top 50% 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

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

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 28 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

Talent Is Largely a Myth

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

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 177 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

DVD-Drive Based Laser Scanning Microscope

https://loetlabor-jena.de/doku.php?id=projekte:dvdlsm:start

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 7 comments

Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

https://github.com/neo-mc/neo-mc

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

A Lisp REPL as my main shell

https://ambrevar.xyz/lisp-repl-shell/index.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 30 comments

The Phrase “Kilroy Was Here” (2017)

https://www.thoughtco.com/killroy-was-here-4152093

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26056136

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 110 comments

Creators of ORCA and their works embracing tech minimalism and software freedom

https://esoteric.codes/blog/100-rabbits

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 26 comments

Things JRR Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with

https://thetolkienist.com/things-j-r-r-tolkien-has-never-said-done-written-or-had-anything-to-do-with-an-on-going-series/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 52 comments

Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019)

https://github.com/jhhoward/Faux86

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

The Mediocre Programmer

http://themediocreprogrammer.com/what-is-the-mediocre-programmer.html

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 91 comments

Violentmonkey – An open source userscript manager

https://violentmonkey.github.io/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 comments

Why updating DNS is slow

https://wizardzines.com/comics/updating-dns/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 40 comments

Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/january/behavioural-convergence.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Haiku Activity Report – January 2021

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2021-02-06-haiku_activity_report_january_2021/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

TV Size-to-Distance Calculator and Science

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 76 comments

LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs

https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-libreoffice-tells-businesses-get-off-our-community-version-you-are-hurting-development/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 94 comments

Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/VLtax2-jvlc-1990.pdf

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 48 comments

Ford Makes $29B Commitment to Electric and Self-Driving Cars

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35432253/ford-ev-commitment-announced/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 177 comments

Wallenius Oceanbird: Wind-powered cargo vessel

https://www.oceanbirdwallenius.com/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 44 comments

Xpdf

http://www.xpdfreader.com/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 70 comments

Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin

https://franck-leroy.medium.com/green-hackers-around-the-world-lets-destroy-bitcoin-725700434a8f

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 255 comments

Nuvola Player – Linux desktop integration for web-based streaming services

https://nuvola.tiliado.eu/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

How to run FreeBSD 13 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac

https://gist.github.com/ctsrc/a1f57933a2cde9abc0f07be12889f97f#

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

How many early human species existed on Earth?

https://www.livescience.com/how-many-human-species.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

How the US Legalized Corruption

https://indica.medium.com/how-the-us-legalized-corruption-c478b5ad0655

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 78 comments

Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelgangers in museum portraits (2018)

https://www.openculture.com/2018/01/googles-free-app-analyzes-your-selfie-and-then-finds-your-doppelganger-in-museum-portraits.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 62 comments

Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) (2018)

https://adr.github.io/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Web Spectrogram using your Mic

https://borismus.github.io/spectrogram/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”

http://reader.epubee.com/books/mobile/29/294c9e5c56c501ef2b2965341b7abb89/text/part0042.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 107 comments

UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/06/fury-at-gove-as-exports-to-eu-slashed-by-68-since-brexit

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 143 comments

Clj-3DF: Clojure(Script) Client for Declarative Dataflow

https://github.com/sixthnormal/clj-3df

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

Solar flare-style rocket thruster ‘could send astronauts to outer solar system’

https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/solar-flare-style-rocket-thruster-could-send-astronauts-to-outer-solar-system

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: One thousand in – I've built an IPO “FOMO” web app

https://onethousand.in/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

Arb: Efficient Arbitrary-Precision Midpoint-Radius Interval Arithmetic (2016)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02831

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Slide Rules

https://osgalleries.org/collectors/davis/davisthumbnails.cgi

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

The Art of Picking Intel Registers (2003)

http://www.swansontec.com/sregisters.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

Powerpaste, a high-density, safe, and easily transportable hydrogen energy fuel

https://www.inceptivemind.com/powerpaste-high-density-safe-easily-transportable-hydrogen-energy-fuel/17468/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

List of Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Amazon's Kuiper responds to SpaceX on FCC request

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/amazons-kuiper-responds-to-elon-musks-spacex-on-fcc-request.html

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 86 comments

The After Open Source Era Has Started

https://monetize.substack.com/p/open-source-eras

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments
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