top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-21

Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

https://restfox.dev

3 years ago

Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests

https://twitter.com/linaasahi/status/1583444549648543744

3 years ago

The Commodordion

https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php

3 years ago

Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/21/1062001/spacex-starlink-signals-reverse-engineered-gps/

3 years ago

Illegal host, electric shocks, slugs, leaks and no support – How Airbnb failed

https://medium.com/@julia.airbnb.horrorstory/illegal-host-electric-shocks-slugs-leaks-and-no-support-how-airbnb-failed-ae89925fca7b

3 years ago

State of CSS

https://web.dev/state-of-css-2022/

3 years ago

Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gx34/blink-182-tickets-are-so-expensive-because-ticketmaster-is-a-disastrous-monopoly-and-now-everyone-pays-ticket-broker-prices

3 years ago

Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33288246

3 years ago

The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/students-are-acing-their-homework

3 years ago

Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly

https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai

3 years ago

Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/nearly-half-of-san-franciscans-have-been-victims-of-theft-new-poll-says/

3 years ago

Blending Modes

https://typefully.com/DanHollick/blending-modes-KrBa0JP

3 years ago

Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites

https://lifemichael.com/en/the-israeli-books-end-of-life-thanks-to-israeli-accessibility-law/

3 years ago

A global house-price slump is coming?

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/20/a-global-house-price-slump-is-coming

3 years ago

AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-in-medicine-is-overhyped/

3 years ago

The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (2012)

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

3 years ago

What happened when my wife died

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-happened-when-my-wife-died

3 years ago

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html

3 years ago

Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances

https://pauley.me/post/2022/spot-instance-pricing/

3 years ago

Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse explanation of quantum weirdness

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physics-experiments-spell-doom-for-quantum-collapse-theory-20221020/

3 years ago

The Canon Cat

https://reproof.app/blog/on-designing-a-more-humane-computer

3 years ago

Show HN: I'm trying to guess your personality by your comments with an NLP model

https://ezpersonality.com

3 years ago

Texas sues Google for collecting biometric data without consent

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/technology/texas-google-privacy-lawsuit.html

3 years ago

People Staring at Computers (2021)

https://kylemcdonald.net/psac/

3 years ago

NimConf 2022 – Nim Online Conference

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/10/21/nim-conference.html

3 years ago

ProjectM: LGPL Reimplementation of Ryan Geiss' Milkdrop from Winamp/Kodi

https://codav.itch.io/projectm

3 years ago

Pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at scale

https://pyinfra.com/

3 years ago

Tuna

https://granta.com/tuna/

3 years ago

Solar Metal Smelter

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2022/10/solar-metal-smelter.html

3 years ago

Things I did before app launch and what I wish I had done

https://www.sagiodev.com/blog/lessons_learned_app_launch/

3 years ago

More than 60k rent-stabilized apartments are now vacant

https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2022/10/19/23411956/60000-rent-stabilized-apartments-vacant-warehousing-nyc-landlords-housing

3 years ago

Wayflan: a from-scratch Wayland client for Common Lisp

https://sr.ht/~shunter/wayflan/

3 years ago

Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/10/butterfly-wing-patterns-emerge-ancient-junk-dna

3 years ago

Engineers should do customer support and success

https://notoriousplg.substack.com/p/nplg-102022-engineering-customer

3 years ago

Building the Future of TensorFlow

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2022/10/building-the-future-of-tensorflow.html

3 years ago

Between Two Lisps (2020)

https://ane.iki.fi/2020/10/05/between-two-lisps.html

3 years ago

'No-one joined the dots' – grandad who exposed an NHS scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63298087

3 years ago

An unidentified illicit drug has been discovered by Australian chemists

https://theconversation.com/an-entirely-new-illicit-drug-has-been-discovered-by-australian-chemists-heres-how-they-did-it-192855

3 years ago

Long Covid: Hair loss and sexual dysfunction among wider symptoms, study finds

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1887

3 years ago

Designing a Programming Language: I

http://ducklang.org/designing-a-programming-language-i

3 years ago

Netflix: Love is sharing a password (2017)

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712

3 years ago

EKS Security Checklist: 10 Best Practices for a Secure Cluster

https://cast.ai/blog/eks-security-checklist-10-best-practices-for-a-secure-cluster/

3 years ago

What did Mary know? A thought experiment about consciousness (2013)

https://philosophynow.org/issues/99/What_Did_Mary_Know

3 years ago

Hyrum's Law

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

3 years ago

Python and Async Simplified (2018)

https://www.aeracode.org/2018/02/19/python-async-simplified/

3 years ago

Issue 31482: Huge amount of goats teleported (2010)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31482

3 years ago

Hitting a Moose

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/moose-alaska-adventure/

3 years ago

Has the CIA Done More Harm Than Good?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/has-the-cia-done-more-harm-than-good

3 years ago

Was It A Cat I Saw?

https://www.npr.org/2011/10/23/141569914/was-it-a-cat-i-saw-nope-it-was-a-palindrome

3 years ago

Jevko: a minimal general-purpose syntax

https://djedr.github.io/posts/jevko-2022-02-22.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: What Happens to Older Designers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33286960

3 years ago

Vikings shipped walrus ivory from Greenland to Kyiv, ancient skulls show

https://www.science.org/content/article/vikings-shipped-walrus-ivory-greenland-kyiv-ancient-skulls-show

3 years ago

Living descendants of Mark Antony

https://antigonejournal.com/2022/10/descendants-mark-antony/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289090

3 years ago

The front end community wants to wash its hands of the decade we lost

https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1583157448885514240

3 years ago

Securing a GitHub repo is a ton of work

https://codeofhonor.substack.com/p/securing-a-github-repo-is-a-ton-of

3 years ago