top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-28

Why I Left Rust

https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/

3 years ago

YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube

https://bgr.com/tech/youtube-removed-dislike-counts-so-this-guy-made-rotten-tomatoes-for-youtube-videos/

3 years ago

Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

https://www.salon.com/2023/03/16/health-officials-delayed-report-linking-fluoride-to-brain-harm_partner/

3 years ago

Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cash-only-movement-apple-pay-paper-money-3814f75a

3 years ago

Lua: The Little Language That Could

https://matt.blwt.io/post/lua-the-little-language-that-could/

3 years ago

Rust: The wrong people are resigning

https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/42da9378768aebef662dd26dddf04849

3 years ago

Libuv – Linux: io_uring support

https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/3952

3 years ago

Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (2017)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/

3 years ago

ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/05/28/arms-cortex-a53-tiny-but-important/

3 years ago

How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/how-to-get-started-tree-sitter

3 years ago

The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/

3 years ago

Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/private-equity-hospice-care-profit-regulation

3 years ago

The Mysterious 50 Ohm Impedance: Where It Came from and Why We Use It (2021)

https://resources.altium.com/p/mysterious-50-ohm-impedance-where-it-came-and-why-we-use-it

3 years ago

Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp

https://www.leefang.com/p/private-spies-hired-by-the-fbi-and

3 years ago

Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article

https://torrentfreak.com/music-company-asks-google-to-delist-youtube-downloader-wikipedia-article-230528/

3 years ago

Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit

https://baremaps.apache.org/

3 years ago

About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/about-us/

3 years ago

Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator

https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/110440301402516214

3 years ago

HP printers should have EPEAT ecolabels revoked, trade group demands

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/hp-printers-should-have-epeat-ecolabels-revoked-trade-group-demands/

3 years ago

The Never Married, a New Normal

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/magnetic-partners/202305/the-never-married-a-new-normal

3 years ago

Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differentiation and function

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jnc.15829

3 years ago

Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers

https://matt-schellhas.medium.com/unnatural-keys-425a68ee350c

3 years ago

Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

3 years ago

Bcrypt at 25

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/bcrypt-25-retrospective-password-security

3 years ago

Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans

https://bookriot.com/illinois-to-become-first-state-to-ban-book-bans/

3 years ago

Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36100808

3 years ago

Functional Programming in Lean

https://leanprover.github.io/functional_programming_in_lean/

3 years ago

Bayes is guaranteed to overfit

https://www.yulingyao.com/blog/2023/overfit/

3 years ago

The halting problem is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one (2006)

https://projecteuclid.org/journals/notre-dame-journal-of-formal-logic/volume-47/issue-4/The-Halting-Problem-Is-Decidable-on-a-Set-of-Asymptotic/10.1305/ndjfl/1168352664.full

3 years ago

New Taschen book on the history of the computer

https://www.wallpaper.com/tech/the-computer-taschen-book

3 years ago

The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/28/23738957/youtube-videos-24-hours-blank-screen

3 years ago

DESKTOP2 – A Graphical User Interface for DOS

http://www.mevis-research.de/~ritter/awakeideas/desktop.html

3 years ago

Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.5 released

https://sbcl.org/news.html

3 years ago

Tom Hanks on the rewards and reality of making movies

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/tom-hanks-on-the-rewards-and-vicious-reality-of-making-movies

3 years ago

JeanHeyd Meneide's response to “Why I left Rust”

https://pony.social/@thephd/110446817486174177

3 years ago

A measles vaccine painlessly delivered via sticker shows promising early results

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/05/26/1177678380/virtually-ouch-free-promising-early-data-on-a-measles-vaccine-delivered-via-stic

3 years ago

Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold

https://openthemagazine.com/columns/churchills-bengal-famine/

3 years ago

1999 Game Developers Conference (GDC) Recordings Archive

https://archive.org/details/1999_Game_Developers_Conference_Audio

3 years ago

When feedback is not a gift

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2023/05/28/feedback-is-rarely-a-gift.html

3 years ago

Venetians are pondering raising their entire city

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/05/24/why-venetians-are-pondering-raising-their-entire-city

3 years ago

Ian Hacking has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/science/ian-hacking-dead.html

3 years ago

Play DOOM in Teletext

https://github.com/lukneu/doom-teletext

3 years ago

Group accused in $225K 'dice sliding' cheating scheme at Las Vegas casino

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/group-accused-in-225k-dice-sliding-cheating-scheme-at-las-vegas-casino/

3 years ago

A 1914 silent film considered lost was rescued from a vault

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-rare-1914-silent-film-was-considered-lost-forever-a-professor-rescued-it-from-a-vault-9bfdc1f0

3 years ago

Why Learn Compilers (2021)

https://amasad.me/compilers

3 years ago

Build Your Own Lisp

https://buildyourownlisp.com/

3 years ago

Southern accents could cost job seekers a 20% wage penalty, study finds

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/southern-accents-could-cost-job-seekers-20-wage-penalty-study-finds

3 years ago

Creating a sperm or egg from any cell?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/27/1177191913/sperm-or-egg-in-lab-breakthrough-in-reproduction-designer-babies-ivg

3 years ago

Mastering CSS blend modes

https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/blend-modes/

3 years ago

Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” Android malware that exploited 5 0-days

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/inner-workings-revealed-for-predator-the-android-malware-that-exploited-5-0-days/

3 years ago

Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/cloud-workstations-managed-development-environment-is-now-ga

3 years ago

Txti is shutting down

https://txti.es

3 years ago

China state-sponsored cyber actor living off the land to evade detection [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/24/2003229517/-1/-1/0/CSA_Living_off_the_Land.PDF

3 years ago

Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler (2020)

https://austinhenley.com/blog/teenytinycompiler1.html

3 years ago

Don Bateman, inventor of the GPWS, has died

https://avherald.com/h?article=509ac269

3 years ago

In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (2017)

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/04/Happiness-of-others.png

3 years ago

UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Adults After Walking

https://sph.umd.edu/news/umd-study-finds-brain-connectivity-memory-improves-older-adults-after-walking

3 years ago

A good day with Jeff Bezos

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/a-good-day-with-jeff-d28e05ed2524

3 years ago

Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP

https://github.com/Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg

3 years ago

ChatGPT: A Mental Model

https://xorvoid.com/chatgpt_a_mental_model.html

3 years ago

Graphs That Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023

https://spectrum.ieee.org/software-salaries-2023

3 years ago

What deserves our attention?

https://deliberati.io/what-deserves-our-attention/

3 years ago

Retrowin32: Async, DLL loading, tracing execution, and Zig

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2023/05/retrowin32-async-dll-tracing-zig.html

3 years ago

The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (1954)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/05/tenzing-of-everest

3 years ago

Show HN: HNRelevant – Show related HN submissions in an integrated sidebar

https://github.com/imdj/HNRelevant

3 years ago