top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-31

Google Timer is gone

https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer

4 years ago

560 upvotes – 323 comments

Nuclear energy is clean

https://www.collectifission.nl/nl/2022/07/nuclear-energy-is-clean/

4 years ago

470 upvotes – 685 comments

Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-01/blockade-australia-technology-bail-conditions-encrypted-apps/101277038

4 years ago

445 upvotes – 337 comments

EasyRPG

https://easyrpg.org/

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years

https://playcode.io/

4 years ago

397 upvotes – 102 comments

Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32296952

4 years ago

378 upvotes – 150 comments

When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-treated-cars-as-dangerous-intruders/

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 390 comments

Famous HNers and their sites

https://jessimekirk.com/blog/hn_users_links/

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 189 comments

Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 183 comments

Shor, I’ll do it (2007)

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=208

4 years ago

308 upvotes – 48 comments

Google’s in-house desktop Linux

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3668548/the-story-behind-google-s-in-house-desktop-linux.html

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 228 comments

RISC-V based single board computers are getting there

https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-vs-mangopi-mq-pro-benchmarks/

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 143 comments

People spend too much time on decisions with equally satisfying outcomes

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/people-spend-too-much-time-on-decisions

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 121 comments

Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/mary-schmich-is-world-famous-but-you-may-not-know-her/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 189 comments

Leaked memo reveals Amazon’s plans to combat the Teamsters in California

https://www.vox.com/recode/23282640/leaked-internal-memo-reveals-amazons-anti-union-strategies-teamsters

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 181 comments

A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it

https://www.mining.com/the-looming-copper-crunch-and-why-recycling-cant-fix-it/

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 461 comments

CS109a: Introduction to Data Science – Resources

https://harvard-iacs.github.io/2021-CS109A/pages/materials.html

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 25 comments

New Ghostscript PDF interpreter

https://www.ghostscript.com/blog/pdfi.html

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 92 comments

Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast

https://millionjs.org/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 168 comments

Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

https://news.mit.edu/2022/study-finds-wikipedia-influences-judicial-behavior-0727

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 122 comments

Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense

https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/kubernetes-vs-virtual-machines/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 196 comments

Roboticists discover alternative physics

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-roboticists-alternative-physics.html

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 111 comments

The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions

https://brandur.org/fragments/early-tech-decisions

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 105 comments

Cat gap

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

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 48 comments

2022 Amish Population Profile

https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/amish-population-profile-2022/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 239 comments

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)

https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 24 comments

TI-83 Plus One More

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2021/08/10/ti83-lcd-ribbon-repair.html

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 86 comments

Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project

https://blog.tooljet.com/raising-vc-funding-for-open-source-project/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 68 comments

VCs squandered billions on scooter startups

https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/scooter-startups-vc-public-market-lime-brds/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 201 comments

The high-stakes race to engineer new psychedelic drugs

https://www.wired.com/story/race-to-engineer-new-psychedelic-drugs/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 186 comments

Shellfirm: Intercept risky patterns at the command line

https://github.com/kaplanelad/shellfirm

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 74 comments

Nichelle Nichols, Uhura in ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 89

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/nichelle-nichols-dead-star-trek-the-original-series-1235330159/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 8 comments

Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)

https://paulsellers.com/2013/06/hitachi-plug-cutter-works-perfeclty-in-hand-held-drills/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 60 comments

Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)

https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-transit-driving-times.html

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 282 comments

If only Borland had stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (2013)

https://techtinkering.com/2013/03/12/if-only-borland-had-stuck-with-turbo-modula-2-for-cpm/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 88 comments

Citroen 2cv pages

http://www.citrobe.org/br70s.htm

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 111 comments

New Clojure Project Quickstart

https://blog.michielborkent.nl/new-clojure-project-quickstart.html

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 30 comments

Emacs Timeline

https://emacs.brause.cc/timeline.html

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 107 comments

Converting from the Game Gear to the Master System

https://nicole.express/2022/sega-8-bit-conversion-kit.html

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 18 comments

Spinning Levers – How a Transmission Works (1936) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

The worst dam idea: evaporating the Mediterranean to power Europe

https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-worst-dam-idea-in-the-world

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 58 comments

Annotated version of Boole's 1847 “Algebra of Logic” (2019) [pdf]

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~snburris/htdocs/MAL.pdf

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 17 comments

Alternative wonders of the world

https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1553472360434515973

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

TSMC Completes Construction of 5nm Fab 21 in Arizona

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-fab-21-arizona

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 47 comments

Open Soil Spectral Library

https://soilspectroscopy.github.io/ossl-manual/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

What's wrong with how we train, hire, and motivate programmers [video]

https://danielbmarkham.com/the-rant/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

The shadowy world of umbral calculus [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EUFP7-P1M

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most

https://theconversation.com/botanists-are-disappearing-just-when-the-world-needs-them-most-186849

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 53 comments

Lava Tubes on the Moon Maintain Comfortable Room Temperatures Inside

https://www.universetoday.com/156932/lava-tubes-on-the-moon-maintain-comfortable-room-temperatures-inside/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 101 comments

xkcd twitter thread:DALL-E 2 Pokemon cards backwards in time

https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1552281410869907456

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Ipcalc – Command line CIDR calculator with IPv6 support

https://gitlab.com/ipcalc/ipcalc

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Atari 2600 Service Manual [pdf]

https://console5.com/techwiki/images/e/ec/2600_Field_Service_Manual.pdf

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

How Kubernetes Broke Git

https://matt-rickard.com/how-kubernetes-broke-git/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 57 comments

PEP 505 – None-aware operators (2015)

https://peps.python.org/pep-0505/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 58 comments

Speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency

https://github.com/kffl/speedbump

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Tang Nano 9K – FPGA SBC with HDMI

https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/tang/Tang-Nano-9K/Nano-9K.html

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Peng Cheng on how ancient crafts inspire her masterful typographic posters

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/cheng-peng-graphic-design-270722

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Linux 5.19

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0Xi0OEQ3H1uQgOdFvHgx0w@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

Why intuitive troubleshooting has stopped working

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-intuitive-troubleshooting-stopped-working/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

The Elusive Origin of Zero

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-elusive-origin-of-zero/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

The Joy of Programming

https://donraab.medium.com/the-joy-of-programming-64cd5949bc78

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments
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