top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-26

SQLite 3 Fiddle

https://sqlite.org/fiddle/

4 years ago

Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B

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

4 years ago

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

https://vertigo.ai/focus/

4 years ago

What did Earth look like X million years ago?

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant

https://esphome.io/index.html

4 years ago

What Happened to Perl 7?

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

4 years ago

Virtual Graph Paper

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

Bolt Financial's loans come due

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

splice() and the ghost of set_fs()

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

4 years ago

Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins

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

4 years ago

Proton is trying to become Google without your data

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

The end of big data

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

4 years ago

Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (2010)

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

4 years ago

Low-cost gel film can pluck drinking water from desert air

https://news.utexas.edu/2022/05/23/low-cost-gel-film-can-pluck-drinking-water-from-desert-air/

4 years ago

‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01458-9

4 years ago

Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945

4 years ago

Why We Switched from Python to Go (2021)

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/03/03/why-we-switched-from-python-to-go/

4 years ago

Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212M CEO pay

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/26/amazon_investors_kill_15_proposals/

4 years ago

Jumbo Stay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_Stay

4 years ago

Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/thefts-of-powertrain-modules-plague-daimler-truck

4 years ago

Physicists rewrite the fundamental law that leads to disorder

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-trace-the-rise-in-entropy-to-quantum-information-20220526/

4 years ago

Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simple image filters

https://bartwronski.com/2022/05/26/removing-blur-from-images-deconvolution-and-using-optimized-simple-filters/

4 years ago

Startup Trail: The Game of Startup Survival

https://startuptrail.engine.is/

4 years ago

Terminal.Gui – Cross Platform Terminal UI Toolkit for .NET

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs

4 years ago

Decoding A City In A Bottle

https://observablehq.com/@darabos/decoding-a-city-in-a-bottle

4 years ago

Linux kernel RNG enhancements for 5.19

https://twitter.com/EdgeSecurity/status/1528494394604761094

4 years ago

Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State (2014)

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bernstein-vs-the-US-Department-of-State

4 years ago

Open call – your field recordings of obsolete sounds wanted

https://citiesandmemory.com/2022/05/open-call-your-field-recordings-of-obsolete-sounds-wanted/

4 years ago

Mental model examples and their explanations

https://fronterablog.com/mental-model-examples-and-their-explanations/

4 years ago

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydb-for-postgresql-columnar-engine

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31517668

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31519122

4 years ago

Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkp7y7/human-culture-to-increasingly-come-from-unexplainable-ai-sociologists-find

4 years ago

SplinterDB: High performance embedded key-value store

https://github.com/vmware/splinterdb

4 years ago

How to walk underground from Liverpool Street to Farringdon

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/05/how-to-walk-underground-from-liverpool.html

4 years ago

Sometimes, it is a compiler bug: inding and fixing a bug in a C++ toolchain

https://quick-lint-js.com/blog/bug-journey/

4 years ago

Tiddlyhost is a free hosting platform for TiddlyWiki

https://tiddlyhost.com/

4 years ago

Early Copy Protection on the Apple II

https://fadden.com/apple2/cassette-protect.html

4 years ago

Why unprecedented birdflu outbreaks sweeping the world are concerning scientists

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01338-2

4 years ago

It's done in hardware so it's cheap (2012)

https://yosefk.com/blog/its-done-in-hardware-so-its-cheap.html

4 years ago

Friends don’t let friends train small diffusion models

https://nonint.com/2022/05/04/friends-dont-let-friends-train-small-diffusion-models/

4 years ago

Linux distro downloads MySQL database password with curl to “fix” security bug

https://kernal.eu/posts/linuxfx-part-2/

4 years ago

Practical power beaming gets real

https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-beaming

4 years ago

Tech Layoff Tracker

https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

4 years ago

List of Tech company layoffs in Europe

https://sifted.eu/articles/startup-tech-company-layoffs/

4 years ago

PlanetScale Insights: Advanced query monitoring

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-insights-advanced-query-monitoring

4 years ago

Mental time travel: Hierarchical memory for reinforcement learning agents (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14039

4 years ago

Lucid recalls all of its 2022 Air EVs

https://www.engadget.com/lucid-issues-recall-for-2022-air-evs-with-faulty-wiring-harness-151907286.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: Current state of coding .NET code on non-Windows machines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520399

4 years ago

FriendDA

https://friendda.org/

4 years ago

PSA: HelloFresh doesn't delete data when asked, only changes the email address

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520145

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to start developing critical thinking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31522902

4 years ago

AlmaLinux 9

https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-9-now-available/

4 years ago

Musikcube, a cross-platform, terminal-based library, player and server

https://github.com/clangen/musikcube

4 years ago

Holbert: An Interactive Theorem Prover

https://github.com/liamoc/holbert

4 years ago

Notes on Concurrency Bugs (2016)

https://danluu.com/concurrency-bugs/

4 years ago

Windows Update vs. My Router

https://michaelhorowitz.com/WindowsUpdate.vs.a.Router.php

4 years ago

South Korean Workers Turn the Tables on Their Bad Bosses

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/business/south-korea-bullying-gapjil.html

4 years ago

Is DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckDone?

https://kevq.uk/is-duckduckgo-duckduckdone/

4 years ago

The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/buffalo-attack-mass-surveillance-terrorist-security-state-protection

4 years ago

Kirkbride Plan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkbride_Plan

4 years ago

Most of Rust job offers are in crypto

https://scrapingfish.com/blog/are-most-rust-jobs-in-crypto

4 years ago