top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-21

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

http://boringtechnology.club/

5 years ago

603 upvotes – 361 comments

Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager

https://css-tricks.com/mistakes-ive-made-as-an-engineering-manager/

5 years ago

516 upvotes – 189 comments

YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/youtube-ai-blocked-chess-channel-after-confusing-black-and-white-for-racist-slurs-3454316.html

5 years ago

514 upvotes – 537 comments

A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture

https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/a-dishonest-indifferent-and-toxic-culture-113339aa67e9

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 187 comments

Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

https://github.com/qeeqbox/social-analyzer

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 142 comments

Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C

https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 142 comments

Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55973215

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 288 comments

Commenting vs. Making

https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/commenting-vs-making

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 96 comments

The Beirut Bank Job (2017)

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/6/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 43 comments

Activists who embrace nuclear power

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-activists-who-embrace-nuclear-power

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 586 comments

Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/904-Please-do-not-put-IP-addresses-into-DNS-MX-records.html

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 176 comments

Passerine: A small extensible language designed for concise expression

http://passerine.io

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 111 comments

Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39309/the-apparent-hackers-behind-kias-ransomware-attack-are-demanding-millions-in-bitcoin

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 281 comments

Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

https://tinyads.io

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 78 comments

Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210212-silent-running-the-sci-fi-that-predicted-modern-crises

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 60 comments

Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)

http://www.cs.uni.edu/%7Ewallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-10.html#e2018-10-21T09_53_29.htm

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 76 comments

Formalising Mathematics: An Introduction

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/formalising-mathematics-an-introduction/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 116 comments

When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)

https://www.politico.eu/article/this-is-what-happens-when-bitcoin-miners-take-over-your-town/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 475 comments

Cross-Database Queries in SQLite

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/21/cross-database-queries/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 78 comments

Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jHnFBHrwiNb5xvLBM/second-citizenships-residencies-and-or-temporary-relocation

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 296 comments

Choose Exciting Technology

https://lucjan.medium.com/choose-exciting-technology-e735bba08acc

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 155 comments

Facebook takes down main page of Myanmar military

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-facebook/facebook-takes-down-main-page-of-myanmar-military-idUSKBN2AL029

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 144 comments

How my school gamed the stats

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Yv9aj9bWD5H7aaDdy/how-my-school-gamed-the-stats

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 158 comments

Linux Logo (1996)

https://lkml.org/lkml/1996/5/12/136

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 33 comments

A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View

https://nchammas.com/writing/data-pipeline-materialized-view

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 47 comments

Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product

https://www.invisible-computers.com/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 167 comments

Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

http://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 87 comments

Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/recreate-the-menu-of-pompeii-ancient-pub

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 22 comments

Project Xanadu

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

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 82 comments

JIT-Compiling SQL Queries in PostgreSQL Using LLVM

https://www.pgcon.org/2017/schedule/events/1092.en.html

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

Opinion: We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April

https://www.wsj.com/articles/well-have-herd-immunity-by-april-11613669731

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 373 comments

Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued

https://latecheckout.substack.com/p/reddit-organized-lightning

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 164 comments

Build an SMS Forwarder with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Waveshare SIM7000E Hat

https://mete.dev/2021/02/21/build-an-sms-forwarder-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w-and-waveshare-sim7000e-hat/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 54 comments

Complexity No Bar to AI

https://www.gwern.net/Complexity-vs-AI

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 118 comments

From coding bootcamp graduate to building distributed databases

https://richardartoul.medium.com/from-coding-bootcamp-graduate-to-building-distributed-databases-29acbb723d8

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 44 comments

Modern software controls dependencies because it helps software authors

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/BundlingHelpsSoftwareAuthors

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 108 comments

Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/style/vhs-tapes.html

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 166 comments

Boeing 747 loses parts after take-off from Maastricht – 2 injuries

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/longtail-aviation/boeing-747-loses-parts-after-take-off-from-maastricht-diverts-to-liege-two-people-injured/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Finite State Machines

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-finite-state-machines

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Kodi 19.0

https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-190-matrix-release

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

Importance of Conceptual Integrity in System Design

https://wiki.c2.com/?ConceptualIntegrity

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Life of an HTTP request in a Go server (2017)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/life-of-an-http-request-in-a-go-server/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

It’s cheaper because we pass the risk on to you

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/02/its-cheaper-because-we-pass-the-risk-on-to-you/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 99 comments

Tap your phone at Gold Coast bus stops to access my website

https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/22/tap-your-phone.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 73 comments

‘It just blew fire’: Kauai woman watched as an engine fell apart on flight 328

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/02/21/it-just-blew-fire-kauai-woman-watched-engine-failed-united-flight/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 129 comments

SnowFS – a fast, scalable version control file storage for graphic files

https://github.com/Snowtrack/SnowFS

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

WhatsApp Reveals What Happens to Users Who Don't Agree to Privacy Policy Changes

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/21/whatsapp-fate-of-accounts-privacy-policy/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

The Viking Invasion of Leicestershire (2012)

http://www.thiswasleicestershire.co.uk/2012/11/the-viking-invasion-of-leicestershire.html

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 102 comments

Saving children’s lives with world-first ‘dead’ heart transplants

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-saves-childrens-lives-with-world-first-dead-heart-transplants-b0httn8lb

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: CompreFace is a free and open-source face recognition software

https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

An Introduction to Crystal

https://blog.oisinaylward.me/blog/crystal/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments
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