top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-25

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)

https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html?repostindays=413

5 years ago

915 upvotes – 276 comments

Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-its-definition-of-the-word-buy/

5 years ago

684 upvotes – 388 comments

Has UML died without anyone noticing?

https://garba.org/posts/2021/uml/

5 years ago

656 upvotes – 586 comments

Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C

https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-interpreters.html

5 years ago

586 upvotes – 190 comments

Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 234 comments

Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range

https://sifted.eu/articles/job-advert-salary-range/

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 295 comments

Rust Language Cheat Sheet

https://cheats.rs/

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 101 comments

Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews through fibre cable

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/beaver-internet-down-tumbler-ridge-1.6001594

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: Verilog2factorio

https://github.com/Redcrafter/verilog2factorio/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 70 comments

How Facebook encodes videos

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/05/video-engineering/how-facebook-encodes-your-videos/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 148 comments

Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984464351/as-biden-pushes-major-rail-investments-rail-amtraks-2035-map-has-people-talking?t=1619351947832

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 573 comments

3D Game Shaders for Beginners

https://github.com/lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 26 comments

Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8KejpUVLxmqp026JY7x5GzHU2YJLPU8SzTZUNXU2OXC70ZQQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 376 comments

Inside Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

https://petapixel.com/2021/04/24/exclusive-photos-inside-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 51 comments

Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56847518

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

https://mark.show

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 63 comments

Dynamic Programming vs. Divide-and-Conquer (2018)

https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2018/dynamic-programming-vs-divide-and-conquer/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 115 comments

The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life (2007)

http://www.masnick.com/2007/09/07/the-secret-thinkpad-powerbutton-code-to-bring-dead-laptops-back-to-life/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 76 comments

Why do drum sets have descending toms?

https://www.lowvolumedrumming.org/descending-toms/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 71 comments

Tesla admits its Full Self-Driving technology is a Level 2 system

https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/tesla-full-self-driving-level-2-sae

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 279 comments

Orbit Tessellation developer diary for Kerbal Space Program 2

https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/dev-diaries/6509/

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 82 comments

The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go

https://reallifemag.com/money-for-nothing/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 205 comments

Modern C++ Won't Save Us (2019)

https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 255 comments

The Slander Industry

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/online-slander-websites.html

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 102 comments

A Product Engineer’s Guide to Platform Engineers (2019)

https://rinaarts.medium.com/stupid-baboons-stubborn-elephants-c33412541bb1

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 42 comments

Foundations of Information

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/books/foundations-of-information/#/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 17 comments

The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/13/the-knacker-the-toughest-job-in-british-farming

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 70 comments

Java for Everything (2014)

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 246 comments

OpenAstroTracker: 3D printed, open source star tracker

https://openastrotech.com/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

The joys of creating Xcode project files

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-joys-of-creating-xcode-project-files.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 119 comments

JavaScript for Data Science

http://js4ds.org/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 75 comments

Developers on what makes their games ‘hand-drawn’

https://www.polygon.com/interviews/22397934/indie-games-hand-drawn-artists-cozy-grove

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26935838

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 106 comments

The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgkzw/the-story-of-the-dutch-couple-ida-sabelis-pek-van-andel-sex-intercourse-mri-scanner-for-science

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 47 comments

Starlink Ground Station Map

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1H1x8jZs8vfjy60TvKgpbYs_grargieVw&ll=58.741351768956484%2C-124.56503581249999&z=4

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 87 comments

Heroku-style deployments with Docker and Git tags

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/git-push-deployments-docker-tags/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

Paid in Full: an internet where every interaction is a financial transaction

https://reallifemag.com/paid-in-full/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 177 comments

Crypto miners are killing free CI

https://layerci.com/blog/crypto-miners-are-killing-free-ci/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

Understanding SaaS Metrics

https://www.causal.app/saas-metrics

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 14 comments

EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/22/eu-proposing-to-regulate-the-use-of-bayesian-estimation/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930923

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 125 comments

Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/04/evolving-reinforcement-learning.html

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 2 comments

Libfive: Solid modeling (CAD) library/tools with Scheme/Python bindings and GUI

https://libfive.com/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Let's stop building APIs around a network hack (2017)

https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/lets-stop-building-apis-around-a-network-hack

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: What are some good resources for a programmer to learn UI/UX design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Swift on the Server (2020)

https://theswiftdev.com/swift-on-the-server-in-2020/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 101 comments

Álvaro de Campos

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

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=38916

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)

https://launchyourapp.meezeeworkouts.com/2021/03/why-we-dont-use-docker-we-dont-need-it.html

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 90 comments

Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56882257

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments
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