top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-04

Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-the-pirate-queen-of-scientific-publishing-in-real-trouble-this-time

5 years ago

GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model

https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax

5 years ago

Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/od3h8b/audacity_may_collect_data_necessary_for_law/

5 years ago

Stockfish 14

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/stockfish-14/

5 years ago

Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/PCkKU357M2Q/

5 years ago

Soviet Venus Images (2004)

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

5 years ago

Blender and the Rabbids

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/blender-and-the-rabbids/

5 years ago

The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpapi-idempotency-key-header-00

5 years ago

Write a time-series database engine from scratch

https://nakabonne.dev/posts/write-tsdb-from-scratch/

5 years ago

The Growth Ponzi Scheme

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

5 years ago

Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013)

https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/

5 years ago

Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?

https://drewdevault.com/2021/07/04/Is-GitHub-a-derivative-work.html

5 years ago

Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly

https://cprimozic.net/blog/speeding-up-webcola-with-webassembly/

5 years ago

Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (2017)

https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/

5 years ago

Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above

https://www.wired.com/story/how-underground-fiber-optics-spy-on-humans-moving-above/

5 years ago

When static makes your C code 10 times faster

https://mazzo.li/posts/c-performance-anecdote.html

5 years ago

The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/future-symmetrical-high-speed-internet-speeds

5 years ago

On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others

https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/working-too-hard/

5 years ago

EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/02/eu-antitrust-head-warns-against-apple-using-privacy-security-to-stave-off-competition

5 years ago

Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

https://www.digitalviolence.org/

5 years ago