top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-21

GitHub Copilot is generally available

https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/

4 years ago

One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite

https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/one-line-csv-operations

4 years ago

Cloudflare had a partial outage

https://www.cloudflare.com/

4 years ago

Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/

4 years ago

OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

https://obsproject.com/

4 years ago

Deno raises $21M

https://deno.com/blog/series-a

4 years ago

One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding

https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-06-11-year-in-review.html

4 years ago

HDMI Firewall

https://git.cuvoodoo.info/kingkevin/board/src/branch/hdmi_firewall/README.md

4 years ago

WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

https://imgur.com/a/RY0jgQD

4 years ago

Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019)

https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/

4 years ago

Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

https://avohq.io/

4 years ago

Surprising result while transpiling C to Go

https://blog.nobugware.com/post/2022/surprising-result-while-transpiling-go/

4 years ago

X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass

https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/02/x-plane-12-flight-model-update-supersonic-transition-delta-wings-and-mass-properties/

4 years ago

A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

4 years ago

The French repairability index – one year after its implementation [pdf]

https://www.halteobsolescence.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rapport-indice-de-reparabilite.pdf

4 years ago

Permacomputing Wiki

https://permacomputing.net/

4 years ago

Laundry symbols make no sense

https://uxdesign.cc/laundry-symbols-make-no-sense-154a0c10dbe0

4 years ago

“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (2019)

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/03/harbringer-of-doom.html

4 years ago

Sex is going out of fashion?

https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion

4 years ago

Experimenting with Rust in Chromium

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/security/rust-toolchain.md

4 years ago

Viddy: A modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.

https://github.com/sachaos/viddy

4 years ago

Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-enterprise-announces-google-and-internet-archive-first-customers/

4 years ago

“True” Damascus steel is not a “lost art”

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/vdvtrh/a_widely_believed_history_myth_no_true_damascus/

4 years ago

Timing Attacks

https://timing.attacks.cr.yp.to/

4 years ago

Beginner's Series to Rust

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/beginners-series-to-rust/

4 years ago

RISC-V announces first new specifications of 2022 adding to 16 ratified in 2021

https://riscv.org/announcements/2022/06/risc-v-announces-first-new-specifications-of-2022-adding-to-16-ratified-in-2021-risc-v-international/

4 years ago

Microvium Is Small

https://coder-mike.com/blog/2022/06/11/microvium-is-very-small/

4 years ago

Apple's feedback mechanism is broken

https://www.caseyliss.com/2022/6/20/feedback-is-broken-stop-trying-to-make-radar-happen

4 years ago

MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry

https://mega-awry.io/

4 years ago

Don’t mock what you don’t own

https://hynek.me/articles/what-to-mock-in-5-mins/

4 years ago

GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial

https://github.com/features/copilot

4 years ago

An experiment to test if Bionic Reading helps you read faster

https://blog.readwise.io/does-bionic-reading-actually-work/

4 years ago

Are blockchains decentralized?

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/06/21/are-blockchains-decentralized/

4 years ago

Artistic Radiance Fields

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/arf/

4 years ago

How we made data aggregation on PostgreSQL better and faster

https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-data-aggregation-better-and-faster-on-postgresql-with-timescaledb-2-7/

4 years ago

Zoom.us is down

https://us02web.zoom.us/wc/join/

4 years ago

Where are all the crypto use cases?

https://evanjconrad.com/posts/crypto-use-cases

4 years ago

Show HN: Akedo – Retro gaming and coding platform

https://akedo.app

4 years ago

The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf]

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/rev-rev0000055.pdf

4 years ago

Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31821269

4 years ago

TITO: Electric Argentine car

https://argentinareports.com/meet-tito-the-100-electric-100-argentine-car/2938/

4 years ago

Cheap, green hydrogen would be a breakthrough in clean energy

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Clean-Hydrogen

4 years ago

Ask HN: What do you use VMs for regularly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31822932

4 years ago

Mail Merge returns to Pages after nine years

https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/06/mail-merge-returns-to-pages-after-nine-years/

4 years ago

Rich Text Editor for React

https://github.com/ozanyurtsever/verbum

4 years ago

The Documentation Triangle, or, why code isn't self documenting

https://sourceless.org/posts/the-documentation-triangle.html

4 years ago

Get Paid to Contribute to Urllib3

https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/get-paid-to-contribute-to-urllib3

4 years ago

Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens

https://www.fastcompany.com/90761990/steam-deck-install-apps-operating-systems

4 years ago

Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

https://nixsanctuary.com/microsoft-donated-money-to-gnome-lets-remember-how-they-attacked-open-source-before/

4 years ago

Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/HDDsNowSomewhatBetter

4 years ago

Does one simple rule underlie learning in the brain?

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/does-one-simple-rule-underlie-learning-in-the-brai/

4 years ago

FixPhrase – open-source, patent-free what3words alternative

https://fixphrase.com/

4 years ago

PostScript Cartridge Plus for HP LaserJet III

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1673

4 years ago

Private equity groups that buy companies they own

https://www.ft.com/content/11549c33-b97d-468b-8990-e6fd64294f85?shareType=nongift

4 years ago

10-sec 1-leg stance duration predicts survival in middle-aged/older individuals

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2022/05/15/bjsports-2021-105360

4 years ago

Aerosolization of C. difficile after flushing toilets: the role of toilet lids

https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(11)00339-2/fulltext

4 years ago

Variations of Two-Transistor Circuits: A Tribute to the Versatility of MOSFETs

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354364068_Fifty_Nifty_Variations_of_Two-Transistor_Circuits_A_tribute_to_the_versatility_of_MOSFETs

4 years ago

Memory Safety in a Modern System Programming Language Pt. 1

https://dlang.org/blog/2022/06/21/dip1000-memory-safety-in-a-modern-system-programming-language-pt-1/

4 years ago

Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos

https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/SA.HTM

4 years ago

The Cracked Wisdom of Dril

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-cracked-wisdom-of-dril

4 years ago

An introduction to deep code-walking macros with Clojure (2013)

https://blog.fogus.me/2013/07/17/an-introduction-to-deep-code-walking-macros-with-clojure/

4 years ago

Electrocuted birds are sparking wildfires

https://www.science.org/content/article/electrocuted-birds-are-sparking-wildfires

4 years ago

Mystery still surrounds what happened to the bodies of Waterloo militaries

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_854908_en.html

4 years ago