top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-17

Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax

https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront

4 years ago

555 upvotes – 545 comments

U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-rules-against-big-techs-ability-regulate-online-speech-2022-09-16/

4 years ago

523 upvotes – 1146 comments

Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-do-all-these-20-somethings-have-closed-captions-turned-on-11663386473

4 years ago

398 upvotes – 722 comments

FogBugz new owners attempting to auto-upgrade all free plans to paid

https://twitter.com/josephruscio/status/1570957688405917698

4 years ago

364 upvotes – 120 comments

The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy

https://twitter.com/doombergt/status/1571063488860286977

4 years ago

359 upvotes – 329 comments

FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/ftc-crack-down-companies-taking-advantage-gig-workers

4 years ago

313 upvotes – 493 comments

Introduction to Algorithms (2020)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-spring-2020/

4 years ago

309 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: How to validate a startup idea whilst employed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32875224

4 years ago

297 upvotes – 148 comments

Super apps are proliferating across emerging markets

https://afridigest.com/super-apps-in-emerging-markets/

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 175 comments

Saul Kripke has died

https://dailynous.com/2022/09/16/saul-kripke-1940-2022/

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 50 comments

Charl-e: “Stable Diffusion on your Mac in 1 click”

https://www.charl-e.com/

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 126 comments

Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap

https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 29 comments

How to run an event that doesn't suck

https://karmanivero.us/blog/how-to-run-an-event-that-doesnt-suck/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 70 comments

Phorge: Going Public

https://we.phorge.it/phame/post/view/1/going_public/

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 69 comments

How to disagree with someone more powerful than you (2016)

https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-disagree-with-someone-more-powerful-than-you

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 152 comments

Soft White Underbelly demonetized by YouTube [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81bMiEjYZ54

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 173 comments

Show HN: LambdaLisp – A Lisp interpreter that runs on lambda calculus

https://woodrush.github.io/blog/lambdalisp.html

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 100 comments

Number theory explained from first principles

https://explained-from-first-principles.com/number-theory/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 29 comments

Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)

https://collinmbarrett.com/block-web-fonts/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN

https://github.com/bulwarkid/virtual-fido

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 138 comments

“The Suck” (Learning Anything by Writing It Out by Hand)

https://scottscheper.com/letter/40/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 65 comments

The Sounds of CDMX

https://pudding.cool/2022/09/cdmx/

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 38 comments

Automatic Differentiation in 38 lines of Haskell

https://gist.github.com/ttesmer/948df432cf46ec6db8c1e83ab59b1b21

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 56 comments

5th Circuit Rules Internet Companies Have No Right to Moderate

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/16/5th-circuit-rewrites-a-century-of-1st-amendment-law-to-argue-internet-companies-have-no-right-to-moderate/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 3 comments

p0f: TCP Packet Fingerprinting

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f3/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 24 comments

Galileo Project now fully funded for expedition to study an interstellar meteor

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/message-in-an-interstellar-bottle-c393ea526e9f

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 50 comments

SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web

https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 71 comments

Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trillions of Net Savings

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00410-X

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 258 comments

CppCon 2022

https://cppcon.org/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 155 comments

Apple to Move a Part of Its Embedded Cores to RISC-V

https://www.techpowerup.com/298936/report-apple-to-move-a-part-of-its-embedded-cores-to-risc-v-stepping-away-from-arm-isa

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

An account of travel to the five Indian kingdoms – 723 CE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_ocheonchukguk_jeon

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Being a victim of rape costs an average of $3,500 in medical bills

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/being-a-victim-of-rape-costs-an-average-of-3500-in-medical-bills-study-finds/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 42 comments

Why does a librarian own MetaFilter?

https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/jessamyn-west-part-1/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 42 comments

Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of “BattleBots”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/battlebots-tech-evolution

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 58 comments

S6: A standalone JIT compiler library for CPython

https://github.com/deepmind/s6

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

Google’s Feedburner just voided RSS URLs for CNN, Marketwatch, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32876954

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Matplotlib 3.6

https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/prev_whats_new/whats_new_3.6.0.html

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-triple-dip-la-nina-confirmed-as-bom-makes-declaration

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 160 comments

How to Make a Sundial

https://www.sundialzone.com/en/sundial

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Attractive female students get better grades

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517652200283X

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 75 comments

Figma vs. Adobe XD

https://www.figma.com/figma-vs-adobe-xd/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 57 comments

“Titanic” Disaster: Report of the Committee on Commerce, US Senate (1918) [pdf]

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/TitanicReport.pdf

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Lota – An online ePub reader with VS Code style

https://www.lotareader.com

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

5th Circuit Rules Internet Companies Have No Right to Moderate

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/16/5th-circuit-rewrites-a-century-of-1st-amendment-law-to-argue-internet-companies-have-no-right-to-moderate/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 340 comments

The Japanese tradition of raising and eating wasps (2019)

https://www.splendidtable.org/story/2019/02/08/the-japanese-tradition-of-raising-and-eating-wasps

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 128 comments

$ rm Important.txt (uh oh)

https://xenodium.com/rm-important-txt-oh-sht/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 90 comments

ZX81plus38 – A ULA-less ZX81 clone

https://github.com/mahjongg2/ZX81plus38

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix

https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Ubuntu 22.10 Aiming to Support the $16 Sipeed LicheeRV RISC-V Board

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.10-Sipeed-LicheeRV

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Monorepo Support

https://render.com/docs/monorepo-support

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 55 comments

Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/quiet-quitting-trend-employee-disengagement/671436/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Tell HN: Make your company have a contact page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32882337

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal

https://acoup.blog/2022/09/16/collections-teaching-paradox-crusader-kings-iii-part-i-making-it-personal/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Google, Microsoft can get your passwords via web browser's spellcheck

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-microsoft-can-get-your-passwords-via-web-browsers-spellcheck/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Hyperbolic Growth

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32876773

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments
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