top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-20

Our lawsuit against ChessBase

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-chessbase/

5 years ago

677 upvotes – 253 comments

Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)

https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/10-papers-every-developer-should-read-at-least-twice

5 years ago

623 upvotes – 95 comments

Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

https://telex.hu/direkt36/2021/07/19/pegasus-nso-hungary-viktor-orban-cyberweapon

5 years ago

612 upvotes – 509 comments

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown

https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 568 comments

A case against security nihilism

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/07/20/a-case-against-security-nihilism/

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 332 comments

Restaurant workers quit at record rate

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1016081936/low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 928 comments

Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)

https://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter-lesson-204-your-idea-is-brilliant-your-idea-is-worthless/

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 274 comments

Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards

https://artbma.org/about/press/release/bma-security-officers-take-center-stage-as-guest-curators-of-a-new-exhibition-opening-in-march-2022

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 144 comments

size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/20/1

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 275 comments

Software engineering research is a train wreck

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-ing-hate-science/

5 years ago

372 upvotes – 166 comments

Under the skin of OnlyFans

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57269939

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 573 comments

We don’t use Kubernetes

https://ably.com/blog/no-we-dont-use-kubernetes

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 250 comments

Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210720-41/?p=105457

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 350 comments

Square Banking

https://squareup.com/us/en/banking

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 168 comments

MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill

https://maps.org/news/media/9270-maps-celebrates-california-senate-passage-of-groundbreaking-psychedelic-reform-bill

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 88 comments

Support for team members who are mistreated in their country

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_requests/84922/diffs

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 220 comments

Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

https://sioyek.info/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLSBYFE9MGKKQXXM

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 145 comments

Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/emmanuel-macron-identified-in-leaked-pegasus-project-data

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 60 comments

AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle

https://www.blopig.com/blog/2021/07/alphafold-2-is-here-whats-behind-the-structure-prediction-miracle/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 93 comments

How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-bells-theorem-proved-spooky-action-at-a-distance-is-real-20210720/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 347 comments

China unveils 600 kph maglev train

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-unveils-600-kph-maglev-train-state-media-2021-07-20/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 432 comments

SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 127 comments

Blue Origin first human flight

https://www.blueorigin.com/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 471 comments

Node-RED 2.0

https://nodered.org/blog/2021/07/20/version-2-0-released

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 62 comments

EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57901113

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 388 comments

Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01954-4

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 292 comments

Show HN: WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games

https://writtenrealms.com/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 67 comments

Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund

https://www.blender.org/press/adobe-joins-blender-development-fund/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

Launch HN: Bedrock AI (YC S21) – Using ML to identify red flags in SEC filings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893182

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 107 comments

Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?

https://www.fast.ai/2021/07/19/copilot/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 193 comments

GPU Architecture Types Explained

https://rastergrid.com/blog/gpu-tech/2021/07/gpu-architecture-types-explained/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 44 comments

Megaverse: Simulating Embodied Agents at One Million Experiences per Second

https://www.megaverse.info/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 90 comments

The Untamed Rise of Hospital Monopolies

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/20/1017631111/the-untamed-rise-of-hospital-monopolies

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Headless Recorder v1.0, get Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/headless-recorder/djeegiggegleadkkbgopoonhjimgehda

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 27 comments

Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/07/20/stopping-ftp-support-in-firefox-90/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 335 comments

“Head of Strategy” of Muse Group (Muse Score, Audacity)Threaten Developer

https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115639if_/https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 61 comments

DIY Raspberry Pi 4 mini server includes UPS and OLED information display

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/07/13/diy-raspberry-pi-4-mini-server-includes-ups-and-oled-information-display/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Leaf – Create interactive coding tutorials

https://getleaf.app/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 23 comments

Reverse-Engineering the Mali G78

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/reverse-engineering-the-mali-g78.html

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

Clojure builds as an amalgamation of orthogonal parts

http://blog.fogus.me/2021/07/20/clojure-builds-as-an-amalgamation-of-orthogonal-parts/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 96 comments

KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07

https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/07/20/plasma-mobile-gear-21-07/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 110 comments

Torpar: TUI Client for Torrent Paradise (Distributed Torrent Search)

https://github.com/varbhat/torpar

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Publicly Available Standards

https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 57 comments

The mild anarchy of piles of second-hand books

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/non-essential-freedoms

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 69 comments

Forem Self-Host

https://forem.dev/foremteam/introducing-forem-self-host-246k

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta Software Used on Public Roads Lacks Safeguards

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-software-lacks-safeguards-a6698414036/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 97 comments

Getting 'Steinached' was all the rage in Roaring ’20s (2017)

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history-science-science-everywhere/getting-steinached-was-all-rage-roaring-20s

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08590

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

NYT gives 'water witches' the both-sides treatment

https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/nyt-gives-water-witches-the-both

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with information addiction?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27895996

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 38 comments

The undiscovered country: Can suicide be predicted?

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/08/the-undiscovered-country-death-by-suicide-prediction-suicidology/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 145 comments

The P-versus-NP Page (2016)

https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

CBL-Mariner – Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances

https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Webdev with poor/deteriorating vision. What can I pivot into?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891903

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 69 comments
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