top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-02

Stadia died because no one trusts Google

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one-trusts-google/

4 years ago

724 upvotes – 611 comments

Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society

https://reason.com/2022/09/30/mandated-diversity-statement-drives-jonathan-haidt-to-quit-academic-society/

4 years ago

600 upvotes – 827 comments

Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites

https://github.com/soxoj/maigret

4 years ago

499 upvotes – 197 comments

Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console

https://github.com/joschuck/matrix-webcam

4 years ago

404 upvotes – 45 comments

How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

https://gorgeous.adityashankar.xyz

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 191 comments

TV backlight compensation (2020)

http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/tv_backlight_compensation.html

4 years ago

343 upvotes – 122 comments

LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/09/423891/lsd-molecules-counter-depression-without-trip

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 255 comments

A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)

https://www.science.org/content/article/near-disaster-federal-nuclear-weapons-laboratory-takes-hidden-toll-america-s-arsenal

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 248 comments

NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

https://netnewswire.com/

4 years ago

301 upvotes – 90 comments

Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531556521002916

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 209 comments

First make the change easy, then make the easy change (2021)

https://www.adamtal.me/2019/05/first-make-the-change-easy-then-make-the-easy-change

4 years ago

296 upvotes – 88 comments

“Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety

https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/1105#1105.php

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 523 comments

An elegy for GNU and RMS

https://catgirl.ai/log/elegy-gnu/

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 391 comments

Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/02/toyota-ceo-akio-toyoda-electric-vehicles-happy-dance.html

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 1006 comments

Hyperlinks in Handwriting

https://handwritten.blog/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-handwriting.html

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: In what ways is programming more difficult today than it was years ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056052

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 319 comments

Palantir Had Secret Plan to Crack UK’s NHS: ‘Buying Our Way In’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-30/palantir-had-plan-to-crack-uk-health-system-buying-our-way-in

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 105 comments

Cobra Maneuver

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

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 157 comments

Baker's Math (2009)

https://www.thefreshloaf.com/handbook/baker039s-math

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 115 comments

Recon and Attack Vectors from My Logs

https://gist.github.com/susam/75c37fd0aff9c5e25112eac75b9ed055

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 79 comments

Text Is the Universal Interface

https://scale.com/blog/text-universal-interface

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 77 comments

Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression

https://catgirl.ai/log/comfy-software/

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 143 comments

Muon: GPU Based Electron on a Diet

https://github.com/ImVexed/muon

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 105 comments

“Please be our voice” - Message from students at Sharif University of Technology

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xtwnvj/iran_says_waiting_for_us_to_unfreeze_7_billion/iqsq7iq/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 45 comments

Ubisoft+Bungie Scrambling to Evacuate Players Games from Capsizing Google Stadia

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/10/02/ubisoft-bungie-scrambling-to-evacuate-players-games-and-characters-from-a-capsizing-google-stadia/

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 197 comments

A legal dispute that will test the limits of fair use

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/warhol-copyright-fair-use-supreme-court-prince/671599/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 260 comments

Joining the Church of Emacs

https://fuzzypixelz.com/blog/joining-the-church-of-emacs/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 66 comments

Bizarre Vintage Photos of Steam Engines After a Boiler Explosion

https://designyoutrust.com/2020/02/bizarre-vintage-photos-of-steam-engines-after-a-boiler-explosion-from-the-late-19th-and-early-20th-centuries/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Japan WWII poison gas agents still scarring people today

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221002/p2g/00m/0na/026000c

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 65 comments

Debian votes for non-free firmware in the installer

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2022/10/msg00000.html

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 72 comments

Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom

https://foundingfuel.com/article/the-contrarian/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: How to Stop Caring (Professionally)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054652

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 130 comments

New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_asteroid_strike_images_show_impact_a_lot_bigger_than_expected_999.html

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 111 comments

Norvig's Law (2002)

https://norvig.com/norvigs-law.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 65 comments

Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp

https://www.cliki.net/cl-emacs

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 75 comments

An Algorithm for Polygon Intersections

https://gorillasun.de/blog/an-algorithm-for-polygon-intersections

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 8 comments

After chess, cheating rows rock poker and fishing

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63108879

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 226 comments

Immigration accounts for over 94% of Canada’s population growth in Q2 of 2022

https://www.cicnews.com/2022/09/immigration-accounts-for-over-94-of-canadas-population-growth-in-q2-of-2022-0931197.html

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33059231

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

Milky Way's graveyard of dead stars found

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-milky-graveyard-dead-stars.html

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

Go Auth Lib

https://github.com/go-pkgz/auth

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

Capsule: the nano (WASM) functions runner

https://github.com/bots-garden/capsule

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Brazilian vote counting (real time)

https://resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/index.html#/m/eleicao/resultados

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 101 comments

Mojibake

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

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

We don’t need a third party. We need ranked choice voting

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-ranked-choice-voting-engagement-democracy-20220929-qvfxhwql2rb3pgc74pnjc6paye-story.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

DIY Digital Room Correction with Linux

https://th0ma5w.github.io/DIY-Room-Correction/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism

https://shwestrick.github.io/2022/09/27/useful-races.html

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 68 comments

How to really know another person

https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/how-to-really-know-another-person/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 81 comments

DocArray: a data structure for unstructured data

https://docarray.jina.ai/get-started/what-is/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: FocusedEdit – a classic Macintosh to web browser shared text editor

https://github.com/CamHenlin/FocusedEdit

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

The First RISC: John Cocke and the IBM 801

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-first-risc-john-cocke-and-the

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 87 comments

Bogotá's website has sign language titles

https://bogota.gov.co/en

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 86 comments

The Art of Logging

https://medium.com/@JaouherK/creating-a-human-and-machine-freindly-logging-format-bb6d4bb01dca

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: How to get started with real-time Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33058969

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments
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