top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-28

Intentionally making close friends

https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/43-making-friends

2 years ago

1076 upvotes – 307 comments

Guide to FFmpeg

https://img.ly/blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg/

2 years ago

985 upvotes – 140 comments

AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

https://twitter.com/tibor/status/1597296268275240960

2 years ago

959 upvotes – 697 comments

Everything I wish I knew when learning C

https://tmewett.com/c-tips/

2 years ago

738 upvotes – 391 comments

BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-as-ftx-fallout-spreads.html

2 years ago

523 upvotes – 532 comments

Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/business/beyond-meat-industry.html

2 years ago

454 upvotes – 1024 comments

Curation and decentralization is better than millions of apps

https://f-droid.org/2022/11/23/why-curation-and-decentralization-is-better-than-millions-of-apps.html

2 years ago

436 upvotes – 208 comments

The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/inside-factory-only-builds-white-toyotas

2 years ago

333 upvotes – 339 comments

Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lab-grown-meat-is-safe-to-eat-fda-says-180981160/

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 464 comments

Open-source tabletop board game simulator

https://github.com/drwhut/tabletop-club

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 77 comments

Mauna Loa eruption underway; lava no longer contained to summit

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/11/28/mauna-loa-eruption-underway-lava-currently-contained-summit/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 141 comments

China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup

https://twitter.com/billbirtles/status/1596935475725406208

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 327 comments

New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003

https://beta.openai.com/docs/models/overview

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 207 comments

Capsaicin is a psychoactive substance

https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2022/10/perspective-capsaicin-is-a-psychoactive-substance/

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 221 comments

SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/SwiftUI%20is%20convenient,%20but%20slow

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 189 comments

Japanese Artist Creates Miniature Dioramas Every Day for 10 Years

https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/miniature-dioramas/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 17 comments

Stable Diffusion 2.0 and the Importance of Negative Prompts for Good Results

https://minimaxir.com/2022/11/stable-diffusion-negative-prompt/

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 57 comments

AVX 512 will be the future

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=209249&curpostid=209596

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 271 comments

How hospice became a for profit hustle

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/how-hospice-became-a-for-profit-hustle

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 89 comments

Protect me from what I want

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/28/On-Algorithms

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 210 comments

Open Source and Saying “No”

https://connortumbleson.com/2022/11/28/open-source-saying-no/

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 140 comments

Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning

https://github.blog/2022-11-28-to-infinity-and-beyond-enabling-the-future-of-githubs-rest-api-with-api-versioning/

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: Indoor air quality sensors and other IoT that's local-first and not DIY?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773786

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 134 comments

A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps

https://macmenubar.com/

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 70 comments

The Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/reach-new-depths-with-the-oceanic-plus-app-and-apple-watch-ultra/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 186 comments

US reps urge DOJ to investigate anticompetitive conduct affecting apartment rent

https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/11/klobuchar-durbin-booker-urge-department-of-justice-to-investigate-potential-anticompetitive-conduct-affecting-apartment-rent-rates

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: Why is there so little info on the web about IBM mainframe programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33774085

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 133 comments

Complete Rewrite of ESLint

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/discussions/16557

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 190 comments

GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild

http://blog.pkh.me/p/37-gcc-undefined-behaviors-are-getting-wild.html

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 349 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about undefined behavior

https://predr.ag/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-undefined-behavior/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 226 comments

Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS

https://beringresearch.github.io/macpine/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 95 comments

Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cant-hear-what-actors-are-saying-on-tv-its-not-you-probably-11669400315

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 181 comments

Borges: Recommendations from a life of lectures and essays

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/jorge-luis-borges-reading-list

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

Wordle for Poker

https://poklegame.com/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33778840

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 124 comments

Set Adrift

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/27/us/set-adrift.html

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 77 comments

How thick is a three-sided coin?

https://jasmcole.com/2022/09/25/flipping-out/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 85 comments

Building a High Performance Data Integration Framework in Go

https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/building-cloudquery

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 31 comments

The Buy and Hold Mindset

https://avc.com/2022/11/the-buy-and-hold-mindset/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 185 comments

HN Who is hiring job posts over time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773972

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 79 comments

Where does all the cardboard come from?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/magazine/cardboard-international-paper.html

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 112 comments

Clang is better than GCC

https://yurichev.org/clang/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 110 comments

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 70 comments

A friendly introduction to the Friendship Paradox (2021)

https://scribe.citizen4.eu/your-friends-have-more-friends-than-you-e005796841bb

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

The AI war and how to win it

https://alexw.substack.com/p/war

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: How is your company training you to become a better developer/engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33771732

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 149 comments

Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20

https://www.cppstories.com/2022/const-options-cpp20/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 175 comments

Przybylski's Star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s_Star

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/11/refurb-weekend-sega-dreamcast.html

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 84 comments

The ATtiny 2-Series

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?3UKF

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple asked video app to censor Covid search terms, Pepe the Frog thumbnails

https://twitter.com/lbrycom/status/1597293336184094720/photo/1

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

New Book Identifies 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World

https://thenewstack.io/new-book-identifies-26-lines-of-code-that-changed-the-world/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Mathematical Existence and the Axiom of Choice

https://billwadge.com/2022/11/28/to-be-or-not-to-be-mathematical-existence-and-the-axiom-of-choice/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 100 comments

The Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/project-pigeon-missiles-ww2/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Taking a Good Picture of a PCB

https://blog.brixit.nl/taking-a-good-picture-from-a-pcb/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

A Forth Apologia (1988)

http://holonforth.com/duncan.html

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

California greenlights jaywalking. It’s a step in the right direction

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/california-jaywalking-legalized/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 104 comments

Generative AI: A Creative New World

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ai-a-creative-new-world/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

Racketfest 2023

https://racketfest.com

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

Pointer Compression in Oilpan

https://v8.dev/blog/oilpan-pointer-compression

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet

https://archive.ph/0BgNx

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Illegal Hashes

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/illegal-hashes/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments
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