top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-19

2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220916/p2a/00m/0sc/017000c

4 years ago

979 upvotes – 312 comments

1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I

4 years ago

872 upvotes – 154 comments

Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair

https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown

4 years ago

792 upvotes – 561 comments

I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32902945

4 years ago

650 upvotes – 183 comments

I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly

https://hynek.me/articles/productive-fruit-fly-programmer/

4 years ago

650 upvotes – 323 comments

“Return to Monkey Island” is out today

https://returntomonkeyisland.com/?abc

4 years ago

567 upvotes – 168 comments

Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/apple-is-top-funder-of-lobby-group-that-says-it-represents-small-developers/

4 years ago

458 upvotes – 199 comments

Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run

https://www.irunfar.com/aleksandr-sorokin-smashes-24-hour-world-record-with-198-6-mile-319-6-kilometer-run

4 years ago

386 upvotes – 284 comments

Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/google-erased-our-website/

4 years ago

381 upvotes – 147 comments

Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1571615998335123457

4 years ago

372 upvotes – 244 comments

More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude

https://truthout.org/articles/more-us-employers-are-trapping-workers-in-a-new-form-of-indentured-servitude/

4 years ago

341 upvotes – 300 comments

AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender

https://github.com/carson-katri/dream-textures

4 years ago

336 upvotes – 86 comments

You can watch how much I rewrite here

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1571774245214244864

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 109 comments

Tillitis Key – Mullvad spin-off inspired by measured boot and DICE

https://www.tillitis.se/

4 years ago

305 upvotes – 118 comments

Tik Tok is a national security threat

https://twitter.com/zachtratar/status/1571595169207812096

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 402 comments

I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion

https://minimaxir.com/2022/09/stable-diffusion-ugly-sonic/

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 68 comments

Chess is just poker now

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/carlsen-niemann-chess-cheating-poker/671472/

4 years ago

284 upvotes – 212 comments

Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

https://www.figr.app/

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 87 comments

Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/pentagon-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter/

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 308 comments

Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32896299

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 86 comments

macOS Subsystem for Linux

https://github.com/macbian-linux/macos-subsystem-for-linux

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 92 comments

There is no “software supply chain”

https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 210 comments

Jqp – A TUI playground for exploring jq

https://github.com/noahgorstein/jqp

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 27 comments

Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions

https://tracingwoodgrains.substack.com/p/viral-racism-in-academia-story

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 104 comments

Java’s Cultural Problem

https://alexn.org/blog/2022/09/19/java-cultural-problem/

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 307 comments

‘Serial’ case: Adnan Syed released, conviction tossed

https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-adnan-syed-hae-min-lee-024f739b28b33cf50e76c50d640c0882

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 161 comments

Rockstar Games confirms they were hacked by an outside party

https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 151 comments

Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1135492

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 204 comments

Mullvad creates a hardware company

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/9/19/mullvad-creates-a-hardware-company/

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 1 comments

The tyranny of the supertweeter

https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-supertweeter

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 241 comments

Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32893292

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 216 comments

Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 51 comments

Algorithms for competitive programming

https://cp-algorithms.com/

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 15 comments

2000-Watt Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 296 comments

Show HN: Distributed JMAP and IMAP Servers in Rust

https://github.com/stalwartlabs/jmap-server

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 50 comments

South Korean prosecutors say Do Kwon 'obviously on the run', asks Interpol help

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/19/south-korean-prosecutors-say-do-kwon-obviously-on-the-run-ask-interpol-to-issue-red-notice/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: Why Adobe still can’t figure out Flash on WASM?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32898210

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 175 comments

Postgres Data Flow

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-data-flow

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 7 comments

Why kids are afraid to ask for help

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-kids-are-afraid-to-ask-for-help/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 121 comments

MacOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020)

https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 124 comments

Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move

https://www.chessdom.com/magnus-carlsen-resigns-against-hans-niemann-in-the-second-move/

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 310 comments

Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 Skyscraper during 6.8 earthquake [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnSh8C40i1s

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 24 comments

What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake

https://medium.com/@hugo.oliveira.rocha/what-we-learned-after-i-deleted-the-main-production-database-by-mistake-13c0a5815de5

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 126 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 33 comments

Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)

https://reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 81 comments

The anti-inflation pivot of 2022

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-152-the-anti-inflation

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 297 comments

Show HN: DevTools-X – a cross platform alternative of devutils and devtoys

https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 16 comments

Stable Diffusion Text-Prompt-Based Inpainting – Replace Hair, Fashion

https://github.com/amrrs/stable-diffusion-prompt-inpainting

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 23 comments

https://16777217/

https://16777217./

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 86 comments

R. Crumb Means Some Offense

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/t-magazine/r-crumb.html

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 86 comments

Censorship of our report on govt purchasing from Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet

https://techinquiry.org/?about=UNI-censorship

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 25 comments

'Extremely rare' Rameses II-era burial cave found in Israel

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-extremely-rare-rameses-ii-era-burial.html

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32902293

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 230 comments

Fgtrace – The Full Go Tracer

https://github.com/felixge/fgtrace

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 13 comments

Compact electron accelerator reaches new speeds with nothing but light

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-compact-electron.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 54 comments

An opinionated guide to making friends

https://blog.aadilali.com/posts/friends.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 64 comments

Sim NIMBY, the Game Where You Can’t Build Anything

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkzdv/good-luck-playing-sim-nimby-the-game-where-you-cant-build-anything

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 46 comments

Using the Silver Reed SK840 Knitting Machine

https://wiki.cci.arts.ac.uk/books/facilities/page/using-the-silver-reed-sk840-knitting-machine

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT

https://president.mit.edu/speeches-writing/proposed-free-expression-statement-mit

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Lost Pixel – open-source visual regression testing for your frontend

https://github.com/lost-pixel/lost-pixel

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Matrix was worth the effort to self host

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/xhe5ul/matrix_was_worth_the_effort_to_self_host/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 65 comments

Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/09/taxing-mechanical-engineers-and-subsidizing-drama-majors.html

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 180 comments
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