top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-28

Thunderbird 102

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/thunderbird-102-released-a-serious-upgrade-to-your-communication/

4 years ago

Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch

https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle

4 years ago

Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly

https://github.com/hackclub/some-assembly-required

4 years ago

Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't

https://posthog.com/blog/what-to-ask-in-interviews

4 years ago

Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno

https://deno.com/blog/fresh-is-stable

4 years ago

Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn

https://www.ft.com/content/cff23e36-b507-4717-8830-8b06741c8fd5

4 years ago

The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld

https://tuxphones.com/mnt-pocketreform-open-hardware-linux-pda-keyboard-arm/

4 years ago

Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13446

4 years ago

Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Attorney General

https://thereload.com/new-california-ag-website-leaks-massive-trove-of-gun-owner-private-information/

4 years ago

Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed

https://legiblenews.com/speed

4 years ago

GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git

https://gitjournal.io/

4 years ago

Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?

https://featherlessbipeds.substack.com/p/why-didnt-gandalf-own-a-colt-45

4 years ago

SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated

https://www.twilio.com/blog/sqlite-postgresql-complicated

4 years ago

FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-stolen-pii-and-deepfakes-used-to-apply-for-remote-tech-jobs/

4 years ago

Add-on support in new Firefox for Android (2021)

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefox-for-android/53488?page=8

4 years ago

Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)

https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-microsoft-beat-apple-to-buy-powerpoint-for-14-million/

4 years ago

Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907374

4 years ago

Lego Battle of Verdun [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo-58zeyETQ

4 years ago

The Wood Database

https://www.wood-database.com/wood-filter/

4 years ago

How individual contributors get stuck (2017)

https://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/01/how-do-individual-contributors-get.html

4 years ago

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell

4 years ago

FTC Sues Walmart for Facilitating Money Transfer Fraud

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/ftc-sues-walmart-facilitating-money-transfer-fraud-fleeced-customers-out-hundreds-millions

4 years ago

It is your responsibility to follow up (2019)

https://guzey.com/follow-up/

4 years ago

W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization

https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9594

4 years ago

Return to Monkey Island trailer [video]

https://www.grumpygamer.com/rtmi_trailer

4 years ago

Flurry of Calls Among Saudi Staff and Spy Coincided with 9/11 Hijackers’ Arrival

https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/flurry-of-calls-among-saudi-diplomatic

4 years ago

Interview with John Cook: mathematical consultant

https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/a-conversation-with-mathematical-consultant-john-d-cook

4 years ago

What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-microsoft-network/

4 years ago

US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward orbital record

https://www.leonarddavid.com/air-force-x-37b-robotic-space-plane-nearing-record-flight/

4 years ago

The Deported

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/migration/deported

4 years ago

Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API

https://github.com/ForeignGods/Sorting-Algorithms-Blender

4 years ago

Show HN: We made a fast audio editor for podcasting

https://teapodo.com/

4 years ago

De-anonymizing ransomware domains on the dark web

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/06/de-anonymizing-ransomware-domains-on.html

4 years ago

Haskell in Production: Channable

https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production-channable

4 years ago

FXT: A Library of Algorithms and a Book

https://www.jjj.de/fxt/

4 years ago

Formula One’s sharpest car designer is also its master of loopholes

https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-bull-f1-adrian-newey-rb17-supercar-11656397080

4 years ago

Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-27/anti-abortion-centers-find-pregnant-teens-online-then-save-their-data

4 years ago

Rare video games collection heist

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/06/rare-nintendo-atari-games-stolen

4 years ago

X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment

https://www.righto.com/2022/06/x-ray-reverse-engineering-hybrid-module.html

4 years ago

Vercel Edge Middleware: Dynamic at the speed of static

https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-edge-middleware-dynamic-at-the-speed-of-static

4 years ago

A Response

https://caspercloudwalker.bearblog.dev/a-response/

4 years ago

Universal Media Server. A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(s) Media Server

https://www.universalmediaserver.com/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31906829

4 years ago

Vim 9.0 Released

https://www.vim.org/vim90.php

4 years ago

Jupiter CEO Quits $68B Firm to Sit at the Beach and ‘Do Nothing’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-28/formica-plans-to-step-down-as-jupiter-ceo-beesley-to-take-over

4 years ago

Leetcode Considered Harmful

https://www.fullcontextdevelopment.com/qb/leetcode-considered-harmful

4 years ago

Automated PDF Reports with Python Notebooks

https://mljar.com/blog/automated-reports-python/

4 years ago

CandyCodes: Simple unique edible identifiers for authenticating pharmaceuticals

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11234-4

4 years ago

Climate protection: CO2 turned into methanol

https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/press-releases/news/neue-technik-fuer-den-klimaschutz-aus-co2-wird-methanol

4 years ago

Fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' may be more than a million years older

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-fossils-cradle-humankind-million-years.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914087

4 years ago

Multiplying and Dividing on the 6502 (2021)

https://llx.com/Neil/a2/mult.html

4 years ago

Clang IR (CIR): A New IR for Clang

https://facebookincubator.github.io/clangir/

4 years ago

WHO declines to label monkeypox a global emergency

https://www.science.org/content/article/who-declines-to-label-monkeypox-a-global-emergency

4 years ago

“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film history (1982)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1982/07/12/baby-the-rain-must-fall

4 years ago

Demystifying pack and unpack, these most misunderstood functions

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpacktut

4 years ago

EY to pay $100 mln to settle U.S. charges of staff cheating on accountant exams

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ey-pay-100-mln-settle-us-charges-staff-cheating-accountant-exams-2022-06-28/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31908797

4 years ago

Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems

https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/

4 years ago

Tesla Lays Off Hundreds of Autopilot Workers in Latest Staff Cut

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tesla-lays-off-hundreds-of-autopilot-workers-in-latest-staff-cut-1.1785179

4 years ago

Ask HN: Devs who passed whiteboarding at FAANG: how do you feel about it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905256

4 years ago

58% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck – including 30% earning $250k

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/27/more-than-half-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-amid-inflation.html

4 years ago

Human-specific gene increases primate neocortex in the fetal marmoset

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb2401#core-collateral-purchase-access

4 years ago

Show HN: Virtual Maker – Make 3D/VR scenes in the browser

https://www.virtualmaker.net/

4 years ago