top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-07

Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

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

5 years ago

981 upvotes – 496 comments

A visual guide to SSH tunnels

https://robotmoon.com/ssh-tunnels/

5 years ago

963 upvotes – 80 comments

NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 331 comments

Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game

https://github.com/Soldat/soldat

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 121 comments

Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon

https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 81 comments

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 28 comments

An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (2013)

https://www.rd.com/article/the-stranger-who-changed-my-life-my-enemy-my-friend/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 168 comments

Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood

https://www.cbc.ca/1.5902739

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 156 comments

FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

https://freedombox.org/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 75 comments

RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 121 comments

Graph theory, graph convolutional networks, knowledge graphs

https://albertazout.substack.com/p/gradient-ascent-10

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 15 comments

Frontex Files

https://frontexfiles.eu/en.html

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 103 comments

Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning

https://tedunderwood.com/2021/02/02/why-sf-hasnt-prepared-us-to-imagine-machine-learning/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 246 comments

Show HN: Stamp turns a folder into a plain text file and a file into a folder

https://github.com/treenotation/jtree/tree/master/langs/stamp

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 87 comments

The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding

https://believermag.com/the-feminine-physique/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 348 comments

Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix

https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2021/02/07/audio-stack.html

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 113 comments

NRA bankruptcy lets critics peer into gun lobby’s inner workings

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/nra-bankruptcy-lets-critics-peer-into-gun-lobby-s-inner-workings

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 259 comments

Performance Impact of Ad Blockers (2020)

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-performance-report#performance-impact-of-ad-blockers

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 66 comments

Opinion: Don’t Stop at Big Tech–We Need to Bust Big Agriculture, Too

https://modernfarmer.com/2021/02/opinion-dont-stop-at-big-tech-we-need-to-bust-big-agriculture-too/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 54 comments

Talent Is Largely a Myth

https://blog.nukemberg.com/post/talent-is-largely-a-myth/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 177 comments
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