top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-28

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

5 years ago

Actually Portable Executables

https://ahgamut.github.io/c/2021/02/27/ape-cosmo/

5 years ago

The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly

https://www.universetoday.com/150224/the-mars-helicopter-is-online-and-getting-ready-to-fly/

5 years ago

Little League wants all your information

https://honeypot.net/post/little-league-wants-all-your-information/

5 years ago

Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/02/28/Weird-architectures-werent-supported-to-begin-with

5 years ago

Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the Turkish government

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

5 years ago

Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm

https://github.com/McYoloSwagHam/win3wm

5 years ago

Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/28/last-week-on-my-mac-users-are-losing-out-against-big-surs-sealed-system/

5 years ago

How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)

https://ki.infil.net/w02-netcode.html

5 years ago

RIP Flynn.io

https://github.com/flynn/flynn

5 years ago

Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513

5 years ago

Foundational Distributed Systems Papers

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/02/foundational-distributed-systems-papers.html

5 years ago

Not Lisp again (2009)

https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html

5 years ago

Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like a Boss

https://github.com/jopohl/urh

5 years ago

Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python

https://github.com/SimonBlanke/Gradient-Free-Optimizers

5 years ago

Police misconduct settlements

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/police-settlements

5 years ago

Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

https://medium.com/@williamson.f93/multi-user-dungeons-muds-what-are-they-and-how-to-play-af3ec0f29f4a

5 years ago

Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes

https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/

5 years ago

Spaceprob.es catalogues all the probes that still communicate with Earth

https://spaceprob.es/

5 years ago

Try the new try.haxe

https://community.haxe.org/t/try-the-new-try-haxe/2921

5 years ago

Get a Life

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/life.html

5 years ago

Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg

https://mattj.io/posts/2021-02-27-create-animated-gif-and-webp-from-videos-using-ffmpeg/

5 years ago

Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes

https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/02/26/citing-racial-inequities-boston-public-schools-suspend-advanced-learning-classes

5 years ago

A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/27/972118983/a-lamborghini-of-chariots-is-discovered-at-pompeii-archaeologists-are-wowed

5 years ago

OMU – “One Man Unix”

http://www.pix.net/mirrored/discordia.org.uk/~steve/omu.html

5 years ago

Before you buy a Soviet Camera

https://kosmofoto.com/2021/01/read-this-before-you-buy-a-soviet-camera/

5 years ago

Coinbase mafia shows how tight a circle holds sway over Bitcoin

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-27/coinbase-mafia-shows-how-tight-a-circle-holds-sway-over-bitcoin

5 years ago

New Bone Cell Type Identified

https://www.genengnews.com/news/new-bone-cell-type-identified-could-point-to-drug-targets-for-osteoporosis-and-other-skeletal-diseases/

5 years ago

Reversible Computing

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

5 years ago

Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller

https://www.righto.com/2021/02/strange-chip-teardown-of-vintage-ibm.html

5 years ago

L.A. restaurants struggle with a new form of dine-and-dash

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2021-02-23/restaurant-scam-credit-card-fraud

5 years ago

Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Apple's privacy changes

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/facebook-just-admitted-it-has-lost-its-battle-with-apple-over-privacy.html

5 years ago

Apollo in Real Time – A journey through the Apollo missions

https://apolloinrealtime.org/

5 years ago

Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now Foundation (2008-17)

https://longbets.org/362/

5 years ago

Snyk: Find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies

https://github.com/snyk/snyk

5 years ago

Apple removes $1k featureless iPhone application (2008)

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/08/iphone-i-am-ric.html

5 years ago

Cname / DNS based third party tracking

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301v2

5 years ago

A mundane use of dependent types

https://twitter.com/edwinbrady/status/1366031382577881092

5 years ago