top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-21

Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF

http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/richard-stallman-is-coming-back-to-the-board-of-the-free-software-foundation-founded-by-himself-35-years-ago/

5 years ago

844 upvotes – 856 comments

Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing

5 years ago

824 upvotes – 269 comments

GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models

https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neo/

5 years ago

561 upvotes – 127 comments

CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

https://cutiepi.io/

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 164 comments

John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1372944852325789704

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 387 comments

SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/ubiome-richman-apte-sec-filing-charges-fraud-16042042.php

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 380 comments

Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528011

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 532 comments

As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-students/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 512 comments

CUPID – the back story

https://dannorth.net/2021/03/16/cupid-the-back-story/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 257 comments

Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)

http://flatkill.org/2020/

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 289 comments

Godot Engine Web Editor

https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/latest/

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 98 comments

Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpyqm/amazon-keeps-getting-sued-for-paying-drivers-less-than-minimum-wage

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 187 comments

The Infinite Drum Machine

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 43 comments

Neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants after infection, vaccination

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777898

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 255 comments

Multithreading for Game Engines

https://vkguide.dev/docs/extra-chapter/multithreading/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 66 comments

Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to Add Hard Drop

https://www.gridbugs.org/reverse-engineering-nes-tetris-to-add-hard-drop/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 41 comments

Academic “ghost-writing”: the cheating scandal no one will discuss (2020)

https://logosnews.tech/-MJYdKMeuTakOZj7iq4d

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 209 comments

Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)

https://bofh.org.uk/2019/02/25/baking-with-emacs/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 48 comments

NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

https://fstoppers.com/opinion/nfts-are-pyramid-scheme-and-people-are-already-losing-money-554869

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 260 comments

AMD Expected to Become TSMC's Second Largest Customer

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-tsmc-second-largest-customer

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 105 comments

FreeCAD 0.19

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Release_notes_0.19

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Make continuous reforestation part of your daily workflow

https://github.com/protontypes/continuous-reforestation

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: Papercups – Open-source alternative to Intercom

https://papercups.io/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 34 comments

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 68 comments

Distributed Systems: A free online class

http://www.distributedsystemscourse.com/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 15 comments

The world needs a software bill of materials

https://drrispens.medium.com/why-the-world-needs-a-software-bill-of-materials-now-5a565df65dff

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 136 comments

Dataflowr – Deep Learning DIY

https://dataflowr.github.io/website/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 12 comments

NYC Spent Half a Million Dollars per Inmate in 2020, Report Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-10/nyc-spent-half-a-million-dollars-per-inmate-in-2020-report-says

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 92 comments

When you have too much memory for SheepShaver

https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/03/when-you-have-too-much-memory-for.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

Adoption of Mypy for Python type checking: 45% already use it, 40% don't plan to

https://twitter.com/glyph/status/1372640855807250432

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 130 comments

OpenRA Release 20210321 (and new website)

https://www.openra.net/news/release-20210321/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

A beginner’s guide to web accessibility

https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/beginners-guide-to-web-accessibility-514644750b0f

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/03/a-new-lens-on-understanding.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

High-income tax avoidance far larger than thought, new paper estimates

https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-income-tax-avoidance-far-larger-than-thought-new-paper-estimates-11616364001

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 131 comments

The failed heir: The Hyper Neo Geo 64

http://nicole.express/2021/ultra-mega-hyper-neo-geo-64.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 4 comments
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