top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-28

AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphafold-reveals-the-structure-of-the-protein-universe

4 years ago

633 upvotes – 236 comments

TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business

https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/wa230m/tifu_by_using_stripe_as_a_payment_processor_for/

4 years ago

575 upvotes – 441 comments

The Best iPhone

https://notes.ghed.in/posts/the-best-iphone/

4 years ago

573 upvotes – 473 comments

Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

https://www.parsnip.ai/

4 years ago

536 upvotes – 365 comments

House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3862127-house-democrats-to-propose-stock-trading-ban-in-august-report

4 years ago

503 upvotes – 355 comments

FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes

https://reason.com/2022/07/26/what-is-the-fbi-hiding-about-its-raid-on-innocent-americans-safe-deposit-boxes/

4 years ago

476 upvotes – 384 comments

A Framework for Engineering Managers

https://github.com/jorgef/engineeringladders

4 years ago

427 upvotes – 66 comments

How to create a Python package in 2022

https://mathspp.com/blog/how-to-create-a-python-package-in-2022

4 years ago

424 upvotes – 145 comments

EdgeDB 2.0

https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-2-0

4 years ago

389 upvotes – 145 comments

Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)

https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html

4 years ago

372 upvotes – 338 comments

My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265223

4 years ago

361 upvotes – 208 comments

Rust is actually portable

https://ahgamut.github.io/2022/07/27/ape-rust-example/

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 103 comments

I've been targeted with a vicious corporate counterattack (2021)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a35812573/steven-donziger-chevron-house-arrest/

4 years ago

347 upvotes – 162 comments

Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03005

4 years ago

340 upvotes – 141 comments

AWS us-east-2 outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222

4 years ago

336 upvotes – 247 comments

S3 isn't getting cheaper

https://matt-rickard.com/10-years-and-s3-isnt-getting-cheaper/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 205 comments

I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

https://twitter.com/dweekly/status/1552148207248896001

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 139 comments

Has the world become less colourful?

https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1551976051860963333

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 213 comments

Is the Kalman filter just a low-pass filter?

https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/is-the-kalman-filter-just-a-low-pass

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 72 comments

ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/shotspotter-held-in-contempt-of-court/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 305 comments

Nobody optimizes happiness

https://dynomight.net/happiness/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 190 comments

Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388238/asus-eee-pc-netbook-laptop-line-linux-ipad-pro

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 200 comments

Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/28/retool-raises-45m-at-a-3-2b-valuation-to-make-building-custom-software-as-easy-as-buying-off-the-shelf/

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 144 comments

Black MIDI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_MIDI

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 86 comments

Yes, social media is undermining democracy

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/social-media-harm-facebook-meta-response/670975/

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 265 comments

HypeScript: Simplified TypeScript type system in TypeScript's own type system

https://github.com/ronami/HypeScript

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 82 comments

On “A Canticle for Leibowitz”

http://www.loukidelis.com/canticle-for-leibowitz.html

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 141 comments

Martin Kersten, creator of MonetDB, has died

https://www.cwi.nl/news/2022/in-memoriam-martin-kersten

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 28 comments

US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)

https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-second-quarter-2022-advance-estimate

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 471 comments

Godot 4.0 development enters feature freeze ahead of the first beta

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-0-development-enters-feature-freeze

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 118 comments

WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/webcontainers-are-now-supported-on-firefox/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 127 comments

History and effective use of Vim (2019)

https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-07-19-history-use-vim.html

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 95 comments

The Harry Potter fallacy

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/straw-man-arguments-scott-aikin-john-casey-book-review-mary-leng/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 188 comments

Rebellion at DataRobot over insider stock sales

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-rebellion-at-datarobot

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 135 comments

About communication safety in Messages

https://support.apple.com/en-euro/HT212850

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 337 comments

That time when I accidentally social engineered myself to a film set

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/07/that-time-when-i-accidentally-social.html

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: Distributed SQLite on FoundationDB

https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 42 comments

I Designed My Own 16-Bit CPU [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt0JfmV7CyI

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: TensorDock Core GPU Cloud – GPU servers from $0.29/hr

https://www.tensordock.com/product-core

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 52 comments

MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out Lego instructions

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/27/lego_machine_learning_ai_framework/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

Air Support in a Backpack: The Switchblade

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/air-support-in-a-backpack-the-switchblade

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 101 comments

The untold story of Yugoslavia’s naturist paradise

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11998/yugoslavia-nudism-naturism-fkk-koversada-camping-holiday-croatia

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 134 comments

Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it never left Glasgow

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/22/passenger-spent-night-on-scotland-to-london-sleeper-train-but-went-nowhere

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 115 comments

A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 229 comments

Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)

http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 93 comments

Manticore Search: Elasticsearch Alternative

https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 69 comments

AWS us-east-2 outage

https://status.zoom.us

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 8 comments

Developers are burned out, quitting jobs and creating a crisis for recruiters

https://www.worklife.news/talent/developers-are-burned-out-quitting-their-jobs-and-creating-a-crisis-for-recruiters/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 127 comments

Oldest DNA from domesticated American horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-oldest-dna-domesticated-american-horse.html

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Do data-driven companies win?

https://benn.substack.com/p/do-data-driven-companies-win

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

SSD drives’ 40k-hour “death bug” continues to catch enterprises unawares

https://thestack.technology/ssd-death-bug-40000-hours-sandisk/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with TypeScript inference

https://github.com/ar-nelson/spartan-schema

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

Flipping until you are lost

https://11011110.github.io/blog/2022/07/21/flipping-until-lost.html

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 3 comments

Swift Proposal: Move Function

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0366-move-function.md

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 99 comments

How to build an open-source business (2021)

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/how-to-build-an-open-source-business-in-2021-part-1/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs

https://chunk.run

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 35 comments

The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB): It’s Real Now

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6449

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

Unplugged Phone Mysteries

https://pxlnv.com/blog/unplugged-mysteries/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

AMD’s Athlon 64: Getting the Basics Right

https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/07/28/amds-athlon-64-getting-the-basics-right/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

Tell HN: Collection of the some top HN Posts

https://gist.github.com/sachinsmc/2d2e86743204f4c6d16135406f8401c4

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

FOMO is disastrous for company strategies

https://rubenugarte.com/fomo-is-disastrous-for-company-strategies/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 87 comments

My 4G setup for working remotely from anywhere

https://suraj.dev/blog/my-4g-setup-for-working-remotely-from-anywhere

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

The Dynamics of Music Exploration on Spotify

https://research.atspotify.com/the-dynamics-of-exploration-on-spotify/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Visualization of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft’s Consumer Product Lines

https://www.papercutslibrary.com/process-notes/a-non-exhaustive-yet-fairly-thorough-view-of-big-tech-via-amazon-apple-alphabet-and-microsofts-consumer-product-lines/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Corrupting memory without memory corruption

https://github.blog/2022-07-27-corrupting-memory-without-memory-corruption/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

GL_EXT_fragment_shader_barycentric: Wireframe

https://wunkolo.github.io/post/2022/07/gl_ext_fragment_shader_barycentric-wireframe/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 4 comments

Creating an Intranet Like the Internet

https://www.maatt.fr/blog/intranet-like-the-internet/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly shaky

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/07/27/evidence-for-behavioural-interventions-looks-increasingly-shaky

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 56 comments

Struct Endianness in Python

https://til.simonwillison.net/python/struct-endianness

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Druid: A Real-Time Analytical Data Store

https://www.micahlerner.com/2022/05/15/druid-a-real-time-analytical-data-store.html

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

I accidentally discovered one of the most egregious pharma scams imaginable

https://twitter.com/HankHeil/status/1552334139172454400

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments
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