top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-15

SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-microsoft-idUSKBN2AF03R

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 275 comments

Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine-idUSKBN2AE0Q2

5 years ago

469 upvotes – 434 comments

Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp

https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 219 comments

Faster JavaScript Calls

https://v8.dev/blog/adaptor-frame

5 years ago

443 upvotes – 126 comments

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 378 comments

Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144432

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 157 comments

Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries

https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-unveils-new-remote-work-option-for-all-employees-2021-2

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 400 comments

Sonobus: Open-source app for low latency peer-to-peer audio

https://sonobus.net/

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 88 comments

Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/otcc/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 124 comments

YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143407

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 259 comments

Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid

http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 570 comments

I Really Blew It (2020)

http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/i-really-blew-it.html

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 340 comments

OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 29 comments

Running Nomad for a Home Server

https://mrkaran.dev/posts/home-server-nomad/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 149 comments

Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/reasons-why-select-star-is-bad-for-sql-performance/

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 164 comments

Autopilot on Cars for $999

http://comma.ai

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 290 comments

How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/15/how-we-hosted-fosdem-2021-on-matrix

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 65 comments

The Therac-25 Incident

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-therac-25-incident

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 77 comments

Pine64 Februrary Update: Show and Tell

https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/15/february-update-show-and-tell/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 97 comments

Melting permafrost cause huge underground methane explosions in Siberia

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/scientists-call-for-urgent-increase-in-monitoring-potentially-explosive-permafrost-heave-mounds/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 53 comments

Media files extracted from North Korea's Red Star OS

https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 94 comments

26 Years of Delphi

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/26-years-of-delphi/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 171 comments

Typing Is Hard

https://3fx.ch/typing-is-hard.html

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 130 comments

Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/pythonstringsaremutable.html

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 90 comments

Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning?

https://www.betterdatascience.com/m1-deep-learning/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 150 comments

Clubhouse’s Inevitability

https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 225 comments

WhatsApp alternatives that respect privacy

https://protonmail.com/blog/whatsapp-alternatives/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 100 comments

Microsoft’s big win in quantum computing was an ‘error’ after all

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-win-quantum-computing-error/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: 3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python

https://github.com/fogleman/sdf

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 51 comments

3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm

https://twitter.com/southpolesteve/status/1361171417824395266

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 141 comments

Parler is back online after a month of downtime

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 265 comments

Ink – Scripting language for interactive stories

https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 15 comments

The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1806/1806.08790.pdf

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 61 comments

Is This a Branch?

https://bartwronski.com/2021/01/18/is-this-a-branch/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 74 comments

Listen to radio stations from around the world

http://radio.garden/visit/pescara/3zDUtXlZ

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

Is Your Linux Version Hiding Interrupt CPU Usage from You?

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/linux-hiding-interrupt-cpu-usage/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 16 comments

The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 38 comments

What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-02-14-openbsd-default-security.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 88 comments

California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/business/economy/california-housing-crisis.html

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 289 comments

Sq, Sequoia PGP's CLI, Released

https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/01/26/202101-sq-release/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

Pretty Good Phone Privacy [pdf]

https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/pgpp-arxiv20.pdf

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Launch HN: Pyroscope (YC W21) – Continuous profiling software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143923

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

Security features of the Intel/Windows platform secure boot process

https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/02/04/secure-boot.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/who-should-stop-unethical-ai

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 149 comments

Is Dev Compensation Bimodal? (2016)

https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 141 comments

Researchers rethink life in a cold climate after Antarctic find

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/15/researchers-rethink-life-in-a-cold-climate-after-antarctic-find

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

A 1000-processor chip powered by an AA battery (2016)

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/worlds-first-1000-processor-chip

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 119 comments

I Love Coding on Linux

https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-programming

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 82 comments

Blue beads could be the oldest evidence of European goods in North America

https://gizmodo.com/found-in-alaska-these-blue-beads-could-be-the-oldest-e-1846208780

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 80 comments

Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare

https://www.ofnumbers.com/2021/02/14/bitcoin-and-other-pow-coins-are-an-esg-nightmare/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 231 comments

Interactive Data Visualisation with Rust

https://shahinrostami.com/posts/programming/rust-notebooks/visualisation-of-co-occurring-types/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

The evidence linking nitrates and nitrites to cancer

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Is “contact us for pricing” a dark pattern?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144706

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 79 comments

What Inception Net Doesn't See

https://abidlabs.github.io/Inception-Blindspots/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Introduction to the 'Why use F#' series (2012)

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/why-use-fsharp-intro/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments
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