top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-17

What Went Wrong?

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3475967

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 145 comments

Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol

https://www.cyberscoop.com/telegram-app-security-encryption/

4 years ago

378 upvotes – 226 comments

GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea

https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a37029490/gm-will-suck-lithium-from-the-salton-sea-to-make-batteries/

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 180 comments

I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbmwy/im-a-frito-lay-factory-worker-i-work-12-hour-days-7-days-a-week

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 231 comments

HaikuOS running on RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched)

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-progress-on-real-risc-v-hardware/10963/31

4 years ago

306 upvotes – 80 comments

A Short Guide to Iraq (1943)

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/short-guide-to-iraq.html

4 years ago

300 upvotes – 113 comments

TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0

https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc/news/tftc-v10-is-out-now

4 years ago

293 upvotes – 103 comments

A Solarpunk Manifesto

http://www.re-des.org/a-solarpunk-manifesto/

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 199 comments

Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 230 comments

The database ruins all good ideas

http://squarism.com/2021/07/08/databases-ruin-all-good-ideas/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 164 comments

Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education?

https://slate.com/business/2021/07/masters-degrees-debt-loans-worth-it.html

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 299 comments

Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production

https://fullstaqruby.org/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 86 comments

Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/mysterious-dna-sequences-known-borgs-recovered-california-mud

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System

https://gorse.io/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 41 comments

Cancer risks increase with alcohol use, leading to over 740k cases last year

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/16/1016586837/new-study-says-nearly-3-4-million-cancers-a-year-linked-to-alcohol-use

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 215 comments

Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation

https://github.com/pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 119 comments

Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods

https://mattmower.com/2021/07/17/elixir-protocols-vs-clojure-multimethods/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 89 comments

The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships

https://every.to/cybernaut/the-blurred-lines-of-parasocial-relationships

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 65 comments

What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)

https://www.simplanations.in/people/2046200-vivek-raju

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 13 comments

Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)

https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 62 comments
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