top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-05

Homebrew 3.0

https://brew.sh/2021/02/05/homebrew-3.0.0/

5 years ago

859 upvotes – 490 comments

Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers

https://denverite.com/2021/02/02/in-the-first-six-months-of-health-care-professionals-replacing-police-officers-no-one-they-encountered-was-arrested/

5 years ago

679 upvotes – 501 comments

The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (2018)

https://www.cake.co/conversations/jNZlq6j/the-man-who-produced-steve-jobs-keynotes-for-20-years

5 years ago

674 upvotes – 196 comments

The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems-second-edition

5 years ago

574 upvotes – 97 comments

Disqus, a dark commenting system

https://web.archive.org/web/20210205110339/https://supunkavinda.blog/disqus

5 years ago

527 upvotes – 264 comments

Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/pakistan-forced-down-ahmadiyya-apps

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 481 comments

I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website

http://www.highqaguy.com/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 205 comments

Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uop-ftt012921.php

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 302 comments

Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python

https://www.spyder-ide.org/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 160 comments

FOSDEM 2021

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 110 comments

Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust

https://veloren.net/

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 143 comments

Inkscape Ray Tracing – an extension for Inkscape to draw optical diagrams

https://github.com/damienBloch/Inkscape-raytracing

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 36 comments

A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust

https://github.com/ducaale/ht

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 96 comments

Factorio Future Plans

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-365

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 170 comments

‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55945948

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can.html

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 44 comments

Modifying Telegram's “People Nearby” feature to pinpoint people's homes

https://owlspace.xyz/cybersec/tg-nearby/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 68 comments

Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard's ball and how far he hit it

https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/55927727

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 114 comments

CodeMirror 6

https://codemirror.net/6/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 83 comments

Notes on My Chemotherapy

https://www.charlieharrington.com/chemotherapy

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 110 comments

Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B

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

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 63 comments

The endless browser wars

https://lwn.net/Articles/843607/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 229 comments

Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles

https://technology.doximity.com/articles/buildpacks-vs-dockerfiles

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 88 comments

The new reading stack

https://macwright.com/2020/12/24/the-new-reading-stack.html

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 71 comments

New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-quantum-entire-radio-frequency-spectrum.html

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 74 comments

Reloadr – Hot code reloading tool for Python

https://github.com/hoh/reloadr

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 56 comments

Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/galaxy-size-gravitational-wave-detector-hints-at-exotic-physics/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 23 comments

8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/05/8-bits-are-enough-for-a-version-number-dot-dot-dot/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 86 comments

Petabyte tape cartridges are coming

https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/02/04/petabyte-tape-cartridges-are-coming/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 151 comments

How will 'chipageddon' affect you?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55936011

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 226 comments

Resignation

https://www.andymills.work/resignation

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 100 comments

A Sober Look at SPACs (2020)

https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3720919

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 112 comments

23andMe to merge with VG Acquisition Corp. to become publicly-traded company

https://mediacenter.23andme.com/press-releases/23andme-merges-with-vgac/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 169 comments

SpaceX says Starlink now has over 10k users

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/04/spacex-starlink-satellite-internet-service-has-over-10000-users.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 138 comments

Even before Covid-19, nightclubs were struggling

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/02/06/even-before-covid-19-nightclubs-were-struggling

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 139 comments

Android emulator abused to introduce malware onto PCs

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2021/02/android-emulator-abused-to-introduce-malware-onto-pcs/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 42 comments

Signal's TLS Proxy Failed to Be Probing Resistant

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 42 comments

Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037645

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

Managing your boss: adjusting to narcissists, 'ghosts,' gaslighters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-change-suite-managingup-idUSKBN2A40HC

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 105 comments

iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'

https://gizmodo.com/your-iphones-adult-content-filter-blocks-anything-asian-1846200028

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 103 comments

Balthazar Personal Computing Device, a 13” RISC-V laptop

https://balthazar.space/wiki/Balthazar

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs

https://quikpub.co/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

https://www.propublica.org/article/seeing-the-pentagon-papers-in-a-new-light

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

AWS Cheat Sheets

https://tutorialsdojo.com/aws-cheat-sheets/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

Deep Nose may one day be the best diagnostician in medicine

https://nautil.us/issue/95/escape/the-doctor-will-sniff-you-now

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 53 comments

Script Lisp

https://sharpscript.net/lisp/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

The Great SameSite Confusion

https://jub0bs.com/posts/2021-01-29-great-samesite-confusion/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

B8ta closing another San Francisco store after armed robbery

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/B8ta-closing-Hayes-Valley-store-crime-15925268.php

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 113 comments

In their own words: Trinity at 75 – The First Nuclear Bomb

https://thebulletin.org/2020/07/in-their-own-words-trinity-at-75/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037816

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals [pdf]

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2021-02-04%20ECP%20Baby%20Food%20Staff%20Report.pdf

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 55 comments

Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/02/03/study-finds-childhood-diet-has-lifelong-impact

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 62 comments

Museum of Bad Art

http://museumofbadart.org/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

DigitalOcean user portal loads twenty third-party trackers

https://twitter.com/lenz/status/1357640418977079296

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

'Coup Attempt' of Reddit's Wallstreetbets Forum Is Averted

https://www.pcmag.com/news/coup-attempt-of-reddits-wallstreetbets-forum-is-averted

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

In Defense of Finance

https://putanumonit.com/2018/12/14/defense-of-finance/

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 73 comments

U.S. Senators propose limiting liability shield for social media platforms

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-section-230/u-s-senators-propose-limiting-liability-shield-for-social-media-platforms-idUSKBN2A5233

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 116 comments
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