1127
726
Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34052201
3 years ago
733
231
Spotifyd
https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
379
407
Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn?
https://www.tomscott.com/corrections/firemarks/
170
Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/zl8ko3/ysk_apple_music_deletes_your_original_songs_and/
361
325
Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34056812
353
383
Binance's books are a black box, filings show, as it tries to rally confidence
https://www.reuters.com/technology/binances-books-are-black-box-filings-show-crypto-giant-tries-rally-confidence-2022-12-19/
340
123
Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio
https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance
330
574
What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?
https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/
317
80
Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals”
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/12/12/pollution-cleanup-method-destroys-toxic-forever-chemicals
315
107
Cook whole grains like popcorn (2018)
https://www.treehugger.com/how-cook-any-whole-grain-popcorn-4858738
306
45
Video codec in 100 lines of Rust
https://blog.tempus-ex.com/hello-video-codec/
286
145
Evidence that the evolution of mammals began in the Southern Hemisphere
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2022/12/discovery-identifies-australia-as-birthplace-of-all-modern-mammals/
280
258
Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055123
279
103
Power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm
261
148
Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access
https://www.winglang.io/
253
140
How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/
252
77
Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign
https://github.com/open-pdf-sign/open-pdf-sign
247
How to draw ugly lines fast
https://cohost.org/tomforsyth/post/648716-how-to-draw-ugly-lin
232
97
Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager
https://github.com/Infisical/infisical
227
93
Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm
https://github.com/facebook/zstd
216
67
MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine
https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS
212
94
Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency
https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/news_seite?nid=24348&sprache=en&seitenid=1
209
Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109540214666343598
201
270
Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-19/two-charged-with-using-amazon-ring-cameras-in-nationwide-swatting-spree
198
63
Structuring Clojure applications
https://yogthos.net/posts/2022-12-18-StructuringClojureApplications.html
197
42
Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp
https://borretti.me/article/astronomical-calculations-for-hard-sf-common-lisp
196
37
GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD?
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20221219.html
191
55
Federal judge overrules NIH veterinarians about lab chimp retirement
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-can-t-deny-former-research-chimps-sanctuary-retirement-federal-judge-rules
177
151
Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019)
https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/04/26/soft-tissue-injuries-simply-need-peace-love/
176
178
Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Does one exist?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34048573
167
20
Twitter archiver: Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive
https://github.com/dariusk/twitter-archiver
163
Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations
https://www.wsj.com/articles/epic-games-maker-of-fortnite-to-pay-520-million-to-resolve-ftc-allegations-11671456744
82
Anthropology in Ruins?
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022/12/13/anthropology-in-ruins/
162
44
How many computers are in your computer? (2021)
https://www.gwern.net/Computers
158
106
Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html
A math problem generator
https://github.com/lukew3/mathgenerator
139
108
Twitter policy page forbidding links to other social media removed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050283
137
79
Fast memcpy, a system design
https://www.sigarch.org/fast-memcpy-a-system-design/
119
43
A few new things in Emacs 29
https://mbork.pl/2022-12-19_A_few_new_things_in_Emacs_29
117
27
Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-022-00483-4
113
65
Tell HN: Google Maps location data is used for GeoIP updates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34052786
110
10
Special Relativity and Middle-Earth
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/12/18/special-relativity-and-middle-earth/
If you can read this, your browser captions are broken
https://www.mux.com/blog/if-you-can-read-this-your-browser-captions-are-broken
109
Implementing ‘strlen’ using SVE
https://lemire.me/blog/2022/12/19/implementing-strlen-using-sve/
32
NumPy 1.24
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.24.0
122
Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34051876
99
138
Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34056715
17
RFC2217 implementation written in Rust
https://github.com/esp-rs/rfc2217-rs
121
35% of Japanese people say they’ll ‘never travel’ again
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/19/dont-want-to-travel-many-in-japan-say-theyll-never-travel-again.html
96
102
Converting my PhD thesis into HTML (2021)
https://desfontain.es/privacy/latex-to-html.html
87
Code Design Decision – Always throw custom exceptions
https://github.com/getparthenon/parthenon/wiki/Design-Decision:-Throw-Custom-Exceptions
26
Ryujinx (Switch Emulator) Update
https://blog.ryujinx.org/progress-report-november-2022/
91
194
Sydney CBD is bringing back pedestrian “beg buttons”
https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/sydney-cbd-is-bringing-back-pedestrian-beg-buttons/
90
1/4 of companies that IPO'd in 2020-2021 trades below $2, risking delisting
https://www.wsj.com/articles/oatly-other-deflated-ipo-stocks-haunt-new-issue-market-11671417781
Discrete logic IC CPU (2020)
https://imihajlov.tk/blog/posts/ccpu/
88
Pixel Accurate Atkinson Dithering for Images in HTML
https://sheep.horse/2022/12/pixel_accurate_atkinson_dithering_for_images_in_ht.html
Fungal toxins are widespread in European wheat
https://theconversation.com/fungal-toxins-are-widespread-in-european-wheat-threatening-human-health-and-the-economy-196531
57
Characterizing emergent phenomena in large language models
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-phenomena-in.html
76
33
J one-page interpreter fragment (1992)
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
72
92
Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34054170
70
22
With food available, many bears at Tahoe forgo hibernation
https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/with-food-available-many-bears-at-tahoe-forgo-hibernation/
Musk’s Twitter poll says he should step down
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/19/musk-twitter-ceo-poll/
69
56
What's New in Bazel 6.0
https://www.buildbuddy.io/blog/whats-new-in-bazel-6-0/
66
How to Surrender to a Drone
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/12/how-to-surrender-to-a-drone.html
28
Straight talk about epigenetics
https://razib.substack.com/p/you-cant-take-it-with-you-straight
