top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-09

Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court

https://nltimes.nl/2022/10/09/dutch-employee-fired-us-firm-shutting-webcam-awarded-eu75000-court

4 years ago

The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum

http://hummingbirdclock.info/about

4 years ago

Stripe is PayPal circa 2010

https://learnjsthehardway.com/blog/18-stripe-is-paypal-circa-2010/

4 years ago

Take a break

https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/take-a-break-you-idiot/

4 years ago

Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brave-browser-to-start-blocking-annoying-cookie-consent-banners/

4 years ago

Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_gui_linux_in_a_virtual_machine_on_a_mac

4 years ago

I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it [video]

https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-not-to-open-it-the-need-for-holistic-systems/

4 years ago

CS631 – Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

4 years ago

Day.js – Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

https://day.js.org/

4 years ago

Data Structures Sketches

https://okso.app/showcase/data-structures

4 years ago

Learn Exponentially

https://saveall.ai/blog/learn-exponentially

4 years ago

Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016)

https://cinematography.com/index.php?/forums/topic/71346-why-23976-and-not-24-fps/&tab=comments#comment-455454

4 years ago

Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-63188795

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33140798

4 years ago

Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog

https://docs.microblog.pub/

4 years ago

MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence

https://innocenceproject.org/discovery-channel-mythbuster-john-galvan-wrongful-conviction-innocence/

4 years ago

TypeScript is now officially 10 years old

https://coderoasis.com/typescript-10-years-old/

4 years ago

Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/economy/manufacturing-jobs/index.html

4 years ago

Call for Participation to Chaos Computer Club’s 37C3

https://content.events.ccc.de/cfp/37c3/index.en.html

4 years ago

Simulating Wind on Procedural Terrain Using Lattice Boltzmann Method

https://nickmcd.me/2022/10/01/procedural-wind-and-clouds-using-gpu-accelerated-lattice-boltzmann-method/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is Substack the new Medium?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33137417

4 years ago

PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools (2021)

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2021/09/06/pdf-processing-and-analysis-with-open-source-tools

4 years ago

Top science fiction short stories published in August

https://compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/top-science-fiction-short-stories-published-in-august.html

4 years ago

Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/zig-generics.html

4 years ago

Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children'

https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/companies/infosys-asked-hr-executive-not-to-hire-indian-origin-candidates-women-with-children-complainant-to-us-court-article-94725018

4 years ago

Scotland ‘snow-free’ for fourth time in six years

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-63184780

4 years ago

Show HN: Fractal Garden – An Exhibition of Mathematical Beauty

https://www.fractal.garden/

4 years ago

DIY out-of-band management: remote power button

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2022-10-09-remote-power-button/

4 years ago

Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/going-where-beos-netpositive-hasnt-gone.html

4 years ago

Reverse Engineering a Cat Feeder to Boost Productivity

https://www.sensibledefaults.io/blog/reverse-engineering-cat-feeder/index

4 years ago

Stop using utcnow and utcfromtimestamp

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/11/utcnow.html

4 years ago

Know Your Carrying Capacity

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2022/carrying-capacity/

4 years ago

The curious case of Norway’s demon wall (2021)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demon-wall-norway

4 years ago

Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets

https://www.lynalden.com/october-2022-newsletter/

4 years ago

Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea (2020)

https://www.allencheng.com/starting-a-business-around-gpt-3-is-a-bad-idea/

4 years ago

Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

https://www.rida.dev/blog/happy-20th-birthday-jira-you-suck-so-bad-c9b9b8bf6d5a4be0bc84ecbe5a57e434

4 years ago

Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is unearthed near Cairo

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/02/egypt-saqqara-ptah-em-wia-archaeologists-discover-sarcophagus-cairo

4 years ago

Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/amazon-suicide-kits-have-led-to-teen-deaths-according-to-new-lawsuit/

4 years ago

Recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins

https://singularityhub.com/2022/10/09/six-recent-discoveries-that-have-changed-how-we-think-about-human-origins/

4 years ago

The iPhone 14 keeps calling 911 on rollercoasters

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/9/23395222/iphone-14-calling-911-rollercoasters-apple-crash-detection

4 years ago

Why Disconnecting from Your Phone Is So Good for You – and How to Do It

https://time.com/6219588/how-to-disconnect-phone/

4 years ago

A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-about.html

4 years ago

Starlight interstellar probe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_(interstellar_probe)

4 years ago

Mac Accepted Any Root Cert, Making Code Signing Useless

https://worthdoingbadly.com/coretrust/

4 years ago

Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit

http://microjs.com/

4 years ago

Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino

https://hackaday.io/project/187683-diy-arduino-due-tea5767-fm-radio

4 years ago

Six Shooter Glue Gun

http://vijemiller.com/index.php?t=Six_Shooter_Glue_Gun

4 years ago

Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door

https://web.archive.org/web/20220928153456/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-internet-speech-arrest.html

4 years ago

New research suggests eating early and within a 10-hour window is healthier

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-dinner-pm-early-hour-window.html

4 years ago

Decompiling x86 Deep Neural Network Executables

https://github.com/monkbai/DNN-decompiler

4 years ago

Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63192757

4 years ago

Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015)

https://www.baugues.com/trs-80/

4 years ago

How does a nail puncture a tire? (2003)

https://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2003-01/1042408841.Eg.r.html

4 years ago

Leap Technology (1987) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c

4 years ago

Best Dumb TVs

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-dumb-tvs/

4 years ago