top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-11

Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization

https://invisiblepeople.tv/private-prisons-for-homeless-criminalization/

4 years ago

696 upvotes – 601 comments

Meta Quest Pro

https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-pro/

4 years ago

639 upvotes – 1068 comments

I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

https://interconnected.org/home/2022/10/10/servers

4 years ago

589 upvotes – 436 comments

Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/56010

4 years ago

464 upvotes – 260 comments

Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs

https://podcast.ai/

4 years ago

462 upvotes – 267 comments

What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

https://www.cspicenter.com/p/what-diversity-and-inclusion-means

4 years ago

442 upvotes – 881 comments

Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03256-9

4 years ago

437 upvotes – 307 comments

Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33158947

4 years ago

378 upvotes – 584 comments

/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y19kdh/mod_here_my_side_of_the_story/

4 years ago

378 upvotes – 241 comments

Blender: Wayland Support on Linux

https://code.blender.org/2022/10/wayland-support-on-linux/

4 years ago

356 upvotes – 194 comments

Never pay for online dating (2010)

https://web.archive.org/web/20100821041938/http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dating/

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 469 comments

Time-restricted eating reduces visceral fat and improves metabolic syndrome

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(22)00332-9

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 272 comments

Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 454 comments

The Little Typer (2018)

https://thelittletyper.com/

4 years ago

297 upvotes – 96 comments

An unexpected revival of Firefox OS

https://tuxphones.com/capyloon-firefox-os-b2gos-linux/

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: Open-Sourcing InboxSDK (YC S11) – Build Apps in Gmail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164922

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 55 comments

We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews (2016)

https://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mask-gender-in-technical-interviews-heres-what-happened/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 260 comments

Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-10-05-linux-nilfs-filesystem.html

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 148 comments

Human Motion Diffusion Model

https://github.com/GuyTevet/motion-diffusion-model

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 94 comments

Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/apple-introduces-ask-apple-for-developers/

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 162 comments

Researchers find ‘significant rates’ of sinking ground in Houston suburbs

https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2022-news-articles/october-2022/10112022-houston-subsidence.php

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 196 comments

Everything I wish I had known about raising a seed round

https://mdwdotla.medium.com/everything-i-wish-i-had-known-about-raising-a-seed-round-a615f8f7740b

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 90 comments

Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec

https://www.vectis.com/media/vectis-ip-announces-call-for-patents-essential-to-the-opus-codec

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 105 comments

Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client

https://aerc-mail.org/

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 50 comments

Geothermal may beat batteries for energy storage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geothermal-energy

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 287 comments

When going somewhere does a thing: on links and buttons

https://kilianvalkhof.com/2022/css-html/when-going-somewhere-does-a-thing-on-links-and-buttons/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: My book for programmers called “Junior to Senior” was published today

https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: A beginner’s guide to finding user needs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33165747

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 22 comments

Carmack Unscripted

https://www.facebook.com/events/reality-labs-facebook-page/carmack-unscripted/1134234204162755/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 271 comments

Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

https://github.com/rxi/lite

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 75 comments

Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/hide-your-phone-number-with-firefox-relay/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 131 comments

Two recent books by historians explore the crisis in biological psychiatry

https://bostonreview.net/articles/mental-illness-is-not-in-your-head/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 114 comments

Qwik: No hydration, auto lazy-loading, edge-optimized, and fun

https://qwik.builder.io/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 69 comments

Making an ML Invisibility Cloak

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~tomg/projects/invisible/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 22 comments

What is it like to have a brain? Ways of looking at consciousness

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-is-it-like-to-have-a-brain-on-patrick-houses-nineteen-ways-of-looking-at-consciousness/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 174 comments

Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid

https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/layout-breakouts/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 15 comments

Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018)

https://nenadmarkus.com/p/picojs-intro/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 33 comments

Speculation that wormholes and entanglement are two aspects of the same thing

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/science/black-holes-cosmology-hologram.html

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 135 comments

The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on political activism

https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 43 comments

They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing (2005)

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/they-called-it-lisp-for-a-reason-list-processing.html

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 122 comments

Xpra: Multi-platform screen and application forwarding system for x11

https://xpra.org/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 15 comments

GitHub Copilot exposes names in TODO comments

https://twitter.com/aeolianeth/status/1579980661464895490

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 45 comments

Researcher discovers another astronomy book written by Galileo Galilei

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/10/researcher-discovers-another-astronomy-book-written-by-galileo-galilei/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 34 comments

Performance reviews don’t assess performance

https://workweek.com/2022/09/26/performance-reviews-dont-actually-assess-your-performance/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

A Memory Safe Implementation of the Network Time Protocol

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/memory-safe-ntp/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 78 comments

Hegel – An advanced static type checker for JavaScript

https://hegel.js.org/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 75 comments

How to read variables optimized out in GDB?

http://luajit.io:80/post/2022/gdb-black-magics/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

“This removes a.out support globally”

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12ed00ba01abf39e0869c02ccdde5e24a357466b

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

AI-driven thermal cameras used to obtain passwords

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_885914_en.html

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/its-painful-how-hellbent-mark-zuckerberg-is-on-convincing-us-that-vr-is-a-thing/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 89 comments

Switzerland discriminating against men on pension benefits, ECHR finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63217557

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/rtx-4090-review-nvidias-biggest-gpu-is-easily-its-best/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 152 comments

AmigaOS 4.1: Introduction to the Software Development Kit v54.16, part 1

http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2022-10-00048-EN.html

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

That snapper might be 80 years old

https://nautil.us/that-snapper-youre-eating-might-be-80-years-old-241392/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 84 comments

Tell HN: VPN Situation in Iran

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33167958

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Eliminating FORMAT from Lisp (2003)

http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/format-stinks.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 68 comments

“I've worked on a number of high-profile failures”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1579532951624175616

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

iPhone Ownership Among U.S. Teens Hits 87%

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/11/teen-survey-iphone-ownership/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 71 comments

The most upvoted question in the history of StackOverflow

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-processing-an-unsorted-array

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

AltaRock Energy Melts Rock with Millimeter Waves for Geothermal Wells (2020)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/altarock-energy-melts-rock-with-millimeter-waves-for-geothermal-wells

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Reveals ‘First Laptops Built for Cloud Gaming’ Just After Killing Stadia

https://www.forbes.com/sites/krisholt/2022/10/11/google-stadia-cloud-gaming-laptops-chromebook-chrome-os-xbox-cloud-gaming-geforce-now-amazon-luna-asus-acer-lenovo/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 36 comments

How Ted Hoff invented the first microprocessor

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ted-hoff

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White [audio]

https://elm-radio.com/episode/elm-at-a-billion-dollar-company/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

Understanding HTML with Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03945

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

France looks into increasing uranium enrichment capacity

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/France-looks-into-increasing-uranium-enrichment-ca

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments
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