top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-22

A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

https://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/

5 years ago

1208 upvotes – 277 comments

Brave Search beta

https://search.brave.com/

5 years ago

845 upvotes – 659 comments

Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2021/06/17/rip-zero-opt.html

5 years ago

735 upvotes – 469 comments

What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?

https://gir.st/blog/greenpass.html

5 years ago

673 upvotes – 532 comments

Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593462

5 years ago

563 upvotes – 398 comments

The Most Dangerous Censorship

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorship-pt-1

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 511 comments

Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M

https://finbold.com/hyundai-acquires-controlling-stake-in-u-s-robotics-firm-boston-dynamics-for-880-million/

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 142 comments

What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008807504/ranked-choice-voting-new-york-city-mayors-race

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 463 comments

Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app

https://sparkbible.com

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 253 comments

Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=241-5DZyons

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 182 comments

Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling

https://austinmeyer.com/now-copyright-trolling/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 108 comments

Pocketlang

https://github.com/ThakeeNathees/pocketlang

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 61 comments

Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1108399/anna-vanbellinghen-hubbard

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 599 comments

Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)

http://factmyth.com/types-of-propaganda-propaganda-techniques-and-propaganda-stratigies/

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 236 comments

Supreme Court says over 200 patent judges were improperly appointed

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/us/politics/supreme-court-patent-judges.html

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 48 comments

Alpha-Gal Syndrome

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20428608

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 143 comments

Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)

http://buildyourownlisp.com/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 86 comments

Google’s Messaging Mess: A Timeline

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 182 comments

Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever

https://www.cityam.com/deloitte-tells-staff-they-can-work-from-home-forever/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 99 comments

Regularization is all you need: simple neural nets can excel on tabular data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11189

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 93 comments

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 84 comments

Effects of cat ownership on the gut microbiota of owners

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253133

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 157 comments

Elfcat: Visualize ELF Binaries

https://github.com/ruslashev/elfcat

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 38 comments

Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1007938067/cargo-is-piling-up-everywhere-and-its-making-inflation-worse

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 204 comments

Political trolling twice as popular as positivity, study suggests

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57558028

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 159 comments

SiFive P550 Core: High-Performance RISC-V Processor

https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-performance-p550-core-sets-new-standard-as-highest

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 84 comments

Onboarding to Elixir

https://underjord.io/onboarding-to-elixir.html

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 124 comments

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

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

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 85 comments

Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57562230

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 284 comments

Ask HN: Anyone built a business with no-code tools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593073

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book about Python

https://pragprog.com/titles/dmpython/intuitive-python/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 46 comments

URLs: It's Complicated

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/urls.html

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 36 comments

Racing Game in ClojureScript

https://github.com/ertugrulcetin/racing-game-cljs

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 57 comments

Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 127 comments

Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/pelotons-3-000-treadmill-now-comes-with-surprise-subscription-fee/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 155 comments

The Fine Art of Combining Harmonics

https://whatmusicreallyis.com/research/harmonicomb/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 35 comments

A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avnnn/a-cctv-company-is-paying-remote-workers-in-india-to-yell-at-armed-robbers

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That’s a Moray

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/science/moray-eels-eat-land.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 48 comments

Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266642/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 104 comments

Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/hard-work-mobility/522207/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 165 comments

A popular algorithm to predict sepsis misses most cases and sends false alarms

https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/21/epic-sepsis-prediction-tool/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 38 comments

Attack Surface Analyzer helps you analyze your OS's security configuration

https://github.com/Microsoft/AttackSurfaceAnalyzer

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

Researchers have finally seen how some smell receptors bind to odor molecules

https://www.quantamagazine.org/secret-workings-of-smell-receptors-revealed-for-first-time-20210621/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 28 comments

Fasm, a F# to Jitted ASM/IL disassembler as a dotnet tool

https://github.com/d-edge/fasm

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 13 comments

Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 152 comments

California will pay off all past due rent

https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/21/california-will-pay-off-all-past-due-rent/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 372 comments

SimCities and SimCrises (2017)

http://molleindustria.org/GamesForCities/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 77 comments

Cupcake - A Rust library for lattice-based additive homomorphic encryption

https://github.com/facebookresearch/Cupcake

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 8 comments

Subclassing in Python Redux

https://hynek.me/articles/python-subclassing-redux/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Then – Understand how you spend your time and what influences your mood

https://pupishi.com/then

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

US Navy set off a 40k-pound explosive to test its new supercarrier

https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-detonated-40000-pound-explosive-to-test-new-supercarrier-2021-6

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 119 comments

Silice: A language for hardcoding Algorithms into FPGA hardware

https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Positions of Two NATO Ships Were Falsified Near Russian Black Sea Naval Base

https://news.usni.org/2021/06/21/positions-of-two-nato-ships-were-falsified-near-russian-black-sea-naval-base

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 84 comments

Once Dataset: One Million Scenes for Autonomous Driving

https://once-for-auto-driving.github.io/index.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

The rise and fall of Oxygen OS

https://www.androidauthority.com/oneplus-oxygen-os-rise-fall-1234103/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

Intel to Adopt SiFive's New High-Performance P550 RISC-V Cores with 7nm Platform

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-to-adopt-sifives-new-high-performance-p550-risc-v-cores

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing

https://www.dw.com/en/australia-opposes-great-barrier-reef-in-danger-listing/a-57987254

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 122 comments

Earth Has a 27.5M-Year 'Heartbeat', but We Don't Know What Causes It

https://www.sciencealert.com/our-planet-has-a-27-5-million-year-old-pulse-says-study-we-don-t-know-what-causes-it

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Regret Minimization in Games with Incomplete Information (CFR)

https://nn.labml.ai/cfr/index.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: DNS-powered website with no back end

https://companydirectory.uk/barclays.co.uk/contact-information

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 89 comments

Acorn Archimedes A3020 – Refurb and Mods

https://retrohax.net/acorn-archimedes-a3020-refurb-and-mods/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Best performing assets against inflation

https://www.the-investing-desk.com/blog/best-investments-for-inflation

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 107 comments

Software Developer Shortage Is Coming

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/7/253461-the-2021-software-developer-shortage-is-coming/fulltext

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 128 comments

Getting to the Product Manager interview stage

https://glenngillen.com/getting-the-pm-interview/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 45 comments

U.S. Commerce Department rescinds TikTok, WeChat prohibited transactions list

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-commerce-department-rescinds-tiktok-wechat-prohibited-transactions-list-2021-06-21/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: It finally happened to me, how do you deal with burnout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593136

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 74 comments

Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519 (2018)

https://medium.com/risan/upgrade-your-ssh-key-to-ed25519-c6e8d60d3c54

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 38 comments

The Walkman a.k.a. Vbug 1.5 robot

http://grant.solarbotics.net/walkman.htm

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Intel restructures and creates new business units and leadership roles

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-makes-changes-strengthen-execution-innovation-critical-business-areas.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Catalytic Converter Theft

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/06/07/catalytic-converter-theft-precious-metals-manufacturers-middlemen-making-money/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 142 comments

Smoothstep Integral

https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/smoothstepintegral/smoothstepintegral.htm

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments

CSP bypass: How one Chrome XSS bug took 2.5 years and an HTML spec change to fix

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/csp-bypass-how-one-chrome-xss-bug-took-2-5-years-and-an-html-spec-change-to-fix

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments
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