top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-05-26

SQLite 3 Fiddle

https://sqlite.org/fiddle/

3 years ago

765 upvotes – 136 comments

Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/chipmaker-broadcom-buy-vmware-61-bln-deal-2022-05-26/

3 years ago

596 upvotes – 413 comments

Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec

https://vertigo.ai/focus/

3 years ago

518 upvotes – 145 comments

What did Earth look like X million years ago?

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#260

3 years ago

509 upvotes – 111 comments

I was forced to be a child star. It was never my dream or my idea

https://wilwheaton.net/2022/05/yes-i-was-forced-to-be-a-child-star-it-was-never-my-dream-or-my-idea/

3 years ago

483 upvotes – 339 comments

Implementation of Imagen, Google's text-to-image neural network, in PyTorch

https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch

3 years ago

387 upvotes – 117 comments

The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling

https://timharford.com/2022/05/the-billable-hour-is-a-trap-into-which-more-and-more-of-us-are-falling/

3 years ago

268 upvotes – 183 comments

What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

http://etherrotmutex.blogspot.com/2017/07/what-are-odds-that-some-idiot-will-name.html

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 162 comments

ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant

https://esphome.io/index.html

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 76 comments

What Happened to Perl 7?

http://blogs.perl.org/users/perl_steering_council/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 237 comments

Virtual Graph Paper

https://virtual-graph-paper.com/

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 35 comments

The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/05/26/stripe-exclusive-interview-collison-brothers-95-billion-plan-to-stay-on-top/

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 276 comments

Bolt Financial's loans come due

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/bolt-financials-loans-come-due

3 years ago

219 upvotes – 195 comments

The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s (2018)

https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1218/kelly.html

3 years ago

214 upvotes – 144 comments

Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins

https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/05/25/stable.html

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 250 comments

splice() and the ghost of set_fs()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/896267/6bac8e29d614ec66/

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 81 comments

Proton is trying to become Google without your data

https://www.wired.com/story/proton-mail-calendar-drive-vpn/

3 years ago

204 upvotes – 173 comments

I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)

https://gamefromscratch.com/i-was-blackmailed-any-youtuber-could-be-next/

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 149 comments

The end of big data

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-end-of-big-data

3 years ago

200 upvotes – 114 comments

Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (2010)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-advances-past-age-fifty

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 77 comments
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