top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-18

I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/

4 years ago

1131 upvotes – 664 comments

See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-what-javascript-commands-get-executed-in-an-in-app-browser

4 years ago

763 upvotes – 307 comments

Learn to sew your own outdoor gear

https://learnmyog.com/

4 years ago

748 upvotes – 164 comments

I love my GPD Micro PC

https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2022/08/18/i-love-my-gpd-micro-pc/

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 257 comments

Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

4 years ago

437 upvotes – 78 comments

TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-initiates-3nm-chips-production-next-month

4 years ago

393 upvotes – 374 comments

Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive

https://whytheluckystiff.net/

4 years ago

387 upvotes – 130 comments

Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-realtime-multiplayer-general-availability

4 years ago

356 upvotes – 143 comments

Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219303

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 458 comments

I have complicated feelings about TDD

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-have-complicated-feelings-about-tdd-8403/

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 441 comments

PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/paypal-phishing-scam-uses-invoices-sent-via-paypal/

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 133 comments

FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/16/fda-hearing-aids-biden/

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 234 comments

Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32505314

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 263 comments

A laptop hard drive model could crash when exposed to a certain audio frequency

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 65 comments

To Hell with Facebook (2021)

https://www.damninteresting.com/to-hell-with-facebook/

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 169 comments

Julia 1.8

https://julialang.org/blog/2022/08/julia-1.8-highlights/

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 98 comments

New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/one-all

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 194 comments

AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airtag-leads-arrest-airline-worker-accused-stealing-least-15000-items-rcna43547

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 244 comments

FedNow FAQ

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_faq.htm

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 250 comments

I built a vector map from scratch

https://ckochis.com/building-a-vector-map-from-scratch

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32507789

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 248 comments

Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32506168

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 171 comments

Agile projects have become waterfall projects with sprints

https://thehosk.medium.com/agile-projects-have-become-waterfall-projects-with-sprints-536141801856

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 206 comments

Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-08-18-why-openbsd-documentation-is-good.html

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 91 comments

Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’

https://www.science.org/content/article/simple-mix-soap-and-solvent-could-help-destroy-forever-chemicals

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 233 comments

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

https://news.mit.edu/2017/how-philosophy-can-solve-your-midlife-crisis-1003

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 178 comments

It's easier to manage four people than one

https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/07/24/Managing-One-Person.html

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 102 comments

Benefits of the Danish transfat ban for coronary heart disease mortality

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272744

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 163 comments

The Secretary Problem

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

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 120 comments

Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 128 comments

Emergent Features in 6.7B+ Param Transformers

https://timdettmers.com/2022/08/17/llm-int8-and-emergent-features/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 15 comments

Engineering Festivus

https://festivus.dev/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 33 comments

Dublin Whiskey Fire

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

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 98 comments

Delphi still exists and is actively developed

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 243 comments

Unofficial Spotify Client for the Nintendo Switch (PoC)

https://gbatemp.net/threads/90spot-spotify-for-nintendo-switch-proof-of-concept.617533/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 40 comments

$8600 MRR business on Airtable

https://founderbeats.com/andy-cloke-shares-how-he-grew-data-fetcher---a-no-code-tool-for-airtable---to-8600-mrr

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments

The PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-the-planetscale-serverless-driver-for-javascript

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 53 comments

Running Rust on Logic Gates

https://zdimension.fr/crabs-all-the-way-down/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 26 comments

How I learned to stop worrying and love macros

https://zdimension.fr/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-macros/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 91 comments

Tornado Cash and collateral damage

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/904960/21b6c0e8aea8f235/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 216 comments

Guessing C for Every Answer Is Now Enough to Pass the NY State Algebra Exam

https://medium.com/@newyorkteacher/guessing-c-for-every-answer-is-now-enough-to-pass-the-new-york-state-algebra-exam-93bac55b3e24

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

Just-in-time code generation within WebAssembly

https://wingolog.org/archives/2022/08/18/just-in-time-code-generation-within-webassembly

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 10 comments

Third-polarizing-filter experiment demystified (2004)

http://alienryderflex.com/polarizer/

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 86 comments

Millet, a Language Server for SML

https://azdavis.net/posts/millet/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 37 comments

Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

https://www.metal-archives.com/news/view/id/284

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

Tempest LCD: Playing songs from your LCD monitor with a radio

https://github.com/luamfb/tempest-lcd

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Pine64’s response to “Why I left Pine64”

https://www.pine64.org/2022/08/18/a-response-to-martijns-blog/

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 104 comments

But You Told Me You Were Safe: Attacking the Mozilla Firefox Renderer (Part 1)

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2022/8/17/but-you-told-me-you-were-safe-attacking-the-mozilla-firefox-renderer-part-1

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 10 comments

Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework

https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/03/talk-to-your-customers.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Happiness Is Two Scales

https://www.atvbt.com/happiness-is-two-scales/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

An io_uring-based user-space block driver

https://lwn.net/Articles/903855/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

Project Possible: Ascending 14 peaks in 7 months

https://www.nimsdai.com/bremont-project-possible

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

Cory Doctorow's next book: Chokepoint Capitalism

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1559927883551883266

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

https://www.scraft.ai/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

PINE64 has let its community down

https://drewdevault.com/2022/08/18/PINE64-let-us-down.html

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 46 comments

Thunderbird Time Machine: Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.0

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/08/thunderbird-time-machine-windows-xp-thunderbird-1-0/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 65 comments

Japan wants young people to drink more alcohol

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/asia/japan-tax-alcohol-competition-intl-hnk/index.html

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 127 comments

G1-G3 Watches for 17-19 August, 2022

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g1-g3-watches-17-19-august-2022

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Are You Intellectually Humble?

https://oa.mg/blog/are-you-intellectually-humble/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 106 comments

Launch HN: Cerrion (YC S22) – Computer vision to reduce production line problems

https://www.cerrion.com/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

A sane SSH(1) key management example

https://try.popho.be/ssh-keys.html

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 64 comments

Sudden increase in number of mid-air diversions to Hawaii

https://beatofhawaii.com/hawaiian-joins-mid-air-diversions-now-7-in-three-weeks/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 106 comments
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