top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-01

NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites

https://every.to/napkin-math/nft-projects-are-just-mlms-for-tech-elites

4 years ago

817 upvotes – 658 comments

Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane

http://www.noaa.gov/news-release/world-first-ocean-drone-captures-video-from-inside-hurricane

4 years ago

711 upvotes – 174 comments

Coinbase Breach Notification

https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-545815

4 years ago

511 upvotes – 271 comments

Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/2690

4 years ago

383 upvotes – 561 comments

DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html

4 years ago

382 upvotes – 379 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719320

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 839 comments

Downsides of Offline First

https://rxdb.info/downsides-of-offline-first.html

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 208 comments

Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone encoding problem

https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revenge_of_lisp.html

4 years ago

344 upvotes – 230 comments

Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement

https://tipsnguts.medium.com/why-senior-developers-are-leading-the-great-resignation-movement-37b93ab9a634

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 328 comments

'Google' is most searched word on Bing

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58749525

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 181 comments

Beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-small-people-deep-conversations-strangers.html

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 85 comments

Facebook’s documents about Instagram and teens, published

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-documents-instagram-teens-11632953840

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 107 comments

S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/skorea-broadband-firm-sues-netflix-after-traffic-surge-squid-game-2021-10-01/

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 230 comments

Antiviral Molnupiravir Reduces Risk of Hospitalization/Death by ~50 Percent

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-ridgebacks-investigational-oral-antiviral-molnupiravir-reduced-the-risk-of-hospitalization-or-death-by-approximately-50-percent-compared-to-placebo-for-patients-with-mild-or-moderat/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 270 comments

So you want to compete with Roblox

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-roblox/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 126 comments

Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation”

https://doctorow.medium.com/facebook-thrives-on-criticism-of-disinformation-64b141d7b6c8

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 119 comments

The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/the-rise-of-one-time-password-interception-bots/

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 165 comments

Web3 – A Vision for a Decentralized Web

https://blog.cloudflare.com/what-is-web3/

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 143 comments

New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less confusing

https://www.pcworld.com/article/540033/new-usb-c-logos-to-ease-confusion-in-picking-cables-and-chargers.html

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 268 comments

DNS Record Types

https://www.nslookup.io/learning/dns-record-types/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 27 comments

Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating-beef-like-coal-would-make-a-big-dent-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 325 comments

Rivian S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000119312521289903/d157488ds1.htm

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 232 comments

What a solid made of electrons looks like

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02657-6

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 69 comments

Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/anil-seth-finds-consciousness-in-lifes-push-against-entropy-20210930/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 53 comments

Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019 [pdf]

https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/II__metrick-schmelzing%2C%20body%20-%209-7.pdf

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 55 comments

Freqfs: In-memory filesystem cache for Rust

https://docs.rs/freqfs/0.4.3/freqfs/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 76 comments

Wg-access-server: An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web UI

https://github.com/Place1/wg-access-server

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 43 comments

Redditors are right about the unfairness of the market

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-01/ordinary-investors-don-t-get-a-fair-shot-when-the-powerful-flout-the-rules

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 223 comments

Twitter disallows liking, commenting, or retweeting “Misleading” tweets

https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1443238759944785922

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 153 comments

CIA Implant: Green Lambert for OS X

https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x68.html

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Reverse-engineering an unusual IBM modem board from 1965

https://www.righto.com/2021/09/reverse-engineering-unusual-ibm-modem.html

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 20 comments

Ludum Dare 49 (Game jam)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

I Am Suing UCLA

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/why-i-am-suing-ucla

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719317

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 190 comments

Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-web3-gateways/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 16 comments

Monads and Macros

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/09/26/monads-and-macros/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

Internal emails show Zuckerberg and Facebook execs discuss cloning competitors

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1398702289007828992

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments

Government asks German residents to drive lorries even if they never have before

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hgv-lorry-driver-shortage-germans-b1930558.html

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 83 comments

Thousands of deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1041989880/deaths-caused-by-police-misclassified

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

The Secure Open Source Pilot Program

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/10/introducing-secure-open-source-pilot.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

Demo of a WAM Prolog Implementation in Python

https://github.com/brunokim/prol

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Ozy Media Says It Is Shutting Down

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/business/media/ozy-media.html

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 62 comments

Cryptocurrency mining using integrated photonics

http://phe.tue.nl/news/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 86 comments

Pull Requests vs. Pair Programming

https://chemaclass.es/blog/pull-request-vs-pair-prog/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 145 comments

The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors

https://narratively.com/the-secret-society-of-lightning-strike-survivors/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Drops Plan to Offer Bank Accounts

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3747066-google-drops-plan-to-offer-bank-accounts

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments

Why do we tune in 5ths?

https://www.violinist.com/discussion/archive/17290/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 108 comments

Lightning Network Flaws

https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-29/california-outlawed-boardrooms-with-no-women-the-impact-on-corporate-america-was-profound

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 176 comments

Session Encrypted Messenger

https://getsession.org/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 95 comments

The Emacs-28 release branch has been created

https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-09/msg02290.html

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

UK National Union of Journalists call for Assange freedom after kill/kidnap plan

https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/cia-reportedly-plotted-to-kidnap-and-assassinate-julian-assange.html

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments

Blue Origin employees say they wouldn't feel safe riding the company's rockets

https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-origin-employees-letter-new-shepard-rockets-not-safe-2021-9

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

The internet isn’t buying Robinhood’s GameStop story

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-fintech/robinhood-florida-lawsuits?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1?rebelltitem=1

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: Do you donate money to open source?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719643

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 81 comments

As Obesity Takes a Greater Toll in Covid Deaths, Health Officials Are Quiet

https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-children-in-covid-icus-are-overweight-but-public-health-officials-rarely-talk-about-obesity

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day

https://medium.com/macoclock/10-less-known-macos-apps-you-will-legitimately-want-to-use-every-day-816bf6dde603

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments
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