top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-16

Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d

5 years ago

1714 upvotes – 543 comments

Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible

https://thatcomputerscientist.com/big-o-notation-explained-as-easily-as-possible

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 160 comments

Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month

https://grimminck.medium.com/running-a-fake-power-plant-on-the-internet-for-a-month-4a624f685aaa

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 102 comments

Toxic positivity does more harm than good

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/what-is-fono-toxic-positivity-is-doing-more-harm-than-good

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 282 comments

Computer System Engineering

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-033-computer-system-engineering-spring-2018/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 35 comments

Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP

https://mnmnotmail.org/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 204 comments

Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802714

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 136 comments

A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web21w/newswire-k2-first-winter-ascent

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 131 comments

The Problem with Gradle

https://www.bruceeckel.com/2021/01/02/the-problem-with-gradle/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 223 comments

Google Images Restored

https://github.com/fanfare/googleimagesrestored

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 169 comments

REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rest-servers-in-go-part-1-standard-library/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 144 comments

“Appointment” as professor at Harvard was an elaborate phishing attack

https://www.ndtv.com/blog/how-i-fell-for-a-phishing-attack-my-story-by-nidhi-razdan-2353395

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 210 comments

Signal apps DDoS'ed their own server

https://twitter.com/NovakDaniel/status/1350471722034745348

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 132 comments

The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life (1999)

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131815/the_cabal_valves_design_process_.php

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 84 comments

Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway

https://mauricio.github.io/2021/01/14/building-digitaloceans-api-gateway.html

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 29 comments

My Second Brain – Zettelkasten

https://scottspence.com/2020/07/17/my-second-brain-zettelkasten/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 103 comments

The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor

https://medium.com/swlh/apples-m1-secret-coprocessor-6599492fc1e1

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 104 comments

FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-10-2020-12.html

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 47 comments

Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)

https://www.palkeo.com/en/projets/ethereum/bzx.html

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 116 comments

Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/14/have-the-tables-turned-on-nosql/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 224 comments

Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android

https://getaegis.app/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 113 comments

Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (2020)

https://nick.groenen.me/posts/rust-error-handling/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 14 comments

Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition

https://web.archive.org/web/20210116101222/https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Alternative lightweight UI library to modern day frameworks

https://mithril.js.org/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804072

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 130 comments

New ‘Action Roguelike’ C++ Project on GitHub

https://www.tomlooman.com/action-roguelike-cpp-ue4/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 50 comments

Would Rust Secure Curl?

https://timmmm.github.io/curl-vulnerabilities-rust/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 116 comments

NSA Recommends How Enterprises Can Securely Adopt Encrypted DNS

https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/Feature-Stories/Article-View/Article/2471956/nsa-recommends-how-enterprises-can-securely-adopt-encrypted-dns/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 135 comments

Tiny PDP11 on an ESP32

http://spritesmods.com/?art=minipdp11&page=1

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/illinois-facebook-users-to-get-more-than-300-each-in-privacy-settlement/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

Deno in 2020

https://deno.land/posts/deno-in-2020

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

Many scientists citing two scandalous Covid-19 papers ignore their retractions

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/many-scientists-citing-two-scandalous-covid-19-papers-ignore-their-retractions

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 43 comments

Mark 1 Forth Computer (2006)

http://www.aholme.co.uk/Mk1/Architecture.htm

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

Limiting Private API Availability in Chromium

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 48 comments

Bonsai in an encapsulated environmental system: Paludarium Yasutoshi

https://azumamakoto.com/3705/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

How Akka Cluster Works: Actors Living in a Cluster

https://www.lightbend.com/blog/how-akka-cluster-works-actors-living-in-a-cluster

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 62 comments

The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned (2014)

https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

The SOC2 Starting Seven (2020)

https://latacora.micro.blog/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 61 comments

Dave’s Short Course on Complex Numbers (2013)

https://www2.clarku.edu/faculty/djoyce/complex/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

I think Beethoven encoded his deafness in his music

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/arts/music/beethoven-hearing-loss-deafness.html

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 92 comments

Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane-only-ssds-for-consumers-no-replacements-planned

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

Big Tech is America’s new railroad problem (2019)

https://www.ft.com/content/ec3cbe78-8dc7-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Dhewm3 – Doom3 Source Port

https://dhewm3.org/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

EFF, Cory Doctorow warn about the dangers of de-platforming and censorship

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/01/16/041214/eff-cory-doctorow-warn-about-the-dangers-of-de-platforming-and-censorship

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Nepalese team makes first successful winter ascent of K2

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/16/nepalese-team-makes-first-successful-winter-ascent-of-k2

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Ensuring a transparent, thorough investigation of Covid-19’s origin

https://www.state.gov/ensuring-a-transparent-thorough-investigation-of-covid-19s-origin/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 74 comments

The Dark Past of Algorithms That Associate Appearance and Criminality

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-dark-past-of-algorithms-that-associate-appearance-and-criminality

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Do we have negative prime numbers?

https://math.stackexchange.com/q/1002459

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

WontFix: Chromium forcing its own title bar and borders on Linux

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896584

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Misinformation: The First Digital Drug

https://ebenezermann.medium.com/misinformation-the-first-digital-drug-2ae184083ef1

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 106 comments

Fujitsu A64FX Microarchitecture Manual [pdf]

https://github.com/fujitsu/A64FX/blob/master/doc/A64FX_Microarchitecture_Manual_en_1.3.pdf

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 52 comments

Airbyte: Simple and extensible open-source EL(T)

https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments
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