top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-09-25

Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1572260363764400129

4 years ago

1514 upvotes – 989 comments

Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used

https://www.bedelstein.com/post/mcmaster-carr

4 years ago

1402 upvotes – 491 comments

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad9528b72c41

4 years ago

723 upvotes – 242 comments

3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror

http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html

4 years ago

624 upvotes – 558 comments

Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180787712/corrupted-photos?hl=en

4 years ago

575 upvotes – 282 comments

C++20, How Hard Could It Be

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HwLNSyHxy203eptO9cbTmr7CH23sBGtTrfOmJf9n0ug/edit?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-GH5F3wdP7D4dmxvLdBaMvw

4 years ago

330 upvotes – 429 comments

Analysis of Apple Watch running data

https://applewatchrunner.substack.com/p/apple-watch-running-review

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 166 comments

This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019)

https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 44 comments

Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files

https://pdfgrep.org/

4 years ago

279 upvotes – 55 comments

Downturn career decisions

https://lethain.com/downturn-career-decisions/

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 198 comments

GitHub Actions Pitfalls

https://fusectore.dev/2022/09/25/github-actions-pitfalls.html

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 103 comments

Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockheed over 1996 TWA crash

https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/citing-new-evidence-surviving-family-members-sue-feds-raytheon-and-lockheed-martin-over-1996-twa-crash/

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 258 comments

I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss (2015)

https://gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 166 comments

Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages

https://twitter.com/BurggrabenH/status/1567929340737863680

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 429 comments

Layoffs at Canadian tech startups

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-tech-startups-downturn-layoffs/

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 174 comments

India's lattice buildings cool without air con

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220920-how-indias-lattice-buildings-cool-without-air-con

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 82 comments

Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner’s Perspective

https://paliparan.com/2022/09/25/train-travel-uk-foreigners-perspective/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 189 comments

The MIPS ThinkPad, Kind Of

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-mips-thinkpad-kind-of.html

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 34 comments

When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”

http://boston.conman.org//2022/09/22.1

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 212 comments

Show HN: A Little Tool to Visualize Guitar Chords

https://muted.io/guitar-chords/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 34 comments
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