top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-06

Architecture.md

https://matklad.github.io//2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html

5 years ago

1349 upvotes – 153 comments

Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/06/daughters-provoke-parental-strife

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 600 comments

Programming for Cats

https://programmingforcats.com/

5 years ago

466 upvotes – 109 comments

A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/02/thanks-to-the-internet-archive-the-history-of-american-newspapers-is-more-searchable-than-ever/

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 81 comments

NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/ldf9g9/nordvpn_disables_features_when_you_turn_off/

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 229 comments

Paul Taylor, the engineer who created the TTY machine for the deaf, has died

https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2021/02/he-died-in-portland-his-legacy-of-helping-the-deaf-communicate-with-the-world.html

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 37 comments

Complexity Explained

https://complexityexplained.github.io/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 128 comments

The war on disinformation is a war on dissent

https://humanevents.com/2021/02/04/the-war-on-disinformation-is-a-war-on-dissent/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 414 comments

How to lower the price of plant-based meat

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=66df320da8400b581cbc1b539&id=cea38367f1

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 645 comments

Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study

https://news.wsu.edu/2021/02/02/big-name-corporations-likely-commit-fraud/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 109 comments

Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web

http://techrights.org/2021/02/06/rss-feeds-www/

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 119 comments

Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API

https://epub.to

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 89 comments

I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)

https://twitter.com/mathematicsprof/status/1235553604016070656

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 158 comments

Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

https://singhkays.com/blog/netflix-annual-reports-work-of-art/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 77 comments

Virginia lawmakers pass marijuana legalization bills

https://wset.com/news/local/virginia-house-votes-legalize-marijuana

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 176 comments

Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine translation API

https://libretranslate.com/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 65 comments

FreeBSD 13.0 Beta1 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-February/093047.html

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: You-tldr – easy-to-read transcripts of Youtube videos

https://you-tldr.com/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 72 comments

What data on myself I collect and why (2020)

https://beepb00p.xyz/my-data.html

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 72 comments

Indonesia bans forced religious attire in schools

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55945202

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 108 comments

The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/realestate/luxury-high-rise-432-park.html

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 147 comments

Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 63 comments

A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-stood-between-america-and-epidemic-birth-defects-180963165/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 142 comments

AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00304-8

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 79 comments

A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B

https://www.righto.com/2021/02/a-one-bit-processor-explained-reverse.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 45 comments

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments

https://www.techregister.co.uk/nevada-bill-would-allow-tech-companies-to-create-governments/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 129 comments

Mt. Gox demise as told by a Bitcoin insider

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-31/-trillion-dollar-mt-gox-demise-as-told-by-a-bitcoin-insider

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 159 comments

Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1131184_tesla-recalled-touchscreens-were-meant-to-only-last-5-6-years#:~:text=Tesla%20told%20regulators%20that%20the,on%20United%20States%20roads%20today

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 208 comments

The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-bitcoin-billionaire-arthur-hayes#intcid=recommendations_vf-trending-legacy_a6f46dda-cf48-4781-8493-4e8dda1026ff_popular4-1

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 87 comments

I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them: Part 5

https://james.li/i-bought-200-raspberry-pi-model-bs-and-im-going-to-fix-them-part-5/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-55966867

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 64 comments

What Does the Title ‘Esquire’ Mean, Anyway?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-an-esquire

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 172 comments

Self-Directed Pandas Crash Course

https://kellyfoulk.herokuapp.com/post/3

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

Oil companies buying up EV charging networks: Shell acquires Ubitricity

https://chargedevs.com/newswire/oil-companies-buying-up-ev-charging-networks-shell-acquires-ubitricity/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 120 comments

Sense: A New Open-Source Video Understanding Framework for Deep Learning

https://github.com/TwentyBN/sense

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 3 comments

Why We Fight over Fiction

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/11/why-we-fight-over-fiction.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 57 comments

How to Write Readable Code

http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2021_02_02_how_to_write_readable_code.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-tracking X-Mo

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/06/google_xmode_android_apps_play_store/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01522

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 80 comments

Ligeti Stratos – First Open Source Microlight Aircraft (2013)

http://ligeti-stratos.com/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

Ex NSA person subverting cryptography joins AWS as Director of Applied Crypto

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1357142492626509824

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Iamlive – Generate an IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring

https://github.com/iann0036/iamlive

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

Tech barons like Jeff Bezos want to colonize space and the oceans

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/05/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-spacex-blue-origin

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 93 comments
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