top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-08

Queen Elizabeth II has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886

4 years ago

Reddit's favorite products in one place

https://looria.com/reddit/overview

4 years ago

Congress.gov API

https://api.congress.gov/

4 years ago

San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics

https://doubleblindmag.com/san-francisco-decriminalizes-psychedelics/

4 years ago

I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)

https://jacksoncunningham.medium.com/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba

4 years ago

Accelerate Python code by importing Taichi

https://docs.taichi-lang.org/blog/accelerate-python-code-100x

4 years ago

Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1567712985979707393

4 years ago

It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

https://bae.st/notice/AL3OGtBIWr6Bz2Y4um

4 years ago

Patreon laid off their security team

https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1567974063578185728

4 years ago

Not Your Grandfather’s Perl

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/08/this-is-not-your-grandfathers-perl/

4 years ago

My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132747.3132763

4 years ago

Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News

https://www.modernhn.com/

4 years ago

What to read to understand central banking

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-reads/2022/09/07/what-to-read-to-understand-central-banking

4 years ago

Stop measuring community engagement

https://rosie.land/posts/stop-measuring-community-engagement/

4 years ago

Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4707

4 years ago

A byte string library for Rust

https://blog.burntsushi.net/bstr/

4 years ago

Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Unification-Church-and-politics/Half-of-Japan-s-LDP-lawmakers-had-ties-with-Unification-Church

4 years ago

I tracked everything I read on the internet for a year

https://www.tdpain.net/blog/a-year-of-reading

4 years ago

Attacking Firecracker: AWS' MicroVM Monitor Written in Rust

https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/attacking-firecracker

4 years ago

Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership

https://airwaysmag.com/rolls-royce-boom-supersonic/

4 years ago

Scientists found genetic mutations in every astronaut blood sample they studied

https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-genetic-mutations-every-astronaut-blood-sample

4 years ago

Protohackers: Server Programming Challenge

https://protohackers.com/

4 years ago

Fresh 1.1 – Automatic JSX, plugins, DevTools, and more

https://deno.com/blog/fresh-1.1

4 years ago

Purring is a love language no human can speak

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/09/why-cats-purr-vocalization-science/671358/

4 years ago

Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/introducing-svelte-comparing-with-react-vue

4 years ago

The Steve Jobs Archive

https://stevejobsarchive.com/

4 years ago

Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation

https://scholz.ruhr/blog/old-school-unix-administration/

4 years ago

The self-fulfilling prophecy of React

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/self-fulfilling-prophecy-of-react

4 years ago

Go Developer Survey 2022 Q2 Results

https://go.dev/blog/survey2022-q2-results

4 years ago

Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/who-controls-the-internet/

4 years ago

Pwned, the book

https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-the-book-is-finally-here/

4 years ago

Kamby – A programming language based on Lisp that doesn't seem like Lisp

https://kamby.org/

4 years ago

Our five failed YC applications and one successful one

https://www.relate.so/blog/six-applications-y-combinator/

4 years ago

Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/09/08/hopper-mlperf-inference/

4 years ago

How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bedouin-desert-tracking-negev

4 years ago

ErgodoxE EZ – an ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware

https://ergodox-ez.com/

4 years ago

Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (2012)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/09/25/ramanujans-factorial-approximation/

4 years ago

Queen Elizabeth II has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886

4 years ago

The Changes for the 2nd Edition of “Code”

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2022/09/The-Changes-for-the-2nd-Edition-of-Code.html

4 years ago

Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Generated Images?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vjw3/why-does-this-horrifying-woman-keep-appearing-in-ai-generated-images

4 years ago

Planting trees not always an effective way of binding carbon dioxide

https://www.gu.se/en/news/planting-trees-not-always-an-effective-way-of-binding-carbon-dioxide

4 years ago

The Projectionist: On the best job that no longer exists

https://pipewrenchmag.com/the-film-projectionist/

4 years ago

Show HN: Ringer – Get and provide expert help on Open Source Software

https://www.ringerhq.com/

4 years ago

Eight Secret Societies (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-societies-you-might-not-know-180958294/

4 years ago

Learn time series with a story illustrated by Stable Diffusion

https://tigyog.app/d/L-8D8R2yeXLY/r/an-everyday-look-at-time-series

4 years ago

Economists are flocking to Silicon Valley

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/09/07/why-economists-are-flocking-to-silicon-valley

4 years ago

A good memory or a bad one? One brain molecule decides

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-good-memory-or-a-bad-one-one-brain-molecule-decides-20220907/

4 years ago

Why It’s OK to Block Ads (2015)

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/

4 years ago

Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'

https://www.engadget.com/tim-cook-response-green-bubbles-android-your-mom-095538175.html

4 years ago

The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-collectors-who-save-video-game-history-from-oblivion

4 years ago

Ask HN: What Linux setup/hardening guide do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768245

4 years ago

Mesh Shading for Vulkan

https://www.khronos.org/blog/mesh-shading-for-vulkan

4 years ago

Penguin of the Year

https://www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/visit/penguin-of-the-year/

4 years ago

Make better decisions with fewer online meetings

https://topagree.com/

4 years ago

1999 open Emacs bugs

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2022/09/06/lets-party-like-its-1999/

4 years ago

Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?

https://kevinbasset.medium.com/why-havent-pwas-killed-native-apps-yet-29beca4425fa

4 years ago

Germany's €9 transit ticket cuts 1.8 million tonnes of CO2

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/germanys-9-euro-transport-ticket-cut-1-8-million-tons-of-co2/

4 years ago

Building a house in California is not a housing development project [pdf]

https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A161813.PDF

4 years ago

Show HN: TattoosAI – AI-powered tattoo artist, using Stable Diffusion

https://www.tattoosai.com/

4 years ago

The Risks of WebAssembly

https://www.fermyon.com

4 years ago

HTTP://HTTP//HTTP://HTTP://HTTP://?HTTP://#HTTP://

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/08/http-http-http-http-http-http-http/

4 years ago