top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-11

std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs

https://github.com/zhuowei/nft_ptr

5 years ago

559 upvotes – 84 comments

The Ponzi Career

https://www.drorpoleg.com/the-ponzi-career/

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 299 comments

Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/when-googles-fancy-lawyers-screw

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 161 comments

Technologies I thought my son would never use

https://www.tomshardware.com/opinion/15-technology-predictions-how-they-did

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 553 comments

Anxiety is in your body, not your mind

https://elemental.medium.com/anxiety-is-in-your-body-not-your-mind-93031abd14eb

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 234 comments

Is It Pokemon or Big Data?

http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

5 years ago

387 upvotes – 67 comments

AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i8j5te/i_made_a_free_alternative_to_photoshop_that_is/g18ush0/

5 years ago

363 upvotes – 267 comments

MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 107 comments

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme

https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 60 comments

Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free

https://cybernews.com/security/clubhouse-data-leak-1-3-million-user-records-leaked-for-free-online/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 82 comments

Making Librem 5 Apps [video]

https://puri.sm/posts/the-simplicity-of-making-librem-5-apps/

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 264 comments

A common mistake when NumPy’s RNG with PyTorch

https://tanelp.github.io/posts/a-bug-that-plagues-thousands-of-open-source-ml-projects/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 53 comments

Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware?

https://thehustle.co/why-delaware-is-the-sexiest-place-in-america-to-incorporate-a-company/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 184 comments

Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56708778

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 328 comments

French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-france-flights-idUSKBN2BY0AO

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 349 comments

MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning

https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/MLJ.jl/dev/#Key-features

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 56 comments

Internet-monitoring – A Docker stack that monitors your home network

https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-monitoring

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 53 comments

The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor

https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab013/6217436?redirectedFrom=fulltext

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 202 comments

When real world mapping meets Tolkien

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/newsroom/blog/real-world-mapping-meets-tolkien

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 68 comments

Google used past bid data to boost win rate in advertising auctions

https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-secret-project-bernanke-revealed-in-texas-antitrust-case-11618097760

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 69 comments

Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5

https://lukesempire.com/2021/04/11/vms

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 117 comments

M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26768662

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 169 comments

The Shape of Rome (2013)

https://www.exurbe.com/the-shape-of-rome/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 41 comments

Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter (2018)

https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/17/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 119 comments

Facebook had ample warning about privacy problems with “contact import” feature

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-data-leak-contact-import-flaws/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769638

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 143 comments

Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate as Wall Street bonuses

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/the-minimum-wage-would-be-44-per-hour-if-it-had-grown-at-the-same-rate-as-wall-street-bonuses/articleshow/81751829.cms

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 233 comments

The Gaslighting of Science

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/the-gaslighting-of-science

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 146 comments

Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-decides-to-release-water-from-Fukushima-plant-into-sea

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 152 comments

Alibaba slapped with record $2.7B antitrust fine

https://www.zdnet.com/article/alibaba-slapped-with-record-2-7b-antitrust-fine/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 107 comments

The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/masters-pimento-cheese-sandwich

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Squirrelbyte – a SQLite-based JSON document server

https://squirrelbyte.com/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

Go HTTPS Servers with TLS

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/go-https-servers-with-tls/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-08/austin-texas-ready-or-not-becomes-hot-spot-for-silicon-valley-transplants

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog

https://github.com/jamespwilliams/prolog-isolation-checker

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 23 comments

Demystifying programs that create programs, part 1: A disassembler

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210407.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Gradle 7.0

https://docs.gradle.org/7.0/release-notes.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 139 comments

CloudBeaver – Database Management from Browser

https://cloudbeaver.io

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-study/south-african-variant-can-break-through-pfizer-vaccine-israeli-study-says-idUSKBN2BX0JZ

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 67 comments

Bloom filters explained in a single image

https://exampl.io/bloom-filters/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

Problems with JPA/Hibernate

https://www.stemlaur.com/blog/2021/03/30/tech-hibern-hate/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 189 comments

The Black-Scholes formula, explained (2019)

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-black-scholes-formula-explained-9e05b7865d8a

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 63 comments

The Healing Power of JavaScript

https://www.wired.com/story/healing-power-javascript-code-programming/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/11/microsoft-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-speech-recognition-company-nuance.html

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 65 comments

The Nuclear Lightbulb (2020)

https://beyondnerva.com/2020/03/21/the-nuclear-lightbulb-a-brief-introduction/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

https://github.com/vran-dev/PrettyZoo

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

Cree#, a morphemic programming language with Cree keywords and concepts

https://esoteric.codes/blog/jon-corbett

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 60 comments

Obsolete German Units of Measurement

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

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 105 comments

Surround Sound in Headphones

https://www.soundguys.com/surround-sound-headphones-guide-49389/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 106 comments

First-Class I/O

https://blog.sunfishcode.online/first-class-io/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Surgeons Perform First Human Tracheal Transplant Surgery

https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2021/mount-sinai-surgeons-perform-first-human-tracheal-transplant-surgery

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/04/08/reflections-on-one-year-as-the-ceo-of-mozilla/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 100 comments
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