top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-20

Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code

https://www.kite.com/blog/product/kite-is-saying-farewell/

3 years ago

1083 upvotes – 528 comments

Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

3 years ago

1049 upvotes – 329 comments

AWS and Blockchain

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain

3 years ago

625 upvotes – 712 comments

Show HN: Haxophone

https://github.com/jcard0na/haxo-hw

3 years ago

526 upvotes – 71 comments

Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

3 years ago

424 upvotes – 141 comments

France bans Office 365 and Google Docs from schools and public administration

https://siecledigital.fr/2022/11/17/le-ministre-de-leducation-nationale-ne-veut-pas-de-microsoft-office-365-ni-de-google-workspace/

3 years ago

403 upvotes – 184 comments

For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/11/14/brown-noise-adhd-focus/

3 years ago

397 upvotes – 310 comments

Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

https://social.treehouse.systems/@alyssa/109378606742926582

3 years ago

376 upvotes – 96 comments

Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs

https://guzey.com/ai/planes-vs-birds/

3 years ago

342 upvotes – 134 comments

While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers

https://fair.org/home/while-crypto-bro-scammed-clients-reporters-scammed-readers/

3 years ago

330 upvotes – 210 comments

Greg Bear has died

https://file770.com/greg-bear-1951-2022/

3 years ago

311 upvotes – 73 comments

Man of the Hole

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

3 years ago

305 upvotes – 84 comments

Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/11/just-a-bunch-of-idiots-having-fun-a-photo-history-of-the-lan-party/

3 years ago

301 upvotes – 166 comments

Mildly interesting quirks of C

https://gist.github.com/fay59/5ccbe684e6e56a7df8815c3486568f01

3 years ago

292 upvotes – 84 comments

TIC-80 tiny computer

https://tic80.com/

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 26 comments

The 539kernel Book: A journey in creating an operating system kernel

https://539kernel.com/

3 years ago

251 upvotes – 10 comments

You will never “fix it later”

https://uselessdevblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/stop-lying-to-yourself-you-will-never-fix-it-later/

3 years ago

250 upvotes – 196 comments

Computer Latency: 1977-2017

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680805

3 years ago

233 upvotes – 129 comments

Username cannot contain 'clyde'

https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/ywjcep/cant_use_my_name/

3 years ago

228 upvotes – 222 comments

Guide to Industrial Tourism in Japan

https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/eccj/ind_tourism/

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 65 comments

Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106645118

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 172 comments

Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini camera

https://astrid.tech/2022/07/07/0/blink-mini-disassembly/

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 98 comments

Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew

https://github.com/teaxyz/cli

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 130 comments

IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up

https://ircv3.net/2022/11/20/spec-round-up

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 127 comments

Why does the E12 resistor sequence use 27 and 33 instead of 26 and 32?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/643070/why-are-e12-resistor-values-10-12-15-18-22-27-33-39-47-56-68-82-and-not-10-12-15

3 years ago

200 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: A native macOS client for Apache Kafka

https://defn.io/2022/11/20/ann-franz/

3 years ago

197 upvotes – 37 comments

Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth

https://astronomy.com/news/2022/11/pristine-meteorite-found-within-hours-of-hitting-earth

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 64 comments

UK food price inflation hit 16.2% in October – cost of food basics surging

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63641414

3 years ago

193 upvotes – 350 comments

Regulators OK largest dam demolition in history to restore salmon habitat

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2022/11/regulators-ok-largest-dam-demolition-in-history-near-oregon-california-border-to-restore-salmon-habitat.html

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 175 comments

10 KB Club: Curated list of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB size

https://10kbclub.com/

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 82 comments

The New Smoking (2021)

https://conorbroderick.net/the-new-smoking/

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 155 comments

South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen

https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/extreme-load-shedding-ahead-as-eskom-diesel-budget-runs-dry-20221120

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 256 comments

A lobbying blitz made sports betting ubiquitous

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/business/sports-betting-lobbying-kansas.html

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 150 comments

Let crypto burn

https://www.ft.com/content/ac058ede-80cb-4aa6-8394-941443eec7e3

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 190 comments

Ask HN: Starlink Signup failed, no recourse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33681263

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

Power struggles among nice people

https://www.edbatista.com/2022/03/power-struggles-among-nice-people.html

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool

https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 65 comments

Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

https://towardsdatascience.com/brilliant-jerks-crazy-hotties-and-other-artifacts-of-range-restriction-c53785ae249f

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 80 comments

Thinking Forth (1984)

https://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 49 comments

‘Why am I talking to 10 guys?’ The rise and fall of dating apps

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/20/the-rise-and-fall-of-dating-apps

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 222 comments

DOS/4GW and Protected Mode (2021)

https://pikuma.com/blog/what-is-dos4gw-protected-mode

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

I hate living in my tiny house (2019)

https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 183 comments

BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening-ceremony-in-favour-of-qatar-criticism

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 105 comments

The clever camera code on rolls of film [video]

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

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

The Modern Observability Problem

https://failingfast.io/opentelemetry-observability/

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 53 comments

Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206625119

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

Berkson's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 10 comments

Twitter at 1am on a Friday

https://www.teamblind.com/post/This-is-twitter-at-1am-on-a-Friday-ux2hFbon

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 204 comments

Ask HN: Publish old projects even though the source code embarrasses you by now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680469

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 71 comments

Reader Macros in Common Lisp (2014)

https://lisper.in/reader-macros

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

QuickJS Running in WebAssembly

https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Airbus and Climate Change

https://qchenevier.github.io/huma/airbus-and-climate-change

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 99 comments

Twitter's copyright strike system is no longer working

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1594139381727916033

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 37 comments

Twitter was special. But it's time to leave

https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 161 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Team Among Top Political Donors Before Bankruptcy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-team-among-top-political-donors-before-bankruptcy-11668949205

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 127 comments

Just putting it out there

https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/just-putting-it-out-there/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Welcome to the First RISC-V Site

http://riscv.jghuff.com/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

I don't want to go back to social media

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/socialmedia.html

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 129 comments

Running Arm64.aarch64 FreeBSD on QEMU/UTM.app on Apple Silicon

https://weblog.antranigv.am/posts/2022/11/running-arm64-aarch64-freebsd-on-qemu-utm-app-on-apple-silicon/

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Sweet Shell: With Oh-My-Zsh, SpaceVim, Starship, True Color, and Demo Mode

https://www.bretfisher.com/shell/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

How the First Transistor Worked

https://spectrum.ieee.org/transistor-history

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Some Maya rulers may have taken generations to attract subjects

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/maya-rulers-attract-subjects-guatemala-tamarindito

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 44 comments

CGAL: Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

https://www.cgal.org/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Tailscale with Avery Pennarun

https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ep-33-tailscale-with-avery-pennarun

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments
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