top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-18

Sound

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/

3 years ago

75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12

https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/time-with-kids-before-age-12

3 years ago

I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems

https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1534301374166474752

3 years ago

Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

https://swurl.com/?q=Paul+Graham+y+combinator

3 years ago

Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI

https://neil.computer/notes/dear-jetbrains-dont-mess-with-your-ui/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33246841

3 years ago

Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/lost-something-search-through-91-7-million-files-from-the-80s-90s-and-2000s/

3 years ago

TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch

https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/

3 years ago

iPad Pro M2

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/apple-introduces-next-generation-ipad-pro-supercharged-by-the-m2-chip/

3 years ago

An Accident at SpaceX

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2022/space-x-technician-accident

3 years ago

Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities

https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev

3 years ago

Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/17/intel-and-the-15trn-chip-industry-meltdown

3 years ago

Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/veterans-us-foreign-jobs-saudi-arabia/

3 years ago

Square and Multiply Algorithm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbGB__V8MNk

3 years ago

Phantom forests: Ambitious tree planting projects are failing

https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting-climate-change

3 years ago

Fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub

https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-personal-access-tokens-for-github/

3 years ago

Microsoft has started layoffs today

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1582188080873689088

3 years ago

Why Rust?

https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust

3 years ago

The FreeBSD/Firecracker Platform

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecracker.html

3 years ago

Syntax Design (2014)

https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/syntaxdesign/

3 years ago

Researchers’ tests of lab-made version of Covid virus draw scrutiny

https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/17/boston-university-researchers-testing-of-lab-made-version-of-covid-virus-draws-government-scrutiny/

3 years ago

Libcamera v0.0.1

https://git.libcamera.org/libcamera/libcamera.git/tag/?h=v0.0.1

3 years ago

2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)

http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/09/the-school-run-in-assen.html

3 years ago

Stop Writing Dead Programs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab3ArE8W3s

3 years ago

Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-online-just-got-easier-with-todays-firefox-release/

3 years ago

Alien Truth

http://paulgraham.com/alien.html

3 years ago

Photoshop for Text

https://stephanango.com/photoshop-for-text

3 years ago

Pipe Viewer

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

3 years ago

Crazy crypto mining story from 2013

https://joonaskoppa.medium.com/i-was-a-crazy-crypto-miner-dabebc276306

3 years ago

Microsoft Full Circle

https://stratechery.com/2022/microsoft-full-circle/

3 years ago

Office vacancy rate in San Francisco just hit a new high

https://socketsite.com/archives/2022/10/office-vacancy-rate-in-san-francisco-just-hit-a-new-high.html

3 years ago

Ableton Note – A playable iOS app for forming musical ideas

https://www.ableton.com/en/note/

3 years ago

Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked documents

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-attrition-leadership-ctsmd-201800110.html

3 years ago

Elevator Saga: Elevator programming game

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/

3 years ago

No Congress 2022: Looking forward to decentralized alternatives and Camp 2023

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/no-congress-2022

3 years ago

Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/18/facebook-meta-sell-giphy-cma

3 years ago

MinTOTP – Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python

https://github.com/susam/mintotp

3 years ago

DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-for-mac-open-beta/

3 years ago

Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business

https://thehustle.co/how-nuns-got-squeezed-out-of-the-communion-wafer-business/

3 years ago

New iPad Pro with M2

https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/

3 years ago

The “dark yellow problem” in design system color palettes

https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/the-dark-yellow-problem-in-design-system-color-palettes-a0db1eedc99d

3 years ago

Abuse prevention is tradecraft

https://alecmuffett.com/article/16257

3 years ago

Rewriting a high performance vector database in Rust

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/rust-rewrite/

3 years ago

Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/gibson

3 years ago

A lot of what is known about pirates is not true (2017)

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/winter/feature/lot-what-known-about-pirates-not-true-and-lot-what-true-not-known

3 years ago

The AT Protocol

https://atproto.com

3 years ago

Projectbook – a free collection of 100 project ideas for learning

https://projectbook.code.brettchalupa.com/

3 years ago

Microsoft Lays Off Employees After Slowdown in Earnings Growth

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-lays-off-employees-after-slowdown-in-earnings-growth-11666072959

3 years ago

Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-teachers-girls-higher-boys-italian.html

3 years ago

Podman: Pasta User-Mode Networking

https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/16141

3 years ago

Stability AI Raises $101M at $1B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/stability-ai-the-startup-behind-stable-diffusion-raises-101m/

3 years ago

Leak: Two-Thirds of New Amazon Employees Leave Within 90 Days

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/17/23409920/amazon-third-hires-attrition-cost-workforce

3 years ago

The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-just-lost-26-years-worth-of-progress-on-life-expectancy/

3 years ago

Jira new pricing tier to –$765,432,091.03 per user / month

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing

3 years ago

Show HN: Filesystem Watcher

https://github.com/e-dant/watcher

3 years ago

Whipping up a new Shell – Lash#Cat9

https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lashcat9/

3 years ago

Mathematicians discover the Fibonacci numbers hiding in strange spaces

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-surprised-by-hidden-fibonacci-numbers-20221017/

3 years ago

Website Fidelity

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/website-fidelity/

3 years ago

Apple unveils redesigned iPad

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/apple-unveils-completely-redesigned-ipad-in-four-vibrant-colors/

3 years ago

Visitors to Qatar for the World Cup need to install spyware on their phone

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/qatar-spyware.html

3 years ago

TOTP for 2FA is incredibly easy to implement. So what's your excuse?

https://drewdevault.com/2022/10/18/TOTP-is-easy.html

3 years ago

Findings show that the Vikings' self-image was influenced by Ancient Rome

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-vikings-self-image-ancient-rome.html

3 years ago