611
451
US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57050690
4 years ago
577
609
Writing books is not really a good idea
https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/creator-economy-for-fiction-authors
448
540
Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
https://www.axios.com/salaries-game-developers-break-silence-8f03c4aa-216e-4043-80dc-0376c606b926.html
435
150
Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse
https://www.narrator.ai/blog/using-postgresql-as-a-data-warehouse/
407
184
Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dont-ruin-the-root/
334
281
Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
https://www.dpreview.com/news/9236543269/why-are-modern-50mm-lenses-so-damned-complicated
315
304
The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day
https://www.simplermachines.com/the-mortifying-ordeal-of-pairing-all-day/
309
294
Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2
https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202105090002
165
eBPF on Windows
https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows
286
117
The word “decide” has deadly origins
https://www.etymologynerd.com/blog/choices
280
148
Advanced Situational Awareness [pdf]
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN32030-TC_3-22.69-000-WEB-1.pdf
277
123
One million people saw my dumbest tweet
https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/one-million-people-saw-my-dumbest-tweet
270
147
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
258
200
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/
252
118
Why I Love Coding (2012)
https://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/
242
110
Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API
https://blog.frankel.ch/teeing-java-api/
221
176
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
211
55
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/
204
27
Show HN: Django SQL Dashboard
https://django-sql-dashboard.datasette.io/en/latest/
203
189
Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tech
14
Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/EigenGame
201
6
Epidemiologist R Handbook
https://epirhandbook.com/
192
36
Poor Disk Performance
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-05-09/poor-disk-performance.html
186
199
NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36387950/ntsb-investigation-tesla-model-s-autopilot/
182
133
Using GDPR to obtain one’s data as JSON
https://mazzo.li/posts/gdpr-success-story.html
57
DragonflyBSD 6.0
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release60/
168
84
Engineer Who Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Physics
https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2021/05/two-time-nobel-pize-winner-physics.html
166
29
How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World
https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html
42
Hacker News Classics (2018)
https://jsomers.net/hn/
105
Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and compile C files directly
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507
164
253
Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107919
145
142
Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suHOLFhbwsM
140
115
Pyre: A performant type-checker for Python 3
https://pyre-check.org
139
37
CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32471
134
90
Praise for Alpine Linux
https://portal.drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.gmi
126
34
OpenAstroTracker: A cheap 3D-printed tracking mount for DSLR astrophotography
https://github.com/OpenAstroTech/OpenAstroTracker
33
Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02124
122
Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’
https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/four-berkshire-bombshells-plus-the-spac-market-implosion/
121
38
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
114
129
A “perfect coronal mass ejection” could be a nightmare
http://www.arrl.org/news/a-perfect-coronal-mass-ejection-could-be-a-nightmare
108
FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine-teens.html
106
The Syslog Hell
https://techblog.bozho.net/the-syslog-hell/
104
Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1
https://trycombine.com/posts/swift-actors/
99
19
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
98
59
Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as your app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102020
96
92
Why should I put my website to sleep?
https://www.nightnight.xn--q9jyb4c/details
93
13
Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode
https://github.com/marcin-chwedczuk/shellcode-tshirt
Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey
https://gizmodo.com/60-million-stars-and-not-one-alien-detected-1846813945
154
Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445642
89
75
Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?
https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/why-opendoc-failed-and-then-failed-3-more-times/
86
11
Show HN: DataProfiler – What's in your data? Extract schema, stats and entities
https://github.com/capitalone/DataProfiler
85
Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder
https://pypi.org/project/windyquery/
Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2
https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/the-real-impact-of-psd2/
83
Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/10/beware-of-applications-misusing-root-stores/
4
Local Register Allocator for 8086
https://github.com/alexfru/regal86
81
64
Firefox Public Data Report
https://data.firefox.com/
80
Scrap for cash: Bronze Age witnessed revolution in small change across Europe
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-scrap-cash-bronze-age-witnessed.html
78
ServiceNow acquires Lightstep
https://www.zdnet.com/article/servicenow-acquires-lightstep-aims-to-leverage-observability-across-enterprises/
79
65
Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102764
OpenPOWER Foundation announces LibreBMC, a POWER-based, fully open-source BMC