top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-11

Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/

5 years ago

993 upvotes – 165 comments

MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-mastercard/mastercard-to-open-up-network-to-select-cryptocurrencies-idUSKBN2AA2WF

5 years ago

975 upvotes – 875 comments

America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

5 years ago

870 upvotes – 917 comments

Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

https://www.cbc.ca/1.5900782

5 years ago

792 upvotes – 587 comments

Why I Built Litestream

https://litestream.io/blog/why-i-built-litestream/

5 years ago

703 upvotes – 176 comments

Kubernetes Failure Stories

https://k8s.af

5 years ago

545 upvotes – 192 comments

System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

https://github.com/system76/launch

5 years ago

536 upvotes – 325 comments

Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel

https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old-bug-in-the-linux-kernel/

5 years ago

497 upvotes – 41 comments

TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 306 comments

Rust 1.50

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/02/11/Rust-1.50.0.html

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 139 comments

WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 162 comments

Amsterdam displaces London as Europe's top stocks centre after Brexit

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-markets/amsterdam-displaces-london-as-europes-top-stocks-centre-after-brexit-idUSKBN2AB0I8

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 300 comments

What Do You Agree to When You Accept All Cookies

http://www.conradakunga.com/blog/what-do-you-actually-agree-to-when-you-accept-all-cookies/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 163 comments

Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine

https://podman.io/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 241 comments

From First Principles: Why Scala?

https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/FromFirstPrinciplesWhyScala.html

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 329 comments

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired

https://nyti.ms/3q5J38a

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 359 comments

Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service and how I dealt with it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26105890

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 88 comments

AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 84 comments

Rust Cookbook

https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/intro.html

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 36 comments

Larry Flynt has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56019589

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 144 comments

Running unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia

https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/c/fuchsia/+/485181

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 144 comments

Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741#6815828

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 97 comments

Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’

https://hackaday.com/2021/02/11/tesla-recalls-cars-with-emmc-failures-calls-part-a-wear-item/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 281 comments

What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/those-who-work

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 195 comments

Leaving Mozilla

https://www.emilykager.com/writing/2021/02/10/mozilla.html

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 179 comments

How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be?

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/howfat.html

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 67 comments

Pravetz Computers

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

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 50 comments

Idioms for the D Programming Language

https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 81 comments

Mouse studies show gene therapy can cause big drop in latent herpes infections

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/08/herpes-simplex-gene-therapy.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 71 comments

Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-08-fi-20371-story.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 100 comments

UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/04/uc-berkeley-library-acquires-fbi-records-of-surveillance-of-black-leaders

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 56 comments

What I Think of Bitcoin

https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/ray-dalio-what-i-think-of-bitcoin

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 200 comments

Show HN: Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs?

https://docs.particubes.com/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

Employee #1: Reddit (2016)

https://blog.ycombinator.com/chris-slowe-interview/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 111 comments

Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results

https://cloudflare.net/news/news-details/2021/Cloudflare-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-Year-2020-Financial-Results/default.aspx

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 131 comments

More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out

https://gizmodo.com/more-evidence-that-neanderthals-were-absorbed-by-huma-1846173050

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 134 comments

Stack Overflow Users Rejoice as Pattern Matching Is Added to Python

https://brennan.io/2021/02/09/so-python/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 20 comments

Switching to Windows

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2021/02/02/switching_to_windows/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 227 comments

Always Use “Buttons” for Size Selection

https://baymard.com/blog/use-buttons-for-size-selection

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: git-peek – git repo to local editor instantly

https://github.com/jarred-sumner/git-peek

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 36 comments

Launch HN: Chorus Meditation (YC W21) – Meditation for Non-Meditators

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26103433

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 104 comments

Linear-base makes writing Linear Haskell easy and fun

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2021-02-10-linear-base/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 4 comments

Lalboard – A 3D-printed keyboard inspired by the DataHand

https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/health/covid-masks-china-united-states.html

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 102 comments

The Crypto-Chernobyl

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/chernobyl.html

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 149 comments

Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03902

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

Typing, RSI, and what I do differently

https://senryu.pub/afternoonrobot/articles/typing-rsi-and-what-i-do-differently

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 111 comments

Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers

https://applied-compositional-thinking.engineering/lectures/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Startup employees getting nothing after acquisition, is this normal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26098882

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 69 comments

Zio: Type-safe, composable asynchronous and concurrent programming for Scala

https://github.com/zio/zio

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Why LuaJIT's interpreter is written in assembly

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Python Cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/845535/b994663dd32cf51c/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

Should random() be banned?

https://r2c.dev/blog/2021/should-random-be-banned/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 205 comments

Science of Aging Is Focus of New Bakar Research Institute

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/02/419781/science-aging-focus-new-bakar-research-institute

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Budgie Is Worth a Try

https://rentry.co/9nxds

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

Technical Writing Course by Google

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 2 comments

Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 90 comments
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