top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-04

Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349006

4 years ago

513 upvotes – 156 comments

Botspam apocalypse

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/61-botspam-apocalypse.gmi

4 years ago

411 upvotes – 346 comments

Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

https://codecrafters.io

4 years ago

403 upvotes – 206 comments

Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack

https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/

4 years ago

398 upvotes – 274 comments

Old jokes

https://dynomight.net/old-jokes/

4 years ago

381 upvotes – 265 comments

Sending spammers to password purgatory

https://www.troyhunt.com/sending-spammers-to-password-purgatory-with-microsoft-power-automate-and-cloudflare-workers-kv/

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 162 comments

The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/other-peoples-websites/

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32341922

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 189 comments

Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/monotonous-web/index.html

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 246 comments

C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'

https://lemon.rip/w/c99-vla-tricks/

4 years ago

296 upvotes – 249 comments

Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/googles-video-chat-merger-begins-now-there-are-two-google-meet-apps/

4 years ago

295 upvotes – 274 comments

Part of my code makes Copilot crash

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/20273

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 357 comments

Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light

https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 124 comments

Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/french-heat/

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 195 comments

Black holes finally proven mathematically stable

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-finally-proven-mathematically-stable-20220804/

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 141 comments

OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner

https://omnesviae.org/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 60 comments

Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?

https://www.unite.ai/is-dall-e-2-just-gluing-things-together-without-understanding-their-relationships/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 354 comments

Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers

https://buf.build/blog/connect-web-protobuf-grpc-in-the-browser

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 157 comments

Excel never dies (2021)

https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 276 comments

All about QBasic and QuickBasic

https://www.qbasic.net/

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 148 comments

Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef

https://www.hawkesburygazette.com.au/story/7846819/coral-makes-comeback-on-great-barrier-reef/

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 87 comments

Art of README (2020)

https://github.com/hackergrrl/art-of-readme

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple is building a demand-side platform

https://digiday.com/media/apple-is-building-a-demand-side-platform/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 391 comments

Tell HN: Amazon shopping is racing to the bottom of quality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344010

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

https://www.superblocks.com/

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 94 comments

Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells

https://news.mit.edu/2022/quaise-energy-geothermal-0628

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 187 comments

Thinking with pen and paper

https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/life/2022/08/04/pen-and-paper/

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 165 comments

Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/04/visa-suspends-card-payments-for-ad-purchases-on-pornhub-and-mindgeek-amid-controversy.html

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 230 comments

Solein – Protein out of thin air

https://www.solein.com

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 154 comments

Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill

https://www.accessnow.org/no-place-for-privacy-in-india-as-government-withdraws-data-protection-bill/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32343096

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 96 comments

Against Discipline

https://irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/against-discipline

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 129 comments

My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02092-1

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342493

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 85 comments

Who do we spend time with across our lifetime? (2020)

https://ourworldindata.org/time-with-others-lifetime

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 113 comments

Clojure Scripting on Node.js

https://github.com/babashka/nbb

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany

https://thedriven.io/2022/08/04/hyundai-rolls-out-27-heavy-duty-hydrogen-trucks-in-germany/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 332 comments

How to use an iPad as a secure calling and messaging device

https://yawnbox.com/blog/how-to-use-an-ipad-as-a-secure-calling-and-messaging-device/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 98 comments

Gitlab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts [rumor]

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338779

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 146 comments

On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lessons-i-learned

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 115 comments

How prestige outlets get away with copypasta

https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/how-prestige-outlets-like-the-guardian

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 100 comments

Elizabeth Cotton’s Fingerstyle Ragtime

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/elizabeth-cottens-fingerstyle-ragtime/#more-26016

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues

https://killercrossword.com

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: How to be independent as a developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342058

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 53 comments

Gaudi: A Neural Architect for Immersive 3D Scene Generation

https://github.com/apple/ml-gaudi

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

Toward a Better Music Theory (2013)

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2013/toward-a-better-music-theory/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 77 comments

Software engineering books to read and reread

https://quentin.delcourt.be/blog/software-engineering-books-to-read-and-reread/index.html

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 46 comments

mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system

https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 96 comments

LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained

https://localstack.cloud/blog/2022-08-04-parity-explained/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Infineon chip flaws to disrupt IONIQ 5 EV production

https://www.kedglobal.com/automobiles/newsView/ked202208030010

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 103 comments

400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-year-old-ecuadoran-beer-resurrected-yeast.html

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2590

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: What skills have given you a 10x return?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339219

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 108 comments

OpenStax: Free and Flexible Textbooks and Resources

https://openstax.org/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

Hocus focus: how magicians made a fortune on Facebook

https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/hocus-focus-how-magicians-made-a-fortune-on-facebook

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

The SQL query engine Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) recaps a decade of innovation

https://trino.io/blog/2022/08/04/decade-innovation.html

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?

https://nautil.us/why-is-the-human-brain-so-efficient-7216/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 159 comments

Implementing a “mini-LaTeX” in ~2000 lines of code

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/07/implementing-mini-latex-in-2000-lines.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

A man’s lonely fight to ban private jets

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7pw7/one-mans-lonely-lonely-fight-to-ban-private-jets

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 157 comments

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, Programming, Games – Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion

https://news.mit.edu/2022/algorithm-computer-network-bandwidth-0804

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (2019)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/james-fallows-leaf-blower-ban/583210/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 164 comments

Let's Encrypt’s subscriber agreement changes on Sept 21

https://letsencrypt.org/repository/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Google declined to review an extension because they can’t find a Kindle to test

https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/1555111384437772288

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 27 comments

Anime retailer Right Stuf has been acquired by Sony/Aniplex

https://www.rightstufanime.com/post/right-stuf-has-joined-the-crunchyroll-family

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 59 comments

Cumulative loneliness and subsequent memory function

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.12734

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Strict-serializability, but at what cost, for what purpose?

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2022/08/strict-serializability-but-at-what-cost.html

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: ZFS native encryption vs LUKS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32340433

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 61 comments

The MGR Window System

https://hack.org/mc/mgr/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Private, organization-owned repository FAQ

https://www.netlify.com/pricing/private-org-repo-faq/

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments
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