top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-10-03

Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-biggest-ever-leak-of-offshore-data-exposes-financial-secrets-of-rich-and-powerful

4 years ago

1312 upvotes – 594 comments

E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal

4 years ago

685 upvotes – 165 comments

Android and iOS data collection

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection

4 years ago

418 upvotes – 223 comments

Pandora Papers

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/

4 years ago

397 upvotes – 1 comments

How does the economy work? A new Fed paper suggests nobody really knows

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/upshot/inflation-economy-analysis.html

4 years ago

392 upvotes – 344 comments

Facebook whistleblower says she wants to fix company, not harm it

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-says-she-wants-to-fix-the-company-not-harm-it-11633304122

4 years ago

369 upvotes – 566 comments

Effective Go

https://golang.org/doc/effective_go

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 166 comments

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)

https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep00ving

4 years ago

297 upvotes – 171 comments

Word-Aligned Bloom Filters

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/10/03/word-aligned-bloom-filters/

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 77 comments

FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store

https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/06/12/foundationdb-a-distributed-unbundled-transactional-key-value-store.html

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 44 comments

Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/global-investigation-tax-havens-offshore/

4 years ago

250 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: Why are relational DBs are the standard instead of graph-based DBs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736405

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 175 comments

A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean reached the Southern California coast

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/03/1042846846/a-massive-oil-spill-in-the-pacific-ocean-has-reached-the-southern-california-coa

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 58 comments

Removing my site from Google search

https://www.btao.org/2021/10/03/removing-from-google/

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 109 comments

Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 42 comments

Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office

https://www.sevarg.net/2016/07/31/solar-shed-summary-my-off-grid-office/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 67 comments

Ugit - DIY Git in Python

https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/#

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 23 comments

Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00553-7

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 153 comments

HelloSystem

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 39 comments

DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-09-27

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 198 comments
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