top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-07

Fake IMDB credits

https://peabee.substack.com/p/16-the-case-of-fake-imdb-credits

4 years ago

552 upvotes – 240 comments

“Code” 2nd Edition Now Available

https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2022/08/Code-2nd-Edition-Now-Available.html

4 years ago

525 upvotes – 153 comments

Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32378695

4 years ago

495 upvotes – 1174 comments

Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

https://figure.game

4 years ago

417 upvotes – 113 comments

Mysterious holes on the seafloor

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/oer-updates/2022/mysterious-holes-seafloor/mysterious-holes-seafloor.html

4 years ago

385 upvotes – 135 comments

Solar canopies on parking lots

https://e360.yale.edu/features/putting-solar-panels-atop-parking-lots-a-green-energy-solution

4 years ago

332 upvotes – 325 comments

Why does gRPC insist on trailers?

https://carlmastrangelo.com/blog/why-does-grpc-insist-on-trailers

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 125 comments

Our Roadmap for Nix

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-08-04-tweag-and-nix-future/

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 256 comments

How to stop being “terminally online”

https://nights.bearblog.dev/how-to-stop-being-terminally-online/

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 226 comments

Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita

https://medianism.org/

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 200 comments

From throwaway side project to Switch in 2 years: my indie gamedev story

https://kellsgame.com/how-kells-came-to-be/

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 61 comments

Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/oncall-compensation/

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 306 comments

In-browser retro-futuristic tank game, open source

https://synthblast.com

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 62 comments

Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make

https://justine.lol/make/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 75 comments

Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/04/offsetting-greenwashing-carbon-emissions

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 320 comments

Ignore the haters, and other lessons learned from creating JSON5

https://aseemk.substack.com/p/ignore-the-f-ing-haters-json5

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 200 comments

Homebrew Bluetooth Headphones

https://homebrewheadphones.com/3d-printed-bluetooth-headphones/

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 81 comments

Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/class-action-targets-experian-over-account-security/

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 116 comments

Learning algebra in my 60s

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/07/could-learning-algebra-in-my-60s-make-me-smarter-alec-wilkinson-a-divine-language-extract

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 154 comments

Hacker’s Delight (2012)

https://books.google.com/books/about/Hacker_s_Delight.html?id=VicPJYM0I5QC

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 37 comments

The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (2007)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17509238/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 104 comments

Genesis: an interpreted, Turing-complete Paleo-Hebrew programming language

https://github.com/elonlit/Genesis

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 64 comments

The pervasive effects of C's malloc() and free() on C APIs

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CAPIsEffectsOfMalloc

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 104 comments

Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC

https://microfounder.com/alternatives

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 30 comments

Making Quieter Technology

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 124 comments

Earbirding – How to Visualize Sounds

http://earbirding.com/blog/specs

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 21 comments

Framework Tablet Assembly Manual

https://www.instructables.com/Framework-Tablet-Assembly-Manual/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 12 comments

To Become Wise, Do Less

https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/to-become-wise-do-less

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 77 comments

A generically typed pipe function in TypeScript

https://github.com/MathisBullinger/froebel

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 51 comments

Commit comments no longer appear in the pull request timeline

https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-04-commit-comments-no-longer-appear-in-the-pull-request-timeline/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 79 comments

Ivy – An interpreter for an APL-like language

https://pkg.go.dev/robpike.io/ivy

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: What are some of your favorite YouTube channels?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32378309

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 85 comments

Let's Talk SkipList

https://ketansingh.me/posts/lets-talk-skiplist/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 29 comments

Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05016-1

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 41 comments

Prison Money Diaries: What People Make (and Spend) Behind Bars

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/04/prison-money-diaries-what-people-really-make-and-spend-behind-bars

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 90 comments

Tutors / tips to change your English accent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375394

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 94 comments

Ten years with a Citroën C6 (2021)

https://driventowrite.com/2021/01/04/citroen-c6-long-term-test/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 79 comments

The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate crime crisis

https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1556003057699209218

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 97 comments

The mitochondrial NAD+ transporter SLC25A51 is a fasting-induced gene

https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(22)00153-6/fulltext

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 58 comments

A Soviet test pilot ejected two seconds before the crash of his MiG-29 (2019)

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-soviet-test-pilot-ejected-two-seconds-before-the-crash-of-his-mig-29/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 118 comments

Computing Adler32 Checksums at 41 GB/s

https://wooo.sh/articles/adler32.html

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

DALL-E + GPT-3 = ♥

https://medium.com/@glan1k/dall-e-gpt-3-d1aaaff38639

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

The ejector seats that fire through the floor

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220802-why-some-aircraft-had-downward-firing-ejector-seats

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 76 comments

The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (2019)

https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theory-of-intelligence/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments

Trealla Prolog embedded in Go using WASM

https://github.com/guregu/trealla-go

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

Uber's Still Not Profitable

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/05/a-lousy-taxi/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 101 comments

The Last Naval Battle of World War 2 (2018)

https://www.navygeneralboard.com/the-last-naval-battle-of-world-war-2/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

Syncthing Anywhere with Tailscale

https://init8.lol/synthing-anywhere-with-tailscale/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Replayability in game design

https://medium.com/super-jump/replayability-in-game-design-798fbb91a726

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Wizard with a Time Machine

https://microship.com/wizard-with-a-time-machine/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Intel expands Oregon Fab building; 18A Node now 2024

https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/04/12/intel-renames-oregon-fab-gordon-moore-park-adds-270k-sq-ft-18a-node-now-2024/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 114 comments

Tracking the Faceless Killers Who Mutilated and Executed a Ukrainian POW

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/08/05/tracking-the-faceless-killers-who-mutilated-and-executed-a-ukrainian-pow/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

A Possible Fix for Scientific Publishing

https://blog.peer-review.io/we-might-have-a-way-to-fix-scientific-publishing

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 63 comments

Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers

https://reason.com/2022/07/05/rise-of-the-sensitivity-reader/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

How (and Why) Neil Gaiman Finally Adapted ‘The Sandman’ for TV

https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/the-sandman-premiere-preview-neil-gaiman-interview-1235328771/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 93 comments

Self-Reliance (1841)

https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/selfreliance.html

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: Where should I move to meet interesting tech people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32377084

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 81 comments

Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/another-court-case-fails-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-bitcoins-satoshi-nakamoto

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 70 comments

Emacs Manual for ITS Users (1981)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6329

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments
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