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

Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/10/improving-firefox-responsiveness-on-macos/

4 years ago

How Wine works 101

https://werat.dev/blog/how-wine-works-101/

4 years ago

Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

4 years ago

The 4th Year of SerenityOS

https://serenityos.org/happy/4th/

4 years ago

Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI

https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI

4 years ago

Show HN: Minimal, no-JS web forum software

https://github.com/Demindiro/agreper

4 years ago

An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets

https://www.nitinpai.in/2022/10/10/why-an-everything-app-is-bad-news-for-liberal-democracies-and-free-markets

4 years ago

Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book

https://www.pagesonpages.com/

4 years ago

Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020)

http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html

4 years ago

We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity

https://bengoertzel.substack.com/p/we-should-be-measuring-well-being

4 years ago

12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/12000-facebook-employees-15-of-its-workforce-may-lose-jobs-amid-quiet-layoffs-report/articleshow/94676235.cms

4 years ago

Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

https://playlists.dags.dev/

4 years ago

U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/us-army-chooses-google-to-deliver-cutting-edge-collaboration

4 years ago

The Google plasma globe affair of 2012

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/plasma_globe/

4 years ago

Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/microbes-cause-cavities-can-form-superorganisms-able-crawl-and-spread-teeth

4 years ago

Show HN: Satori – Convert HTML and CSS to SVG

https://github.com/vercel/satori

4 years ago

VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0

4 years ago

Starting a food co-op: Year 1

https://quaran.to/starting-a-food-co-op-year-1

4 years ago

Effect of Colonoscopy Screening on Risks of Colorectal Cancer and Related Death

https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/09/in-gold-standard-trial-colonoscopy-fails-to-reduce-rate-of-cancer-deaths/

4 years ago

Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/10/7/chinas-drone-giant-dji-added-to-us-sanctions-list

4 years ago

I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

https://justune.eu

4 years ago

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/07/12/science-is-the-belief-in-the-ignorance-of-experts/

4 years ago

iOS Ships Dvorak, Finally

https://weblog.antranigv.am/posts/2022/10/ios-dvorak/

4 years ago

RCE via GitHub import

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/371098

4 years ago

Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/neom-saudi-arabia-sentences-tribesmen-death-resisting-displacement

4 years ago

Archaeologists dig up 1,400-year-old Native American canal in Alabama

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-dig-up-1400-year-old-native-american-canal-in-alabama-180980742/

4 years ago

Probability (1963)

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_06.html#Ch6-F2

4 years ago

Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-are-finding-fungi-in-cancerous-tumors-180980881/

4 years ago

How much people lost with Celsius Network

https://celsiusnetworth.com/#leaderboard

4 years ago

The Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

https://spectrum.ieee.org/peer-to-peer-network

4 years ago

Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1F0-sTyvsQ

4 years ago

Swiss Post Design System

https://swisspost-web-frontend.netlify.app/

4 years ago

Wine 101: The Beginners Guide to Wine

https://bartendinglicensehelp.com/wine-101/

4 years ago

Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv

https://mezha.media/en/2022/10/10/russians-hit-the-office-and-r-d-center-of-samsung-in-kyiv/

4 years ago

Missing the Point of VR

https://www.owlbynight.com/blog/missing-the-point-of-vr/

4 years ago

Tremor – React library to build dashboards fast

https://github.com/tremorlabs/tremor

4 years ago

Back to Android for the time being

https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/duncan.bayne.id.au/gemlog/back-to-android/

4 years ago

SmooshGate (2021)

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/smooshgate/

4 years ago

Show HN: I built a WASI playground for running CLI binaries in the browser

https://runno.dev/wasi

4 years ago

Who thought putting a casino in everyone’s pocket was a good idea?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/politicans-are-getting-hooked-on-mobile-sports-betting.html

4 years ago

Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99

https://github.com/nepx/halfix

4 years ago

Show HN: We built a tool that automatically generates API tests

https://stepci.com/

4 years ago

Malicious update/malware by a semi-advanced adversary

https://axelp.io/UltimateUpdate

4 years ago

US airport websites under DoS attack

https://digital.abcaudio.com/news/cyberattacks-reported-us-airports

4 years ago

New Patterns for Apps

https://web.dev/new-patterns-for-amazing-apps/

4 years ago

Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?

https://www.ft.com/content/ddc5d867-59fe-4c9b-a588-4066304318b6

4 years ago

The return of Aztec floating farms

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221009-the-return-of-aztec-floating-farms

4 years ago

Should Linux set the new constant-time mode CPU flags?

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

4 years ago

Quiet Quitting

https://ombuds.web.cern.ch/blog/2022/08/quiet-quitting

4 years ago

Enzian – An open research computer built by the Systems Group at ETH Zurich

https://enzian.systems/

4 years ago

If India's Ruling Party IT Head report a post, Meta will take it down

https://thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya-instagram-meta-xcheck

4 years ago

Someone Got Doom Running in Notepad at 60 FPS, Somehow

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/doom-notepad-running-60-fps-video-clip-shooter-text/

4 years ago

Against Effective Altruism

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2022/10/10/against-effective-altruism/

4 years ago

Two-Twenty-Two

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/two-twenty-two

4 years ago

LaTeX Makes Me Angry

https://jmtd.net/log/latex_writing/

4 years ago

US Army Publishing Directorate – Technical Manuals

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/TM_Admin.aspx

4 years ago

Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

https://linkidex.com/

4 years ago

PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance”

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/10/09/paypal-still-threatens-2500-fines-for-promoting-discriminatory-intolerance-even-if-not-misinformation/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How did you become better at programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33155642

4 years ago

ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL

https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/

4 years ago

Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2022/summary/

4 years ago

Users without a cell connection find they can’t get back into their Zipcar

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-not-to-go-off-the-grid-11665067328

4 years ago

The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/

4 years ago