top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-07

Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch

https://text.npr.org/974534021

5 years ago

1461 upvotes – 298 comments

NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap

https://seths.blog/2021/03/nfts-are-a-dangerous-trap/

5 years ago

772 upvotes – 752 comments

Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun

https://kevinlynagh.com/rust-zig/

5 years ago

743 upvotes – 387 comments

Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/digital-identity-scheme-faces-scepticism-around-data-privacy/46399636

5 years ago

619 upvotes – 401 comments

The Kilobyte’s Gambit

https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/

5 years ago

518 upvotes – 147 comments

Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen

https://pmigdal.medium.com/dont-fight-flight-or-freeze-your-body-and-emotions-96f5aa30b299

5 years ago

463 upvotes – 113 comments

Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55349255

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 411 comments

Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

https://nodes.io/

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 92 comments

Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202101.0412/v1

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 250 comments

A Year at Google Brain (2020)

https://www.debugmind.com/2020/01/04/paths-to-the-future-a-year-at-google-brain/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 101 comments

We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/900mhz-mesh.html

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 186 comments

Someone is hacking the hackers

https://gizmodo.com/someone-is-hacking-the-hackers-1846406428

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 160 comments

Donate Unrestricted

http://paulgraham.com/donate.html

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 284 comments

What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? [pdf]

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/stat50.pdf

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 69 comments

I Bought a Business for $0

https://every.to/superorganizers/how-i-bought-a-business-for-0

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 121 comments

Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack

https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/6044830be2838505358d3108

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 115 comments

UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020)

https://dailybruin.com/2020/02/27/ucs-termination-of-elsevier-contract-has-had-limited-negative-impact

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 90 comments

FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-safety-engineer-goes-public-to-slam-the-agencys-oversight-of-boeings-737-max/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 113 comments

Apple M1 Microarchitecture Research

https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm.html

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 48 comments

Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-04/california-exodus-san-francisco-migration

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 454 comments

US Pipeline Caused Biggest Spill in Decades, We’re Just Hearing About It

https://earther.gizmodo.com/one-of-the-nation-s-largest-pipelines-caused-the-bigges-1846406684

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 60 comments

Why winter exercise can be especially hard on the lungs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/winter-exercise-lungs-1.5936703

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: Buy My Side Project

https://buymysideproject.com

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 68 comments

Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytic

https://github.com/plausible/analytics

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 87 comments

ISO Standard for Preparing Tea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 130 comments

Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (2014)

https://www.rochester.edu/news/divorce-rate-cut-in-half-for-couples-who-discussed-relationship-movies/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 83 comments

Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web

https://atodorov.me/2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 208 comments

Cactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix protocol

https://cactus.chat/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

507 Mechanical Movements (1868)

http://507movements.com

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 30 comments

The ZX81 Turns 40

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/05/zx81_at_40/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 81 comments

The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-blissful-political-incorrectness-of-soviet-comedies/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

https://counter.dev/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 77 comments

Review: The Book of Why

https://tachy.org/posts/book-of-why/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 37 comments

The Ergodicity Problem in Economics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0732-0

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 208 comments

“Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)

http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 114 comments

Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland

https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/03/07/qubes-lite-with-kvm-and-wayland/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 48 comments

It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/03/05/it-turns-out-you-can-bullshit-a-bullshitter-after-all/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 160 comments

What Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network?

https://www.thingsquare.com/blog/articles/100-hops-ipv6-mesh/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 24 comments

Great Man-Made River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 48 comments

Functioning iPhone returned to owner after six months at bottom of lake

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cell-phone-recovered-from-harrison-lake-1.5937753?cmp=rss

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 101 comments

Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-building-apps-with-flutter-in-future

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 112 comments

An Introduction to ASCII Ray Marching

https://ch-st.de/its-ray-marching-march/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 9 comments

Don’t use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]

http://www.harold.thimbleby.net/cv/files/seven-segment.pdf

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 78 comments

Instacart mulls direct listing in snub to IPOs

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-instacart-directlisting-exclusive-idUSKBN2AX13F

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Mito – Write Python/Pandas faster by editing a spreadsheet, in Jupyter

https://trymito.io/launch

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938)

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/you-can-learn-glass-blowing/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

China’s Bitcoin miners flee Inner Mongolia ahead of crypto mining ban

https://forkast.news/inner-mongolia-shut-down-crypto-mining-china-bitcoin-miners/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 120 comments

Launch HN: PingPong (YC W21) – Video messaging for remote teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26377761

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 68 comments

ArmorPaint: An open source physically-based texture painting software

https://armorpaint.org/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments
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