top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-16

What I Worked On

http://paulgraham.com/worked.html

5 years ago

“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

https://craigwritescode.medium.com/user-engagement-is-code-for-addiction-a2f50d36d7ac

5 years ago

Functorio

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2021/02/16/functorio/.

5 years ago

What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php

5 years ago

Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56069472

5 years ago

Many small queries are efficient in SQLite

https://sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html

5 years ago

'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-minute-commute-puts-you-at-risk-of-unacceptably-high-levels-of-carcinogens

5 years ago

Building Rich Terminal Dashboards

https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/building-rich-terminal-dashboards/

5 years ago

Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/#

5 years ago

Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage

https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard

5 years ago

Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/

5 years ago

Windows Refund Day (1999)

http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/#:~:text=For%20those%20who%20hadn%27t,with%20the%20machine%20they%20bought

5 years ago

Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources

https://github.com/salesforce/endgame

5 years ago

Changes to LastPass Free

https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/02/changes-to-lastpass-free/

5 years ago

Why Is Esbuild Fast?

https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast

5 years ago

NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/robotic-exploration/nasa-perseverance-rover-landing-on-mars-overview

5 years ago

Go 1.16 Release Notes

https://golang.org/doc/go1.16

5 years ago

How They SRE

https://github.com/upgundecha/howtheysre

5 years ago

An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/get-ready-to-feel-old-the-all-your-base-music-video-turns-20-today/

5 years ago

Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/bitcoin-btc-price-hits-50000-for-the-first-time.html

5 years ago

16 bytes of Python that compile to 32 terabytes of bytecode (2016)

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/69415/4270

5 years ago

Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (1995) [pdf]

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism.pdf

5 years ago

Malware in open-source web extensions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/846272/37d25507fa3e9cd3/

5 years ago

Clubhouse Bio Generator

https://perchance.org/owh9gelu4t

5 years ago

TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-eu/tiktok-hit-with-consumer-law-breaches-complaints-across-europe-idUSKBN2AG0S8

5 years ago

Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python

https://medium.com/workpath-thewaywework/learning-ruby-2-things-i-like-2-things-i-miss-from-python-6f60af8ed16c

5 years ago

“Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers

https://reason.com/2021/02/15/what-the-new-york-times-hit-piece-on-slate-star-codex-says-about-media-gatekeeping/

5 years ago

New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-eff-report-shows-cops-used-ring-cameras-monitor-black-lives-matter-protests

5 years ago

Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 SBC

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/16/pine64-unveils-quartz64-sbc-powered-by-rockchip-rk3566-soc/

5 years ago

Jacquard by Google

https://atap.google.com/jacquard/

5 years ago

US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-02-15-election-bounty-review/

5 years ago

The Database Inside Your Codebase

https://feifan.blog/posts/the-database-inside-your-codebase

5 years ago

Organizations Using the D Language

https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

5 years ago

Python Pattern Matching

https://github.com/gvanrossum/patma/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation

https://aymericbeaumet.com/behold-z-the-unsung-jewel-that-rethinks-shell-navigation

5 years ago

The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection

http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/index-msdos.html

5 years ago

AirPods as a Platform

https://julian.digital/2020/04/19/airpods-as-a-platform/

5 years ago

Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26155327

5 years ago

FPGA NTP Server

https://research.wand.net.nz/hardware/ntp.php

5 years ago

Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/commaai-flying-cars-and-indefinite

5 years ago

Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%

http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoins-overnight-collapse-probability-is-about-50/

5 years ago

Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/03/il-maestro-federico-fellini-martin-scorsese/

5 years ago

Ask HN: Does anyone find it strange that sport is part of daily news?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26153670

5 years ago

Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/uncle-bob/

5 years ago

The VT-69 portable data terminal

http://violence.works

5 years ago

Managing Staff-Plus Engineers (2020)

https://lethain.com/managing-staff-plus-engineers/

5 years ago

Nigeria's Central Bank has prohibited banks from processing cryptocurrencies

https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1357679262908694529

5 years ago

Front-of-the-Front-End and Back-of-the-Front-End Web Development

https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/front-of-the-front-end-and-back-of-the-front-end-web-development/

5 years ago

Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL

https://brandur.org/minimal-analytics

5 years ago

The most important part of modern government is database management

https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1361673425140543490

5 years ago