austinvernon.site/blog/nuclear.html

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 652 comments

How to Be Successful (2019)

https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 182 comments

Visual explanations of core machine learning concepts

https://mlu-explain.github.io/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 10 comments

Vintage computer ads

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vintage-computer-ads/

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 228 comments

5 Megawatt Nitinol Engine by Mcdonnell Douglas (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dCIkJAjyM

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 98 comments

BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via Torrent and Direct DL

https://archive.org/details/TORRENTSMAGNETARCHIVES

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 84 comments

Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and Other Intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine War

https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2022/05/19/open-letter-to-noam-chomsky-and-other-like-minded-intellectuals-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 213 comments

Tinnitus Seems Linked with Sleep

https://theconversation.com/tinnitus-seems-linked-with-sleep-understanding-how-could-bring-us-closer-to-finding-a-cure-182711

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fresnel-lens-milestone

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 102 comments

Pipewire to replace Pulseaudion on Ubuntu 22.10

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/pipewire-as-a-replacement-for-pulseaudio/28489

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 76 comments

Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1100459262/giant-sinkhole-china-ancient-forest

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31462773

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 239 comments

Crypto Might Have an Insider Trading Problem

https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-might-have-an-insider-trading-problem-11653084398

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 95 comments

What Happened to Tagging? (2019)

https://daily.jstor.org/what-happened-to-tagging/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 95 comments

World’s largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City

https://njbiz.com/worlds-largest-vertical-strawberry-farm-opens-in-jersey-city/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 102 comments

Why America has so few carpenters

https://thehustle.co/why-america-has-so-few-carpenters/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 232 comments

Hacking the bureaucracy to get stuff done (2020)

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/hacking-the-bureaucracy-to-get-stuff-done/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 65 comments

Collection of US Navy Training Courses Developed

https://archive.org/details/navpers

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/05/19/a-world-grain-shortage-puts-tens-of-millions-at-risk

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 96 comments

Notes on Ukraine: I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine

https://mattlakeman.org/2022/05/15/notes-on-ukraine/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

Locality of Behavior

https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Running PyTorch on the M1 GPU

https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2022/pytorch-m1-gpu.html

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems

https://laplab.me/posts/databases-are-frameworks-for-distributed-systems/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Extracting Triangular 3D Models, Materials, and Lighting from Images

https://nvlabs.github.io/nvdiffrec/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

AMD Xilinx Kria KR260 Robotics Kit

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-xilinx-kria-kr260-robotics-kit-launched/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01421-8

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 96 comments

NGINX Proxy Manager

https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 76 comments

Programming Burnout

https://tsk.bearblog.dev/programming-burnout/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Language Design in the Real World

https://blog.sigplan.org/2022/05/19/language-design-in-the-real-world/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Is VISA down everywhere in the US?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31460883

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 94 comments

Ly – A TUI Display Manager

https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

The Fifth Element to Return to Theaters to Celebrate Its 25th Anniversary

https://collider.com/fifth-element-25th-anniversary-theatrical-screenings/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments
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