top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-25

Is that ship still stuck?

https://istheshipstillstuck.com/

5 years ago

1453 upvotes – 1237 comments

All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

https://brianschrader.com/archive/why-all-my-servers-have-an-8gb-empty-file/

5 years ago

1345 upvotes – 696 comments

SQLite is not a toy database

https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/

5 years ago

986 upvotes – 354 comments

RIP Google Reader

https://www.ripgooglereader.com/

5 years ago

729 upvotes – 408 comments

Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you

https://blog.rize.io/blog/phones-and-apps-reduce-your-ability-to-focus-even-when-they-dont-distract-you

5 years ago

585 upvotes – 219 comments

Do you really want Linux phones

https://blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/

5 years ago

511 upvotes – 562 comments

Julia 1.6 Highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2021/03/julia-1.6-highlights/

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 214 comments

Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code

https://bart.degoe.de/building-a-full-text-search-engine-150-lines-of-code/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

https://themes.vscode.one

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 104 comments

Rust 1.51

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/03/25/Rust-1.51.0.html

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 68 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 141 comments

Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-lawyers-sheepskin-anti-fraud-device-hundreds.html

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 76 comments

Funds for Open Source

https://blog.opencollective.com/funds-for-open-source/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 190 comments

Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 109 comments

Fossil Chat

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/chat.md

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 162 comments

CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

https://www.coscreen.co/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 92 comments

Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 225 comments

Emacs 27.2

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-03/msg00008.html

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 111 comments

Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)

https://copyconstruct.medium.com/socat-29453e9fc8a6

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 65 comments

Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 278 comments

Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with one weird trick

https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 65 comments

20-Minute Neighborhoods

https://theconversation.com/people-love-the-idea-of-20-minute-neighbourhoods-so-why-isnt-it-top-of-the-agenda-131193

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 256 comments

1982: The Hobbit

https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 33 comments

Julia and the satellite Amazonia-1 (2020)

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-the-satellite-amazonia-1/57541

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 28 comments

A “Better C” Benchmark

https://zserge.com/posts/better-c-benchmark/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 185 comments

Egg: E-Graphs Good

https://egraphs-good.github.io/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 13 comments

The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez

https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d3c1

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 92 comments

DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 74 comments

Self-compassion is not self-indulgence

https://psyche.co/ideas/self-compassion-is-not-self-indulgence-heres-how-to-try-it

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 46 comments

New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56503741

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 161 comments

TinaCMS: A toolkit for building visual editing into your site

https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming

https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scripts-and-early-server-side-web-programming/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 96 comments

RoadPony is a new way to support musicians by crowdsourcing concerts

http://www.roadpony.com

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 84 comments

Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56510574

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 194 comments

Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF

https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 97 comments

Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (2009) [video]

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Rich-Hickey-and-Brian-Beckman-Inside-Clojure

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 45 comments

Gödel's Loophole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_Loophole

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 130 comments

Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/03/25/56109515/amazon-just-cut-off-companywide-communication-for-its-warehouse-workers

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 68 comments

Bad Apple on an Apple //e: playing video on a stock 1 MHz Apple II [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4faogRMOL4

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

Ethernet and IP Networking 101

https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/computer-networking-101/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 8 comments

Amdahl's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 65 comments

At Home with Down Syndrome (2008)

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/at-home-with-down-syndrome

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 138 comments

After a remote year, tech’s shadow workforce barely hangs on

https://www.wired.com/story/after-remote-year-tech-shadow-workforce-barely-hangs-on/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 109 comments

Comparing H.265 (HEVC) and H265 video file size

https://janstechtalk.blogspot.com/2021/03/comparing-h265-hevc-and-h265-video-file.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 119 comments

The Joy of Condensed Matter

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/the-joy-of-condensed-matter/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

OAuth Attack Vectors

https://portswigger.net/research/hidden-oauth-attack-vectors

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos

https://vidds.co/free-video-converter/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

More big investors shun Deliveroo over workers' rights

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56515498

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 114 comments

The algorithms that make Instacart roll

https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/the-algorithms-that-make-instacart-roll

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

Programming quotes

https://www.ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/12/10/programming-quotes/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 55 comments

FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

https://fsl.tools/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 72 comments

Honest Microservices

https://danielbmarkham.com/honest-microservices/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 79 comments

The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-pastry-ai-that-learned-to-fight-cancer

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 19 comments

Red Hat statement about RMS’s return to the Free Software Foundation board

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-statement-about-richard-stallmans-return-free-software-foundation-board

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 78 comments

Netlify Status – CDN Issues

https://www.netlifystatus.com/incidents/r2nqshvznvyj

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 85 comments

Yocto/GL: C++ Libraries for Data-Driven Physically-Based Graphics

https://github.com/xelatihy/yocto-gl

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Real World Examples of GPT-3 Plain Language Root Cause Summaries

https://www.zebrium.com/blog/real-world-examples-of-gpt-3-plain-language-root-cause-summaries-zebrium

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Lenovo liable for 20000€ in damages for refusing a 42€ Windows refund

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.fr.html

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 4 comments

Science relies on constructive criticism. How to keep it useful and respectful

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2021/03/science-relies-constructive-criticism-here-s-how-keep-it-useful-and-respectful

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

Talented People Frequently Don’t Rise to the Top

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Sx6SBmyut73u6atgB/the-best-frequently-don-t-rise-to-the-top

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 61 comments

Polycloud: S3-compatible object storage

https://crowdstorage.com/products/polycloud/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 113 comments
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