top 50% 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

665 upvotes – 374 comments

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

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

5 years ago

636 upvotes – 146 comments

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

621 upvotes – 275 comments

Stockfish 14

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

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 196 comments

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

422 upvotes – 248 comments

Soviet Venus Images (2004)

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 96 comments

Blender and the Rabbids

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

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 95 comments

The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field

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

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 132 comments

Write a time-series database engine from scratch

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

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 24 comments

The Growth Ponzi Scheme

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

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 242 comments

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

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

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 111 comments

Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?

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

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 218 comments

Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly

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

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 25 comments

Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (2017)

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

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 43 comments

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

209 upvotes – 68 comments

When static makes your C code 10 times faster

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

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 108 comments

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

177 upvotes – 176 comments

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

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

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 93 comments

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

173 upvotes – 175 comments

Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

https://www.digitalviolence.org/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 37 comments

Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design

https://labs.sentinelone.com/bypassing-macos-tcc-user-privacy-protections-by-accident-and-design/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 32 comments

Ian Knot (2003)

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 66 comments

The Powder Toy

https://github.com/The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 29 comments

Archive and genealogy of all Quake 1 bots

https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

https://github.com/jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 50 comments

Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications

https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/06/27/ray-a-distributed-framework-for-emerging-ai-applications.html

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 34 comments

Dynamic Linking Best Practices

https://begriffs.com/posts/2021-07-04-shared-libraries.html?hn=2

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 10 comments

Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (2017)

https://jeremykun.com/2017/02/27/the-reasonable-effectiveness-of-the-multiplicative-weights-update-algorithm/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

Heat Domes Are a Red-Hot Warning on Climate Costs

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-03/heat-domes-are-a-red-hot-warning-on-climate-costs

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/social-media-broken-a-new-report-offers-25-ways-to-fix-it

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 223 comments

GPT-J: GPT-3 Democratized

https://www.p3r.one/gpt-j/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 39 comments

Let's build a simple interpreter for APL, part 2 (2020)

https://mathspp.com/blog/lsbasi-apl-part2

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 9 comments

Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design drawings

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/us/florida-condo-collapse-steel-rebar.html

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 110 comments

Bringing Emulation into the 21st Century

https://blog.davetcode.co.uk/post/21st-century-emulator/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 21 comments

San Francisco Organized Shoplifting Surge Prompts Target to Cut Operating Hours

https://www.newsweek.com/san-franciscos-organized-shoplifting-surge-prompts-target-cut-operating-hours-1606674

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 132 comments

Stop mocking your system

https://blog.bitgloss.ro/2020/10/stop-mocking-your-system/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 169 comments

PowerTOP – diagnose issues with power consumption and power management on Linux

https://01.org/powertop/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 47 comments

Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (2016)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-from-20-years-hype-cycles-michael-mullany

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728154

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 102 comments

Return of the Mac (2005)

http://paulgraham.com/mac.html

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 181 comments

Graph Programming (2020)

https://www.hyro.ai/post/graph-programming

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Ready UI – Bootstrap UI blocks

https://readyui.co/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: How do SMBs afford such expensive software engineers in the US?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27729059

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 85 comments

A completely unoptimized terminal renderer that runs at several thousand FPS

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1411437902802808832

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

PID Controller for controlling the number of servers in a data-center

https://gist.github.com/pushpendre/359706010c20bc1d18123510749f5da5

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 78 comments

The human family tree, it turns out, is complicated

https://nautil.us/issue/102/hidden-truths/the-human-family-tree-it-turns-out-is-complicated

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

Terrible programming features from the past

https://medium.com/young-coder/3-terrible-programming-features-from-the-past-ee5260af1d74

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 116 comments

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity (Updated to v0.9.8)

https://anonymousplanet.org/index.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

DIY IoT Fan

https://mulliken.net/blog/dont-buy-new-upgrade-something-old-a-honeywell-standing-fan-to-be-exact

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Bash function names can be almost anything

https://blog.dnmfarrell.com/post/bash-function-names-can-be-almost-anything/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

Electron tube New Automatic Computer

https://ena.computer/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

CVE-2020-9771 is not fixed correctly (2020)

https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/cve_2020_9771/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

CompilerJobs – A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams

https://mgaudet.github.io/CompilerJobs/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

Health insurers are threatening not to cover some patients’ ER bills

https://www.vox.com/2021/7/1/22557401/united-healthcare-emergency-room-visits-medical-bills

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 92 comments

The unexpected complications of minor features (2020)

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/unexpected-complications-1535

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments
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