top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-22

Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/

10 months ago

749 upvotes – 215 comments

Copying is the way design works (2020)

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/copying/

10 months ago

743 upvotes – 243 comments

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dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41034590

10 months ago

638 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: VC Funded Startups Aggregator

https://old.reddit.com/r/SaaS_Email_Marketing/comments/1dzwabm/i_built_a_tool_which_tracks_live_all_vc_funded/

10 months ago

594 upvotes – 2 comments

Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-we-re-good-seriously

10 months ago

556 upvotes – 306 comments

No More Blue Fridays

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-07-22/no-more-blue-fridays.html

10 months ago

481 upvotes – 269 comments

Jiff: Datetime library for Rust

https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff

10 months ago

448 upvotes – 241 comments

Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/07/428011/scientists-discover-new-hormone-can-build-strong-bones

10 months ago

437 upvotes – 186 comments

Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux

https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

10 months ago

373 upvotes – 172 comments

What Is Entropy?

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/what-is-entropy/

10 months ago

345 upvotes – 200 comments

United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency

https://fas.org/publication/united-states-discloses-nuclear-warhead-numbers-restores-nuclear-transparency/

10 months ago

329 upvotes – 343 comments

July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs

https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/July-2024-Update-on-Instability-Reports-on-Intel-Core-13th-and/m-p/1617113#M74792

10 months ago

327 upvotes – 208 comments

Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

10 months ago

321 upvotes – 102 comments

Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator

https://netflixtechblog.com/maestro-netflixs-workflow-orchestrator-ee13a06f9c78

10 months ago

307 upvotes – 160 comments

Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

https://github.com/bugbakery/audapolis

10 months ago

291 upvotes – 83 comments

Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

https://github.com/eza-community/eza

10 months ago

291 upvotes – 238 comments

Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0719/1460807-ryanair-wins-us-court-case-against-bookingcom/

10 months ago

288 upvotes – 286 comments

The Elegance of the ASCII Table

https://danq.me/2024/07/21/ascii/

10 months ago

285 upvotes – 187 comments

Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG

https://d-star.ai/solving-the-out-of-context-chunk-problem-for-rag

10 months ago

260 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building

https://billabear.com/

10 months ago

260 upvotes – 136 comments

A Gentle Introduction to SAML

https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/a-gentle-intro-to-saml/

10 months ago

244 upvotes – 95 comments

No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/no-one-expects-young-men-to-do-anything

10 months ago

234 upvotes – 578 comments

Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available

https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-study/study

10 months ago

232 upvotes – 644 comments

NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1975)

https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards-manual

10 months ago

232 upvotes – 68 comments

The workers have spoken: They're staying home

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2520794/the-workers-have-spoken-theyre-staying-home.html

10 months ago

207 upvotes – 259 comments

How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/investment-2

10 months ago

206 upvotes – 119 comments

Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61421-8

10 months ago

202 upvotes – 226 comments

Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo

10 months ago

194 upvotes – 59 comments

Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/22/physicist-rosemary-fowler-honoured-doctorate-75-years-after-discovery

10 months ago

188 upvotes – 86 comments

Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for others

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/difference-between-running-postgres-for-yourself-and-for-others

10 months ago

188 upvotes – 68 comments

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dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033774

10 months ago

181 upvotes – 0 comments

Rrweb – record and replay debugger for the web

https://www.rrweb.io/

10 months ago

177 upvotes – 33 comments

Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 [pdf]

https://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/marketing/1988-ApolloDN10000ProductBrochure.pdf

10 months ago

171 upvotes – 155 comments

Bash-Oneliners: A collection of terminal tricks for Linux

https://github.com/onceupon/Bash-Oneliner

10 months ago

161 upvotes – 63 comments

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/

10 months ago

158 upvotes – 168 comments

How to Become a Registrar (2012)

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/accreditation-2012-02-25-en

10 months ago

155 upvotes – 69 comments

How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/fast-human-run-100-meters/

10 months ago

144 upvotes – 219 comments

Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator

https://github.com/Netflix/maestro

10 months ago

141 upvotes – 36 comments

Clojure macros continue to surprise me

https://tonsky.me/blog/clojure-macros/

10 months ago

138 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037532

10 months ago

138 upvotes – 99 comments

The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems

https://www.wired.com/story/the-puzzle-of-how-large-scale-order-emerges-in-complex-systems/

10 months ago

138 upvotes – 25 comments

The Linux audio stack demystified

https://blog.rtrace.io/posts/the-linux-audio-stack-demystified/

10 months ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck

10 months ago

131 upvotes – 154 comments

When British Railways deliberately crashed a train

https://www.therailwayhub.co.uk/67072/from-the-archive-operation-smash-hit-84/

10 months ago

130 upvotes – 65 comments

A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast

10 months ago

123 upvotes – 62 comments

Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today

https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-linux-is-the-top-operating-system-on-azure-today/

10 months ago

122 upvotes – 118 comments

Data Fetching for Single-Page Apps

https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-fetch-spa.html

10 months ago

120 upvotes – 63 comments

Brr Wants a Job

https://brr.fyi/posts/brr-wants-a-job

10 months ago

117 upvotes – 26 comments

Real-Time Procedural Generation with GPU Work Graphs [pdf]

https://gpuopen.com/download/publications/Real-Time_Procedural_Generation_with_GPU_Work_Graphs-GPUOpen_preprint.pdf

10 months ago

116 upvotes – 19 comments

The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/crowdstrike-failure-warning-solutions/679174/

10 months ago

112 upvotes – 131 comments

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dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039339

10 months ago

111 upvotes – 0 comments

A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web

https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-update/

10 months ago

108 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database

https://github.com/wizenheimer/tinkerbird

10 months ago

107 upvotes – 34 comments

Glasgow 2024 Hugo Awards Statement – 22 July, 2024

https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/

10 months ago

106 upvotes – 101 comments

Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind

https://thehobbyist.substack.com/p/800-85k-in-72-hours-reflections-on

10 months ago

103 upvotes – 95 comments

Cosmopolitan v3.5.8

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/3.5.8

10 months ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Demystifying cookies and tokens

https://tommihovi.com/2024/05/demystifying-cookies-and-tokens/

10 months ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

All the existential risk, none of the economic impact

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/all-the-existential-risk-none-of

10 months ago

102 upvotes – 98 comments

Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL (1993)

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hopl.html

10 months ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

PostmarketOS updates: new homepage, pmbootstrap v3, sensors, libcamera

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/21/pmOS-update-2024-07/

10 months ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Is there a list of grey-hair-friendly IT companies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036914

10 months ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

Another intermediate-mass black hole discovered at the centre of our galaxy

https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/universitaet/aktuell/press-releases/single-news/another-intermediate-mass-black-hole-discovered-at-the-centre-of-our-galaxy

10 months ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Web Crap Has Taken Control

https://medium.com/@fulalas/web-crap-has-taken-control-71c459df6e62

10 months ago

89 upvotes – 75 comments

Why technical cofounders reject you

https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/why-technical-cofounders-reject-you

10 months ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

A Formulation of the Trilemma in Proof of Work Blockchain

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10549891

10 months ago

86 upvotes – 47 comments
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