top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-03

Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

http://pilimi.org/blog-introducing.html

3 years ago

996 upvotes – 418 comments

Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

https://thehustle.co/why-nobody-ever-wins-the-mall-car-giveaway/

3 years ago

519 upvotes – 250 comments

Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling

https://main.vitejs.dev/

3 years ago

483 upvotes – 365 comments

Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965616

3 years ago

407 upvotes – 215 comments

They're made out of meat (1991)

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

3 years ago

384 upvotes – 151 comments

Documents reveal McKinsey's role increasing opioid sales until 2019

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/01/mckinsey-opioid-documents

3 years ago

354 upvotes – 168 comments

WeatherKit

https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/

3 years ago

335 upvotes – 191 comments

40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

3 years ago

316 upvotes – 346 comments

Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?

https://twitter.com/tony_breu/status/1543311124560592898

3 years ago

282 upvotes – 188 comments

It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak

https://leejo.github.io/2022/07/03/duolingo_streak/

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 225 comments

How to build a chess engine

https://www.chessengines.org/

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 57 comments

Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 31 comments

Gitlab Architecture Overview

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 43 comments

Red Engine: modern scheduling framework for Python applications

https://red-engine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 53 comments

Git from the Inside Out

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside-out

3 years ago

178 upvotes – 10 comments

Visualizing quantum mechanics in an interactive simulation

https://lab.quantumflytrap.com/lab

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 15 comments

Norwegian Meteorological Institute has an excellent free weather API

https://developer.yr.no/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 36 comments

Asset-Level Transition Risk in the Global Coal, Oil, and Gas Supply Chains

https://github.com/Lkruitwagen/global-fossil-fuel-supply-chain

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 33 comments

How To Know Everything

https://markgreville.ie/2022/06/22/book-summary-how-to-know-everything-by-elke-wiss/

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 38 comments

GitHub Code Search (Preview)

https://cs.github.com/about

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 78 comments

SwiftUI for Mac 2022

https://troz.net/post/2022/swiftui-mac-2022/

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 68 comments

What happened when the rich stopped intermarrying in Britain

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/02/what-happened-when-the-rich-stopped-intermarrying

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 110 comments

Is the Ride over for Uber?

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/opinion/adam-schwab-is-the-ride-over-for-uber/

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 297 comments

The End of CI

https://matt-rickard.com/the-end-of-ci/

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 231 comments

RETRO is fast

http://mitchgordon.me/ml/2022/07/01/retro-is-blazing.html

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 20 comments

Couch to 64k, a.k.a. Building a Z80 Breadboard Computer (2020)

http://bread80.com/2020/07/24/couch-to-64k-a-k-a-building-a-z80-breadboard-computer-part-1-pins/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31968169

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 188 comments

BootBASIC Interpreter in 512 Bytes

https://github.com/nanochess/bootBASIC

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965367

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: Desklamp – convenient and collaborative notemaking on PDFs

https://desklamp.io/

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

Code replay attack on the myGovID Scheme

https://www.thinkingcybersecurity.com/DigitalID/

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 39 comments

The Sinking of Voyager

https://www.coppolacomment.com/2022/07/the-sinking-of-voyager.html

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

India’s biggest businesses are tapping green hydrogen as a future fuel

https://www.fortuneindia.com/long-reads/indias-green-future-built-on-hydrogen/108532

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 144 comments

The web is not poor man’s native (2015)

https://cwilso.com/2015/05/29/the-web-is-not-poor-mans-native/

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31969958

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 145 comments

Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider (2007)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/quantum-mechanics-and-tomb-raider/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

StrictYAML

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 84 comments

Zetk: CLI utilities, fzf-based scripts, C++ lib for managing your Zettelkasten

https://gitlab.com/andrejr/zetk

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Microsoft clarifies that game activity is shared with third parties in new ToS

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/upcoming.aspx#14a_XboxLive_ShortDescription

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: AI-Generated Music?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31968456

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Generate webpage summary images with DALL-E mini

https://colab.research.google.com/github/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/35_Pictures_are_worth_a_thousand_words.ipynb

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

Duktape is an embeddable JavaScript engine

https://duktape.org/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments
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