top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-27

One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants

https://peabee.substack.com/p/17-one-kitchen-hundreds-of-internet

2 years ago

685 upvotes – 355 comments

American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2022/08/26/american-chestnut-tree-discovery-in-delaware-wows-conservationists/65414649007/

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 155 comments

Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google

https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561466204602220544

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 106 comments

A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2

https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=45143

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 100 comments

Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/08/27/gimp-2-99-12-released/

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 230 comments

We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/08/we-dont-know-how-universe-began-and-we.html

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 580 comments

Day ahead electricity prices for EU

https://euenergy.live/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 586 comments

Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32618163

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 266 comments

What’s going on with security at PayPal?

https://christianvarga.com/whats-going-on-with-security-at-paypal/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 99 comments

At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

https://apnews.com/article/crime-prisons-lawsuits-connecticut-074a8f643766e155df58d2c8fbc7214c

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 353 comments

Show HN: A piano chord reference tool

https://pianochord.io/

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 71 comments

A Programming Language Database

https://github.com/breck7/pldb

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 62 comments

Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)

https://www.driverlesscrocodile.com/books-and-recommendations/tyler-cowen-on-reading-fast-reading-well-and-reading-widely/

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 146 comments

Namecheap vulnerability they refuse to fix: no 2FA on support portal login

https://crimew.gay/notice/AMxFUTYtsMNtzbDzQu

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: How much info should founders share with early stage employees?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616270

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 199 comments

What to read to understand how economists think

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-reads/2022/08/09/what-to-read-to-understand-how-economists-think

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 274 comments

Ushering out strlcpy()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/905777/a6dba1b2ed54f04f/

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 153 comments

Robert's Rules of Order (1876)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9097/9097.txt

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 137 comments

Microsoft Clipchamp

https://clipchamp.com/en/windows-video-editor/

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 129 comments

The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerers

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-obsessive-pleasures-of-mechanical-keyboard-tinkerers

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 188 comments

JWST: Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11692

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple and Globalstar Rumored to Announce Satellite Connectivity for iPhone 14

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/26/apple-globalstar-iphone-14-satellite-rumor/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 132 comments

After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready to fly

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/27/nasa-sls-moon-artemis-human-space/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 314 comments

Acorn: A simple application deployment framework for Kubernetes

https://acorn.io/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 129 comments

Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/long-covid-cognitive-impairment-and-the-stalled-decline-in-disability-rates-20220805.htm

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 167 comments

How Mondragon Became the World's Largest Co-Op

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-mondragon-became-the-worlds-largest-co-op

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 68 comments

An intriguing discovery of Computer Science: The Y combinator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuXJ3kXUCiU

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 37 comments

Some Authy 2FA accounts were compromised in Twilio data breach

https://www.engadget.com/twilio-authy-data-breach-202314313.html

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 64 comments

Intel enters a new era of chiplets

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-enters-a-new-era-of-chiplets-that-will-change-everything-34/

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 164 comments

Heroku to discontinue free product plans and delete inactive accounts

https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 28 comments

TinyTapeout: Get your design on an actual ASIC

https://mailchi.mp/574276e3c9d7/tinytapeout

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

My Lack of Attention

https://www.champonthis.de/dev/rand/lack-of-attention

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 96 comments

The end of Moore's Law forced YouTube to make its own video chip

https://www.techspot.com/news/95774-end-moore-law-forced-youtube-make-own-video.html

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: How can I start a business to generate electricity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622949

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 128 comments

Meta is building an AI to fact-check Wikipedia

https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/26/meta-is-building-an-ai-to-fact-check-wikipedia-all-6-5-million-articles/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 123 comments

Why are there so few economies of scale in construction? Part I

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/why-are-there-so-few-economies-of

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 comments

Interlisp Online

https://online.interlisp.org/user/login

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

UK energy bills are soaring to record highs

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-uk-energy-bills-are-soaring-to-record-highs-and-how-to-cut-them/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 231 comments

The utterly delightful site dedicated to classifying plastic bread tags

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/horg-plastic-bread-tags-occlupanids-classification-site

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Guide to Writing Online

https://perell.com/essay/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-online/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

The MKULTRA Evolutions

https://im1776.com/the-mkultra-evolutions/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

3-Lisp: an infinite tower of meta-circular interpreters

http://www.cofault.com/2022/08/3-lisp-infinite-tower-of-meta-circular.html

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Five Ways to Write Like The Economist [pdf] (2010)

https://www.legalwritingpro.com/pdf/the-economist.pdf

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Built-in container support for the .NET SDK

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-builtin-container-support-for-the-dotnet-sdk/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Why is this colorful little wheel suddenly everywhere in Japan?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/business/japan-sdg.html

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 78 comments

State Machines II

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/state-machines-2/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

Why a 224-Year-Old Human Heart Is Touring Brazil

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dom-pedro-heart-portugal-brazil

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

Cannot read clipboard from service worker in a MV3 chrome extension (2020)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1160302

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments
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