top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-26

How to Befriend Crows

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/109571409346371116

2 years ago

800 upvotes – 216 comments

Tell HN: Thank You

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140096

2 years ago

476 upvotes – 41 comments

Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/social-media-may-prevent-users-from-reaping-creative-rewards-of-profound-boredom-new-research/

2 years ago

425 upvotes – 157 comments

Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'

https://lunnova.dev/articles/google-just-to-be-safe/

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 127 comments

Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere

https://dioxuslabs.com/

2 years ago

391 upvotes – 145 comments

How Twitter moderated the Covid debate

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate

2 years ago

357 upvotes – 898 comments

Unbundling Tools for Thought

https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought

2 years ago

337 upvotes – 192 comments

Writing a Mini-CDN to Learn Nginx/Prometheus/Grafana/Lua

https://github.com/leandromoreira/cdn-up-and-running

2 years ago

312 upvotes – 45 comments

Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/windows-95-went-the-extra-mile-to-ensure-compatibility-of-simcity-other-games/

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 186 comments

The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)

http://wifinigel.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-5ghz-problem-for-wi-fi-networks-dfs.html

2 years ago

299 upvotes – 182 comments

Rigs of Rods: free and open source vehicle simulator that uses soft-body physics

https://www.rigsofrods.org/

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 54 comments

Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications

https://medium.com/@AnalyticsAtMeta/notifications-why-less-is-more-how-facebook-has-been-increasing-both-user-satisfaction-and-app-9463f7325e7d

2 years ago

272 upvotes – 175 comments

Hyperview: Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website

https://hyperview.org

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 74 comments

Leak of a cancelled 1996 “Duke Nukem Forever” side-scroller

https://twitter.com/vinciusmedeiro6/status/1607187382335324162

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 100 comments

Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/save-web-pages-pdf-firefox-android

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 108 comments

Why do bees die when they sting you?

https://www.subanima.org/bees/

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 139 comments

NixOS on M1

https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-m1

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 69 comments

Customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to take calls (2020)

https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service-reps-for-disney-and-airbnb-who-have-to-pay-to-talk-to-you

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 117 comments

Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/23/thousands-trapped-on-pine-ridge-burn-clothes-for-warmth-in-wake-of-storm/69752694007/

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 388 comments

eBay, Etsy and other marketplaces on brink of having to disclose seller details

https://www.eseller365.com/ebay-etsy-inform-act-hidden-spending-bill/

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 164 comments

Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/26/opinion_column_alexa/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 240 comments

A Visual Guide to React's useEffect (2021)

https://alexsidorenko.com/blog/useeffect/

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 112 comments

Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 142 comments

Gattaca draft script (1997)

https://sfy.ru/?script=gattaca

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 131 comments

Rogue antibody and mystery pathogen behind AstraZeneca blood clots: study

https://www.smh.com.au/national/rogue-antibody-and-mystery-pathogen-behind-astrazeneca-blood-clots-study-20221223-p5c8gl.html

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 194 comments

Bitcoin hashrate drops nearly 40% as deadly U.S. storm unplugs miners

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-hashrate-drops-nearly-40-034118180.html

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 133 comments

Novu – Service for managing multi-channel notifications with a single API

https://github.com/novuhq/novu

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Japan to begin extracting rare earth metals from seabed in 2024

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Commodities/Japan-to-begin-extracting-rare-earth-metals-from-seabed-in-2024

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 107 comments

People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities–Until They Live in One

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/car-free-cities-opposition

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 105 comments

Mold linker: targeting macOS/iOS now requires a commercial license

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v1.8.0

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 74 comments

Running Windows 7 on a 5 MHz CPU with 128MB of RAM

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-runs-at-5-mhz

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 87 comments

How to Sell Your Startup

https://bilalmahmood.medium.com/how-to-sell-your-startup-744805fb59ab

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 28 comments

Digital Gardening in Obsidian

https://bytes.zone/posts/digital-gardening-in-obsidian/

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 51 comments

How France Changed the Tides of the American Revolution (2018)

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/how-france-helped-win-american-revolution

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 107 comments

Hypermedia Systems

https://hypermedia.systems

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

How tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/24/how-techs-defiance-of-economic-gravity-came-to-an-abrupt-end

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 203 comments

Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2

https://gettalong.org/blog/2022/benchmarking-rubies.html

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

The US-Canada border cuts through the Haskell Free Library and Opera House

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/26/inside-the-library-where-you-can-read-in-two-countries-at-once

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 99 comments

Power substations vandalized in Washington state

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_83938cfff92036cf0e1b55ced9febc77

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 173 comments

I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig

https://katafrakt.me/2022/12/25/ruby-extension-zig/

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 107 comments

Qwantify

https://github.com/wanjohiryan/qwantify

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 15 comments

Lichee Pi 4A

https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 81 comments

Binary Posters

https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/README.md

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 9 comments

Creepy Website Similarity

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/69-creepy-website-similarity.gmi

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

The FCC can finally hammer predatory prison phone call companies

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/the-fcc-can-finally-hammer-predatory-prison-phonecall-companies-thanks-to-just-passed-bill/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 44 comments

Peekaboo: Text to Image Diffusion Models Are Zero-Shot Segmentors

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13224

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 5 comments

The Way Things Work CD-ROM (1994)

https://archive.org/details/the-way-things-work-cdrom

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 24 comments

The worst-selling Microsoft software product of all time: OS/2 for the Mach 20

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221226-00/?p=107615

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Google’s water use is soaring, consume more than 25% of water used in The Dalles

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

Ménage Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nage_problem

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 65 comments

Sunstone (medieval)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 7 comments

An Event Apart – Farewell

https://www.aneventapart.com/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138737

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

How many QMS advertising panels in Sydney are near a Telstra public telephone?

https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/sydney-qms-panel-public-telephone-pairings

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Use LibreOffice Base as a GUI for an SQLite Database in OS X (2016)

https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2016/02/10/libreoffice-base-sqlite-odbc-osx/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 19 comments

DDR Type 2 – Short-wave spy transmitter

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/ddr2/index.htm

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

What you need to know about Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax)

https://help.keenetic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010536300-What-you-need-to-know-about-Wi-Fi-6-IEEE-802-11ax-

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

I'm glad I lack passion to be a programmer

https://blog.miris.design/not-a-programmer

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 92 comments

Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001)

http://web.archive.org/web/20200217014004/https://www.aaxnet.com/design/novell.html

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 88 comments

The Canon Cat: the little computer that could have changed the world

https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-98-the-canon-cat?tdest_id=1264190

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

In the world of astrophysics, one failed cancel campaign led to another

https://quillette.com/2022/12/25/character-assassination-social-justice-physics/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Archaeologists devise a better clock for Biblical times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/science/archaeology-bible-geomagnetism.html

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 102 comments

Why on Earth are flowers beautiful? (2018)

https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/why-on-earth-are-flowers-beautiful/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 111 comments

Letter regarding proposed free expression statement from MIT

https://news.mit.edu/2022/proposed-free-expression-statement-0901

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140396

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 73 comments

Tinder users are using ChatGPT to message matches

https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-tinder-tiktok

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 53 comments
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