top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-29

Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world

https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

4 years ago

How far can you go by train in 5h?

https://chronotrains-eu.vercel.app/

4 years ago

US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-regulators-will-certify-first-small-nuclear-reactor-design/

4 years ago

Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

https://github.com/tabler/tabler

4 years ago

Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

https://justinmcelroy.com/2022/07/26/visiting-canadas-50-million-1980s-ghost-town/

4 years ago

Asus Zenfone 9

https://www.asus.com/Mobile/Phones/ZenFone/Zenfone-9/

4 years ago

Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

https://gamerant.com/rumor-google-stadia-shut-down/

4 years ago

Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-registry-sucks-technically/

4 years ago

Remote Attestation is coming back

https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-coming-back-how-much-freedom-will-it-take/

4 years ago

Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news22.html

4 years ago

Buttery Smooth “10fps” (2020)

https://wunkolo.github.io/post/2020/02/buttery-smooth-10fps/

4 years ago

TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/tiktok-and-the-fall-of-the-social-media-giants

4 years ago

C++ Asynchronous Framework

https://userver.tech/

4 years ago

Semantic Diff for SQL

https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/main/posts/sql_diff.md

4 years ago

Ambition as an anxiety disorder

https://moontower.substack.com/p/moontower-154

4 years ago

Build your own web framework

https://vercel.com/blog/build-your-own-web-framework

4 years ago

‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond our Solar System

https://www.science.org/content/article/voyager-steroids-mission-probe-mysterious-region-beyond-solar-system

4 years ago

Joni Mitchell learned to play guitar again after a 2015 brain aneurysm

https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/how-joni-mitchell-relearned-to-play-guitar-after-a-2015-brain-aneurysm.html

4 years ago

Timsort (2019)

https://skerritt.blog/timsort/

4 years ago

Reference count, don't garbage collect

https://kevinlawler.com/refcount

4 years ago

Phrases in computing that might need retiring

https://www.sicpers.info/2022/07/phrases-in-computing-that-might-need-retiring/

4 years ago

Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTzDPwPTt4

4 years ago

How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276120

4 years ago

Repurposing the cadaver of a spider to create a pneumatically actuated gripper

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-bugs

4 years ago

Color.js Released

https://svgees.us/blog/colorjs-release.html

4 years ago

Nbdev: Create delightful software with Jupyter Notebooks

https://nbdev.fast.ai/

4 years ago

Photovoltaic Solar Panels (1905)

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel.html

4 years ago

IPv6 Only Cloud Server

https://v6node.com

4 years ago

A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

https://schoolmaker.com/course-creation-guide

4 years ago

I don’t have notifications enabled, nowhere and never

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32274344

4 years ago

Page Weight Matters (2012)

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

4 years ago

Tell HN: Apple Pay works in non-Safari browsers in iOS 16 Beta 3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32280325

4 years ago

Clojure Web Development Evolved [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFzukK5-rpU

4 years ago

A media-fueled social panic over unmarked graves

https://quillette.com/2022/07/22/how-fake-news-in-the-new-york-times-led-to-a-canadian-social-panic-over-unmarked-graves/

4 years ago

200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip

https://www.techradar.com/news/200tb-ssds-could-come-soon-thanks-to-microns-new-chip

4 years ago

Overview of Consistency Levels in Database Systems

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/07/overview-of-consistency-levels-in.html

4 years ago

Build Unix, Not Uber

https://thesephist.com/posts/legacy/

4 years ago

Linux RNG RFC Patch: implement getrandom() in vDSO

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

4 years ago

Scientists have finally found the potential “cure” for baldness

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/male-pattern-baldness-treatment-cure-scientists-b2133793.html

4 years ago

The many flavors of hashing

https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2022/07/notes/1290a79c/

4 years ago

Scientists discover new “origins of life” chemical reactions

https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2022/20220728-krishnamurthy-origins-of-life-chemical-reactions.html

4 years ago

Project Euler on a Microcontroller

https://shawnnapora.github.io/blog/2022/07/29/euler-on-micro/

4 years ago

Critical SIP Bypass Vulnerabilities in macOS PackageKit.framework

https://jhftss.github.io/CVE-2022-26712-The-POC-For-SIP-Bypass-Is-Even-Tweetable/

4 years ago

AMD passes Intel in market cap

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap-for-the-first-time.html

4 years ago

911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/911-proxy-service-implodes-after-disclosing-breach/

4 years ago

Show HN: Doxx Me – See how doxxable your phone number is

https://app.efani.com/doxx/hackernews/

4 years ago

David Foster Wallace’s final attempt to make art moral

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/david-foster-wallaces-final-attempt-to-make-art-moral

4 years ago

On Proving Yourself

https://thesephist.com/posts/prove/

4 years ago

Fibre-optic cables could be used to spy on people a kilometre away

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05267

4 years ago

“This game has been shamelessly stolen ”

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/wahkj2/this_game_has_been_shamelessly_stolen/

4 years ago

Why Hypergraphs? (2013)

https://blog.opencog.org/2013/03/24/why-hypergraphs/

4 years ago

Booting Linux in five seconds (2008)

https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

4 years ago

The unlikely odds of making it big on TikTok

https://pudding.cool/2022/07/tiktok-story/

4 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Micron Computers (2020)

https://dfarq.homeip.net/micron-computers-rise-and-fall/

4 years ago

Understanding GC in JSC from Scratch

https://webkit.org/blog/12967/understanding-gc-in-jsc-from-scratch/

4 years ago

Building a Recursive DNS Resolver

https://timothya.com/blog/dns/

4 years ago

Faked Crystallography

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-crystallography

4 years ago

Data Center Heatmap

https://barry.blog/2022/07/28/data-center-heatmap/

4 years ago

Winamp 5.9

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=458120&utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=winamp5.9&utm_term=july2022

4 years ago

NIST announces preliminary winners of post-quantum competition

https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_91_nist_announces_preliminary_winners_of_post-quantum_competition

4 years ago

Getting started with decentralized identity

https://www.nathangould.com/posts/how-to-get-started-learning-web5/

4 years ago

How to freaking hire great developers by having them read code

https://freakingrectangle.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/

4 years ago

The first Apple Tablet, from 1979 (2009)

http://www.edibleapple.com/2009/11/23/the-first-apple-tablet-from-1979/

4 years ago

Show HN: P2PCF – Low cost, low effort WebRTC signalling using Cloudflare workers

https://github.com/gfodor/p2pcf

4 years ago

GraphQL is quickly moving to one of my least favorite technologies

https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1552694954190950406

4 years ago

Winning a London Garden Allotment

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-in-the-garden/winning-a-london-garden-allotment

4 years ago

The importance of exponentially more computing power

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14007

4 years ago

Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but not without costs

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/its-not-easy-being-green

4 years ago

Show HN: Truss – Serve any ML model without boilerplate code

https://github.com/basetenlabs/truss

4 years ago

Settling in for the long haul

https://crookedtimber.org/2022/07/05/settling-in-for-the-long-haul/

4 years ago

Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)

https://perfecthairhealth.com/hair-transplants-debunk-scalp-tension-hair-loss/

4 years ago

Wikipedia is currently in an edit war over the definition of recession

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Recession

4 years ago

The engineering profession’s role in accelerating technological innovation

https://www.hoover.org/research/engineering-professions-role-accelerating-technological-innovation

4 years ago

Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/appetite-destruction

4 years ago