top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-16

Scratch is a big deal

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2022/07/16/scratch-is-a-big-deal/

4 years ago

1017 upvotes – 296 comments

Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)

https://www.thelegalartist.com/blog/on-bill-wattersons-refusal-to-license-calvin-and-hobbes

4 years ago

464 upvotes – 306 comments

Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

https://github.com/tylertreat/comcast

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 138 comments

China mortgage boycott data erased by censors as crisis spreads

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/china-mortgage-boycott-data-erased-by-censors-as-crisis-spreads

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 299 comments

Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 373 comments

Why rails buckle in Britain

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/why-rails-buckle-in-britain/

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 244 comments

Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117489

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 266 comments

Learning The Elite Class

https://aella.substack.com/p/learning-the-elite-class

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 298 comments

U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/07/15/us-transition-988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-begins-saturday.html

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 331 comments

The Book of Experiments (1958) [pdf]

https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/bookofexpts.pdf

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 42 comments

Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses

https://9to5google.com/2022/07/15/android-removes-fuchsia-code-starnix/

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 235 comments

To Ruby from Python

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/to-ruby-from-python/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 294 comments

Show HN: A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code

https://gist.github.com/p4bl0-/9f4e950e6c06fbba7e168097d89b0e46

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 45 comments

Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 89 comments

The Book of Shaders (2015)

https://thebookofshaders.com/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 22 comments

Async Rust: What is a runtime? how Tokio works under the hood

https://kerkour.com/rust-async-await-what-is-a-runtime

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: I made a simple platform to buy/sell side projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117519

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 112 comments

The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home – Part I

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-mobile-home

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 174 comments

Interactive course about “everyday” data science

https://tigyog.app/d/C-I1weB9CpTH/r/everyday-data-science

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 52 comments

'Zero trust’ security is a poor choice of words

https://code.mendhak.com/zero-trust-poor-choice-of-words/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 99 comments

Bun gets “bun:FFI” – call native libraries from JavaScript

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1521527222514774017

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 16 comments

The 13-Inch MacBook Air

https://daringfireball.net/2022/07/the_2022_13-inch_macbook_air

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 269 comments

Detroit’s new personalized flight information board is straight out of sci-fi

https://thepointsguy.com/news/personal-flight-information-display-dtw/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 166 comments

When coal first arrived, Americans said 'no thanks'

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/americans-hated-coal-180980342/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 292 comments

Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-submarine

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 150 comments

Git log is not a changelog

https://agateau.com/2022/your-git-log-is-not-a-changelog/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 88 comments

Training my sense of CO2 ppm

https://interconnected.org/home/2022/07/14/co2

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 89 comments

Study: Alcohol is never good for people under 40

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00847-9/fulltext#%20

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 114 comments

We could have universal Covid vaccines soon

https://www.slowboring.com/p/we-could-have-universal-covid-vaccines

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 319 comments

Deno’s July 13th incident update

https://deno.com/blog/2022-07-13-outage-post-mortem

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

Arcan Display Server 0.6.2 – It’s all connected

https://arcan-fe.com/2022/07/15/arcan-0-6-2-its-all-connected/

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 12 comments

Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return? (2014)

https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

How the Colosseum was built and why it was an architectural marvel

https://www.history.com/news/how-roman-colosseum-built

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 79 comments

YOLOv7: Trainable Bag-of-Freebies

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02696

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Herbert W. Franke has died

https://twitter.com/HerbertWFranke/status/1548321370781626372

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover

https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/breastfeeding-iq

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 114 comments

Eating horsemeat in France

https://lamelonne.substack.com/p/horses-for-main-courses

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 224 comments

Ask HN: How do you use Bitcoin in a trustless way?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32115693

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 82 comments

Company sends remote worker photo of herself, fires her for going to kitchen

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/remote-worker-klarna-webcam-photo-tiktok/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: CashGraphs – A securities portfolio optimizer

https://www.cashgraphs.com/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Concatenation is composition

https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language/Concatenation%20is%20composition

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Is JPEG 2000 a preservation risk? (2013)

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/01/is-jpeg-2000-a-preservation-risk/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 83 comments

10 Lessons of an MIT Education

https://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Invisible XML is a language for describing the implicit structure of data

https://invisiblexml.org/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

XML-RPC Specification (1999)

http://xmlrpc.com/spec.md

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 59 comments

CotEditor – Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 29 comments

survey.apple.com showing Microsoft IIS default page

https://survey.apple.com/iisstart.htm

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

USB-C Port on iPhone

https://twitter.com/david3141593/status/1548314959943122945

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020)

https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 65 comments

Crypto Ancienne 2.0 brings TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things (except BeOS)

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/07/crypto-ancienne-20-now-brings-tls-13-to.html

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

The rise of air conditioning (2018)

https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/rise-air-conditioning

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Logto beta – build universal sign-in, auth, and identity with ease

https://github.com/logto-io/logto

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments
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