top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-30

ImHex – A Hex Editor

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

4 years ago

467 upvotes – 70 comments

Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship

https://www.wired.com/story/tor-browser-russia-blocks/

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 396 comments

Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202068

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 167 comments

Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)

https://fangdaddy.medium.com/dear-startups-i-hate-subscription-services-aecefeb0f089

4 years ago

277 upvotes – 422 comments

MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body

https://news.mit.edu/2022/ultrasound-stickers-0728

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 59 comments

Mr. Rogers sued the KKK (2021)

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mr-rogers-sues-the-kkk

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 107 comments

Want to Start a Startup, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/want-to-start-a-startup-sell-something-online/

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 84 comments

Serverless DNS: Self-hosted DNS resolver at the edge

https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 83 comments

Clojure needs a Rails

https://blog.janetacarr.com/clojure-needs-a-rails/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 228 comments

I miss the programmable web (2021)

https://matt-rickard.com/the-programmable-web/

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 177 comments

I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To

https://weh.wtf/34-blockchain-projects.html

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 347 comments

Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling convention

https://www.foonathan.net/2022/07/carbon-calling-convention/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 217 comments

Who is collecting data from your car?

https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/07/27/who-is-collecting-data-from-your-car

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 216 comments

Samsung’s “repair mode” lets technicians look at your phone, not your data

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/samsungs-repair-mode-lets-technicians-look-at-your-phone-not-your-data/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 86 comments

Photogrammetry Guide

https://github.com/mikeroyal/Photogrammetry-Guide

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 43 comments

Lyra: Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine in TypeScript

https://github.com/nearform/lyra

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 46 comments

A SQLite extension for reading large files line-by-line

https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-lines

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 29 comments

My customized Wim Hof breathing method

https://ugjka.net/blog/breathwork/2022/07/30/wim-hof-breathing-customized/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 120 comments

Using Nix on macOS

https://checkoway.net/musings/nix/

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 114 comments

An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)

https://xenodium.com/an-accentuated-emacs-experiment/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

The richer people get, the more meat they eat

https://spectrum.ieee.org/meat-eater

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 207 comments

A Master Perfumer's Reflections on Patchouli and Vetiver

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-master-perfumers-reflections-on-patchouli-and-vetiver/

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Finding the biological roots for pathological social withdrawal, Hikikomori

https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/230/

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

Router Security

https://routersecurity.org/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 74 comments

Safety: A comparaison between Rust, C++ and Go

https://nested.substack.com/p/safety

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 182 comments

Archive of Visualized Concepts

https://archivve.visualizevalue.com/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Courses explaining well-written codebases?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32288462

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34023789/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 136 comments

US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/29/us_judiciary_attack/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

The Fourth Operation: What Comes After Exponentiation

http://ariwatch.com/VS/Algorithms/TheFourthOperation.htm

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

Arris / Arris-variant DSL/Fiber router critical vulnerability exposure

https://derekabdine.com/blog/2022-arris-advisory.html

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Bevy 0.8: data oriented game engine built in Rust

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Punish?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-punish/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 225 comments

CZ5B (Chinese rocket) Reentry Prediction

https://aerospace.org/reentries/cz-5b-rb-id-53240

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 96 comments

SBCL – New in Version 2.2.7

http://sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.2.7#2.2.7

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems

https://maxleiter.com/blog/node-has-tooling-problems

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 120 comments

How a cable modem works (c. 2002)

https://support.usr.com/support/6000/6000-ug/two.html

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53H0pO2FD4

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments

Intel Cuts Fab Buildout by $4B to Pay Billions in Dividends

https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/intel-cuts-fab-buildout-by-4b-to

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

Small pleasures of programming (2020)

https://terrycrowley.medium.com/small-pleasures-of-programming-ae4f50dde67a

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

No-logging of user activity policy

https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Pagefind: Static Low-Bandwidth Search at Scale

https://cloudcannon.com/blog/introducing-pagefind/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

The Reason Mortgage Rates Are Dropping at a Record Pace

https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/markets/mortgage-rates-07292022

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

“After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance”

https://www.wired.com/story/after-going-solar-i-felt-the-bliss-of-sudden-abundance/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 132 comments

Aldous Huxley’s version of the Disney “Alice” (2020)

https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/aldous-huxleys-version-of-the-disney-alice/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Challenges in building a decentralized web

https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/challenges-web-decentralization/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part II: Foraging

https://acoup.blog/2022/07/29/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-ii-foraging/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Parallelising Huffman decoding and x86 disassembly by synchronising prefix codes

https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/07/30/parallelising-huffman-decoding-and-x86-disassembly-by-synchronising-non-self-synchronising-prefix-codes/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments

Cloud Computing Without Containers: Hello Isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containers/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

ExifLooter – finds geolocation info on all URLs and directories

https://github.com/aydinnyunus/exifLooter

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Somehow Microsoft have managed to have a different product team rebrand Defender

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1552934449410707458

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Libredirect – Redirect social media and websites to privacy friendly front ends

https://libredirect.github.io

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Faked Crystallography

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

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

Allocating resources where they solve the most important problems

https://terraformindustries.com/

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

How can we make robotics more like generative modeling?

https://evjang.com/2022/07/23/robotics-generative.html

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 3 comments

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

59 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32285459

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 64 comments

Fresnel Integral

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

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft

https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/how-san-francisco-black-market-thrives-off-retail-theft/

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 157 comments

BMList – A list of big pre-trained models (GPT-3, DALL-E2...)

https://github.com/OpenBMB/BMList

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

What happens when society collapses (2021)

https://readysquirrel.com/what-happens-when-society-collapses/

4 years ago

54 upvotes – 60 comments

A billion-dollar industry helping students at Australian universities cheat

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-30/cheating-rife-australian-unis-online-assessments-covid/101277426

4 years ago

53 upvotes – 87 comments

An efficient key recovery attack on SIDH

https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/975

4 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

25 years of evidence for repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/PLRA_25.html

4 years ago

52 upvotes – 34 comments
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