top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-05

30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/at-least-30000-u-s-organizations-newly-hacked-via-holes-in-microsofts-email-software/

5 years ago

Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux

https://boilingsteam.com/7000-windows-games-working-on-linux-with-proton/

5 years ago

Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

https://github.com/nodegui/svelte-nodegui

5 years ago

Open source projects should run office hours

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/19/office-hours/

5 years ago

'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719

5 years ago

Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site

https://www.uploader.win/blog/

5 years ago

Bring Your Own Client

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2021/03/05/bring-your-own-client.html

5 years ago

Symbolics.jl: A Modern Computer Algebra System for a Modern Language

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-symbolics-jl-a-modern-computer-algebra-system-for-a-modern-language/56251

5 years ago

Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers

https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oakland-bans-the-use-of-combustion-engine-powered-leaf-blowers-and-string-trimmers

5 years ago

Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79310-1

5 years ago

Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39609/hondas-now-selling-the-worlds-first-production-car-with-level-3-self-driving-tech

5 years ago

Coursera S-1 IPO

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1651562/000119312521071525/d65490ds1.htm

5 years ago

PyTorch 1.8, with AMD ROCm support

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/releases/tag/v1.8.0

5 years ago

NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00586-y

5 years ago

Fusion startup plans reactor with small but powerful superconducting magnets

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/fusion-startup-plans-reactor-small-powerful-superconducting-magnets

5 years ago

Girl and Computer: Reflecting on the journey that got me to where I am today

https://rmurphey.medium.com/girl-computer-31ecd328bc53

5 years ago

Wing Commander III

https://www.filfre.net/2021/03/wing-commander-iii/

5 years ago

Kalman Filter

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

5 years ago

Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376321

5 years ago

Data Transfer Project by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.

https://datatransferproject.dev/

5 years ago

Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary

https://www.getzola.org/

5 years ago

An update on Android's audio latency

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-on-androids-audio-latency.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad

https://relocate.me

5 years ago

The reason Okta spent $6.5B on Auth0

https://supertokens.io/blog/the-real-reason-okta-spent-on-auth0

5 years ago

A warning about 5.12-rc1

https://lwn.net/Articles/848265/

5 years ago

Ask HN: How do I learn drawing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360349

5 years ago

Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM

https://caramel.run

5 years ago

Student passes 3 classes in 4 years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/city-student-passes-3-classes-in-four-years-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gpa

5 years ago

Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 1: Color CRTs)

https://int10h.org/blog/2021/01/simulating-crt-monitors-ffmpeg-pt-1-color/

5 years ago

Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989)

http://amasci.com/miscon/whyhard2.html

5 years ago

L.A. startup is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-03-04/this-la-company-is-building-tiny-medical-robots-to-inject-into-your-body

5 years ago

Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16535/intel-core-i7-11700k-review-blasting-off-with-rocket-lake

5 years ago

Clojure from a Schemer's Perspective

https://www.more-magic.net/posts/thoughts-on-clojure.html

5 years ago

India downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in democracy report

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-downgraded-from-free-to-partly-free-in-democracy-report-101614810847391.html

5 years ago

Modern Text Features in R

https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2021/02/modern-text-features/

5 years ago

Binance Smart Chain DeFi Project Hacked for $31M

https://cryptobriefing.com/binance-smart-chain-defi-project-hacked-31-million/

5 years ago

Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part I: High Fiber

https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-high-fiber/

5 years ago

Book Review: Fussell on Class

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on-class

5 years ago

"World's highest-capacity" solid-state battery developed in Japan

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/World-s-highest-capacity-solid-state-battery-developed-in-Japan

5 years ago

Mischa's Cursed Webring

https://cursed.lol

5 years ago

FizzBuzz Mario World: Learning Assembly Language and Having Some Fun

https://computebeauty.com/posts/fbmw/index.html

5 years ago

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (2009)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

5 years ago

How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/04/how-does-your-programming-language-handle-minus-zero-0-0/

5 years ago

State-of-the-Art Image Generation Models

https://arankomatsuzaki.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/state-of-the-art-image-generative-models/

5 years ago

Zshelf: Z-Library books downloader for reMarkable tablet

https://github.com/khanhas/zshelf

5 years ago

U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-crime-mcafee/update-1-u-s-says-john-mcafee-indicted-over-fraudulent-cryptocurrency-schemes-idUSL2N2L31SF

5 years ago

Framing 101

https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/tools-and-resources/framing-101/

5 years ago

Microsoft's list of banned C functions

https://github.com/x509cert/banned/blob/master/banned.h

5 years ago

Standard Ruby 1.0

https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2021-03-04-announcing-standard-ruby-1.0/

5 years ago

Show HN: C is for Camera, a 35mm film camera represented in Python objects

https://github.com/evildmp/C-is-for-Camera

5 years ago

Kazuo Ishiguro uses artificial intelligence to reveal the limits of our own

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/08/kazuo-ishiguro-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-reveal-the-limits-of-our-own

5 years ago

Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Luis Borges (1968)

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/interview-jorge-luis-borges

5 years ago

How to Build a Community: Starting with “Why?”

https://clrcrl.com/2021/03/03/how-to-build-a-community-why.html

5 years ago

How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/05/1020376/resist-big-tech-surveillance-data/

5 years ago

Generating ePub from LaTeX

https://minireference.com/blog/generating-epub-from-latex/

5 years ago

CFTC charges two individuals with multi-million digital asset pump-and-dump

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8366-21

5 years ago

Banned Seuss

https://bannedseuss.com/

5 years ago

The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5359

5 years ago

How a game about making zines helped me recapture my creativity in lockdown

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/feb/22/electric-zine-maker-video-game

5 years ago

Paying my bills with 'free' ebooks

https://learnbyexample.github.io/my-book-writing-experience/

5 years ago

SVG Tetris

https://www.xul.fr/svgtetris.svg

5 years ago

Justified Variables: Words of the same length with related meanings

https://github.com/timvieira/justified-variables

5 years ago