top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-23

Nightdrive

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

4 years ago

Software I’m thankful for (2021)

https://crawshaw.io/blog/thankful-for-technology

4 years ago

The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash

https://retr0.id/notice/ANqlvFZD1eIqjmRiFc

4 years ago

A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

https://waxy.org/2022/09/a-mysterious-voice-is-haunting-american-airlines-in-flight-announcements-and-nobody-knows-how/

4 years ago

Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers

https://www.techradar.com/news/mozilla-claims-apple-google-and-microsoft-force-users-to-use-default-web-browsers

4 years ago

At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/09/20/at-4-4-miles-wyoming-team-sets-new-rifle-shot-world-record/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950204

4 years ago

Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love

https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix

4 years ago

The journey to Nintendo Switch

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370

4 years ago

The road to Zettalinux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/908026/6284e31d9060a6ec/

4 years ago

Be critical or be corrupted

https://www.cenizal.com/be-critical-or-be-corrupted/

4 years ago

Wails v2 Released

https://wails.io/blog/wails-v2-released/

4 years ago

'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/peters-and-portman-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-help-secure-open-source-software_

4 years ago

The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web

https://christianheilmann.com/2022/08/29/the-sum-of-all-knowledge/

4 years ago

Packing a backpack (2014)

https://info.deuter.com/blog/packing-a-backpack

4 years ago

Algorithms and data structures implemented in many programming languages

https://the-algorithms.com/

4 years ago

Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE

4 years ago

Ezno: a new TypeScript compiler

https://kaleidawave.github.io/posts/introducing-ezno/

4 years ago

A collection of several hundred online tools for OSINT

https://github.com/cipher387/osint_stuff_tool_collection

4 years ago

LXC and LXD: a different container story

https://lwn.net/Articles/907613/

4 years ago

Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/09/emmanuel-mignot-wins-breakthrough-prize-for-discovering-cause-of.html

4 years ago

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-part-1-building-the-first-chip/

4 years ago

Silphion: a miracle plant thought to be eaten into extinction 2k years ago

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miracle-plant-eaten-extinction-2000-years-ago-silphion

4 years ago

Fly.io makes infrastructure easy for developers

https://blog.chiselstrike.com/fly-io-makes-infrastructure-easy-for-us-developers-63081d4d0476

4 years ago

Google CEO tells employees not to ‘equate fun with money’ in heated meeting

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html

4 years ago

Langcc: A Next-Generation Compiler Compiler

https://github.com/jzimmerman/langcc

4 years ago

Wildfire smoke is exposing millions of Americans to extreme pollution levels

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/09/22/wildfire-smoke-unraveling-decades-air-quality-gains/

4 years ago

Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs

https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2022/09/23/gpt-3-can-find-paths-up-to-7-nodes-long-in-random-graphs/

4 years ago

How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mkowalcz/628.pdf

4 years ago

Samplebrain: A custom sample mashing app designed by Aphex Twin

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain

4 years ago

On Adobe acquiring Figma

https://build.typogram.co/p/on-adobe-acquiring-figma

4 years ago

Ask HN: I love to be alone. But this loneliness is killing me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32956548

4 years ago

Signal TLS Proxy

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy

4 years ago

Xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster

https://github.com/learnk8s/xlskubectl

4 years ago

Shasta: AI-powered audio recording and editing

https://pages.adobe.com/shasta/

4 years ago

Show HN: MathB.in – Mathematics pastebin written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/susam/mathb

4 years ago

Whistleblower: Pentagon purchased tool collecting Americans' web browsing data

https://gizmodo.com/ncis-whistleblower-military-data-broker-cymru-wyden-1849564984

4 years ago

A small town that saved its only grocery store by buying it

https://thehustle.co/the-small-town-that-saved-its-only-grocery-store-by-buying-it/

4 years ago

Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers

https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/

4 years ago

The Subcontrabassoon Project

http://www.subcontrabassoon.com/media.html

4 years ago

Balancing “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” vs. “Release early and often”

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/balancing-if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-vs-release-early-and-often

4 years ago

Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study

https://news.stanford.edu/press/view/45245

4 years ago

The Double Entry Counting Method (2016)

https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_method.html

4 years ago

Tibia is adding sound to the game after 25 years

https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=6917

4 years ago

Super-Earths are ideal targets in the search for life

https://singularityhub.com/2022/09/22/super-earths-are-bigger-and-more-habitable-than-earth-and-astronomers-are-discovering-more-of-the-billions-they-think-are-out-there/

4 years ago

Schedule cronjob for the first Monday of every month, the funky way

https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/09/schedule-cron-job-the-funky-way/

4 years ago

San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/23/23368603/san-francisco-police-private-surveillance-cameras-vote

4 years ago

An anonymous person donated 299 ETH from Tornado Cash to Redox OS

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x21f4b538ea53df8685eed62a8036562c48dee0a64bfee77b3299988bec84f134

4 years ago

The South Asian Polycrisis

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-153-the-south-asian-polycrisis

4 years ago

OCaml Exercises

https://ocaml.org/problems

4 years ago

US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/us-installs-record-solar-capacity-as-prices-keep-falling/

4 years ago

Passkeys

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2022/09/22/passkeys.html

4 years ago

Swatch Internet Time

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html

4 years ago

IRS gets permission to go after taxpayers who don't report crypto transactions

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/irs-obtains-court-order-authorizing-summons-records-relating-us-taxpayers-who-failed

4 years ago

Show HN: TwitterToNitter. A bookmarklet that makes reading on Twitter easier

https://github.com/no-gravity/TwitterToNitter

4 years ago

Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good (Part #7934)

https://bottomfeeder.substack.com/p/why-the-rings-of-power-show-is-not

4 years ago

The Ciao System

https://ciao-lang.org/ciao/build/doc/ciao.html/

4 years ago

IR35 reform to be repealed; workers will determine employment status

https://www.ftadviser.com/your-industry/2022/09/23/mini-budget-ir35-will-be-repealed-from-april/

4 years ago

Extending org-mode to handle YouTube links

https://bitspook.in/blog/extending-org-mode-to-handle-youtube-links/

4 years ago

Trombone Champ turns all songs into tooting works of genius

https://www.polygon.com/23365828/trombone-champ-memes-goty-genius-toot-toot-tooooooooooooot

4 years ago

Show HN: Vim Tutorial as RPG

https://vim-adventures.com/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Tips to relearn how to care about my job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32954452

4 years ago

Show HN: Morgan – PyPI Mirror for Restricted/Offline Environments

https://github.com/ido50/morgan

4 years ago

Uify: One Workspace

https://uify.io/

4 years ago

Apple Big Pink #3 (1990) [pdf]

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/apple/mac/pink/Apple_Big_Pink_3_Mar1990.pdf

4 years ago

The Disaster of Superstition in Nutrition

https://optimisingnutrition.com/belief-based-nutrition/

4 years ago

Factorio Is the Best Technical Interview We Have (2021)

https://erikmcclure.com/blog/factorio-is-best-interview-we-have/

4 years ago

What Modern Humans Can Learn from Ancient Software

https://www.wired.com/story/modern-humans-learn-ancient-software-retrocomputing/

4 years ago

The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps

https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/

4 years ago

Reshaping Text

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2022/09/reshaping-text/

4 years ago

David Byrne, Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg on the outsider art of Arthur Russell

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-byrne-philip-glass-allen-ginsberg-on-arthur-russell/

4 years ago