top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-24

Standard Ebooks

https://standardebooks.org/

4 years ago

Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1550930876183166976

4 years ago

Take more screenshots

https://alexwlchan.net/2022/07/screenshots/

4 years ago

Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k&list=PLaNzoFtkQ7rbt5ac9qdi76iNKuqZWQkB3

4 years ago

Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

https://hexapipes.vercel.app/hexagonal/5/1

4 years ago

“Burning Ship” fractal

http://www.paulbourke.net/fractals/burnship/

4 years ago

Performance comparison: counting words in Python, C/C++, Awk, Rust, and more

https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/

4 years ago

How to drive away your best engineers

https://blog.hulacorn.com/2021/09/08/how-to-drive-away-your-best-engineers/

4 years ago

Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid

https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d08c30787a?from_ts=1658093527470&to_ts=1658698327470&live=true

4 years ago

A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

https://newsbeezer.com/czechrepubliceng/a-chess-robot-in-moscow-has-broken-the-finger-of-its-human-opponent/

4 years ago

Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud

https://wallstreetpro.com/2022/07/23/two-decades-of-alzheimers-research-was-based-on-deliberate-fraud-by-2-scientists-that-has-cost-billions-of-dollars-and-millions-of-lives/

4 years ago

Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?

https://ghuntley.com/mcdonalds/

4 years ago

Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

4 years ago

No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2200300119

4 years ago

AWS open sourced the AWS console design system

https://github.com/cloudscape-design/components

4 years ago

Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

https://github.com/maxmunzel/kvass

4 years ago

In Praise of Stacked PRs

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2022/07/17/In-Praise-of-Stacked-PRs/

4 years ago

Non-Obvious Docker Uses

https://matt-rickard.com/non-obvious-docker-uses/

4 years ago

Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html

4 years ago

Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/802190-2022-07/

4 years ago

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS crash course series

https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-docker-kubernetes-terraform-and-aws-crash-course-series-dca343ba1274?gi=96ef3b8ffd04

4 years ago

Arizona Mom Fights Abusive Prosecution by Department of Child Safety

https://pacificlegal.org/press-release/arizona-mom-fights-abusive-prosecution-by-department-of-child-safety/

4 years ago

Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

https://wikenigma.org.uk/

4 years ago

Does the Past Still Exist?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/07/does-past-still-exist.html

4 years ago

DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

4 years ago

Porn use and men's and women's sexual performance

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/porn-use-and-mens-and-womens-sexual-performance-evidence-from-a-large-longitudinal-sample/665B68D9E195A19B5825F9411B059927

4 years ago

Factor: A Practical Stack Language

https://factorcode.org/

4 years ago

Free online courses from top universities

https://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

4 years ago

Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/ford-lithium-iron-phosphate-batteries

4 years ago

At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/doyle-brunson-poker-legend/

4 years ago

Hispaniola's great divergence

https://www.thefitzwilliam.com/p/hispaniolas-great-divergence

4 years ago

Facial hair tracking for high fidelity performance capture

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2022/07/24/facial-hair-tracking-for-high-fidelity-performance-capture/

4 years ago

The 15-minute city (2020)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-12/paris-s-15-minute-city-could-be-coming-to-an-urban-area-near-you

4 years ago

Google to pause all hiring for two weeks

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/20/google-to-pause-all-hiring-for-two-weeks/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211734

4 years ago

Crystal 1.5

https://crystal-lang.org/2022/07/06/1.5.0-released.html

4 years ago

Kubernetes for Developers Who Know How to Develop

https://blog.ali.dev/engineering/2022/01/13/k8s-for-developers/

4 years ago

OpenXanadu

https://xanadu.com/xanademos/MoeJusteOrigins.html

4 years ago

Oblique Strategies on GameBoy

https://nickyflowers.itch.io/osgb

4 years ago

Foundations of Databases

http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/

4 years ago

Tech booms fuelled liveability busts in Silicon Valley and Bengaluru

https://daily.thesignal.co/p/a-tale-of-two-valleys

4 years ago

The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2017/08/10/creepiest-cycling-condition-shermers-neck/

4 years ago

Puzzle of prized white truffle finally yields to science

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/jul/24/puzzle-of-prized-white-truffles-finally-yields-science-fungi

4 years ago

Baking bread with the Romans part III – the panis quadratus strikes back (2018)

https://tavolamediterranea.com/2018/06/14/baking-bread-romans-part-iii-panis-strikes-back/

4 years ago

Tesla on autopilot rear ends motorcycle on freeway, killing rider

https://www.ksl.com/article/50445474/motorcyclist-dies-in-i-15-collision-with-tesla-on-autopilot-uhp-says

4 years ago

Astrodynamics Textbooks on My Shelf

https://gereshes.com/2022/07/24/select-textbooks-on-my-shelf-1-astrodynamics-edition/

4 years ago

Prior Omicron infection protects against BA.4 and BA.5 variants

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01950-2

4 years ago

Prima: Cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Perl

https://github.com/dk/Prima

4 years ago

Amazon's Book Piracy Problem

https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html

4 years ago

Typst: Compose Papers Faster

https://typst.app/

4 years ago