top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-25

Emoji Kitchen

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/

4 years ago

850 upvotes – 190 comments

Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-weeks-in-the-webb-space-telescope-is-reshaping-astronomy-20220725/

4 years ago

782 upvotes – 422 comments

Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220192

4 years ago

759 upvotes – 316 comments

I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)

https://electrek.co/2021/10/25/i-actually-bought-a-cheap-electric-pickup-truck-from-alibaba-heres-what-showed-up/

4 years ago

480 upvotes – 181 comments

It’s time to leave the leap second in the past

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/

4 years ago

440 upvotes – 583 comments

What they don't teach you about sockets

https://macoy.me/blog/programming/Sockets

4 years ago

412 upvotes – 113 comments

Finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable

https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/07/19/finish-what-you-start.html

4 years ago

393 upvotes – 162 comments

The GNU Name System

https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html

4 years ago

330 upvotes – 145 comments

The Case for C# and .NET

https://chrlschn.medium.com/the-case-for-c-and-net-72ee933da304

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 371 comments

Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1551662427606986752

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 203 comments

Mechanics invent an axle that can achieve steering angles of up to 80 degrees

https://interestingengineering.com/axle-steering-angles-80-degrees

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 121 comments

Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (2015)

https://seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-greatest-scene-casablanca-and-la-marseillaise/

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 207 comments

Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean?

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-beta-amyloid-data-what-does-it-mean

4 years ago

250 upvotes – 168 comments

I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1551587190395789312

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 289 comments

Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from the 8080, but

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220725-00/?p=106889

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 118 comments

Duct Tape Book Binding – Cheepo Delux

https://www.instructables.com/Duck-Tape-Book-Binding-Cheepo-Delux/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 73 comments

The Global Cost of Corrosion

http://impact.nace.org/economic-impact.aspx#

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 239 comments

The Identity of Kim Il Sung (1949) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00809A000600270269-4.pdf

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 132 comments

An Economy of Overfed Middlemen

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-moat-trajectory

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 154 comments

‘Solar tower’ system produces jet fuel from CO2, water, and sunlight

https://singularityhub.com/2022/07/25/this-solar-tower-system-produces-jet-fuel-from-co2-water-and-sunlight/

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 163 comments

A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-how-a-coding-error-caused-rogers-outage-that-left-millions-without/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32226910

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 218 comments

Code doesn’t have to be a mess

https://www.danielsieger.com/blog/2022/07/25/your-code-doesnt-have-to-be-a-mess.html

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 182 comments

Considering Sourcehut

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2022/07/25/considering-sourcehut/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 75 comments

Diet and its effects on the gut biome in the pathophysiology of mental disorders

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-01922-0

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 99 comments

Arguing from compassion (2021)

https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/how-to-star-man-arguing-from-compassion/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 226 comments

In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything

https://www.eater.com/23199328/alaska-remote-delivery-food-plane-bettles

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 132 comments

Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++

https://thenewstack.io/google-launches-carbon-an-experimental-replacement-for-c/

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 232 comments

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 87 comments

Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority

https://handshake.org/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 95 comments

[Fedora-legal-list] Change in classification of CC0

https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-legal/CAC1cPGw1xScGAXo-0NRs92zFB7ptRxTt=oCYi0BxfZDfAgUtYQ@mail.gmail.com/

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 122 comments

The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing entire countries

https://www.bloomberglinea.com/2021/09/20/the-global-housing-market-is-broken-and-its-dividing-entire-countries/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 360 comments

Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for students after Scratch

https://www.pickcode.io/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Why are there so few artificial sunlight or artificial window products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220349

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 164 comments

Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-gpu-100x-performance-ray-tracing

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 75 comments

Road dust and its effect on human health: a literature review (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968206/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 149 comments

Search PDFs with Transformers and Python Notebook

https://colab.research.google.com/github/jina-ai/workshops/blob/main/pdf_search/pdf_search.ipynb

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 51 comments

Not So Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE)

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 93 comments

Google Kubernetes clusters config checker tool

https://github.com/google/gke-policy-automation

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

Featherwiki.com – 2.1MB Compact Multi OS Single Binary Wiki Server

https://codeberg.org/Alamantus/FeatherWiki/issues/58#issuecomment-584161

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 27 comments

Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220713-princess-mononoke-the-masterpiece-that-flummoxed-the-us

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 122 comments

An STM32 emulator written in Rust for 3D printers

https://github.com/nviennot/stm32-emulator

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

What I Learned at Clubhouse

https://anu.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-at-clubhouse-

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs

https://www.useplunk.com

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 60 comments

FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/fcc-fines-charter-ltd-broadband-more-3-million-rdof-defaults

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 70 comments

Information that won’t fit inside your head: Journals with and without bullets

https://howaboutthis.substack.com/p/the-information-that-wont-fit-inside

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61269586

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 171 comments

Don’t Blame Dostoyevsky

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/russian-literature-books-ukraine-war-dostoyevsky-nabokov/670928/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 188 comments

New embedded programming language with C as a host language

https://vely.dev/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 68 comments

Lagâri Hasan Çelebi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag%C3%A2ri_Hasan_%C3%87elebi

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems

https://www.micahlerner.com/2022/06/04/data-parallel-actors-a-programming-model-for-scalable-query-serving-systems.html

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: What are the best programming tricks you know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32223834

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 180 comments

Ask HN: Leaving Germany – where to find quality of life as experienced engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32224692

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 259 comments

Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02022-1

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 105 comments

What's the most portable way to include binary blobs in an executable?

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/whats_the_most_portable_way_to_include_binary_blobs_in_an_executable.html

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 58 comments

Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2022/07/24/deutsche-bahns-meltdown-and-high-speed-rail/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 159 comments

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62225696

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

Emmaüs: Thrift Store Shopping in France

https://lamelonne.substack.com/p/a-visit-to-emmaus

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

How the Brain Allows the Deaf to Experience Music

https://nautil.us/how-the-brain-allows-the-deaf-to-feel-music-22197/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

The Wang 2200 (2008)

http://www.wang2200.org/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 31 comments
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