top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-09

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

https://github.com/conwnet/github1s

5 years ago

1692 upvotes – 214 comments

Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills-cop-playing-sublimes-santeria-to-avoid-being-livestreamed

5 years ago

969 upvotes – 487 comments

OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-discovered-openstreetmap-is-the-freshest-map-for-rideshare-a7a41bf92ec

5 years ago

880 upvotes – 243 comments

Pattern matching accepted for Python

https://lwn.net/Articles/845480/

5 years ago

654 upvotes – 518 comments

Algorithms by Jeff Erickson

http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

5 years ago

595 upvotes – 152 comments

The Queen has more power over British law than we thought

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/08/queen-power-british-law-queens-consent

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 577 comments

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform

https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 95 comments

José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]

https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/034-jose-valim-reveals-project-nx/

5 years ago

358 upvotes – 105 comments

Creeping as a Service

https://every.to/divinations/creeping-as-a-service-craas

5 years ago

358 upvotes – 138 comments

No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack

https://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 268 comments

Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012)

https://www.economist.com/1843/2012/12/29/why-thinking-too-much-can-be-bad-for-you

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 252 comments

Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting

http://arkadia.xyz/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55998588

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 182 comments

Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55981600

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 252 comments

SDL Moves to GitHub

https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-moving-to-github/28700/5

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 266 comments

CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/1359048125403590660

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 243 comments

Haxe 4.2

https://community.haxe.org/t/haxe-4-2-0-is-released/2888

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 102 comments

Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39158/farmers-are-having-to-hack-their-own-tractors-just-to-make-repairs

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 151 comments

Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020)

https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2020/11/haskell-bad-parts-2

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 170 comments

A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 275 comments

Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddits-valuation-doubles-to-6-billion-after-new-250-million-funding-idUSKBN2A9056

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 411 comments

Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/02/browser-fuzzing-at-mozilla/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 25 comments

ReactOS Updates

https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-100/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 141 comments

Launch HN: SigNoz (YC W21) – Open-source alternative to DataDog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26079389

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 83 comments

The World’s Aging Dams

https://e360.yale.edu/features/water-warning-the-looming-threat-of-the-worlds-aging-dams

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26080163

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 265 comments

Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly

https://engineering.q42.nl/webassembly/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 66 comments

John McWhorter: The Neoracists

https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 240 comments

Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking

https://psyche.co/ideas/pseudophilosophy-encourages-confused-self-indulgent-thinking

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 227 comments

Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-8-how-python-integers-work/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 15 comments

Block Profiling in Go

https://github.com/felixge/go-profiler-notes/blob/main/block.md

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 8 comments

HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world

http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling

https://odysee.com/@linmob:3/fedora-on-the-pinephone-pipewire-calling:1

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 90 comments

An SQL Solution for Jupyter

https://blog.jupyter.org/an-sql-solution-for-jupyter-ef4a00a0d925

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 32 comments

A simple 11.2 GHz radio telescope (Hardware) (2020)

https://physicsopenlab.org/2020/10/10/a-simple-11-2-ghz-radiotelescope/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 20 comments

Compiler Class

https://norswap.com/compilers/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

GlobalSign: RSA-1024 leaf certificate issued after 2013-12-31

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690807

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: "100 Page Python Intro" eBook

https://learnbyexample.github.io/100_page_python_intro/introduction.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

De Cecco reveals why there is a bucatini shortage in America

https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/02/de-cecco-bucatini-shortage-interview.html#_ga=2.215720407.158932652.1612751392-988703692.1609033476

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 60 comments

Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/02/09/developer-tools/minesweeper/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Consensus Is Harder Than It Looks (2020)

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/10/05/consensus.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 31 comments

Leveraging the Go Type System

https://www.gopherguides.com/articles/leveraging-the-go-type-system

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 106 comments

Dr. Geo: Interactive Geometry in Smalltalk

http://www.drgeo.eu/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 8 comments

Emacs minor mode for d20 tabletop roleplaying games

https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/org-d20/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Launch HN: Great Question (YC W21) – Customer research tools for software teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26079141

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Block The New York Times

https://www.blocknyt.com

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 95 comments

Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?

https://www.justinobeirne.com/look-around

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

You Shall Not Pass

https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

Vantage has acquired ec2instances.info

https://www.vantage.sh/blog/vantage-has-acquired-ec2instances-info

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 59 comments

A Beginner's Guide to NFTs

https://linda.mirror.xyz/df649d61efb92c910464a4e74ae213c4cab150b9cbcc4b7fb6090fc77881a95d

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments
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