top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-26

Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates

https://vivqu.com/blog/2022/09/25/outdated-apps/

4 years ago

936 upvotes – 498 comments

Turns are better than radians

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/turns-are-better-than-radians

4 years ago

699 upvotes – 471 comments

Dear Chess World

https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1574482694406565888

4 years ago

698 upvotes – 1045 comments

A CTO should be technical

https://blog.southparkcommons.com/your-cto-should-actually-be-technical/

4 years ago

600 upvotes – 354 comments

Learning Is Remembering

https://saveall.ai/blog/learning-is-remembering

4 years ago

422 upvotes – 229 comments

Zen4's AVX512 Teardown

https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=614191

4 years ago

415 upvotes – 97 comments

macOS Free and Open-Source Security Tools by Objective-See

https://objective-see.org/tools.html

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 48 comments

Zero Trust SIM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-first-zero-trust-sim/

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 276 comments

Soldering Wires – Here's a different way

https://www.instructables.com/Soldering-Wires-Heres-a-Better-Way/

4 years ago

371 upvotes – 194 comments

Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps

https://notmyplate.com/whitepaper/

4 years ago

360 upvotes – 261 comments

Go runtime: 4 years later

https://go.dev/blog/go119runtime

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 284 comments

Experimenting a new syntax to write SVG

https://yuanchuan.dev/experimenting-a-new-syntax-to-write-svg

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 91 comments

Does Someone Know My Name?

https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2022/09/does-someone-know-my-name-mystery-photos/

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 89 comments

Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits

https://casparwre.de/blog/webapp-python-deployment/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 161 comments

Playstation 2 Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-2/

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 69 comments

Dear Chess World

https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1574482694406565888/photo/1

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 3 comments

Nvidia in the Valley

https://stratechery.com/2022/nvidia-in-the-valley/

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 175 comments

Amazon walking back raises after internal bug miscalculated compensation

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-promotion-raises-compensation-bug-2022-9

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 163 comments

Ignite – Use Firecracker VMs with Docker images

https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 80 comments

macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache

https://giuliomagnifico.blog/tips/2022/09/25/macos-wallpaper-huge-cache.html

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 198 comments

HDD Clicker – HDD Sound Simulator

https://www.retrokits.de/index.php/hdd-clicker-hdd-sound-simulator-v0-1/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 89 comments

Why we moved from AWS RDS to Postgres in Kubernetes

https://nhost.io/blog/individual-postgres-instances

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 145 comments

Resumes and cover letters: An extension school resource (2021) [pdf]

https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/hes-resume-cover-letter-guide.pdf

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 108 comments

A 20 Year Old Chipset Workaround Has Been Hurting Modern AMD Linux Systems

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-Old-Chipset-WA

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 32 comments

Adversarial Collaboration

https://www.edge.org/adversarial-collaboration-daniel-kahneman

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 207 comments

JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (2019)

https://unencumberedbyfacts.com/2019/01/24/jmap-its-like-imap-but-not-really/

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 131 comments

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 83 comments

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Ryzen 9 7950X Benchmarks Show Impressive Linux Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7900x-7950x-linux

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 118 comments

Open Source Bait and Switch

https://debugagent.com/open-source-bait-and-switch

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 249 comments

Ziti: Programmable network overlay and edge components for zero-trust networking

https://github.com/openziti

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 42 comments

Explained from scratch: private information retrieval and homomorphic encryption

https://blintzbase.com/posts/pir-and-fhe-from-scratch/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 22 comments

McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/25/criminal-conspiracy/#payment-is-expected

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 34 comments

An early disruption event is starting for the Polar Vortex

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-early-disruptive-event-winter-influence-united-states-europe-fa/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 130 comments

Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browsers back [pdf]

https://research.mozilla.org/files/2022/09/Mozilla_Five-Walled-Gardens.pdf

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 226 comments

The Sad State of Debug Performance in C++

https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/debug_performance_cpp.html

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 108 comments

British pound hits record low against the dollar

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/26/sterling-hits-record-low-against-the-dollar-as-other-asia-pacific-currencies-weaken.html

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 369 comments

Factory jobs are booming like it’s the 1970s

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/business/factory-jobs-workers-rebound.html

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 180 comments

SaaS services behind a startup

https://www.bytebase.com/blog/30saas-services-behind-startup

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 121 comments

Enhance: a web standards-based HTML framework

https://enhance.dev/docs/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 43 comments

Reading Soviet Sci-Fi at the End of the World

https://themillions.com/2022/09/reading-soviet-sci-fi-at-the-end-of-the-world.html

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 92 comments

Age – a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

Isolates, microVMs, and WebAssembly

https://notes.crmarsh.com/isolates-microvms-and-webassembly

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

Stock Trade Ban for Congress Is Being Readied for Release in US House

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-26/stock-trade-ban-for-congress-proposal-set-for-release-in-us-house

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 24 comments

Launch HN: Prequel (YC W21) – Sync data to your customer’s data warehouse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32984103

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

How to 3D-print one of the strongest stainless steels

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/09/researchers-uncover-how-3d-print-one-strongest-stainless-steels

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

Have I Been Squatted?

https://haveibeensquatted.com/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 38 comments

Katakana, Hiragana, and Unicode

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/09/25/katakana-hiragana-unicode/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Intercom with Help Center

https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Pathologies of the attention economy

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-pathologies-of-the-attention

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

The Uncage

https://surjan.substack.com/p/introducing-the-uncage

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments

Holonforth

http://holonforth.com

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Only Persistent LogIn

http://avodonosov.blogspot.com/2022/09/google-login-dialog-does-not-have.html

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 103 comments

Stop parking apps from exposing your location

https://notmyplate.com/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

Katara: Synthesizing CRDTs with Verified Lifting

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12425

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: How influential can physical appearance be in professional environments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32980987

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 164 comments

MTG Extended 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/mtg_extended_1997/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 61 comments

CCPS, a Capcom CPS-1 SDK

https://fabiensanglard.net/ccps/index.html

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

Offline map test on Apple Watch Ultra for hiking

https://jooonas.medium.com/offline-map-test-on-apple-watch-ultra-3b73541cec52

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 106 comments

How long do software engineers stay at a job? (2021)

https://developerpitstop.com/how-long-do-software-engineers-stay-at-a-job/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Paste React components into any website

https://smarketman.com/instant/react/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Golang HTTP Clients/Servers and Alternative Networking

https://github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/go-http

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

How the National Airspace System Works

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ang/offices/tc/library/Storyboard/nextgen-overview.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

NASA's DART mission successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1574539270987173903

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Zen Evolution: A Small Overview

https://locuza.substack.com/p/zen-evolution-a-small-overview

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 2 comments

Biogen agrees to pay $900M to settle drug kickbacks allegations

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/biogen-inc-agrees-pay-900-million-settle-false-claims-act-allegations-related-improper

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

Non-Code Contributions to Open Source (2021)

https://navendu.me/posts/non-code-contributions-to-open-source/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Norman Rockwell and the golden age of classic food illustration (2019)

https://phoode.com/blog/norman-rockwell-golden-age-food-illustration/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Gems from the man page trenches (2016)

https://www.saminiir.com/gems-from-man-page-trenches/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/26/1125109303/putin-edward-snowden-russian-citizenship

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What's the best “higher level Rust” these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32984776

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 61 comments

Benzene’s bond lengths corrected

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/benzenes-bond-lengths-corrected/4016266.article

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 73 comments

Discover Kentucky Archaeology

https://archaeology.ky.gov:443/Find-a-Site/Pages/default.aspx

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 77 comments

QUIC Is Not a TCP Replacement

https://systemsapproach.substack.com/p/quic-is-not-a-tcp-replacement

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Fast-stable-diffusion colabs, +25% speed increase and memory efficient

https://github.com/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Group Dynamics: The Leader's Toolkit

https://www.edbatista.com/2022/09/group-dynamics-the-leaders-toolkit.html

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86M

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-misled-judge-signed-warrant-120002250.html

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments
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