Hacker News on Sunday, 28 May 2023

Why I Left Rust(jntrnr.com)

729 points by SmileyKeith 3 years ago | 643 comments

Blog post by Jonathan Turner (May 2023) explaining why he left the Rust project, addressing speculation about what happened.

YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube(bgr.com)

449 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 275 comments

BGR article about a developer who built a Rotten Tomatoes-style rating site for YouTube videos after YouTube hid public dislike counts.

Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm(salon.com)

416 points by gjsman-1000 3 years ago | 337 comments

Salon article reporting that US health officials delayed a report linking fluoride to brain harm after dental groups urged changes.

Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for(wsj.com)

376 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 551 comments

Wall Street Journal A-Hed feature on pro-cash activists resisting the shift to cashless and digital payments.

Lua: The Little Language That Could(matt.blwt.io)

327 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 183 comments

A blog post by Matt Blewitt praising Lua as a simple, embeddable little language, with examples of why the author likes it.

Libuv – Linux: io_uring support(github.com)

267 points by truth_seeker 3 years ago | 75 comments

ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important(chipsandcheese.com)

236 points by ingve 3 years ago | 75 comments

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

227 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 113 comments

How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter(masteringemacs.org)

223 points by robenkleene 3 years ago | 59 comments

Rust: The wrong people are resigning(gist.github.com)

221 points by SmileyKeith 3 years ago | 186 comments

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

205 points by amelius 3 years ago | 74 comments

WP20 and Audrey Scholars(ma.tt)

203 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 112 comments

Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator(mastodon.delroth.net)

184 points by airhangerf15 3 years ago | 123 comments

Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article(torrentfreak.com)

182 points by picture 3 years ago | 58 comments

Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp(leefang.com)

180 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 61 comments

About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library(imaginationlibrary.com)

176 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 72 comments

Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit(baremaps.apache.org)

175 points by l3x 3 years ago | 38 comments

Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System(jacobin.com)

174 points by pessimizer 3 years ago | 174 comments

The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person(daniel.haxx.se)

165 points by maaarghk 3 years ago | 68 comments

Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differentiation and function(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

163 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 203 comments

Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers(matt-schellhas.medium.com)

162 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 98 comments

HP printers should have EPEAT ecolabels revoked, trade group demands(arstechnica.com)

159 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 31 comments

Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications(github.com)

145 points by marcodiego 3 years ago | 31 comments

Bcrypt at 25(usenix.org)

141 points by aa_is_op 3 years ago | 56 comments

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

138 points by Schiphol 3 years ago | 106 comments

New Taschen book on the history of the computer(wallpaper.com)

132 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 38 comments

Functional Programming in Lean(leanprover.github.io)

130 points by d_christiansen 3 years ago | 31 comments

Bayes is guaranteed to overfit(yulingyao.com)

127 points by Ambolia 3 years ago | 31 comments

The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos(theverge.com)

127 points by belter 3 years ago | 144 comments

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

123 points by ibizabear 3 years ago | 104 comments

Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans(bookriot.com)

120 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 99 comments

Ian Hacking has died(nytimes.com)

116 points by furcyd 3 years ago | 8 comments

A measles vaccine painlessly delivered via sticker shows promising early results(npr.org)

116 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 40 comments

Group accused in $225K 'dice sliding' cheating scheme at Las Vegas casino(8newsnow.com)

115 points by Jerry2 3 years ago | 198 comments

1999 Game Developers Conference (GDC) Recordings Archive(archive.org)

113 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 24 comments

Play DOOM in Teletext(github.com)

112 points by MasterYoda 3 years ago | 31 comments

When feedback is not a gift(softwaredoug.com)

111 points by softwaredoug 3 years ago | 75 comments

Tom Hanks on the rewards and reality of making movies(newyorker.com)

111 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 63 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.5 released(sbcl.org)

108 points by mm007emko 3 years ago | 28 comments

DESKTOP2 – A Graphical User Interface for DOS(mevis-research.de)

108 points by marcodiego 3 years ago | 46 comments

A 1914 silent film considered lost was rescued from a vault(wsj.com)

107 points by mirthlessend 3 years ago | 53 comments

Venetians are pondering raising their entire city(economist.com)

101 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 111 comments

Creating a sperm or egg from any cell?(npr.org)

100 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 68 comments

Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” Android malware that exploited 5 0-days(arstechnica.com)

99 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 37 comments

Southern accents could cost job seekers a 20% wage penalty, study finds(foxbusiness.com)

98 points by mikece 3 years ago | 62 comments

The Never Married, a New Normal(psychologytoday.com)

98 points by AlexandrP 3 years ago | 182 comments

Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA(cloud.google.com)

98 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 89 comments

Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold(openthemagazine.com)

97 points by haltingproblem 3 years ago | 58 comments

Don Bateman, inventor of the GPWS, has died(avherald.com)

96 points by cf100clunk 3 years ago | 19 comments

Build Your Own Lisp(buildyourownlisp.com)

96 points by curious16 3 years ago | 8 comments

Txti is shutting down(txti.es)

91 points by RGBCube 3 years ago | 85 comments

Mastering CSS blend modes(kodingkitty.com)

89 points by KodingKitty 3 years ago | 16 comments

Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler (2020)(austinhenley.com)

88 points by ingve 3 years ago | 21 comments

JeanHeyd Meneide's response to “Why I left Rust”(pony.social)

82 points by mepian 3 years ago | 52 comments

China state-sponsored cyber actor living off the land to evade detection [pdf](media.defense.gov)

81 points by mmwelt 3 years ago | 33 comments

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

79 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 74 comments

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

73 points by paulette449 3 years ago | 38 comments

Retrowin32: Async, DLL loading, tracing execution, and Zig(neugierig.org)

72 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 8 comments

Graphs That Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023(spectrum.ieee.org)

71 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 63 comments

UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Adults After Walking(sph.umd.edu)

68 points by borissk 3 years ago | 17 comments