top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-24

Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit

https://blog.comma.ai/ourfirstlawsuit/

4 years ago

1212 upvotes – 299 comments

Things people blamed on bicycles

https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1561848479470694403

4 years ago

780 upvotes – 817 comments

Mainnet Merge Announcement

https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/08/24/mainnet-merge-announcement/

4 years ago

556 upvotes – 586 comments

Rust – A hard decision pays off

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/inside-the-pinecone/#rust-a-hard-decision-pays-off

4 years ago

474 upvotes – 367 comments

Why do arrays start at 0?

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-arrays-start-at-0/

4 years ago

413 upvotes – 674 comments

Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg760508.html

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 214 comments

Accounting for Developers, Part II

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

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 76 comments

How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding

4 years ago

321 upvotes – 290 comments

John Carmack on avoiding distractions

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1562104562219196416

4 years ago

321 upvotes – 102 comments

EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

https://epb.com/newsroom/press-releases/epb-launches-americas-first-community-wide-25-gig-internet-service/

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 203 comments

Oven: The Company Behind Bun

https://oven.sh

4 years ago

279 upvotes – 113 comments

The container orchestrator landscape

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/905164/e1f4d4c1ce35f8b9/

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: DALL-E was trained on watermarked stock images?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32573523

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 227 comments

3D print and build a 164mm f/2.5 lens for less than $15

https://petapixel.com/2022/08/22/you-can-3d-print-and-build-this-164mm-f-2-5-lens-for-less-than-15/

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 119 comments

Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-24/fastest-aging-wealthy-economy-breaks-own-fertility-record-again

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 613 comments

“We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things

https://darknetlive.com/post/former-nsa-director-will-kill-you-via-metadata/

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 263 comments

A near 100% renewables grid is well within reach, and with little storage

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-grid-is-well-within-reach-and-with-little-storage/

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 350 comments

IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories from GitHub

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 78 comments

OpenArt: “Pinterest” for Dalle-2 images and prompts

https://openart.ai/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 99 comments

Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving

https://www.wired.com/story/email-clients-are-bad-so-use-vivaldi-mail/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 363 comments

How SQLite scales read concurrency

https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-internals-wal/

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 69 comments

Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32575350

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 189 comments

Rustle: Svelte compiler rewritten in Rust

https://github.com/pintariching/rustle

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Fuzz Map – a GUI fuzzer, interactive demo

https://www.fuzzmap.io/?welcome=1

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 33 comments

Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf]

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/465/notes.pdf

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 45 comments

A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later

https://carlineng.com/?postid=sql-critique#blog

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 253 comments

Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2795625

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 156 comments

IFixit: Self Repair Program makes M1 MacBooks less repairable

https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/24/ifixit-apple-self-repair-program-m1-macbook-less-repairable/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 136 comments

Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 26 comments

AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others

https://cnsi.ucla.edu/project/august-15-2022-ai-designed-camera-only-records-objects-of-interest-while-being-blind-to-others/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 128 comments

Finally fixed my PC’s persistent graphics and audio stutters

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/troubleshoot-stuttering.html

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 107 comments

Tether will not freeze Tornado Cash addresses

https://tether.to/en/tether-holds-firm-on-decision-not-to-freeze-tornado-cash-addresses-awaits-law-enforcement-instruction/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 142 comments

GeForce Now: A Review

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/08/24/geforce-now-a-review/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 193 comments

Ask HN: Will AI-generated images flooding the web pollute future training data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32577822

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 140 comments

The largest model airport and railway

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/miniatur-wunderland-worlds-largest-model-railway-airport/index.html

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 40 comments

Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02233-6

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 141 comments

Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games (2012)

https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/wa-build2dphysicsengine/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 36 comments

LibVF.IO: Add support for GPU Virtual Machine (GVM)

https://arccompute.com/blog/libvfio-add-gvm-support/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 53 comments

Auto giants like BMW, GM and Toyota make drivers ‘subscribe’ for basic features

https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/auto-giants-like-bmw-gm-and-toyota-make-drivers-subscribe-for-basic-features/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 202 comments

Researcher finds a new method for recycling polystyrene

https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/08/one-industrys-trash-polystyrene.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 54 comments

Why do some humans love chili peppers?

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/chili-pepper-anthropology/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 175 comments

Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32575608

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 110 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me or Facebook is being bombarded by spam?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32575675

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 122 comments

The Car-Replacement Bicycle (The Bakfiets)

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

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: How do you and your spouse handle big income differences?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32586361

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 202 comments

Bank of America Email: “Update Your iPhone”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32581337

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32580597

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 111 comments

Building a back end using only OpenAI Codex

https://codeball.ai/blog/codex-todo-mvc

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

A Theoretical Justification (2021)

https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/about.gmi#1.2

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

France is paying car drivers nearly $4k to switch to an electric bike

https://electrek.co/2022/08/22/france-paying-car-drivers-switch-electric-bike/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

California to ban the sale of new gasoline cars

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/climate/california-gas-cars-emissions.html

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 190 comments

Tesla Dojo Custom AI Supercomputer at HC34

https://www.servethehome.com/tesla-dojo-custom-ai-supercomputer-at-hc34/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 93 comments

Device Frames – 3D Device Mockup Generator

https://deviceframes.com/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: How worried should I be about Google randomly suspending my accounts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587310

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Why can't we comment on “X is Hiring” posts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32585801

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 107 comments

PlanBags Has Retired 1968-2021

https://planbags.com/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Yangtze River Dries Up, Revealing 600-Year-Old Buddhist Statues

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7y3y/yangtze-river-dries-buddhist-statues-chongqing

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Love might be a second-order phase transition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13246

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Capacity Plan

https://fev.al/posts/capacity-plan/

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578178

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 86 comments
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