top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-19

Assange case: Key witness admits he lied

https://thewire.in/rights/julian-assange-case-key-witness-lied

5 years ago

875 upvotes – 281 comments

Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/

5 years ago

857 upvotes – 479 comments

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/huge-data-leak-shatters-lie-innocent-need-not-fear-surveillance

5 years ago

800 upvotes – 152 comments

Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/29/apple_sis_lawsuit/

5 years ago

689 upvotes – 204 comments

Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/dont-wanna-pay-ransom-gangs-test-your-backups/

5 years ago

599 upvotes – 316 comments

Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]

https://www.imaginary.org/sites/default/files/taskbook_arnold_en_0.pdf

5 years ago

521 upvotes – 318 comments

Deurbanising the Web [pdf]

https://lab6.com/0

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 413 comments

Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgx5bw/amazon-aws-shuts-down-nso-group-infrastructure

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 242 comments

How to Learn Stuff Quickly

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly/

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 88 comments

Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-shield-tv-owners-are-pissed-about-the-banner-ads-1847185249

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 291 comments

Julia Computing raises $24M Series A

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/julia-computing-raises-24m-series-a-former-snowflake-ceo-bob-muglia-joins-board/

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 238 comments

I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)

https://dewitters.com/i-had-to-give-a-wrong-answer-to-get-the-job/

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 387 comments

Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/edward-snowden-calls-spyware-trade-ban-pegasus-revelations

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 82 comments

Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210705-how-children-are-spoofing-covid-19-tests-with-soft-drinks

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 239 comments

iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/19/imessage-apple-music-used-by-pegasus-to-attack-journalist-iphones

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 168 comments

Senet

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

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 119 comments

Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/07/18/linux-5-0-esp32-processor/

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 79 comments

U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks

https://www.axios.com/china-cyberattacks-nato-181e71d2-7414-45f3-9463-c8b1d46392c1.html

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 247 comments

Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint

https://culturehustle.com/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 146 comments

Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/key-modi-rival-rahul-gandhi-among-indian-targets-of-nso-client

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 138 comments

Bouba/Kiki Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 94 comments

This beach does not exist

https://thisbeachdoesnotexist.com/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 82 comments

Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whfeq9gyPWK3yao6cCj7LKeU3vQEDGJ3rKDdcaPNVMQzQ@mail.gmail.com/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 139 comments

A GPIO Driver in Rust

https://lwn.net/Articles/863459/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 109 comments

Thread Pools on the JVM

https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/46b543800958cf61af6efa8e072bfd5c

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator

https://shouldigetahouse.com/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 410 comments

Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser

https://github.com/brython-dev/brython

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 74 comments

New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry

https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-a-new-shape-mathematicians-link-geometry-and-numbers-20210719/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Magic Mushroom Map

https://www.magicmushroommap.com/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 107 comments

C++ Dev Ecosystem 2021

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/cpp/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 104 comments

The History of the Dot Com Era

https://joshelman.medium.com/the-history-of-the-dot-com-era-c370828ea32a

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 86 comments

RAWGraphs: missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization

https://rawgraphs.io/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 34 comments

Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27882350

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs

https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 21 comments

Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS

https://nebulus.dev

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 41 comments

Giant tsunami from dino-killing asteroid impact revealed in fossilized ripples

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/giant-tsunami-dino-killing-asteroid-impact-revealed-fossilized-megaripples

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 75 comments

Windows Hello bypassed using infrared image

https://therecord.media/windows-hello-bypassed-using-infrared-image/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 56 comments

What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/whats-it-like-hauling-nuclear-weapons-across-the-country

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 211 comments

Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system

https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1415353989323841537

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 139 comments

Visualizing all the vacant office space in San Francisco

https://socketsite.com/archives/2021/07/visualizing-all-the-vacant-office-space-in-san-francisco-2.html

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 89 comments

A collection of outlandish human-computer interaction papers

https://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/rants/weird/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

A proof P = NP was accidentally published in TOCT

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1417215848633159689

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 102 comments

JVM Anatomy Quark #26: Identity Hash Code

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/26-identity-hash-code/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Primer – A conversational learning medium designed for self-learners

https://primerlabs.io/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 26 comments

Software Engineering at Google

https://swizec.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-software-engineering-at-google/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

Thinking About Glue Code

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/thinking-about-glue

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

Using Prolog for Sudoku Variants

http://dstrohmaier.com/sudoku-prolog/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

How to Build an Exchange (2017) [video]

https://blog.janestreet.com/how-to-build-an-exchange/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 12 comments

Letsencrypt Service Disruption

https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/60f5b56d1c82f805369a7d98

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 60 comments

Stripe for location – easily build geospatial data into your apps and models

https://www.askiggy.com/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Galaxy Upcycling: How Samsung Ruined Their Best Idea in Years

https://www.ifixit.com/News/50450/samsung-galaxy-upcycling-unlocked-smartphone-smarthome-project

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Collectors are also confused about that $1.56M Super Mario 64 sale

https://arstechnica.com/features/2021/07/collectors-are-as-confused-as-you-are-about-that-1-56m-super-mario-64-sale/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 79 comments
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