top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-02

Use one big server

https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/

4 years ago

I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

https://jacobmartins.com/posts/how-i-used-dalle2-to-generate-the-logo-for-octosql/

4 years ago

Robinhood lays off 23% of staff

https://www.wsj.com/articles/robinhood-lays-off-23-of-staff-11659471011

4 years ago

Understanding Jane Street

https://www.thediff.co/p/jane-street

4 years ago

DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

http://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%C2%B7E-2-prompt-book-v1.02.pdf

4 years ago

I still love PHP and JavaScript

https://the.scapegoat.dev/why-i-love-php-and-javascript/

4 years ago

Crimes with Python's pattern matching

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc/

4 years ago

Oracle Suspended My Account

https://batin.sh/blog/oracle-suspended-my-account/

4 years ago

Coding as a greybeard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32317441

4 years ago

Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app

https://news.livebook.dev/introducing-the-livebook-desktop-app-4C8dpu

4 years ago

Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake

https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1554252024723546112

4 years ago

Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32324592

4 years ago

Go 1.19 Released

https://go.dev/doc/go1.19

4 years ago

The end of Optane is bad news

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/optane_intel_cancellation/

4 years ago

Airflow's Problem

https://stkbailey.substack.com/p/airflows-problem

4 years ago

Building a panel out of e-ink electronic shelf labels

https://rbaron.net/blog/2022/07/29/Daisy-chaining-multiple-electronic-shelf-labels.html

4 years ago

Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community

https://trino.io/blog/2022/08/02/leaving-facebook-meta-best-for-trino.html

4 years ago

FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1554457269714264066

4 years ago

OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

https://github.com/theonedev/onedev

4 years ago

Introducing multitasking to Arduino

https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/08/02/introducing-multitasking-to-arduino/

4 years ago

The endless search for a crypto use case

https://networked.substack.com/p/the-endless-search-for-a-crypto-use

4 years ago

TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

https://uxdesign.cc/i-was-on-tiktok-for-30-days-it-is-manipulative-addictive-and-harmful-to-privacy-9e25445a9122

4 years ago

Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)

https://stanislas.blog/2021/08/firecracker/

4 years ago

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2021/xv6.html

4 years ago

Capy – Cross-platform library for making native GUIs in Zig

https://github.com/capy-ui/capy

4 years ago

Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for PFAS

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765

4 years ago

What the Hell Is Up with Dilbert?

https://meghanboilard.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-is-up-with-dilbert

4 years ago

Why study functional programming? (2012)

https://acm.wustl.edu/functional/whyfp.php

4 years ago

Does my data fit in RAM?

https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

4 years ago

Show HN: Property Trends Scraped from Zillow

https://trends.pillr.io

4 years ago

Rsync client-side arbitrary file write vulnerability

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/02/1

4 years ago

North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf]

https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/atp7-100-2.pdf

4 years ago

Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/07/12/bumblebees-kept-isolation-make-it-being-more-social-later

4 years ago

Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/sike-once-a-post-quantum-encryption-contender-is-koed-in-nist-smackdown/

4 years ago

20B-parameter Alexa model sets new marks in few-shot learning

https://www.amazon.science/blog/20b-parameter-alexa-model-sets-new-marks-in-few-shot-learning

4 years ago

The hero's journey of getting laid off

https://backtohumanity.substack.com/p/getting-laid-off

4 years ago

Ask HN: Meal Planning App?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32316604

4 years ago

Simplicity of IRC

https://susam.net/maze/wall/simplicity-of-irc.html

4 years ago

In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions

https://news.yale.edu/2022/08/01/supreme-court-brief-yale-and-peers-defend-use-race-admissions

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32315035

4 years ago

Wi-Fine

https://wifine.gitlab.io/

4 years ago

Chinchilla's Wild Implications

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla-s-wild-implications

4 years ago

Future trains could provide carbon capture

https://spectrum.ieee.org/carbon-capture-2657738131

4 years ago

Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS

https://www.capitalone.com/about/newsroom/capital-one-launches-capital-one-software/

4 years ago

Parallel Programming for FPGAs

https://github.com/KastnerRG/pp4fpgas

4 years ago

Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2108146119

4 years ago

Ask HN: Hetzner banned me with no explanation. What can I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32318524

4 years ago

Pornhub: Judge rules Visa can be sued in abuse claim

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62372964

4 years ago

Earth sets new record for shortest day

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/shortest-day-2022

4 years ago

Anger as BP profits triple to $8.5bn amid soaring household energy bills

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/bp-profits-increase-energy-prices-b2136619.html

4 years ago

awesome-static-generators - A curated list of static web site generators

https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators

4 years ago

Heat waves and flooding: Why U.S. infrastructure can't withstand extreme weather

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/02/heat-wave-climate-change-us-infrastructure

4 years ago

I increased my traffic by changing a title

https://ccampbell.io/posts/13000-percent-traffic-gain-with-a-title-change/

4 years ago

How a cooling vest invented by a furry made it's way into the US military (2019)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-cooling-vest-invented-by-a-furry-made-its-way-into-the-us-military

4 years ago

Physicists come close to resolving the black hole information paradox (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/

4 years ago