top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-22

A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more

https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/a-new-replication-crisis-research-that-is-less-likely-be-true-is-cited-more

5 years ago

602 upvotes – 319 comments

Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

https://every.to/napkin-math/you-probably-shouldn-t-work-at-a-startup-9387b632-345c-4a22-bac0-3cb92f0eecf1##

5 years ago

601 upvotes – 413 comments

An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-14-performance-monitoring

5 years ago

456 upvotes – 245 comments

Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News

https://instruments.digital/inflation-adjusted-hn/

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 120 comments

NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)

https://bellard.org/nncp/

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 160 comments

KolibriOS

http://www.kolibrios.org/en/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 134 comments

How to get rich without being lucky (2019)

https://nav.al/rich

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 531 comments

Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor

https://axu2.medium.com/solved-by-1440p-hidpi-macbook-pro-16-is-hot-noisy-with-an-external-monitor-f8af19c30f81

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 302 comments

Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 80 comments

Sixth grader expelled after Zoom provided possibly inaccurate IP address

https://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett-student-challenges-suspension-over-zoom-bombing-allegations/UMQAYE3COVAB3DE4M2Q6QPHVCI/

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 229 comments

Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor

https://www.salon.com/2021/05/18/rich-people-actually-do-have-trouble-understanding-what-its-like-to-be-poor/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 408 comments

Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power

https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 111 comments

An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs

http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/introduction-to-knowledge-graphs/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 72 comments

How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil

https://www.elliptic.co/blog/how-iran-uses-bitcoin-mining-to-evade-sanctions

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 261 comments

Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/05/cornell-researchers-see-atoms-record-resolution

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 37 comments

Tosh: Changing your SSH server's listen address every 30 seconds based on TOTP

https://github.com/mikroskeem/tosh

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 197 comments

Initial Stress-Derived Noun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 160 comments

How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/how-to-tell-a-job-offer-from-an-id-theft-trap/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 80 comments

Being Poor (2005)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 216 comments

Common data model mistakes made by startups

https://www.metabase.com/learn/data-diet/analytics/data-model-mistakes.html

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 130 comments

Rust heads into the kernel?

https://lwn.net/Articles/853423/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 179 comments

Four years after a man was executed, someone else’s DNA found on murder weapon

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/us/ledell-lee-dna-investigation/index.html

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 198 comments

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy

https://bits.p1x.in/floppinux-an-embedded-linux-on-a-single-floppy/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 85 comments

My Road to Erlang (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/22.html

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 24 comments

The architecture of Uber’s API gateway

https://eng.uber.com/architecture-api-gateway/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 43 comments

Plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application

https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 40 comments

The problem with ‘follow your dream’

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6544/874

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 161 comments

Building Outer Wonders for Linux

https://utopixel.games/en/blog/building-outer-wonders-for-linux/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: I hate adding updating to my apps, so I created Pakkly

https://pakkly.com

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 69 comments

A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/05/22/a-century-ago-ludwig-wittgenstein-changed-philosophy-for-ever

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: Are there software companies with a good life/work balance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27250546

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 94 comments

Antibody levels highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic Covid

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01377-8

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 68 comments

CPU Bugs (2018)

https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

How Japanese technology shaped dance music

https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/long-read/how-japanese-technology-shaped-dance-music/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

Generate RSS feeds with grep(1), sed(1), and Awk(1)

https://www.romanzolotarev.com/rssg.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

IncludeOS – Run your application with zero overhead

https://www.includeos.org/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 10 comments

Zig Makes Rust Cross-Compilation Just Work

https://actually.fyi/posts/zig-makes-rust-cross-compilation-just-work/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

The intestinal microbiome of latrine sediments from two medieval cities (2020)

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0576

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 1 comments

Tiresias typeface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias_(typeface)

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/uranium-glass-radioactive-plates-cups.html

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 comments

Portable versions of development tools

https://www.portabledevapps.net/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

DeFi100 team steal $32m, post abusive message to victims on homepage

http://web.archive.org/web/20210522030957/https://defi100.org/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

DatasetGAN: Efficient Labeled Data for AI Training

https://nv-tlabs.github.io/datasetGAN/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: ClangQL – Query C++ codebases using SQLite

https://github.com/frabert/ClangQL

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments
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