top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-07

Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are-you-eating

4 years ago

742 upvotes – 348 comments

Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds

https://www.shiningscience.com/2022/09/korean-nuclear-fusion-reactor-achieves.html

4 years ago

705 upvotes – 769 comments

Difftastic, the fantastic diff

https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2022/09/06/difftastic-the-fantastic-diff/

4 years ago

698 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch

https://github.com/MyOwnClone/quake_watch

4 years ago

692 upvotes – 216 comments

IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/07/irs-free-efile-biden/

4 years ago

664 upvotes – 408 comments

Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32751071

4 years ago

612 upvotes – 176 comments

WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing

https://www.wikihouse.cc/

4 years ago

505 upvotes – 278 comments

Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity

https://sec.report/Document/0001366868-22-000059/

4 years ago

413 upvotes – 333 comments

How the SQLite virtual machine works

https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-virtual-machine/

4 years ago

390 upvotes – 147 comments

“UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4de09330cf3d06194ccc897

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 255 comments

iOS 16 Available September 12th

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 423 comments

Zig, the Small Language

https://zserge.com/posts/zig-the-small-language/

4 years ago

313 upvotes – 417 comments

Is engineering management bullshit?

https://www.makeartwithpython.com/blog/is-engineering-management-bullshit/

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 405 comments

Emergency SOS via satellite is included for free with iPhone 14 Pro for 2 years

https://www.apple.com/iphone-14-pro/

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 324 comments

AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)

https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 488 comments

Ask HN: Is it okay to just bootstrap it, even when VCs are knocking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746741

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 122 comments

The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (2010)

https://thetech.com/2010/04/09/dubai-v130-n18

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 128 comments

Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging

https://pypi.org/

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 188 comments

Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ocean-shipping-rates-have-plunged-60-this-year-11662375780

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 183 comments

We Are Changing the License for Akka

https://www.lightbend.com/blog/why-we-are-changing-the-license-for-akka

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 342 comments

Citibank may lock bank accounts for 45 days if breach suspected

https://twitter.com/saletan/status/1567315945143603204

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 209 comments

Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/facebook-personal-data-no-accountability/

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 128 comments

IKEA’s knowledge graph and why it has three layers

https://medium.com/flat-pack-tech/ikeas-knowledge-graph-and-why-it-has-three-layers-a38fca436349

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 77 comments

BigFAT – Backward compatible FAT extension for unlimited file size

https://www.segger.com/products/file-system/emfile/bigfat/

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 106 comments

Our attention span is being robbed

https://unstructed.tech/2022/09/07/your-attention-span-is-being-robbed/

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: TinyClock – a tiny true 5-arch universal Mac OS X single-binary GUI app

http://tycho.sytes.net/TinyClock/

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 68 comments

On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (2021) [pdf]

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/275927505/3e2a9e5b2fad237a3d35f36fa2c5f44552f2.pdf

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 119 comments

New technical analysis confirms the evidence against Billy Mitchell

https://perfectpacman.com/2022/09/06/new-technical-analysis/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 68 comments

Riding in a peloton is the most energy efficient locomotion – research (2018)

https://bikebiz.com/peloton-riding-is-planets-most-energy-efficient-locomotion-finds-new-research/

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 275 comments

From Common Lisp to Julia

https://mfiano.net/posts/2022-09-04-from-common-lisp-to-julia/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 200 comments

Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (2018)

https://americanexpress.io/yak-shaving/

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 112 comments

Handwritten thank you notes increase sales

https://tips.ariyh.com/p/handwritten-notes

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 199 comments

Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons of CO2 emissions

https://singularityhub.com/2022/09/05/building-future-cities-out-of-timber-could-save-100-billion-tons-of-co2-emissions/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 297 comments

Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/95778

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 196 comments

Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth

https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_16795199/en/speculoos-discovers-a-potentially-habitable-super-earth

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 132 comments

Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/07/apple-announces-iphone-14-iphone-14-plus/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 295 comments

The Case for the /usr Merge (2012)

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 161 comments

A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists

https://letsencrypt.org/2022/09/07/new-life-for-crls.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 69 comments

Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-molecular-maps.html

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 21 comments

A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021)

https://sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/a-few-months-ago-a-complete-stranger-gave-me-10-000-heres-what-i-did-with-it-d5bc65f59d17

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 115 comments

Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness

https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 138 comments

Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/09/introducing-apple-watch-ultra/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 215 comments

Albania expelled Iran’s embassy staff over July cyberattack

https://apnews.com/article/nato-technology-iran-middle-east-6be153b291f42bd549d5ecce5941c32a

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 180 comments

Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32756476

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 170 comments

Blech: A language for developing reactive, real-time critical embedded software

https://www.blech-lang.org/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

The YC Summer 2022 Batch

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-batch/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 110 comments

Hydrogen production from the air

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32652-y

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32750322

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 95 comments

The Ffast and the Furious

https://gist.github.com/moyix/46b7d7fdb9e100dad866821793b08058

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Peter Eckersley, tech activist and founder of Let's Encrypt, dies at 43

https://www.techspot.com/news/95870-peter-eckersley-tech-activist-founder-encrypt-dies-43.html

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types

https://daily.jstor.org/why-companies-are-so-interested-in-your-myers-briggs-type/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 238 comments

My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey

https://www.fast.ai/2022/09/06/homeschooling/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 102 comments

Sundar Pichai hopes to make Google more efficient, hints at potential cuts

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/google-ceo-says-he-hopes-to-make-company-20percent-more-efficient-hints-at-potential-cuts.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 171 comments

Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets

https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

What makes a good REPL? (2017)

https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/what-makes-a-good-repl.html

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

What the interns have wrought, 2022 edition

https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2022/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 77 comments

Brave Integration Deepens Support for Unstoppable Domains

https://brave.com/decentralized-websites/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 106 comments

Apple Removes SIM Card Tray on All iPhone 14 Models in U.S.

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/07/iphone-14-models-no-sim-card-tray-us/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 115 comments

Campus College of Letters and Science plans to limit high-demand majors

https://www.dailycal.org/2022/08/24/campus-college-of-letters-and-science-plans-to-limit-high-demand-majors/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 117 comments

Rsync.net

https://www.rsync.net/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 64 comments

Why Not: From Common Lisp to Julia

https://gist.github.com/digikar99/24decb414ddfa15a220b27f6748165d7

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-concept-of-entropy-quantifies-information-20220906/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 49 comments

Improved Galileo Time to First Fix

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/improved-galileo-fix-time/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Bank of Canada increases policy interest rate by 75 basis points, continues QT

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2022/09/fad-press-release-2022-09-07/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Hydrogen battery startup says it has $700M order backlog

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/hydrogen-battery-start-up-says-it-has-700m-order-backlog-for-utility-scale-renewables-projects/2-1-1266148?zephr_sso_ott=PTwqbU

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 97 comments

Why has software supply chain security exploded?

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2022/09/06/why-has-software-supply-chain-security-exploded/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 85 comments

Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/arts/music/alice-coltrane-jazz-music.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

A mysterious new Babylon 5 project is coming sooner than you think

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/babylon-5-reboot-cast-release-date-2023

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 64 comments

How Tardigrades Bear Dehydration

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00244.html

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: Work Culture Canary?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32748116

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 101 comments

More than 90% of the bots are Pro-Ukrainian, with fewer than 7% pro-Russian

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07038

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 50 comments

Where do economies of scale come from? Part II

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-do-economies-of-scale-come

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments
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