top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-10

Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610

5 years ago

1107 upvotes – 402 comments

Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons

5 years ago

982 upvotes – 1812 comments

CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu/

5 years ago

700 upvotes – 165 comments

Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16483/samsung-in-the-usa-a-17-billion-usd-fab-by-late-2023

5 years ago

623 upvotes – 376 comments

Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56010156

5 years ago

542 upvotes – 290 comments

Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs

https://travelhead.medium.com/competitor-reported-our-no-buckle-belts-as-containing-a-dea-controlled-substance-and-got-us-e6df903172a3

5 years ago

511 upvotes – 267 comments

Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-environment-recycling-idUSKBN2A211N

5 years ago

492 upvotes – 281 comments

LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

https://every.to/divinations/linkedins-alternate-universe-21780381

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 291 comments

What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/02/whats-most-interesting-about-the-florida-water-system-hack-that-we-heard-about-it-at-all/

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 181 comments

Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/02/08/mozilla-welcomes-the-rust-foundation/

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 174 comments

8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965953078/8-year-old-calls-out-npr-for-lack-of-dinosaur-stories

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 185 comments

Timezone Bullshit

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/timezone-bullshit

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 319 comments

Web Scraping 101 with Python

https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/web-scraping-101-with-python/

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 131 comments

Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator) Progress Report January 2021

https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-jan-2021/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 89 comments

Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/08/can-the-fbi-can-hack-into-private-signal-messages-on-a-locked-iphone-evidence-indicates-yes/

5 years ago

358 upvotes – 230 comments

Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment

https://themouseless.dev/

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 217 comments

Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00360-0

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 90 comments

Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available

https://spencerdailey.com/2021/02/10/google-itself-is-now-telling-users-their-apps-are-out-of-date-despite-no-updates-being-available/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 171 comments

Hello system, a FreeBSD-based OS designed to resemble Mac

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 267 comments

Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)

https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 58 comments

Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem

https://arewegameyet.rs/

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 132 comments

Pattern Generator – Create Seamless, Royalty-Free Patterns

https://doodad.dev/pattern-generator/

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 24 comments

Golang generics proposal has been accepted

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43651#issuecomment-776944155

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 168 comments

Block Facebook Servers

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/tree/master/corporations/facebook

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 89 comments

Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26091956

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 79 comments

State of Independent SaaS 2021

https://microconf.com/sois-report-2021

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster?

https://www.fastruby.io/blog/ruby/performance/why-wasnt-ruby-3-faster.html

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 171 comments

Preparing to Issue 200M Certificates in 24 Hours

https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 101 comments

90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T CEO about slow internet

https://www.foxla.com/news/90-year-old-man-spends-10000-on-2-ads-in-wsj-to-tell-att-ceo-about-his-slow-internet-service

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 121 comments

Foldable Words

http://bit-player.org/2021/foldable-words

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 20 comments

External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/10/external-boot-disks-still-dont-work-properly-with-m1-macs/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 177 comments

Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch

https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2020/12/02/the-story-of-how-google-could-have-killed-facebook-with-the-flick-of-a-switch/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 139 comments

Apple Watch Identifies SARS-CoV2 Infection and Predicts Diagnosis

https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/26107

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 103 comments

Ham Radio Forms a Planet-Sized Space Weather Sensor Network

https://eos.org/features/ham-radio-forms-a-planet-sized-space-weather-sensor-network

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 31 comments

Do Things that Don't Scale (2013)

http://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 31 comments

A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/a-sneak-peek-at-metahuman-creator-high-fidelity-digital-humans-made-easy

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 53 comments

Posix Threads Programming

https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 22 comments

EPA Takes Action to Protect Scientific Integrity

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-takes-action-protect-scientific-integrity

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 139 comments

Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right

https://snikket.org/blog/products-vs-protocols/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Screenstab – A tool to turn screenshots into image assets

https://www.screenstab.com/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 58 comments

Bitcoin's fundamental value is negative given its environmental impact

https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-value-negative-environmental-impact-nouriel-roubini-cryptocurrencies-2021-2-1030067687

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 165 comments

Interview Frustrations

https://jessimekirk.com/blog/interview_frustrations/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 144 comments

Teaching Students How to Cheat During the Pandemic

https://daveeargle.com/2020/09/11/kobayashi-maru-proctorio-version/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 39 comments

Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-tesla-climate-insight/elon-musk-wants-clean-power-but-teslas-carrying-bitcoins-dirty-baggage-idUSKBN2AA193

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 256 comments

Turtle visual cortex is non-retinotopic

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/365papers/141/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 33 comments

Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available

https://blog.paw.cloud/paw-joins-forces-with-rapidapi/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

The unusual way I'm funding my open source work

https://kerkour.com/blog/the-unusual-way-im-funding-my-open-source-work/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs?

https://steamclock.com/blog/2021/02/apple-tracking-analytics-sdks/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 79 comments

Crackpot Cryptography and Security Theater

https://soatok.blog/2021/02/09/crackpot-cryptography-and-security-theater/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable zone of α Centauri

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21176-6

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 4 comments

Base64.ai – Extract text, data, photos and more from all types of docs

http://base64.ai/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

Fully convolutional naturalistic video reconstruction from brain activity

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.429430v1

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies

https://muttdata.ai/blog/2020/08/21/a-poetic-apology.html

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

The Art of Negativity

https://przekroj.pl/en/society/the-art-of-negativity-enis-yucekoralp

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk

https://www.ft.com/content/9be5ad05-b17a-4449-807b-5dbcb5ef8170

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 181 comments
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