top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-03

What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/

4 years ago

1070 upvotes – 467 comments

Productivity porn

https://calebschoepp.com/blog/2022/productivity-porn/

4 years ago

770 upvotes – 409 comments

MIT invents $4 solar desalination device

https://www.freethink.com/technology/solar-desalination

4 years ago

462 upvotes – 235 comments

Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework

https://www.textualize.io/blog/posts/7-things-about-terminals

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 230 comments

FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot

https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot

4 years ago

422 upvotes – 79 comments

Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform

https://lichess.org/blog/Yt7x2BAAACkABlKS/a-first-time-grandmaster-titled-arena-winner-and-nakamuras-forbidden-platform

4 years ago

403 upvotes – 138 comments

Cut the cutesy errors

https://alexwlchan.net/2022/08/no-cute/

4 years ago

386 upvotes – 332 comments

Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/02/y-combinator-narrows-current-cohort-size-by-40-citing-downturn-and-funding-environment/

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 173 comments

Being swamped is normal and not impressive

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/swamped/

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: Adadot – analytics for better, happier developers

https://adadot.com/

4 years ago

325 upvotes – 16 comments

Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 139 comments

Django 4.1

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/aug/03/django-41-released/

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 125 comments

TikTok’s Poison Pill

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/08/01/tiktoks-poison-pill/

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 421 comments

The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection

https://tls13.xargs.org

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 20 comments

Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing

https://albertpedersen.com/blog/hijacking-email-with-cloudflare-email-routing/

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 83 comments

Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices

https://www.themanual.com/auto/markup-exposes-car-dealership-greed/

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 261 comments

GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/08/GlobalFoundries-joins-Googles-open-source-silicon-initiative.html

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 86 comments

Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user environments

https://twitter.com/stephenlacy/status/1554697077430505473

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32328207

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 300 comments

Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real

https://www.thingsihavedrawn.com

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 40 comments

Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/vulkan-update-version-1-2-conformance-for-raspberry-pi-4/

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 87 comments

US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/nationwide-anti-robocall-litigation-task-force-created-to-fight-estimated-29-8b-in-scam-call/article_e3dfd458-129f-11ed-b714-7b059dbcf5e7.html

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 216 comments

Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/52

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 82 comments

New open source project: Common Lisp 3D graphics system

https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/weocc5/new_open_source_common_lisp_3d_graphics_project/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: Who do you talk to about system architecture and design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331825

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 114 comments

Minify your container

https://github.com/docker-slim

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 132 comments

Political Chips

https://stratechery.com/2022/political-chips/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 143 comments

Launch HN: Iollo (YC S22) – At-home metabolomics test to extend healthy lifespan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32333417

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 144 comments

Double Commander

https://doublecmd.github.io/doc/en/about.html

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: Tiny PS1-like Renderer in 500 lines

https://github.com/nkanaev/tipsy

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 43 comments

RTEMS Real Time Operating System

https://www.rtems.org/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration

https://gist.github.com/ctsrc/a1f57933a2cde9abc0f07be12889f97f

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 50 comments

Volcanic eruption starts in Iceland (Live webcam)

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2022/07/30/vefmyndavel-fra-gosinu-oll-nyjustu-tidindi-her

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 56 comments

The Pine Formula

https://tuxphones.com/pine-formula/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 88 comments

SQLite-HTML: A SQLite extension for querying, manipulating, and creating HTML

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

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

Free online textbooks work

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/Supporting-educators

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

History of the Greek-Persian Wars: Interactive Map and Timeline

https://history-maps.com/story/Greek-Persian-Wars

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 42 comments

Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2022/08/02/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-economy-recession-forecast/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 244 comments

P5.play

https://molleindustria.github.io/p5.play/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 8 comments

Abolish the PhD (2016)

http://blog.devicerandom.org/2016/05/16/abolish-the-phd/

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 191 comments

Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-01/pearson-hopes-blockchain-will-make-it-money-every-time-its-e-books-change-hands

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 180 comments

GDPR for Developers by Example

https://blog.blether.chat/2022/08/03/gdpr-for-developers-by-example/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 95 comments

GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users

https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/582

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 83 comments

Klipper – open-source 3D Printer firmware

https://www.klipper3d.org/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

The Pickleball Troll

https://thepickler.com/blogs/pickleball-blog/pickleball-troll

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 48 comments

Eqwalizer: A Type-Checker for Erlang

https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

A simple guide to quadratic voting

https://blog.tally.xyz/a-simple-guide-to-quadratic-voting-327b52addde1

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 55 comments

ISO Warning Signs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 53 comments

My worst tech decision: A G Suite account for personal use

https://www.androidauthority.com/g-suite-unsupported-apps-3190620/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32333388

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Copilot Alternative for VS Code

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mutable-ai.mutable-ai

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Intermittent fasting 2 days vs. 1 day per week

https://oa.mg/blog/intermittent-fasting-2-days-vs-1-day-per-week-increases-weight-loss-in-overweight-men-and-women/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 86 comments

Where Did Architecture Go?

https://www.agile-meets-architecture.com/essays/where-did-architecture-go

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 66 comments

How to support open-source software and stay sane (2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

StackOverflow Is Down

https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/9cbac2e1-6bdc-41c9-b520-8875d3ce5050

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

An attacker is currently draining 100s of Solana, $SOL, wallets and SPL tokens

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1554637032382611457

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

You Can't Guarantee Webhook Ordering

https://www.svix.com/blog/guaranteeing-webhook-ordering/

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo4435

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Modus: A language for building Docker/OCI container images

https://github.com/modus-continens/modus

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009)

https://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/web/cookies-are-text-files.html

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 60 comments
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