top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-09-05

Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/why-a4-the-mathematical-beauty-of-paper-size/

4 years ago

Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/sockfish.html

4 years ago

Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis

https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1566826229931524096

4 years ago

Don't ignore the janitor

https://happychasing.substack.com/p/see-people

4 years ago

Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest

https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to-self-host-email/

4 years ago

All poverty is energy poverty

https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/all-poverty-is-energy-poverty

4 years ago

Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1566728231893573634

4 years ago

Userspace FUSE for macOS

https://www.fuse-t.org/

4 years ago

FLAC – Format overview

https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_format_overview.html

4 years ago

Amazon putting a three-day pause on reviews for Rings of Power

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/rings-of-power-reviews-delayed-amazon-prime-video-1235358724/

4 years ago

Common Lisp vs Racket

https://gist.github.com/vindarel/c1ef5e043773921e3b11d8f4fe1ca7ac

4 years ago

Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them

https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/31/engineering-metrics.html

4 years ago

I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete

https://github.com/SharonBrizinov/slack-anti-delete

4 years ago

Using Stable Diffusion's img2img on some old Sierra titles

https://sciprogramming.com/community/index.php?topic=2081.0

4 years ago

Apple AMX instruction set (M1/M2 matrix coprocessor)

https://github.com/corsix/amx

4 years ago

Heatwaves kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/09/01/heatwaves-kill-more-americans-than-hurricanes-tornadoes-and-floods

4 years ago

Credit Karma fined $3M by FTC for misleading consumers with credit card offers

https://thefintechtimes.com/credit-karma-fined-3million-by-ftc-for-misleading-consumers-with-credit-card-offers/

4 years ago

'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/serious-errors-in-research-linking-deaths-to-red-meat-qtdh28fv5

4 years ago

Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

https://chainparrot.com/blockchains-by-number-of-nodes.html

4 years ago

Draw Anything – A Simple Stable Diffusion Playground

https://www.drawanything.app/

4 years ago