top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-16

GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

https://twitter.com/docsparse/status/1581461734665367554

3 years ago

914 upvotes – 775 comments

Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org/

3 years ago

541 upvotes – 107 comments

Feather – open source icons

https://feathericons.com/

3 years ago

532 upvotes – 93 comments

Google search was giving errors when searching “how many emojis on iOS”

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=how+many+emojis+on+ios

3 years ago

473 upvotes – 141 comments

Ask HN: How to learn to sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224240

3 years ago

355 upvotes – 150 comments

Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists

https://www.today.com/parents/jessica-wade-wikipedia-women-scientists-rcna51628

3 years ago

343 upvotes – 251 comments

Apple bought out all of Newsweek's 1984 Election issue ad space for Mac

https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/international/apple/mac-newsweek

3 years ago

342 upvotes – 141 comments

XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works

https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/xcheck/

3 years ago

337 upvotes – 210 comments

Trying new programming languages helped me grow as a software engineer

https://cichocinski.dev/blog/trying-new-programming-languages-helped-grow-software-engineer

3 years ago

313 upvotes – 189 comments

I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made ECC memory so “special”

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2210.1/00691.html

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 204 comments

Warpd: A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer

https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd

3 years ago

260 upvotes – 118 comments

"The Social Network" synth sounds

https://reverbmachine.com/blog/trent-reznor-social-network-synth-sounds/

3 years ago

260 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring thesaurus

https://carefulwords.com/solitude

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 53 comments

Announcing KataOS and Sparrow

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-and-sparrow.html

3 years ago

241 upvotes – 182 comments

Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 279 comments

Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 59 comments

Allow disabling of motion or animation

https://accessibilityfordevelopers.com/allow-disable-of-motion-animation/

3 years ago

214 upvotes – 125 comments

Deno vs. Bun performance is rigged

https://unetworkingab.medium.com/deno-v-bun-performance-is-rigged-a0500e13464c

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 186 comments

Streaming data in Postgres to 1M clients with GraphQL

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/architecture/streaming-subscriptions.md

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 73 comments

Web 3.0 – The Great Con

https://davegebler.com/post/musings/web-3-0-the-great-con

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 217 comments

Fast file synchronization and network forwarding for remote development

https://github.com/mutagen-io/mutagen

3 years ago

179 upvotes – 63 comments

The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/the-us-will-finally-allow-adaptive-beam-headlights-on-new-cars/

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 280 comments

Simon Peyton Jones interview

https://haskell.foundation/podcast/11/

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 47 comments

Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring [pdf] (2019)

https://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 32 comments

Wikiversity

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 25 comments

Cloak: Censorship Circumvention Tool

https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 33 comments

Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/clientside_scanning_csam_anderson/

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair and Restoration

https://retrorepairsandrefurbs.com/2022/09/06/1956-philips-353a-bakelite-vacuum-tube-radio-repair-restoration/

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 40 comments

Scientists discover mechanism of hearing

https://news.ohsu.edu/2022/10/12/ohsu-scientists-discover-mechanism-of-hearing

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 45 comments

A Danish political party led by an AI

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpb3p/this-danish-political-party-is-led-by-an-ai

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 118 comments

The Moorish invention that tamed Spain's mountains

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-the-moorish-invention-that-tamed-spains-mountains

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 73 comments

US Export Restrictions, Intel Layoffs, Applied Materials, and TSMC

https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/us-export-restrictions-intel-layoffs

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 106 comments

OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries from OpenAPI Specs

https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Books that teach you to think

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224904

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 93 comments

The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file formats

https://www.archives.gov/preservation/digital-preservation/risk

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/cash-canadians-and-cpus-intels-lost

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 46 comments

C++ audio mixing library design

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/programming/2022/10/15/audio-mixing.html

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

Ghidra: Software reverse engineering suite developed by NSA

https://ghidra-sre.org

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

Chaos theory eliminates quantum uncertainty

https://iai.tv/articles/tim-palmer-quantum-theory-eliminates-quantum-uncertainty-auid-2263

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 160 comments

Linux Kernel MultiPath TCP Project

https://www.multipath-tcp.org/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

DarkForestSim: A Netlogo Simulation of the Dark Forest Hypothesis

https://www.evangelosscifi.com/home/darkforestsim

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 81 comments

ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Levels in More Than 30 Years

https://www.wsj.com/articles/act-test-scores-drop-to-lowest-levels-in-more-than-30-years-11665593614

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Speki – Flashcards in Terminal

https://github.com/TBS1996/speki

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: An Express-inspired web framework for Rust

https://crates.io/crates/graphul

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft’s out-of-date driver list left Windows PCs open to malware attacks

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/16/23405739/microsoft-out-of-date-driver-list-windows-pcs-malware-attacks-years-byovd

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Announces KataOS: Security-Focused OS, Using Rust and SeL4 Microkernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-KataOS

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 58 comments

Application-as-a-Function Thinking

https://doridori.github.io/Architecture-Application-as-a-Function/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 78 comments

The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is reserved for fighting

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/science/sarcastic-fringehead-mouth-display.html

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

Random ScotRail Apology Generator

https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/random_apology

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 46 comments

OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator

https://onerng.info

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

Microwave radar brought direct phone calls to millions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trans-canada-microwave-system-milestone

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

“I’m not that smart”

https://seths.blog/2022/10/im-not-that-smart/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 72 comments

How do BitTorrent magnet links work?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3844502/how-do-bittorrent-magnet-links-work

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 0 comments

Shortcat – Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse

https://shortcat.app

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

My initial attempt at trying to order pizza from within Vim

https://github.com/arithran/vim-pizza

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Ox64 – a sub $10 Linux-capable SBC

https://www.pine64.org/2022/10/15/october-update-an-ox-no-bull/

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Crystal 1.6.0 Is Released

https://crystal-lang.org/2022/10/06/1.6.0-released.html

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Pine64 Ox64 $6 RISC-V Linux hybrid SBC

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/10/10/pine64-ox64-sbc-bl808-risc-v-multi-protocol-wisoc-64mb-ram/

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments
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