top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-13

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

5 years ago

789 upvotes – 460 comments

Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

https://www.shitbowl.com/

5 years ago

722 upvotes – 237 comments

Our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/02/12/brutal-science-system-mrna-pioneer

5 years ago

568 upvotes – 288 comments

US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKBN2AD0FX

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 632 comments

Silicon Valley’s Safe Space

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 730 comments

Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs

https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 106 comments

Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation

http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2021/02/welcoming-google-as-visionary-sponsor.html

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 260 comments

Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 189 comments

OpenStreetMap in Realtime

https://osm-in-realtime.jwestman.net/

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 68 comments

Write a Shell in C

https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 80 comments

The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook

https://adepts.of0x.cc/vba-outlook/

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 242 comments

Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw (2008)

http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/ice/diurnal/extrude/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 21 comments

The Kotlin Foundation

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-foundation.html

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 230 comments

AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250886390

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 171 comments

Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 308 comments

Alternative Shells

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 106 comments

Ditherpunk 2 – beyond 1-bit

https://www.makeworld.gq/2021/02/dithering.html

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 57 comments

Clubhouse user IDs, Chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext over the internet

https://twitter.com/stanfordio/status/1360423163125919749

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 68 comments

Satellites Reveal Cause of Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/miniature-satellites-reveal-cause-of-deadly-uttarakhand-flood-that-devastated-hydroelectric-dams/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 47 comments

Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/blue-whales-feeding-chile-research-b1797069.html

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 88 comments
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