top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-28

IPv4 pricing

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/ipv4-pricing/

5 years ago

533 upvotes – 530 comments

Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)

http://yosefk.com/blog/evil-tip-avoid-easy-things.html

5 years ago

517 upvotes – 196 comments

I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oosru6/i_went_to_the_office_for_the_first_time_i_fucking/

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 467 comments

Calculus Made Easy (1910)

https://calculusmadeeasy.org/

5 years ago

417 upvotes – 97 comments

From stolen laptop to inside the company network

https://dolosgroup.io/blog/2021/7/9/from-stolen-laptop-to-inside-the-company-network

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 204 comments

Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210726/09441047251/techdirt-is-now-entirely-without-any-google-ads-tracking-code.shtml

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 115 comments

France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/france-issues-moratorium-prion-research-after-fatal-brain-disease-strikes-two-lab

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 294 comments

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source

https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/orbiter-is-now-open-source.40023/

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 71 comments

'Arthur,' the longest-running kids animated series, is ending

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/1021687616/pbs-kids-show-arthur-ending

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 167 comments

Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks

https://www.openai.com/blog/triton/

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 113 comments

Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

https://theapeiron.co.uk/please-bring-back-our-downvotes-society-desperately-needs-it-5119e8d7547c

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 532 comments

Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/1021798222/google-mandates-vaccines-for-workers-pushes-back-return-to-office-date

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 661 comments

Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/07/toyota-bet-wrong-on-evs-so-now-its-lobbying-to-slow-the-transition/

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 309 comments

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013)

https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 134 comments

Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal caves (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-52869502

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 135 comments

We should build for wildlife as well as people

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210727-how-to-boost-biodiversity-and-attract-wildlife-to-your-home

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 176 comments

Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9B fund–new FCC boss starts “cleanup”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/ajit-pai-apparently-mismanaged-9-billion-fund-new-fcc-boss-starts-cleanup/

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 78 comments

External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now in General Availability

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/release-notes#July_20_2021

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 43 comments

Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 96 comments

Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-classic-is-retiring-heres-how-to-prepare/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 146 comments

Harvey’s Casino Bomb

https://www.fbi.gov/history/artifact-of-the-month/april-2019-harveys-casino-bomb

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 125 comments

I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/27/right_to_repair_activists_welcome_policy_wins/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 194 comments

Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)

https://www.nerd-quickies.net/2020/10/20/microsoft-silently-dropping-emails-a-sad-but-true-story/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 108 comments

First detection of light from behind a black hole

https://news.stanford.edu/2021/07/28/first-detection-light-behind-black-hole/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 7 comments

Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (2018)

https://ldpreload.com/blog/git-bisect-run

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 39 comments

Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers

https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2021/05/how-invasive-ad-targeting-is-bad-for-journalism-and-other-high-quality-publishers/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 83 comments

No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

https://www.reuters.com/technology/no-code-startup-bubble-raises-100-mln-in-round-led-by-insight-partners-2021-07-27/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 308 comments

Coding with Character

https://realdougwilson.com/writing/coding-with-character

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 151 comments

A critique of Safari's influence on the web

https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/safari-is-killing-the-web/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 210 comments

Some career advice (2019)

https://lethain.com/career-advice/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 100 comments

The Human Side of Elixir

https://akoutmos.com/post/betting-on-elixir/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 76 comments

Unleaded Avgas Approved

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/gami-awarded-long-awaited-stc-for-unleaded-100-octane-avgas/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 170 comments

Activision Blizzard employees walk out over harassment and ‘frat boy’ culture

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/28/activision-blizzard-walkout-allegations-harassment-frat-boy-culture

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 192 comments

Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

https://github.com/ajbura/cinny/releases/tag/v1.0.0

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 72 comments

Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

https://www.axios.com/google-office-mandate-vaccines-covid-b29a4993-9bdd-4c15-8b8a-e94fe4240878.html

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 417 comments

The House That Vanished

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1zlpQCXsH01jKYjzCzTYF33/how-can-a-house-just-disappear

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 159 comments

IPv6 Watch

https://ipv6.watch/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 102 comments

What I know about cleaning and seasoning cast-iron skillets

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3615-how-to-clean-and-season-cast-iron-skillets

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 224 comments

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 39 comments

NSA Mobile Device Best Practices

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21018353-nsa-mobile-device-best-practices

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 124 comments

Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/28/emulating-the-ibm-pc-on-an-esp32/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask a bartender a question

https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,4086.msg135692.html

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 78 comments

Potoooooooo

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

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

Technical debt is not debt; it’s not even technical

https://markgreville.ie/2021/07/23/technical-debt-is-not-debt-its-not-even-technical/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 140 comments

Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3179/early-signs-perceptual-distortions-in-late-teens-predict-psychotic-symptoms-in-mid-life

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 127 comments

Preston should listen to research, not insult researchers

https://www.ebar.com/news/news//302315

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 93 comments

How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf]

https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/how_antitrust_enforcement.pdf

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Vaccines and our return to office plans

https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/vaccines-and-our-return-to-office-plans/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 284 comments

Drum Synthesis in JavaScript

https://www.nickwritesablog.com/drum-synthesis-in-javascript/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

US home prices surge 17% in May, fastest in 17 years

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-home-prices-surge-17-fastest-17-years-79087343

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 91 comments

Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5661

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen,then turned up on YouTube

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/27/stolen_scaleway_ssd_recovered/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 47 comments

High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States

https://nichegamer.com/2021/07/27/high-end-gaming-pcs-banned-in-six-us-states-after-california-energy-bill-limits-sales-on-high-performance-pcs/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 105 comments

Dusty Hill has died

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

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

Software Dark Ages

https://threedots.tech/post/software-dark-ages/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 89 comments

Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (2012)

http://yosefk.com/blog/do-you-really-want-to-be-making-this-much-money-when-youre-50.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: Nextless.js: Full-Stack React SaaS Boilerplate with Auth and Payment

https://nextlessjs.com

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 76 comments

Launch HN: Swipe (YC S21) – Simple Billing and Accounting for India

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27981659

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans: study

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-16/thanks-to-interbreeding-just-7-of-our-dna-is-unique-to-modern-humans-study-shows

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 79 comments

Life of a Container (2020)

https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/life-of-a-container/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

Document Database Transaction Models

https://fauna.com/blog/comparison-of-transaction-models-in-document-databases

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Switching from GMP to GCC's __int128 reduced run time by 95% (2016)

https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-optimization-story.html

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra in ACL2

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04314

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Looking Glass Portrait – Holographic Display

https://lookingglassfactory.com/portrait

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 52 comments
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