top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-05

Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig

https://bun.sh/?launch

4 years ago

1431 upvotes – 314 comments

Felt

https://felt.com/

4 years ago

1382 upvotes – 166 comments

Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-discovers-three-new-exotic-particles

4 years ago

767 upvotes – 273 comments

EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/07/05/eu-approves-landmark-legislation-to-regulate-apple/

4 years ago

691 upvotes – 900 comments

How normal am I?

https://www.hownormalami.eu

4 years ago

605 upvotes – 305 comments

FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fedex-to-close-data-centers-retire-all-mainframes-by-2024-saving-400m/

4 years ago

492 upvotes – 559 comments

Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/shanghai_police_database_for_sell/

4 years ago

419 upvotes – 246 comments

Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux

https://old.reddit.com/r/xcloud/comments/vrfmuz/quality_on_linux/

4 years ago

414 upvotes – 188 comments

Defensive CSS

https://defensivecss.dev

4 years ago

377 upvotes – 70 comments

To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

https://xn--1-zfa.com/youtube/

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 180 comments

He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal

https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 136 comments

How CUDA Programming Works

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcspring22-s41487/

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 125 comments

Memzoom – view/monitor the raw memory of processes/files in your UTF-8 terminal

https://justine.lol/memzoom/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 51 comments

Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

https://winteriscoming.net/2021/04/19/amazon-spending-465-million-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-season-1/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 584 comments

Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives (2013)

https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/unraveling-the-linothorax-mystery-or-how-linen-armor-came-to-dominate-our-lives/

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Credentials dumper for Linux using eBPF

https://github.com/citronneur/pamspy

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 50 comments

How to Animate Multiplayer Cursors

https://liveblocks.io/blog/how-to-animate-multiplayer-cursors

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 61 comments

An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/899420/1f0179b2d946d7b7/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 129 comments

What comes after Git

https://matt-rickard.com/what-comes-after-git/

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 421 comments

We can't check the app permissions on Google Play anymore

https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/google-play-permissions-list/

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 120 comments

Running the Steam Deck’s OS in a virtual machine using QEMU

https://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2022/07/05/running-the-steam-decks-os-in-a-virtual-machine-using-qemu/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 73 comments

Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept

http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm/

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 46 comments

SHGA Shanghai Gov National Police Database for sale (1B entries)

https://breached.to/Thread-Selling-2022-SHGA-Shanghai-Gov-National-Police-database

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 1 comments

The SQLite Index Suggester

https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite_expert_

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 24 comments

A working flight simulator, no computers necessary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJAYZgOZS08

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 45 comments

Historical weather data API for machine learning, free for non-commercial

https://openmeteo.substack.com/p/historical-weather-for-machine-learning

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 45 comments

I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/more-better-web-apps/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 240 comments

SpaceVim 2.0

https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v2.0.0/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 126 comments

India's largest stock broker has 30 devs (2020)

https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 58 comments

NIST announces first PQC algoritms to be standardized

https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/G0DoD7lkGPk

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 127 comments

NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 56 comments

My Preferred Smart Home Vendors

https://chrisx.xyz/blog/my-preferred-smart-home-vendors/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 104 comments

The Swerve

https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 195 comments

Venice to introduce entry tickets and fees

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/07/01/venice-sets-date-for-introduction-of-ticketing-and-entry-fees-heres-what-you-need-to-know

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 232 comments

The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/magazine/e-pimps-onlyfans.html

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 177 comments

Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/air-and-water/dutch-farmers-organise-mass-protests-in-face-of-farm-closures

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 213 comments

Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (2006)

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-database-tables-index-themselves/

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 119 comments

Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode

https://github.com/winterknife/PINKPANTHER

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 17 comments

Windows' Undocumented “Emergency Restart”

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/vqcf67/windows_undocumented_emergency_restart/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 45 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20220705.txt

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 70 comments

Lurk – Language for Recursive ZK-SNARKs Inspired by Common Lisp and Scheme

https://github.com/lurk-lang

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 37 comments

Fields Medals 2022

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2022

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

World’s Highest Website

https://worlds-highest-website.com

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 97 comments

Zig is becoming more production-worthy

https://zigmonthly.org/letters/2022/may-june/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 72 comments

Everything Is Anime

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/everything-is-anime

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 99 comments

HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground

https://www.hackthebox.com/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 10 comments

The golden age of the aging actor

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/6/27/23181232/old-actors-aging-tom-cruise-top-gun-maverick

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 245 comments

Selfhosting on Localhost

https://jo-m.ch/posts/2022/07/self-hosting-on-localhost/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Arbitrary Code Execution in Super Mario All-Stars [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlkWSqA4VFU

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 23 comments

PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lennart-Poettering-Out-Red-Hat

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 186 comments

Nature Used 57 Recipes to Create Earth’s 10,500 “Mineral Kinds”

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/crushed-zapped-boiled-baked-and-more-nature-used-57-recipes-create-earths-10500-mineral-kinds

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone using Fastmail for their business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989061

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 93 comments

Turkey Discovers 694M Mt of Rare Earth Element Reserves

https://news.metal.com/newscontent/101881567/Turkey-Discovers-694-million-mt-of-Rare-Earth-Element-Reserves-with-Infrastructure-Construction-Starting-This-Year/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

GitDB, a distributed embeddable database on top of Git

https://github.com/gogitdb/gitdb

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Solar-powered, Self-hosted Low-tech Magazine

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Is it a strength that HN's UI has not changed over many years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31991675

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 116 comments

The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 192 comments

Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser

https://www.brow.sh/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

My quest for the perfect window manager (2004)

http://ironphoenix.org/fvwm/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 147 comments

Robotic surgery turns surgical trainees into spectators

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotic-surgery

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 87 comments

How to Build a Real Igloo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jfWm2jTFf4

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

Startups, this is how design works (2012)

https://startupsthisishowdesignworks.com

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 94 comments
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