top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-03

I Still Use RSS

https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html

5 years ago

1033 upvotes – 357 comments

Computer Graphics from Scratch

https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/

5 years ago

805 upvotes – 116 comments

My product is my garden

https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden/

5 years ago

731 upvotes – 147 comments

Apache Arrow 3.0

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2021/01/25/3.0.0-release/

5 years ago

561 upvotes – 192 comments

Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose

https://havenweb.org/

5 years ago

547 upvotes – 227 comments

DVD Laser Scanner Microscope

https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=652

5 years ago

506 upvotes – 40 comments

Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny

https://digiday.com/media/why-googles-approach-to-replacing-the-cookie-is-drawing-antitrust-scrutiny

5 years ago

477 upvotes – 335 comments

Bluetooth Trackball Mark II

https://blog.jfedor.org/2021/01/bluetooth-trackball-mark-ii.html

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 95 comments

How to Lose Money

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/andrewtye/issues/how-to-lose-money-323332

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 286 comments

A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 142 comments

Yellen Summons Regulators to Discuss Financial Market Volatility

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/yellen-summons-regulators-to-discuss-financial-market-volatility

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 394 comments

I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 86 comments

Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 79 comments

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

https://christiantietze.de/posts/2021/01/hyperlegible-font/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 86 comments

IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources

https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-blockchain-revenue-misses-job-cuts-sources

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 331 comments

Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/03/sequencing-your-dna-with-a-usb-dongle-and-open-source-code/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 120 comments

Writing high performance F# code

https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/writing-high-performance-f-code/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 52 comments

Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager

https://asdf-vm.com/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 96 comments

Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/threadripper-3990x-the-quest-to-compile-1-billion-lines-of-c-on-64-cores/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 178 comments

Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/myths-of-vaccine-manufacturing

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 218 comments

UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus

https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-aeronabs

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 34 comments

Cargo Cult Software Engineering (2000)

https://stevemcconnell.com/articles/cargo-cult-software-engineering/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 136 comments

How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series

https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/the-expanse-james-sa-corey-syfy-amazon

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 260 comments

Show HN: YTT Tech – My curated database of instructional YouTube Videos

https://ytt-tech.com

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 49 comments

What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05923

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple urged to root out rating scams as developer highlights enforcement failure

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/03/apple-urged-to-root-out-rating-scams-as-developer-highlights-ugly-cost-of-enforcement-failure/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 110 comments

Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does it matter?

http://calpaterson.com/latency.html

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 119 comments

Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link is not broken?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013354

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 131 comments

LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoffice-7-1-community/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 139 comments

The Relentless Jeff Bezos

https://stratechery.com/2021/the-relentless-jeff-bezos/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 134 comments

German draft proposal would subsidize smaller firms to enter 5G market

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-huawei-telecoms-plan/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 170 comments

Product Manager vs. Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Owner

https://www.damilolaa.xyz/Product-Manager-vs-Product-Marketing-Manager-vs-Product-Owner

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 113 comments

Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugosi had gone to bed

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/03/they-came-at-night-how-a-spanish-crew-shot-an-alternative-dracula-after-bela-lugosi-had-gone-to-bed

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 59 comments

You don't really need a virtualenv

https://frostming.com/2021/01-22/introducing-pdm/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 147 comments

Amazon's anti-union site for its Alabama warehouse

https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 194 comments

Enzyme – High-performance automatic differentiation of LLVM

https://enzyme.mit.edu/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 49 comments

RNA Memory Hypothesis

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/rna-memory-hypothesis/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 112 comments

Jeff Bezos Pitching Amazon.com (1997) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 32 comments

ANSI escape codes (2019)

https://notes.burke.libbey.me/ansi-escape-codes/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 82 comments

Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser

https://sifted.eu/articles/beam/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 170 comments

How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-03/how-billionaire-robert-smith-avoided-indictment-in-multimillion-dollar-tax-case

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 183 comments

AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-02/mudrick-capital-gains-200-million-on-amc-gamestop-in-wild-week

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 295 comments

Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00277-8

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 186 comments

Fzf – the basics part 1 – layout

https://qmacro.org/autodidactics/2021/02/02/fzf-the-basics-1-layout/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 38 comments

GameStop appoints chief technology officer and two additional executive hires

https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-appoints-chief-technology-officer

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 192 comments

A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR

https://github.com/google/souper

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 40 comments

Service end for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter

https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 31 comments

Creating Languages in Racket (2011)

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Espanso: detect a typed keyword and replace it while you're typing

https://espanso.org/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 76 comments

Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels

https://www.morling.dev/blog/talking-to-postgres-through-java-16-unix-domain-socket-channels/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 73 comments

R Markdown: The Definitive Guide

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26014180

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 44 comments

The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-effect-of-switching-to-tcmalloc-on-rocksdb-memory-use/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 48 comments

Hybrid supercapacitor offers NiMH energy density, charges much faster

https://newatlas.com/energy/qut-hybrid-supercapacitor/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 122 comments

The mathematics of shuffling

https://plus.maths.org/content/mathematics-shuffling

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

Sea Levels Are Rising Faster Than Most Pessimistic Forecasts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-02/sea-levels-are-rising-faster-than-most-pessimistic-forecasts

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 100 comments

Bastion of the Turbofish (2020)

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/test/ui/bastion-of-the-turbofish.rs

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

SK hynix begins offering samples of 176-layer NAND chip (2020)

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2020/12/07/business/industry/SK-hynix-NAND-Flash/20201207153100497.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

Why It Matters Whether Hashed Passwords Are Personal Information Under U.S. Law

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/why-it-matters-whether-hashed-passwords-3305065/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: White-Label TikTok

https://alvin5.com

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants

https://nautil.us/issue/95/escape/want-to-get-out-alive-follow-the-ants-rpr

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Do you wake up with anxiety?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26011105

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 69 comments

Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

https://onezero.medium.com/nextdoor-is-quietly-replacing-the-small-town-paper-ca583962c15a

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Pairagraph – our attempt to build a new high-quality discussion forum

http://pairagraph.com

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 57 comments

Effective Property-Based Testing

https://blog.auxon.io/2021/02/01/effective-property-based-testing/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (1999)

https://www.robertcaro.com/interview-with-kurt-vonnegut/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development

https://justinmayer.com/posts/homebrew-python-is-not-for-you/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 107 comments

The divide between political parties is smaller than we think (2020)

https://behavioralscientist.org/the-divide-between-political-parties-feels-big-fortunately-its-smaller-than-we-think/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 335 comments
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