top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-09

The Animal Is Tired

http://www.robinhobb.com/blog/posts/38429

5 years ago

1299 upvotes – 426 comments

The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/

5 years ago

712 upvotes – 344 comments

The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/07/chip-shortage-is-starting-to-have-major-real-world-consequences.html

5 years ago

619 upvotes – 716 comments

Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210507-why-we-glorify-the-cult-of-burnout-and-overwork

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 413 comments

AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years

https://hothardware.com/news/amd-epyc-server-cpu-gains-highest-share-intel-15-years

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 115 comments

Gravity is a double copy of other forces

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-gravity-is-a-double-copy-of-other-forces-20210504/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 205 comments

A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes

https://dynomight.net/better-personalities/

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 249 comments

Wikipedia is up (2001)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010506042824/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000684.html

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 198 comments

Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/9/22427811/simple-bbva-transition-errors-bank-shutdown

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 218 comments

Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 84 comments

There’s no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 207 comments

Wealthy use debt to buy future cash flow everyone else uses debt to buy stuff (2020)

https://themdpreneur.com/purchase-future-cash-stop-buying-more-stuff/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 173 comments

Gnuplot is not GNU

http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#x1-70001.2

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 199 comments

OCaml is 25

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/25-years-of-ocaml/7813

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 122 comments

The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

https://www.dogatekin.com/blog/hypnotic-degenerate-spirals/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 40 comments

Learning how to think (2015)

https://fs.blog/2015/08/how-to-think/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 46 comments

New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/05/06/new-technology-has-enabled-cyber-crime-on-an-industrial-scale

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 210 comments

The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)

https://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 303 comments

Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/08/remains-of-nine-neanderthals-found-in-cave-south-of-rome

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 84 comments

US Customs Export Control Says: I’m Screwed

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2021/05/07/us-customs-export-control/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Save, annotate and organize podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, videos

https://www.shelf.so/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 31 comments

What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-happens-to-stocks-and-cryptocurrencies-when-the-fed-stops-raining-money-11620446420

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 275 comments

There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/theres-no-place-for-expensive-laptops-with-8gb-of-ram-anymore

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 190 comments

Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor

https://apnews.com/article/technology-33a29ac19d039ecdc876d6ac15bcf0a4

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 64 comments

New York Attorney General declares top ISPs committed net neutrality fraud

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-york-attorney-general-declares-top-isps-committed-net-neutrality-fraud/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

https://upvotetracker.com/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 33 comments

'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/08/994738544/the-story-of-sesame-street-from-radical-experiment-to-beloved-tv-mainstay

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 102 comments

When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 95 comments

Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/amazon-reviews-leak-report/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=68d94aa744d175209f58f23d7a8d1abe537a992b-1620518228-0-AWKYMKnGGipF08ctlTZysfv1gJ-4yzWNRWiePdEd6U7ViOaOx_LvUy2xTpYuQErklma2AP-B6lSO6IKhKTgdGycTuK37qz0QvaMMhlBGVgLs8ozveTJ5-BGNgBO4akiWlFYxLo3GernZBW6NpFbvWIWb7yargGHoi1KtAQYTo5PQuL-sOZk_r5LezxO1EqmoxJTzrF_9uvOeltNAlvKIyxtwfe-CQsuMPzZ9kuArNoZxK0W9zySjtceJ3z0nU7vP1hOkcGvKo9detAnqItSuRq4MuJRP88qDnCnhmv9qYn7MaFK6Sn0a1EZ0g37_znY3i2dUncalNvxyagkbtW2SXyLNIOXYCKnOBU6NAjrSsi-TtjyuRJCeoCYWOCvHf-2EYDn59rMUr319deKBCmumHbu5L4t1GV2DEEHXYGj6iGmzex9lacF3lPbcrX5vDnvNNjIbb2v9Kg0D8r9wbcyFEVD4MbED7QCu6Z-sw9OWHUHizQHeWlQ5W8T0fqjrYuRbww

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 53 comments

Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes

https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/news/actualitat/2021/115-health-nutrition-diabetes-sardines.html

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 149 comments

Online cheating charges upend Dartmouth Medical School

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geisel-medical-cheating.html

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 40 comments

Remote-first companies that actively hire

https://www.remotecompany.com/blog/remote-first-companies-list

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 67 comments

Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-lights-you-cant-buy/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 71 comments

No, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto

https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 60 comments

What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-did-einstein-mean-by-spooky-action.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 126 comments

PocketPCR

https://gaudi.ch/PocketPCR/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 30 comments

Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)

https://www.cargocultcode.com/solving-the-zalgo-regex/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 126 comments

Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C

http://objective.st/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 54 comments

History of RSpec

https://www.stevenrbaker.com/tech/history-of-rspec.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)

https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 60 comments

Italian towns will pay you to work remotely

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-towns-pay-remote-working-cmd/index.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 59 comments

Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/sunday/steve-jobs-never-wanted-us-to-use-our-iphones-like-this.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 101 comments

Elon Musk, master promoter

https://keith404.medium.com/elon-musk-the-master-promoter-a-case-study-3b8eae65b8f7

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 195 comments

SpaceX launches Starlink sats in record 10th liftoff, landing of reused rocket

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-27-10th-falcon-9-rocket-launch-landing-success

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 85 comments

Introduction to Security Good Practices

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-05-09-introduction-to-security.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Why psychology isn’t science (2012)

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-jul-13-la-ol-blowback-pscyhology-science-20120713-story.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 120 comments

Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? (2020)

https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/6220/why-is-it-a-bad-idea-to-filter-by-zeroing-out-fft-bins/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 40 comments

Trading Pit Hand Signals

https://tradingpithistory.com/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Does NMN improve metabolic health in humans?

https://peterattiamd.com/does-nmn-improve-metabolic-health-in-humans/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 57 comments

Google faces $5B lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use (2020)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit-idUSKBN23933H

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Cyber attack shuts down U.S. fuel pipeline ‘jugular’

https://www.reuters.com/technology/colonial-pipeline-halts-all-pipeline-operations-after-cybersecurity-attack-2021-05-08/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

Unintended Instructions on x86

https://github.com/preames/public-notes/blob/master/unintended-instructions.rst

5 years ago

★ 82 LLVM BSD-2-Clause
78 upvotes – 26 comments

Advancing Sports Analytics Through AI Research

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/advancing-sports-analytics-through-ai

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 59 comments
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