top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-11-19

Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html

3 years ago

794 upvotes – 166 comments

The truffle industry is a scam

https://www.tasteatlas.com/truffle-industry-is-a-big-scam

3 years ago

585 upvotes – 373 comments

I quit my programmer job to become a chicken

https://sebastiancarlos.medium.com/how-i-quit-my-programmer-job-to-become-a-chicken-b733c20680b1

3 years ago

509 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112

3 years ago

502 upvotes – 520 comments

Tree views in CSS

https://iamkate.com/code/tree-views/

3 years ago

404 upvotes – 69 comments

Music Mouse

https://teropa.info/musicmouse/

3 years ago

387 upvotes – 57 comments

$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/supposed-477-million-ftx-hack-was-actually-a-bahamian-government-asset-seizure-11668782216

3 years ago

373 upvotes – 225 comments

Consider working on genomics

https://claymcleod.dev/blog/2022-11-19-consider-working-on-genomics.html

3 years ago

372 upvotes – 290 comments

Putting Z-Library on IPFS

http://annas-blog.org/putting-5,998,794-books-on-ipfs.html

3 years ago

356 upvotes – 129 comments

Quake 1 port for Apple Watch

https://github.com/ByteOverlord/Watch_Quake

3 years ago

336 upvotes – 87 comments

The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature

https://quillette.com/2022/11/18/the-erasure-of-women-from-online-pregnancy-literature/

3 years ago

333 upvotes – 706 comments

How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

https://thorstenball.com/blog/2020/09/08/how-can-you-not-be-romantic-about-programming/

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 119 comments

TinyBIOS – A minimalist open-source BIOS project for fun

https://github.com/pwk4m1/TinyBIOS

3 years ago

209 upvotes – 29 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667236

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 120 comments

How to sell tickets fairly

https://barnabas.me/blog/2022/11/selling-tickets-fairly/

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 352 comments

HelenOS: a microkernel-based, multiserver OS from scratch

http://www.helenos.org/

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 112 comments

Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator

https://github.com/jart/blink

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 23 comments

Tools for thought as cultural practices, not computational objects

https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 43 comments

A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon

https://patricia.no/2022/11/18/twitter_off_ramp.html

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 141 comments

Mystery Blips

https://mosquitocapital.substack.com/p/the-mystery-blips

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 64 comments
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