top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-19

Resolving an unusual WiFi issue

https://blog.ando.fyi/posts/diagnosing-an-unsual-wifi-issue/

4 years ago

594 upvotes – 122 comments

Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]

http://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf

4 years ago

590 upvotes – 391 comments

App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Dealing%20with%20App%20Store%20rejections

4 years ago

561 upvotes – 349 comments

John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1560728042959507457

4 years ago

461 upvotes – 619 comments

A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers

https://github.com/Twipped/InterviewThis

4 years ago

378 upvotes – 300 comments

“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC

https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-safe-encryption-hacked

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 176 comments

Shazam turns 20

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/08/shazam-turns-20/

4 years ago

361 upvotes – 227 comments

LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)

https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

4 years ago

347 upvotes – 238 comments

FBI agent pleads guilty to wiping hard-drive containing exculpatory evidence

https://katv.com/news/local/a-former-agent-of-fbi-pleads-guilty-to-charges-connected-to-jon-woods-trial-ex-arkansas-lawmaker-now-in-prison-says-he-and-other-inmates-wants-to-build-trumps-wall-ecclesia-college-springdale-robert-cessario

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 290 comments

RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9293

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 59 comments

Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network

https://twitter.com/nathanbaugh27/status/1560247230057127937

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 236 comments

More content by people, for people in Search

https://blog.google/products/search/more-content-by-people-for-people-in-search/

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 303 comments

Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks

https://webhooks.fyi/

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers

https://sinerider.com/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 49 comments

Crumb Circuit Simulator

https://www.crumbsim.com

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 50 comments

Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/removing-push/

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 201 comments

Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32526108

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 214 comments

High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance in northern California

https://hsr.ca.gov/2022/08/18/news-release-high-speed-rail-board-completes-environmental-clearance-in-northern-california/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 366 comments

The growing image-processor unpleasantness

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/904776/aa7224d94a7c43c0/

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 96 comments

The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 117 comments

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)

https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors for global cancer deaths

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/18/cancer-death-risk-factors-smoking-alcohol-global-study

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 204 comments

Apple’s Use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS

https://blog.timac.org/2022/0818-state-of-appkit-catalyst-swiftui-mac/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 137 comments

What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad

https://tanishqkancharla.dev/blog/what-i-learned

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 193 comments

Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance

https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/being-doing-balance-over-work-life

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/review/apple-m2-amd-ryzen

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 253 comments

US Mortgage Lenders Are Starting to Go Broke

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-19/mortgage-lenders-are-starting-to-go-broke-as-loan-volumes-plunge

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 159 comments

Float Toy

https://evanw.github.io/float-toy/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 53 comments

Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/18/scientists-discover-how-mosquitoes-can-sniff-out-humans

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 125 comments

DTrace-on-Windows

https://github.com/microsoft/DTrace-on-Windows

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 34 comments

How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)

https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-identify-and-misidentify-brown-recluse-spider

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 114 comments

On Being Busy

https://blog.aadilali.com/posts/busy.html

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 75 comments

C++ Concurrency Model on x86 for Dummies (2020)

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2020/10/c-concurrency-model-on-x86-for-dummies.html

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 71 comments

Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/gravity-payments-ceo-dan-price-resigns/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_tw_m&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1660784128-1

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 158 comments

Best Practices for Using Webhooks

https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/best-practices

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 18 comments

FDIC issues cease and desist letter to FTX US [pdf]

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2022/ftx-harrison-letter.pdf

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 70 comments

The James Webb Space Telescope Runs JavaScript, Apparently

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23206110/james-webb-space-telescope-javascript-jwst-instrument-control

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’

https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/18/after-millennia-of-agricultural-expansion-the-world-has-passed-peak-agricultural-land/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 167 comments

Philip K. Dick’s dystopia

https://unherd.com/2022/08/welcome-to-philip-k-dicks-dystopia/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (2018)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/extended-directors-cut-ted-nelson-on-what-modern-programmers-can-learn-from-the-past

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 89 comments

Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land

http://www.loukidelis.com/on-land-ownership.html

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 152 comments

The Merge

https://avc.com/2022/08/the-merge/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 178 comments

W4 plans to monetize the Godot engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/how-w4-plans-to-commercialize-the-godot-game-engine-by-following-red-hats-playbook/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

Nvidia to Share New Details on Grace CPU, Hopper GPU, NVLink Switch, Jetson Orin

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/08/19/grace-hopper-nvswitch-hot-chips/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Software-defined satellite enters commercial service

https://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/Software_defined_satellite_enters_commercial_service_999.html

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 15 comments

Why were medieval monks so susceptible to intestinal worms?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-were-medieval-monks-so-susceptible-to-intestinal-worms-180980608/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 103 comments

Possible breakthrough to destroy PFAS using sodium hydroxide

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm8868

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

Inappbrowser.com – see what JavaScript gets 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

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Flang: LLVM’s Fortran Front End

https://flang.llvm.org/docs/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

Contrastive Representation Learning

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-05-31-contrastive/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olH-9b3VJfs

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

640by480: Instagram Clone for Vintage Digital Cameras

https://www.640by480.com/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Microbatteries much smaller than a grain of rice

https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=61216.php

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company

https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/august/lab-takes-giant-leap-toward-thylacine-de-extinction-with-colossal-genetic-engineering-technology-partnership2

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

Complex of 500 standing stones found in Spain

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-huge-complex-stones-spain.html

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

The web is a harsh manager

https://daverupert.com/2022/08/web-is-a-harsh-manager/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

The ABI status of ELF hash tables

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/904892/dba951441b61cbdc/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

For many neurodiverse people, 'The Sims' has been a lifelong comfort

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/us/sims-autism-adhd-video-games-community-wellness-cec/index.html

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

Fan-Out Packaging Gets Competitive

https://semiengineering.com/fan-out-packaging-gets-competitive/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 0 comments

Ideological Bias in the Psychology of Sex and Gender [pdf]

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco-Del-Giudice/publication/346447193_Ideological_Bias_in_the_Psychology_of_Sex_and_Gender/links/5fc3c456458515b79786033f/Ideological-Bias-in-the-Psychology-of-Sex-and-Gender.pdf

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 66 comments

Fire Apparatus – United States vs. Europe (2016)

https://www.fireapparatusmagazine.com/fire-apparatus/fire-apparatus-united-states-vs-europe/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Thoughts on why sometimes programming/software engineering discussions suck

https://trolololo.xyz/programming-discussions

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 32 comments

Integrating variants in 42k autism cases identifies mutations in new genes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01148-2

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 115 comments

TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/tiktok-fb-in-app-browser-tracking-analysis/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

JetBrains files liquidation of its main Russian subsidiary on Aug 19, 2022

https://fedresurs.ru/sfactmessage/3C9BDB718DD143C78486F735DC34CCBC

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 1 comments

Icon: Implicit Clothed Humans Obtained from Normals

https://icon.is.tue.mpg.de/

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

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

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 36 comments
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