top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-30

PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

https://prql-lang.org/

3 years ago

Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]

https://www.modest.coffee/2022/12/how-we-got-grifted/

3 years ago

Tamagui 1.0 – Cross-platform React apps in less time, with better performance

https://tamagui.dev/blog/version-one

3 years ago

Games people play with cash flow

https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/

3 years ago

Phoenix 1.7 is View-less

https://www.germanvelasco.com/blog/phoenix-1-7-is-view-less

3 years ago

Why I'm still using Python

https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/why-im-still-using-python

3 years ago

I wrote a SQL engine in Python

https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka/blob/master/blog/why.md

3 years ago

Young adults and mental health: Is more childhood independence the answer?

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60624/young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer

3 years ago

Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34189717

3 years ago

Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass?

https://reason.com/2022/12/13/where-does-chatgpt-fall-on-the-political-compass/

3 years ago

SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers

https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/southwest-airlines-christmas-meltdown

3 years ago

An M1 for Curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/30/an-m1-for-curl/

3 years ago

Kagi – Paid Search Engine

https://kagi.com:443/

3 years ago

TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer

https://strlen.com/treesheets/

3 years ago

Auth.js Authentication for the Web

https://authjs.dev/

3 years ago

Color Formats in CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/color-formats/

3 years ago

Pomsky – A portable, modern regular expression language

https://pomsky-lang.org/

3 years ago

What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition

https://512pixels.net/2022/12/whats-left-in-the-apple-silicon-transition/

3 years ago

Investigation on the effect of oral breathing on cognitive activity (2021)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228257/

3 years ago

The Dymaxion Bathroom

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/dymaxionhouse/the-dymaxion-bathroom/

3 years ago

The button on Canon’s image-stabilized binoculars

https://www.theverge.com/23523047/canon-image-stabilized-binoculars-button-of-the-month

3 years ago

Fetish tabooness vs. popularity

https://aella.substack.com/p/fetish-tabooness-vs-popularity

3 years ago

SpaceX caps 2022 with record-setting 61st Falcon 9 launch

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-closes-out-22-with-record-setting-61st-falcon-9-launch/

3 years ago

Tech execs who raise their kids tech-free or limit their screen time (2020)

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-execs-screen-time-children-bill-gates-steve-jobs-2019-9

3 years ago

50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly [video]

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/jev22/relive/49151

3 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best free course in your area of expertise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190219

3 years ago

Claude Shannon’s research laid foundations for modern communications (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

3 years ago

AMD, Intel, and Nvidia Reportedly Slash Orders with TSMC

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-intel-nvidia-slash-orders-to-tsmc

3 years ago

What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle?

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-those-dents-in-i-90-outside-seattle/422061/30

3 years ago

2022 Letter

https://zhengdongwang.com/2022/12/28/2022-letter.html

3 years ago

Show HN: RSS Brain

https://www.rssbrain.com/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421

3 years ago

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang#the-author-is-a-platypus

3 years ago

I rewrote in Crystal my tool to quickly create Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34185209

3 years ago

Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure by DOJ?

https://twitter.com/amy_k_nelson/status/1608447389538418689

3 years ago

Edward Snowden invited to promote a Ponzi Scheme and exposes founder instead (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3UC4lz3oQ

3 years ago

Things Silicon Valley gets wrong about agriculture

https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/5-things-silicon-valley-gets-wrong-about-agriculture/439229

3 years ago

Sam Bankman just cashed out $600k, in violation of his bail release terms

https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/zyruws/sam_bankman_just_cashed_out_600k_in_violation_of/

3 years ago

Write a Wayland Compositor [video]

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/jev22/relive/49255

3 years ago

GameBoy Graphics Part 2: Tile Maps [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h5TXh20_fQ

3 years ago

A Tale of Two Feet

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/geodesy/international-foot.html

3 years ago

Herb Kelleher: Manage in Good Times So You'll Do Well in the Bad Times (2006)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/herb-kelleher-manage-good-times-so-youll-do-well-bad-times

3 years ago

Watching a “language” develop when kids can’t speak to each other (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/kids-playing-charades-develop-core-features-of-language/

3 years ago

Quickly checking that a string belongs to a small set

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/12/30/quickly-checking-that-a-string-belongs-to-a-small-set/

3 years ago

Fidelity marks down the value of its Twitter stake by 56%

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/fidelity-marks-down-value-of-twitter-stake-by-56

3 years ago

Summary: “No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home” – Jim Camp

https://www.chestergrant.com/summary-no-the-only-negotiating-system-you-need-for-work-and-home-by-jim-camp

3 years ago

Ownership of AI-Generated Code Hotly Disputed

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-code-generation-ownership

3 years ago

Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada

https://ucalgary.ca/news/flu-vaccine-lowers-risk-stroke

3 years ago

EndBASIC 0.10: Core language, evolved

https://jmmv.dev/2022/12/endbasic-0.10.html

3 years ago

NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Framebuffer

https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/fb?1

3 years ago

Boston housing price dataset was removed from scikit-learn 1.2

https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/2cce02414d4a7161f0d105450c196d94b1182220/sklearn/datasets/__init__.py

3 years ago

Over-engineering an emoji webcam filter with a neural network

https://jott.live/markdown/images_as_emoji

3 years ago

Feds lift gain-of-function research pause, offer guidance (2017)

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dual-use-research/feds-lift-gain-function-research-pause-offer-guidance

3 years ago

What would a decentralised Uber look like?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/what-would-a-decentralised-uber-look-like/

3 years ago

The Moratorium on US Medical School Enrollment from 1980 to 2005 (2008)

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(07)01095-9/fulltext

3 years ago

Materialized View: SQL Queries on Steroids

https://dinesh.wiki/posts/materialized_view_sql_queries_on_steroids/

3 years ago

Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies

https://simpleoptout.com

3 years ago

Wikenigma – an encyclopedia of scientific questions with no known answers

https://wikenigma.org.uk/start

3 years ago

Running fast and slow: experiments with BPF programs' performance

https://erthalion.info/2022/12/30/bpf-performance/

3 years ago

Scientists dug up Gregor Mendel and analyzed his DNA

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/30/1142202365/gregor-mendel-genetics-dna-analyzed

3 years ago

The consumption of viruses returns energy to food chains

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215000120

3 years ago

No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a Pizza Box

https://www.calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-andrew

3 years ago

Learning OCaml in 2023

https://sancho.dev/blog/learning-ocaml

3 years ago