top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-04

Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/

5 years ago

1171 upvotes – 388 comments

Making Vaccine

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/niQ3heWwF6SydhS7R/making-vaccine

5 years ago

536 upvotes – 363 comments

McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mckinsey-idUSKBN2A405Q

5 years ago

508 upvotes – 543 comments

Native Mac APIs for Go

https://github.com/progrium/macdriver

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 69 comments

Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – SEARCH and CYCLE clauses

https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/waiting-for-postgresql-14-search-and-cycle-clauses/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 65 comments

New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/new-report-on-apples-vr-headset-8k-in-each-eye-potential-3000-price-tag/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 455 comments

Parler CEO says he was fired by board

https://www.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-parler-ceo-idCAKBN2A33B0-OCATC

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 488 comments

Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/amazon-ftc-tip-settlement/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 332 comments

Peter Naur's view of programming

https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 190 comments

Rust-Analyzer Architecture

https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/dev/architecture.md

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 65 comments

The Dunant subsea cable

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/googles-dunant-subsea-cable-is-now-ready-for-service

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 252 comments

An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 118 comments

Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning

https://github.com/filipsPL/cat-localizer

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 161 comments

Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features

https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2021/02/pythons-tug-of-war-between-beginner.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 431 comments

Godot Shaders: View and Share Shaders for Godot

https://godotshaders.com/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 41 comments

Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/02/04/stepping-down-as-ceo-of-the-wikimedia-foundation/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 237 comments

Monkey.org

https://monkey.org/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 146 comments

The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding

https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/01/the-visitor-pattern-is-essentially-same.html

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 134 comments

Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides

http://www.geofcrowl.com/blog/articles/2020/2/17/collection-higs/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 18 comments

Powerpaste, a hydrogen technology for small vehicles

https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2021/february-2021/hydrogen-powered-drives-for-e-scooters.html

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 96 comments

Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/function-callback-risks/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 186 comments

A Python interpreter rewritten in Rust, that can run pip

https://rustpython.github.io/featured/2021/01/26/pip-support.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

Datatype99: C99 with Sum Types, v0.1.0

https://github.com/Hirrolot/datatype99

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 64 comments

Finally, a Private Stock Exchange

https://henrysward.medium.com/finally-a-private-stock-exchange-cartax-3c658f30ac97

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

McCLIM – GUI toolkit for Common Lisp

https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 28 comments

IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months

https://www.engadget.com/ibm-quantum-computing-speedup-050134678.html

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 57 comments

A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning

https://humanloop.com/blog/why-you-should-be-using-active-learning/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 47 comments

Launch HN: Tint (YC W21) – Embed insurance into any product

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26026526

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 48 comments

Weave.jl – Scientific Reports Using Julia

https://weavejl.mpastell.com/stable/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 17 comments

Mutation Driven Testing: When TDD Just Isn’t Good Enough

https://software.rajivprab.com/2021/02/04/mutation-driven-testing-when-tdd-just-isnt-good-enough/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 67 comments

Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF

https://www.docker.com/blog/donating-docker-distribution-to-the-cncf/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business

https://hindenburgresearch.com/clover/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 96 comments

$1,944 for a coronavirus test? Readers helped us spot an unusual trend

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/insider/readers-medical-bills-doctor.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 174 comments

The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater

https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/single-view/arktischer-ozean-bedeckt-von-schelfeisen-und-voller-suesswasser.html

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

Free Music for Your Videos

https://www.audiak.com/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

Fox News Is Sued by Election Technology Company for over $2.7B

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/business/media/smartmatic-fox-news-lawsuit.html

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 84 comments

A tool to create slides using Markdown easily for you

https://github.com/hiroppy/fusuma

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 41 comments

The Lisperati1000 Computer

https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1357029088343506944

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 25 comments

Desirable streets: where do people prefer to walk?

https://senseable.mit.edu/desirable-streets/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 93 comments

What Is React: A Visual Introduction for Beginners

https://learnreact.design/posts/what-is-react

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Delicious back online in read-only mode

https://twitter.com/Delicious/status/1357065549436518400

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 48 comments

r/wallstreetbets is being taken over. Mods, comments and posts are being removed

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/lcaede/rwallstreetbets_is_being_taken_over_from_inactive/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 52 comments

Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32653422/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 145 comments

Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers into Brutal 'Megacycle' Shifts

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gk3w/amazon-is-forcing-its-warehouse-workers-into-brutal-megacycle-shifts

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 123 comments

‘Holy grail’ nanoparticle injection that treats skin cancer developed by Yale

https://www.studyfinds.org/holy-grail-nanoparticles-treats-skin-cancer/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

Some Proteins Change Their Folds to Perform Different Jobs

https://www.quantamagazine.org/metamorphic-proteins-change-their-folds-for-different-jobs-20210203/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 46 comments

Dunfield 6809 Portable

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/d6809/index.htm

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 73 comments

Full System Control with New SolarWinds Orion and Serv-U FTP Vulnerabilities

https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/full-system-control-with-new-solarwinds-orion-based-and-serv-u-ftp-vulnerabilities/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry

https://medium.com/fan-fare/hbo-max-is-failing-the-classic-tom-and-jerry-57b86117b57d

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 147 comments

EyeDraw – Draw with your eyes using computer vision

https://fabridigua.medium.com/eyedraw-how-to-draw-with-your-eyes-using-computer-vision-226317501e6a

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Program teaches prisoners coding so they can land tech jobs once released

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/program-teaches-prisoners-coding-so-they-can-land-tech-jobs-once-released

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 165 comments

Show HN: Deploy your own algo-trader in 5 minutes with 0 code

http://www.getquantbase.com/#deploy

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

Stacker (YC S20) lets anyone transform spreadsheets and databases into web apps

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/26/stacker-lets-anyone-transform-spreadsheets-and-databases-into-web-apps/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

The APL Orchard

https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2021/02/the-apl-orchard/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study

https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/03/apple-watch-parkinsons-disease-tremor/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)

http://www.theorangeduck.com/page/machine-learning-kolmogorov-complexity-squishy-bunnies

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Improving texture atlas allocation in WebRender

https://nical.github.io/posts/etagere.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Locating Humans with DNS

https://landshark.io/2021/02/04/dns-for-humans.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 49 comments

MiniZork: A Functional Adventure

https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/8.-Mini-Zork:-A-functional-adventure

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

The Meltdown of Ample Hills

https://marker.medium.com/the-shocking-meltdown-of-ample-hills-brooklyns-hottest-ice-cream-company-66b27dc1791d

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 84 comments

Elon Musk admits Tesla car quality flaws, says mass production is “hell”

https://www.caradvice.com.au/920956/tesla-boss-elon-musk-admits-car-quality-flaws-says-mass-production-is-hell/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 153 comments

Bill would allow tech companies to form local governments

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/2021-legislature/bill-would-allow-tech-companies-to-create-local-governments-2272887/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 94 comments

Why Security Defects Go Unnoticed During Code Reviews? [pdf]

http://amiangshu.com/papers/paul-ICSE-2021.pdf

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments

The Shocking Meltdown of Ample Hills, Brooklyn's Hottest Ice Cream Company

https://marker.medium.com/the-shocking-meltdown-of-ample-hills-brooklyns-hottest-ice-cream-company-66b27dc1791d

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 1 comments

Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 50B

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_cleanup_drops_dns_traffic/

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/04/uk-banks-given-six-months-to-prepare-for-negative-interest-rates

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 108 comments

In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs

https://www.devever.net/~hl/omi

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

2020 at OCamlPro

https://www.ocamlpro.com/2021/02/02/2020-at-ocamlpro/

5 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments
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