top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-28

My students cheated... a lot

https://crumplab.com/articles/blog/post_994_5_26_22_cheating/index.html

4 years ago

1840 upvotes – 1402 comments

Neon – Serverless Postgres

https://neon.tech

4 years ago

667 upvotes – 330 comments

Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

https://www.pcworld.com/article/704687/8-reasons-to-ditch-chrome-and-switch-to-firefox.html

4 years ago

619 upvotes – 398 comments

Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31539549

4 years ago

559 upvotes – 172 comments

Terraform should have remained stateless

https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-stateless/

4 years ago

381 upvotes – 319 comments

Marginalia Goes Open Source

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/58-marginalia-open-source.gmi

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 72 comments

System Font Stack

https://systemfontstack.com

4 years ago

353 upvotes – 167 comments

Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health

https://www.bramadams.dev/projects/invest-in-lights

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 226 comments

Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)

https://ignaciochiazzo.medium.com/paginating-requests-in-apis-d4883d4c1c4c

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 185 comments

Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)

https://github.com/richardartoul/tsdb-layer

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 86 comments

FireZone – Open-source VPN server and firewall

https://www.firezone.dev/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 58 comments

Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab

https://www.unite.ai/google-has-banned-the-training-of-deepfakes-in-colab/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 130 comments

Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers

https://www.flamingo-tech.nl/2022/05/27/this-is-how-they-do-it/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 113 comments

Open and Free Plant Identification API

https://plantnet.org/en/

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 38 comments

Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty riders and jittery investors

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-and-lyfts-new-road-fewer-drivers-thrifty-riders-and-jittery-investors-11653651912?mod=hp_lead_pos6

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 463 comments

Make formal verification and provably correct software practical and mainstream

https://github.com/magmide/magmide

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 191 comments

GitHub Star History Graph

https://star-history.com

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 75 comments

Ray-optics: a web app to simulate the reflection and refraction of light

https://ricktu288.github.io/ray-optics/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 13 comments

Chaos: The real problem with quantum mechanics

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/05/chaos-real-problem-with-quantum.html

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Memlink, a self-contained web page in a link

https://meml.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

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 58 comments

Once in a Lifetime

https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/once-in-a-lifetime/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 40 comments

Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/building-the-most-inaccessible-site-possible-with-a-perfect-lighthouse-score/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 40 comments

Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life

https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 136 comments

Success determined by ability to speak, ability to write, and quality of ideas

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/emotional-intelligence-mit-patrick-winston-how-to-communicate-effectively-how-to-write.html

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 64 comments

Code quality only matters in context (2019)

https://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/code-quality-in-context/why-i-write-dirty-code.html

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 74 comments

Persist or let it go: a study of entrepreneurial decision making

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902622000222?via%3Dihub

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 85 comments

A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and GTK-rs

https://github.com/bodil/vgtk

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

Werner Herzog eats his shoe

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

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

What I wish I knew about onboarding

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/onboarding/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Stars in distant galaxies are typically more massive

https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news22/new-discovery-about-distant-galaxies-stars-are-heavier-than-we-thought/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Why the web lately is all about JavaScript?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31539075

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 137 comments

An uroboros program with 100 programming languages

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

Adding rollback netplay to a Game Boy Advance game from 2005: Part 1

https://tangobattle.substack.com/p/adding-rollback-netplay-to-a-game

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

What would a recession mean for developers?

https://blog.boot.dev/news/what-would-a-recession-do-to-developers/

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 134 comments

US Federal Reserve says its goal is ‘to get wages down’

https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/24/us-federal-reserve-wages-inflation/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 130 comments

When I First Saw Elon Musk for Who He Really Is

https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-fables.html

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

Building a threat intelligence feed using the Twitter API and a bit of code

https://grimminck.medium.com/building-a-threat-intelligence-feed-using-the-twitter-api-and-a-bit-of-code-5787808e32ef

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

The quest for fusion energy

https://inference-review.com/article/the-quest-for-fusion-energy

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 134 comments

I don't trust papers out of “Top Labs” anymore

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/uyratt/d_i_dont_really_trust_papers_out_of_top_labs/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to wood treatment (2021)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/study-confirms-superior-sound-of-a-stradivari-is-due-to-the-varnish/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 87 comments

Greece passes first climate law, vows to cut dependence on fossil fuels

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/greece-passes-first-climate-law-161337788.html

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 63 comments

Brave Browser Hardening

https://gitlab.com/CHEF-KOCH/brave-browser-hardening

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 103 comments

Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU

https://www.servethehome.com/ampere-announces-5nm-arm-server-cpu-ampereone/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

A society without a counterculture?

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/14-warning-signs-that-you-are-living

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 110 comments

GraphJin – GraphQL to SQL Compiler

https://graphjin.com/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 80 comments

Conway's Game of Life in APL in Forth

https://github.com/chmykh/apl-life

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple can't dodge rival app store Cydia's antitrust lawsuit

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/apple-cant-dodge-rival-app-store-cydias-antitrust-lawsuit-2022-05-27/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

OpenBSD 7.1

https://www.openbsd.org/71.html

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Anytype: A local, privacy-first Notion alternative

https://anytype.io/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/05/london-isp-communityfibre-discount-3gbps-fttp-plan-to-50.html

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 69 comments

Chaos: The Problem with Quantum Mechanics

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/05/chaos-real-problem-with-quantum.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments
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