top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-22

Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/

5 years ago

521 upvotes – 328 comments

Starlink review, four months in

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/spacexs-starlink-review-four-months

5 years ago

509 upvotes – 377 comments

Akamai Edge DNS was down

https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 218 comments

Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 127 comments

A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech

https://www.wired.com/story/why-youtube-chat-chess-flagged-hate-speech/

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 424 comments

California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019293032/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-unequal-pay-sexual-harassment-video-games

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 462 comments

The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

https://timharford.com/2021/07/the-tyranny-of-spreadsheets/

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 276 comments

Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25

https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/21/reflections-as-the-internet-archive-turns-25/

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 118 comments

MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT

https://microk8s.io/

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 137 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 70 comments

PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1019058925/utility-bury-power-lines-wildfires-california

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 283 comments

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 58 comments

Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/health/marijuana-schizophrenia-study-wellness/index.html

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 428 comments

Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-pushed-a-one-character-typo-to-production-bricking-chrome-os-devices/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 269 comments

Hacker News in the Style of Teletext

https://glynnbird.github.io/teletext/

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 94 comments

Zip – How not to design a file format

https://games.greggman.com/game/zip-rant/

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 162 comments

Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages

https://bozhobg.medium.com/facebook-took-our-election-ad-money-then-bulk-deleted-our-pages-bbdf7bea948

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 82 comments

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

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

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 158 comments

How to spot a good fake ID

https://trevorklee.com/how-to-spot-a-good-fake-id/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 305 comments

Implement unprivileged chroot

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699b

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 57 comments

Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/21/twitter-tests-reddit-style-upvote-and-downvote-buttons/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 380 comments

My app failed: lessons learned

https://rithm.app/8-lessons-from-a-failed-version-1/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 171 comments

SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/10/21-1427_article

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 277 comments

MS Windows Defender and DeCSS

https://www.arch13.com/ms-windows-defender-decss/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 206 comments

The LaTeX Font Catalogue

https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 133 comments

Even if you’re paying, you’re still the product

https://odysee.com/@CyberLounge:a/even-if-youre-paying-youre-still-the-product:7

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 210 comments

RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00982-9

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 167 comments

A Victoria man has gone two decades without money

https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/penniless-two-decades-without-money

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 368 comments

iDOS 2 will be gone soon

https://litchie.com/2021/07/idos2-will-be-gone

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 409 comments

UK wants to reform Official Secrets law by pretending journalism doesn't exist

https://davidallengreen.com/2021/07/the-home-office-wants-to-reform-official-secrets-law-by-pretending-journalism-does-not-exist/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 51 comments

The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxc3mKqKTk

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 37 comments

Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself

https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-apologize

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 123 comments

Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code

https://george.mand.is/2021/06/idle-javascript-observations/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 74 comments

The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/bugs_expense_bs/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

http://alias.co?ref=hn

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 86 comments

The economic value of targeting aging

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00080-0

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 152 comments

A priest was outed for using Grindr, experts say it’s a warning sign for privacy

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/catholic-priest-grindr-data-privacy.html

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 150 comments

Launch HN: hotglue (YC S21) – Easy user-facing SaaS integrations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27918900

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 61 comments

Pfeilstorch

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

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 20 comments

First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed

https://www.mpg.de/17223684/0719-evan-lethal-attacks-by-chimpanzees-on-gorillas-observed-150495-x

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

https://sell.app

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C

https://github.com/flouthoc/wiser

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57933718

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 202 comments

How to exfiltrate code from Bitbucket

https://etodd.io/2021/07/21/how-to-exfiltrate-code-from-bitbucket/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you

https://magicbell.com/blog/artist-to-ui-designer-career-transition

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 116 comments

RVVM – RISC-V Virtual Machine

https://github.com/lekkit/rvvm

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 16 comments

10 years since the Utoya massacre in Norway

https://www.vg.no/spesial/2021/22-juli/english/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 121 comments

Dlib: Modern C++/Python Toolkit for Machine Learning

http://dlib.net/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

Activision Blizzard Sued by California over ‘Frat Boy’ Culture

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 20 comments

Entropy and Algebra and Topology = ?

https://www.math3ma.com/blog/entropy-algebra-topology

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

CIA director says he is escalating efforts to solve 'Havana Syndrome'

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1013402176/cia-director-says-he-is-escalating-efforts-to-solve-havana-syndrome-mystery

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 130 comments

‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/22/nso-group-ceo-defends-1-billion-spyware-company-against-pegasus-project-hacking-allegations/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 48 comments

I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi

https://medium.com/@davidkongfilm/how-i-hacked-my-standing-desk-with-a-raspberry-pi-a50ed14c7f6f

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 61 comments

4.6B-year-old meteorite found

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2021/july/meteorite-reveal-origins-life-on-earth/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

https://zipcpu.com/blog/2021/01/29/hiring.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 78 comments

Macros on Steroids: How pure C can benefit from metaprogramming

https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/macros-on-steroids-or-how-can-pure-c-benefit-from-metaprogramming.html

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 61 comments

Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop

https://winaero.com/microsoft-confirms-taskbar-in-windows-11-no-longer-supports-drag-and-drop/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 184 comments

Launch HN: Payflow (YC S21) – Allow workers to access their wages instantly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916764

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 93 comments

Worse Is Better (2001)

https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-realism-of-our-times-kim-stanley-robinson-on-how-science-fiction-works/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 87 comments

Preserving Worlds: a travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds

https://preservingworlds.net/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub

https://bien.ee/a-contenteditable-pasted-garbage-and-caret-placement-walk-into-a-pub/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 90 comments

Fuzzing Modern UDP Game Protocols with Snapshot-Based Fuzzers

http://blog.ret2.io/2021/07/21/wtf-snapshot-fuzzing/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Algorithmic Botany, Biological Modelling and Visualization Software

http://algorithmicbotany.org/virtual_laboratory/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance (2013)

https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57922664

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 108 comments
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