top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-22

Daft Punk Break Up

https://pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-call-it-quits/

5 years ago

1108 upvotes – 432 comments

Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

https://kjzz.org/content/1660988/whistleblowers-software-bug-keeping-hundreds-inmates-arizona-prisons-beyond-release

5 years ago

987 upvotes – 417 comments

We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/we-havent-seen-quarter-of-known-bee-species-since-1990s

5 years ago

638 upvotes – 220 comments

Lena

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

5 years ago

620 upvotes – 218 comments

Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg

5 years ago

507 upvotes – 149 comments

Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/sunday/endocrine-disruptors-sperm.html

5 years ago

500 upvotes – 601 comments

Go is not an easy language

https://www.arp242.net/go-easy.html

5 years ago

487 upvotes – 431 comments

Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

https://calladev.com/

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 248 comments

Abundant Capital

https://blog.aaronkharris.com/abundant-capital

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 211 comments

Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

https://johnjhacking.com/blog/indian-government-breached-massive-amount-of-critical-vulnerabilities/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 67 comments

Best practices for REST API design (2020)

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/02/best-practices-for-rest-api-design/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 267 comments

Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore

https://timdaub.github.io/2021/02/22/ethereum-isnt-fun-anymore/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 632 comments

Traitor: Linux privilege escalation made easy

https://github.com/liamg/traitor

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 38 comments

Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19107740.coronavirus-scotland-vaccination-linked-substantial-reduction-hospital-admissions/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 342 comments

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – 30th Anniversary Edition – Free Play Online

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 62 comments

Noise pollution hurts the heart

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/how-noise-harms-heart/618091/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 276 comments

TransferWise changes name to Wise

https://wise.com/gb/blog/world-meet-wise

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 226 comments

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)

https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 264 comments

Launch HN: H3X (YC W21) – High power density electric aircraft motors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224709

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 164 comments

Ask HN: What entry-level telescope should I choose?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231418

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 159 comments

Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia

https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-locks-out-irish-bishop-after-he-criticized-euthanasia/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 195 comments

In two incidents, F-16 aviators were rendered unconscious, but saved by software

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/agcas-technology-saves-pilots-lives/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 161 comments

India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55314701

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 134 comments

Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26227807

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 139 comments

Practical Color Theory for People Who Code (2016)

http://tallys.github.io/color-theory/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 50 comments

My tutorial and take on C++20 coroutines

https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/blog/c++-coroutines.html

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 136 comments

Research software code is likely to remain a tangled mess

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/02/21/research-software-code-is-likely-to-remain-a-tangled-mess/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 165 comments

ZZT: Epic’s First Game

https://www.howtogeek.com/713532/before-fortnite-there-was-zzt-meet-epics-first-game/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 59 comments

Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210222001051

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 102 comments

JSON with Commas and Comments

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/json-with-commas-comments.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 245 comments

Super Mario 64 Decompilation

https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 44 comments

A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard

http://morrick.me/archives/9220

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 111 comments

TikTok and the network effects of creativity

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/2/15/american-idle

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 66 comments

I Am Bezos

https://iambezos.com

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 116 comments

Four Basic Truths of Macroeconomics

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-21/the-four-truths-of-macroeconomics-plus-one-debatable-point

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 266 comments

Unsuck It (2010)

http://unsuck-it.com/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 87 comments

Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015)

https://jakearchibald.com/2015/tasks-microtasks-queues-and-schedules/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 10 comments

30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why

https://www.macworld.com/article/3608621/30k-macs-are-infected-with-silver-sparrow-virus-and-no-one-knows-why.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

https://www.buyforlife.com/?feature=aireviewer

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 41 comments

Virtual passport app presents real data risk, experts warn

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/passport-application-online-program-1.5920625

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 97 comments

Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a service no one can silence

https://1b677b8f8bb20100.github.io/introduction/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 194 comments

Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16496/toshiba-unveils-worlds-first-fc-mamr-hdd-18-tb

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 83 comments

Start with a Niche

https://fibery.io/blog/start-with-a-niche/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 38 comments

MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/macbook-pro-m1x-benchmarks-just-leaked-and-intel-should-be-scared

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 137 comments

Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position

https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim/status/1363640961318985729

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 120 comments

Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42k years ago, caused sudden climate change

https://theconversation.com/earths-magnetic-field-broke-down-42-000-years-ago-and-caused-massive-sudden-climate-change-155580

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 62 comments

The birth of Prolog (1992) [pdf]

http://alain.colmerauer.free.fr/alcol/ArchivesPublications/PrologHistory/19november92.pdf

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

An endangered species in the U.S. has been cloned for the first time

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/an-endangered-species-in-the-u-s-has-been-cloned-for-the-first-time

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 41 comments

Len Sassaman and Satoshi

https://leung-btc.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

SwiftGraphQL – A GraphQL client that lets you forget about GraphQL

http://github.com/maticzav/swift-graphql

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 86 comments

Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon Before Doomsday Planes

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39301/there-were-doomsday-ships-ready-to-ride-out-nuclear-armageddon-before-there-were-doomsday-planes

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 76 comments

Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone

https://www.alvarez.io/posts/living-like-it-s-99/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 151 comments

Bird watching goes both ways

https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a34762846/los-angeles-bird-watching-jason-g-goldman/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Gitlab 13.9

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/22/gitlab-13-9-released/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

Enable hibernation when Lockdown is enabled

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/T/#u

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Why we are still using PBKDF2-SHA256 despite being aware of its limitations

https://github.com/bitwarden/jslib/issues/52#issuecomment-783594951

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 94 comments

Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod

https://chadaustin.me/2021/02/wired-sculpt/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

Kea parrots perform domain-general statistical inference

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14695-1

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app

https://github.com/wsw70/note

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments
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