top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-19

NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-takes-star-filled-portrait-of-pillars-of-creation/

3 years ago

EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

https://adguard.com/en/blog/easylist-filter-problem-help.html

3 years ago

Write better error messages

https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f

3 years ago

Inside the Proton

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/

3 years ago

Brave browser now blocks cookie banners

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256168

3 years ago

How to use a watch as a compass

https://www.citizenwatch-global.com/support/exterior/direction.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260525

3 years ago

Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

https://palette.fm/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33259351

3 years ago

Starlink Aviation

https://www.starlink.com/aviation

3 years ago

Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform

https://github.com/killbill/killbill

3 years ago

I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258684

3 years ago

Focus is saying no to good ideas

https://commoncog.com/focus-saying-no-to-good-ideas/

3 years ago

Replit Mobile App

https://blog.replit.com/mobile-app

3 years ago

Wait vs. Interrupt Culture

http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wait-vs-interrupt-culture/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33259414

3 years ago

37signals Leaves the Cloud

https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0

3 years ago

The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-smash-and-grab-of-kroger-albertsons

3 years ago

Just for Fun. No, really.

https://justforfunnoreally.dev

3 years ago

81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending

https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/report-81-of-it-teams-directed-to-reduce-or-halt-cloud-spending-by-c-suite/

3 years ago

Forgotten Employee (2002)

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

3 years ago

San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/million-dollar-toilet-17518443.php

3 years ago

It’s time to repeal the Jones Act

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/economics/2022/10/18/its-time-to-repeal-the-jones-act/

3 years ago

Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/19/remote-work-baby-boom-america

3 years ago

The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/amazon-tracking-devices-surveillance-state/671772/

3 years ago

IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired

https://smartfinvc.com/news/smartfin-acquires-leading-cybersecurity-software-provider-hex-rays-together-with-sfpim-and-sriw/

3 years ago

We are still early with the cloud

https://erikbern.com/2022/10/19/we-are-still-early-with-the-cloud.html

3 years ago

Identity management for WireGuard

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/910766/7678f8c4ede60928/

3 years ago

Tell HN: The regret of parenting and how to handle it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258925

3 years ago

Why most published research findings are false (2005)

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

3 years ago

Wargame: LaTeX package to prepare hex'n'counter wargames

https://ctan.org/pkg/wargame

3 years ago

The great semiconductor drought may be about to break

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/the_great_semiconductor_drought_may/

3 years ago

The link between August birthdays and ADHD (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/opinion/august-birthdays-adhd.html

3 years ago

Part of the long-lost star catalogue of Hipparchus found in medieval parchment

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03296-1

3 years ago

Glamorous Toolkit: Moldable development environment

https://gtoolkit.com/

3 years ago

My PhD Genealogy

http://robots.stanford.edu/genealogy

3 years ago

Guy Goma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Goma

3 years ago

Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles

https://blog.waymo.com/2022/10/next-stop-for-waymo-one-los-angeles.html

3 years ago

The Telefunken RA 770 Analog Computer

http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/collection/telefunken/ra770/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256412

3 years ago

Future Pinball – A Real Time Pinball Development System

https://futurepinball.com

3 years ago

The Soviet Union’s Nuclear Icebreakers

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/the-soviet-unions-nuclear-icebreakers

3 years ago

Five hours' sleep is tipping point for bad health

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63284305

3 years ago

Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory [pdf]

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-deep.pdf

3 years ago

Why modifying gravity doesn’t add up

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/modifying-gravity/

3 years ago

Vertical Flutes

https://www.jefftk.com/p/vertical-flutes

3 years ago

Can we control time in operating system design?

https://research.redhat.com/events/toward-knowledge-driven-system-management-to-control-timeliness/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33261862

3 years ago

China allegedly dumps bad chips on Russia

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/18/russia_china_semiconductro_failure_rates/

3 years ago

Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260380

3 years ago

How we use binary search to find compiler bugs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/cinder-jit-bisect/

3 years ago

Card skimming disproportionally affects those most in need

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/how-card-skimming-disproportionally-affects-those-most-in-need/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How did Microsoft email services became the primary source for spam?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33264467

3 years ago