top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-10

US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57050690

5 years ago

611 upvotes – 451 comments

Writing books is not really a good idea

https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/creator-economy-for-fiction-authors

5 years ago

577 upvotes – 609 comments

Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

https://www.axios.com/salaries-game-developers-break-silence-8f03c4aa-216e-4043-80dc-0376c606b926.html

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 540 comments

Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse

https://www.narrator.ai/blog/using-postgresql-as-a-data-warehouse/

5 years ago

435 upvotes – 150 comments

Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dont-ruin-the-root/

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 184 comments

Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?

https://www.dpreview.com/news/9236543269/why-are-modern-50mm-lenses-so-damned-complicated

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 281 comments

The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day

https://www.simplermachines.com/the-mortifying-ordeal-of-pairing-all-day/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 304 comments

Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2

https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202105090002

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 294 comments

eBPF on Windows

https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 165 comments

The word “decide” has deadly origins

https://www.etymologynerd.com/blog/choices

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 117 comments

Advanced Situational Awareness [pdf]

https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN32030-TC_3-22.69-000-WEB-1.pdf

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 148 comments

One million people saw my dumbest tweet

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/one-million-people-saw-my-dumbest-tweet

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 123 comments

Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)

https://nusenu.medium.com/tracking-one-year-of-malicious-tor-exit-relay-activities-part-ii-85c80875c5df

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 147 comments

The FBI seized safe deposit boxes knowing ‘some’ belonged to ‘honest citizens’

https://reason.com/2021/05/10/the-fbi-seized-heirlooms-coins-and-cash-from-hundreds-of-safe-deposit-boxes-in-beverly-hills-despite-knowing-some-belonged-to-honest-citizens/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 200 comments

Why I Love Coding (2012)

https://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 118 comments

Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API

https://blog.frankel.ch/teeing-java-api/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 110 comments

Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys General Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-10/facebook-should-halt-instagram-kids-plan-attorneys-general-say

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 176 comments

OpenPOWER Foundation announces LibreBMC, a POWER-based, fully open-source BMC

https://openpowerfoundation.org/openpower-foundation-announces-librebmc-a-power-based-fully-open-source-bmc/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Django SQL Dashboard

https://django-sql-dashboard.datasette.io/en/latest/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 27 comments

Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tech

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 189 comments

Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/EigenGame

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 14 comments

Epidemiologist R Handbook

https://epirhandbook.com/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 6 comments

Poor Disk Performance

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-05-09/poor-disk-performance.html

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 36 comments

NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36387950/ntsb-investigation-tesla-model-s-autopilot/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 199 comments

Using GDPR to obtain one’s data as JSON

https://mazzo.li/posts/gdpr-success-story.html

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 133 comments

DragonflyBSD 6.0

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release60/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 57 comments

Engineer Who Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Physics

https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2021/05/two-time-nobel-pize-winner-physics.html

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 84 comments

How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World

https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 29 comments

Hacker News Classics (2018)

https://jsomers.net/hn/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and compile C files directly

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107919

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 253 comments

Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video]

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

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 142 comments

Pyre: A performant type-checker for Python 3

https://pyre-check.org

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 115 comments

CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32471

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

Praise for Alpine Linux

https://portal.drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.gmi

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 90 comments

OpenAstroTracker: A cheap 3D-printed tracking mount for DSLR astrophotography

https://github.com/OpenAstroTech/OpenAstroTracker

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 34 comments

Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02124

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 33 comments

Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’

https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/four-berkshire-bombshells-plus-the-spac-market-implosion/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 253 comments

The disappearance of a Soviet skiing party in 1959

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments

A “perfect coronal mass ejection” could be a nightmare

http://www.arrl.org/news/a-perfect-coronal-mass-ejection-could-be-a-nightmare

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 129 comments

FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine-teens.html

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 166 comments

The Syslog Hell

https://techblog.bozho.net/the-syslog-hell/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 84 comments

Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1

https://trycombine.com/posts/swift-actors/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

Amazon Managers Say They 'Hire to Fire' to Meet Internal Turnover Goal

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-managers-performance-reviews-hire-to-fire-internal-turnover-goal-2021-5

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as your app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102020

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 59 comments

Why should I put my website to sleep?

https://www.nightnight.xn--q9jyb4c/details

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 92 comments

Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode

https://github.com/marcin-chwedczuk/shellcode-tshirt

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey

https://gizmodo.com/60-million-stars-and-not-one-alien-detected-1846813945

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 186 comments

Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445642

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 154 comments

Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?

https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/why-opendoc-failed-and-then-failed-3-more-times/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: DataProfiler – What's in your data? Extract schema, stats and entities

https://github.com/capitalone/DataProfiler

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder

https://pypi.org/project/windyquery/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2

https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/the-real-impact-of-psd2/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 117 comments

Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/10/beware-of-applications-misusing-root-stores/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Local Register Allocator for 8086

https://github.com/alexfru/regal86

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

Firefox Public Data Report

https://data.firefox.com/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 64 comments

Scrap for cash: Bronze Age witnessed revolution in small change across Europe

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-scrap-cash-bronze-age-witnessed.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

ServiceNow acquires Lightstep

https://www.zdnet.com/article/servicenow-acquires-lightstep-aims-to-leverage-observability-across-enterprises/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102764

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 65 comments
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