top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-27

Things to know about databases

https://architecturenotes.co/things-you-should-know-about-databases/

4 years ago

Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)

https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html

4 years ago

“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless

https://medium.com/@ryanbadger/magic-links-can-end-up-in-bing-search-results-rendering-them-useless-37def0fae994

4 years ago

Why America can’t build

https://palladiummag.com/2022/06/09/why-america-cant-build/

4 years ago

Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security

https://twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/1541318055636369409

4 years ago

Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL

https://github.com/prql/prql

4 years ago

Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/27/three-arrows-capital-crypto-hedge-fund-defaults-on-voyager-loan.html

4 years ago

Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/03/1051691/meta-ai-large-language-model-gpt3-ethics-huggingface-transparency/

4 years ago

Open Food Facts – a food products database made by everyone, for everyone

https://world.openfoodfacts.org

4 years ago

How to set junior employees up for success in remote

https://slite.com/blog/micromanagement-is-not-a-bad-word

4 years ago

Amazon is intimidating and harassing organizing workers in Montreal

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/amazon-workers-union-drive-intimidation-anti-labor-law-montreal-canada/

4 years ago

Wasting time in tech interviews

https://www.benjamistan.tech/2022/06/26/wasting-time-in-tech-interviews.html

4 years ago

“Atari Was Very, Very Hard” – Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later

https://www.howtogeek.com/812246/atari-was-very-very-hard-nolan-bushnell-on-atari-50-years-later/

4 years ago

Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

4 years ago

Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease

https://www.uth.edu/news/story/uthealth-houston-study-flu-vaccination-linked-to-40-reduced-risk-of-alzheimers-disease

4 years ago

tolower() in bulk at speed

https://dotat.at/@/2022-06-27-tolower-swar.html

4 years ago

Optical microphone can separate multiple instruments from afar

https://newatlas.com/music/optical-microphone-sound/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892384

4 years ago

USDA ignoring the science on low-carb diets

https://unsettledscience.substack.com/p/usda-ignoring-the-science-on-low

4 years ago

Wearable Muscles

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2022/06/muskeln-zum-anziehen.html

4 years ago

4 in 5 Americans who need insulin have taken on credit card debt to cover cost

https://neverleave.substack.com/p/4-in-5-americans-who-need-insulin

4 years ago

Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record

https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-an-electric-fan-car-shatter-the-goodwood-hill-climb-record

4 years ago

Lenses

https://www.fpcomplete.com/haskell/tutorial/lens/

4 years ago

Blood pressure e-tattoo promises continuous, mobile monitoring

https://news.utexas.edu/2022/06/20/blood-pressure-e-tattoo-promises-continuous-mobile-monitoring/

4 years ago

NeRF: An eventual successor for deepfakes?

https://metaphysic.ai/nerf-successor-deepfakes/

4 years ago

Solar Protocol

http://solarprotocol.net

4 years ago

Show HN: Yboard is a multiplayer desktop-like workspace based on CRDT

https://github.com/felipeleivav/yboard

4 years ago

Extreme explorations of TypeScript's type system

https://www.learningtypescript.com/articles/extreme-explorations-of-typescripts-type-system

4 years ago

People who are isolated from others do worse on cognitive tests: new research

https://theconversation.com/socially-isolated-people-have-differently-wired-brains-and-poorer-cognition-new-research-185150

4 years ago

How Websites Die

https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/

4 years ago

Trolley.co.uk is shutting down – pricing data is apparently owned by a company

https://www.trolley.co.uk/save-trolley/

4 years ago

Basement Fertility

https://betonit.substack.com/p/basement-fertility

4 years ago

Windows 95 in Electron

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

4 years ago

Linux commands for advanced hardware and system info

https://nixsanctuary.com/best-linux-hardware-system-info-commands/

4 years ago

Are you a naïve realist?

https://nautil.us/are-you-a-naive-realist-20403/

4 years ago

Tell HN: Google deleted my spreadsheet, review request says file can't be found

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897878

4 years ago

Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31894877

4 years ago

Angular without SSR is faster than Next.js with SSR

https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2022/06/angular-without-ssr-is-faster-than-nextjs-with-ssr-i-have-the-data.html

4 years ago

Development Environments

https://phaazon.net/blog/development-environments

4 years ago

Math on GitHub: Following Up

https://nschloe.github.io/2022/06/27/math-on-github-follow-up.html

4 years ago

FTC takes action against CafePress for data breach cover up

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/ftc-takes-action-against-cafepress-data-breach-cover

4 years ago

WebAssembly and C++

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/06/wasm-c++.html

4 years ago

Why America Can't Build

https://palladiummag.com/2022/06/09/why-america-cant-build/

4 years ago

Labrador's robotic shelf for people with mobility issues

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22858402/home-robot-labrador-caddie-retriever-smart-self-driving-shelf

4 years ago

Two types of privacy

https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/25/two-types-of-privacy/

4 years ago

Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser

https://www.whist.com/

4 years ago

The Path Is Set for PCI-Express 7.0 in 2025

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/23/the-path-is-set-for-pci-express-7-0-in-2025/

4 years ago

How are images compressed? An explanation of JPEG [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv1Hiv3ox8I

4 years ago

SPAs: theory versus practice

https://nolanlawson.com/2022/06/27/spas-theory-versus-practice/

4 years ago

One man’s fight to end California’s ban on ferrets

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-24/one-mans-fight-to-end-californias-ban-on-ferrets

4 years ago

Technology is not values neutral

https://consilienceproject.org/technology-is-not-values-neutral/

4 years ago

Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (1962-1965)

https://www.ubu.com/vp/FuckYou.html

4 years ago

Only essential services to operate from midnight

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2022/06/27/breaking-only-essential-services-to-operate-from-midnight-27-cpc-will-only-issue-fuel-for-essential-services/

4 years ago

Notes on OpenSSL remote memory corruption by Guido Vranken

https://guidovranken.com/2022/06/27/notes-on-openssl-remote-memory-corruption/

4 years ago

Wear leveling in SSDs considered harmful

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3538643.3539750

4 years ago

The Mathematics of Escalators on the London Underground (2013) [pdf]

https://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/other/4-escalators

4 years ago

Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/russia-defaults-on-foreign-debt-for-first-time-since-1918-1.1784183

4 years ago

Chicago startup companies to watch in 2022

https://www.employbl.com/blog/chicago-startup-companies-to-watch-2022

4 years ago

Type-checked keypaths in Rust

http://www.cmyr.net/blog/keypaths.html

4 years ago

Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is 'abysmal'

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/25/1107416457/monkeypox-outbreak-in-us

4 years ago

13-year-old voice recorder captured my entire professional career

https://www.theverge.com/23180451/cheap-rca-digital-voice-recorder-13-years-of-interviews

4 years ago

Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01355/

4 years ago

Tech Companies Won't Say If They’ll Give Cops Abortion Data

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vmm4/tech-companies-wont-say-abortion-data-roe-v-wade

4 years ago

Misrepresenting open source for business benefit

https://danb.me/blog/posts/misrepresenting-open-source/

4 years ago

LibreWolf: A privacy-focused Firefox fork

https://ubunlog.com/en/freewolf/

4 years ago

Linx – Reveals invisible links within JavaScript files

https://github.com/riza/linx

4 years ago

Using the air as a wire – was Nikola Tesla right? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDm6X19ZLI

4 years ago

Anti-innovative effects of Apple's prohibition of alternative browser engines

http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/06/anti-innovative-effects-of-apples.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Get rid of Git submodules and never look back (now for GitHub users)

https://gitmodules.com/

4 years ago

Vitalik Buterin Talks Georgism, Crypto, Voting Systems

https://narrativespodcast.com/2022/06/27/100-vitalik-buterin-governance-political-economy-and-crypto/

4 years ago

By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-makes-strides-in-virtual-worlds-more-like-our-own-20220624/

4 years ago