top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-27

A Vim Guide for Advanced Users

https://thevaluable.dev/vim-advanced/

5 years ago

Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

https://github.com/BillDietrich/fake_contacts

5 years ago

Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups

https://github.com/kuchin/awesome-cto

5 years ago

Are You Trading or Gambling?

https://investinglessons.substack.com/p/are-you-trading-or-gambling

5 years ago

A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest

https://ghuntley.com/a-new-chapter

5 years ago

SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/solarwinds123-password-intern/index.html

5 years ago

Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

https://godotengine.org/article/why-isnt-godot-ecs-based-game-engine

5 years ago

SolarWind, enough with the password already

https://gru.gq/2021/02/28/solarwind-enough-with-the-password-already/

5 years ago

Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python

https://github.com/arrow-py/arrow

5 years ago

The curious case of the handlebar bag scam

https://cyclingtips.com/2021/02/route-werks-handlebar-bag-scam/

5 years ago

Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (2019)

https://vicki.substack.com/p/silicon-valley-runs-on-saudi

5 years ago

Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go

https://github.com/chriswalz/bit/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56168844

5 years ago

Alternative shell with native support for JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, etc.

https://github.com/lmorg/murex

5 years ago

Shopify employees accessed customer databases without authorization

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26281689

5 years ago

A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system

https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/36462/

5 years ago

Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent

https://libcinder.org/

5 years ago

Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2021/02/27/google-issues-quality-warning-for-millions-of-google-photos-users/

5 years ago

Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU

https://blog.yifangu.com/2021/02/26/mining-ethereum-on-a-m1-mac-gpu/

5 years ago

A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter (2020)

https://www.wired.com/story/mohammed-bin-salman-twitter-investigation/#/

5 years ago

Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/

5 years ago

In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

https://dynomight.net/in-defense-of-myers-briggs.html

5 years ago

1991's PC technology was unbelievable (2011)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/1991s-pc-technology-was-unbelievable/

5 years ago

Griddy Is Shutting Down

https://www.griddy.com/

5 years ago

WebAssembly

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly

5 years ago

Ancient Babylonian Algorithms: The Earliest Programs

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3920

5 years ago

Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)

https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/

5 years ago

Making hibernation work under Linux Lockdown

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55845.html

5 years ago

Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

https://www.wnep.com/mobile/article/news/local/wayne-county/can-you-identify-this-mysterious-old-writing/523-c317eaf7-5810-4cce-ab5f-3c669ef0ab2b

5 years ago

Meltano: ELT for the DataOps era

https://meltano.com/

5 years ago

NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

https://a16z.com/2021/02/27/nfts-and-a-thousand-true-fans/

5 years ago

Amazon rainforest rock art 'depicts giant Ice Age creatures' (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55172063

5 years ago

Translating My Z3 Tutorial to Coq

https://www.philipzucker.com/translating-z3-to-coq/

5 years ago

Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (2019) [pdf]

http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~omid/Papers/Hotnets19.pdf

5 years ago

The missing continent it took 375 years to find

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210205-the-last-secrets-of-the-worlds-lost-continent

5 years ago

Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1745730

5 years ago

2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter [pdf]

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2020ltr.pdf

5 years ago

The gently competitive world of giant vegetable growing

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/growing-giant-vegetables

5 years ago

Arithmetic dynamics combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-arithmetic-dynamics-mathematicians-unlock-new-insights-20210222/

5 years ago

Apple works with China but not the FBI (2016)

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-apple-china-20160226-story.html

5 years ago

Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations – Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/clubhouse-is-recording-your-conversations-thats-not-even-its-worst-privacy-problem.html

5 years ago

What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?

https://alex-pardee.medium.com/what-is-an-nft-from-an-artists-perspective-db348bbde0b1

5 years ago

The Mac price crash of 2021

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-mac-price-crash-of-2021/

5 years ago

Crypto-Anarchism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism

5 years ago

Berkshire Hathaway 2020 Annual report [pdf]

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2020ar/2020ar.pdf

5 years ago

Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent

https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/27/3/article/GSATG321A.1.htm

5 years ago

A religious festival in Ethiopia turned into a massacre

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/africa/ethiopia-tigray-dengelat-massacre-intl/index.html

5 years ago

First vaccine to immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech

https://academictimes.com/first-vaccine-to-fully-immunize-against-malaria-builds-on-pandemic-driven-rna-tech/

5 years ago

Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56215787

5 years ago