top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-17

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

https://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-new-cars-test-finds

4 years ago

Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/learn-postgres-at-the-playground

4 years ago

RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD

https://ravynos.com/

4 years ago

There’s no speed limit (2009)

https://sive.rs/kimo

4 years ago

Accounting For Developers, Part I

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-developers-part-i

4 years ago

It wasn't for nothing

https://gexp.no/it-wasnt-for-nothing.html

4 years ago

Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Vietnam-to-make-Apple-Watch-and-MacBook-for-first-time-ever

4 years ago

Why I left Pine64

https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/

4 years ago

Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

https://numpad.io/

4 years ago

Programming breakthroughs we need

https://yoyo-code.com/programming-breakthroughs-we-need/

4 years ago

Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/08/17/can-the-visa-mastercard-duopoly-be-broken

4 years ago

6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/6-raspberry-pis-6-ssds-on-mini-itx-motherboard

4 years ago

Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/01/16/housing-is-at-the-root-of-many-of-the-rich-worlds-problems

4 years ago

Tesla Virtual Power Plant

https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/tesla-virtual-power-plant-pge-2022

4 years ago

High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf]

https://eresources.hcourt.gov.au/downloadPdf/2022/HCA/27

4 years ago

The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure

https://jank-lang.org/

4 years ago

The erosion of the Mac experience

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1559680018996944898

4 years ago

JetBrains Research

https://research.jetbrains.org

4 years ago

One Page Dungeon

https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon

4 years ago

Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physics-duo-finds-magic-in-two-dimensions-20220816/

4 years ago

You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/06/15/no-you-cant-buy-one-square-foot-of-land-in-scotland-and-become-a-scottish-lord/

4 years ago

Nocturnal bottleneck

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

4 years ago

Apple releases macOS 12.5.1, iOS 15.6.1, patches for two zero-day vulerabilities

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213413

4 years ago

Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping

https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scraping

4 years ago

Marc Andreessen and Ultra-Wealthy Neighbors Thwart Housing in California Town

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/vc-marc-andreessen-opposes-plan-for-multi-family-atherton-housing

4 years ago

Putting Tailscale on the Steam Deck

https://tailscale.com/blog/steam-deck/

4 years ago

Exponential Smoothing: faster and more accurate than NeuralProphet

https://github.com/Nixtla/statsforecast/blob/main/experiments/neuralprophet/README.md

4 years ago

Do not ship work in progress: An open letter

https://dont-ship.it/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494872

4 years ago

A spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0

4 years ago

Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image

https://nixpacks.com/docs/getting-started

4 years ago

Halo system link still holds up more than 20 years later

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/14/23303392/halo-combat-evolved-system-link-xbox-multiplayer-still-holds-up

4 years ago

Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23310126/twitter-saudi-woman-sentenced-34-years-salma-al-shehab

4 years ago

I Choose Optimism

https://secularhumanism.org/2022/08/i-choose-optimism/

4 years ago

The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas

https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-man-who-bought-pine-bluff-arkansas

4 years ago

A golden age of consumer convenience is passing

https://www.ft.com/content/a66bc898-1fb5-429e-a83a-4077ff046840

4 years ago

A DAW made in Excel (2020) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFdCM2kHL64

4 years ago

Show HN: GraphJSON – Easily log and analyze events using ClickHouse

https://www.graphjson.com/

4 years ago

Using SSH_config Match to connect to a host using multiple IP or Hostnames

https://fmartingr.com/blog/2022/08/12/using-ssh-config-match-to-connect-to-a-host-using-multiple-ip-or-hostnames/

4 years ago

Physically Based: A Database of PBR Values for Real-World Materials

https://80.lv/articles/physically-based-a-database-of-pbr-values-for-real-world-materials/

4 years ago

We switched to cursor-based pagination

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/shifting-our-apis-pagination-method-from-offset-to-cursor-based

4 years ago

How to Make a CubeSat

https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-08-17-Issue-181/

4 years ago

Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/08/12/learning-new-language-go/

4 years ago

Build Your Own Imagen Text-to-Image Model

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/build-your-own-imagen-text-to-image-model/

4 years ago

The Soviets hunted whales to the brink of extinction but scientists tracked toll

https://gcaptain.com/the-soviets-hunted-whales-to-the-brink-of-extinction-but-its-scientists-secretly-tracked-its-toll/

4 years ago

Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]

http://www.lookgreatnaked.com/articles/omega-3_fatty_acids_and_exercise.pdf

4 years ago

Car Seats as Contraception (2020)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

4 years ago

Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory?

https://michaelberrymusic.com/blog/2022/8/17/did-bach-invent-the-rules-of-music-theory

4 years ago

HP LaserJet Tank – Refillable laser printer

https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/laserjet-tank.html

4 years ago

Insider Trading in Cryptocurrency Markets

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4184367

4 years ago

PicoLisp

https://github.com/picolisp/pil21

4 years ago

These are not photos: landscapes created by new AI

https://petapixel.com/2022/08/16/these-are-not-photos-beautiful-landscapes-created-by-new-ai/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is WWIII already in its early stages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32493879

4 years ago

Unicode Utilities: Confusables

https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/confusables.jsp?a=hackernews+&r=None

4 years ago

Another Path to Intelligence

https://nautil.us/another-path-to-intelligence-23113/

4 years ago

Launch HN: Nimbus (YC W22) – Cloud dev environments for teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32496462

4 years ago

Mercedes and Ferrari’s edge in the electric car age: high-end axial motors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-17/mercedes-and-ferrari-s-edge-in-the-electric-age-high-end-motors

4 years ago

The Essence of Programming (2021)

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2021/02/01/the-essence-of-programming/

4 years ago

Uno platform: Build single-codebase applications across all platforms

https://github.com/unoplatform/uno

4 years ago

Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you

https://www.techinasia.com/landlords-dont-racist-can

4 years ago

Ask HN: Has any Rust developer moved to embedded device programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494606

4 years ago

Secret talks that could have prevented the Apple vs. Facebook war

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-apple-vs-facebook-privacy-fight-11660317376

4 years ago

Show HN: Match(it): A C++17 pattern-matching library with lots of good stuffs

https://github.com/BowenFu/matchit.cpp

4 years ago

A group of con artists rigged promotional sweepstakes throughout the 1980s

https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/donald-trump-and-the-sweepstakes-scammers

4 years ago

Ask HN: Which startups are thriving in the downturn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494526

4 years ago

Why American cities are broke (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0

4 years ago

Nvidia Kaolin Wisp: a PyTorch library to work with neural fields

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/kaolin-wisp

4 years ago

Whatever Happened to Plasma TVs?

https://www.howtogeek.com/823609/whatever-happened-to-plasma-tvs%c2%a0/

4 years ago