top 50% 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

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

https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal

4 years ago

Android and iOS data collection

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

4 years ago

Pandora Papers

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

4 years ago

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

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

Effective Go

https://golang.org/doc/effective_go

4 years ago

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)

https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep00ving

4 years ago

Word-Aligned Bloom Filters

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

4 years ago

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

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

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

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

4 years ago

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

Removing my site from Google search

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

4 years ago

Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits

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

4 years ago

Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office

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

4 years ago

Ugit - DIY Git in Python

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

4 years ago

Paracetamol use during pregnancy – a call for precautionary action

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

4 years ago

HelloSystem

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

4 years ago

DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight

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

4 years ago

Turmoil at Bezos' Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-talent-exodus-ceo-pushed-return-to-office.html

4 years ago

Show HN: SpotML – Managed ML Training on Cheap AWS/GCP Spot Instances

https://www.spotml.io/

4 years ago

“Static Linking Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful

https://gavinhoward.com/2021/10/static-linking-considered-harmful-considered-harmful/

4 years ago

Crypto CEO threatens customers after mistakenly sending them millions

https://mashable.com/article/compound-ceo-asks-for-money-back-defi-bug

4 years ago

Finally, on CBS, the football matches the business cards

https://www.ological.net/finally-on-cbs-the-football-matches-the-business-cards/

4 years ago

Show HN: Futurecoder – A free online interactive Python course

https://futurecoder.io/

4 years ago

Beware Centralization

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/10/beware-centralization.html

4 years ago

John Carpenter’s “Planaria”: Or, the New Individualism

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10007

4 years ago

R, OpenMP, MKL, Disaster

https://www.jyotirmoy.net/posts/2021-10-03-r-mkl-openmp.html

4 years ago

‘Seinfeld’ fans upset that Netflix’s aspect ratio cuts out jokes

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/seinfeld-netflix-aspect-ratio-1236110/

4 years ago

A Macintosh History 85.10

https://systemtalk.org/post/macintosh-history-8510/

4 years ago

Unified Shader Programming in C++

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14682

4 years ago

JShelter – An anti-malware browser extension

https://jshelter.org

4 years ago

The Concept of “Cultural Appropriation”

https://stallman.org/articles/cultural-appropriation.html

4 years ago

Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/03/facebook-whistleblower-capitol-attack

4 years ago

Virtually no one left to vaccinate in Portugal: 98% of those eligible vaccinated

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/europe/portugal-vaccination-rate.html

4 years ago

Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

https://freebeacon.com/culture/where-have-all-sex-scenes-gone/

4 years ago

Paradoxical Compression with VDF

https://github.com/pornin/paradox-compress

4 years ago

The Fastest Path to the CEO Job, According to a 10-Year Study (2018)

https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-fastest-path-to-the-ceo-job-according-to-a-10-year-study

4 years ago

Austria to introduce new carbon tax next year

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-business-europe-austria-1b30ccdced4371bc5c7b306fca5e7c6e

4 years ago

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy and offspring ADHD

https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcv2.12020

4 years ago

Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Is

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/

4 years ago

In Topology When Are Two Shapes the Same?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-topology-when-are-two-shapes-the-same-20210928/

4 years ago

Faster Maven Builds

https://blog.frankel.ch/faster-maven-builds/1/

4 years ago

Havana Syndrome most likely just crickets: declassified Dept of State report

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/havana-syndrome-jason-crickets

4 years ago

Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921001393

4 years ago

Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (2016)

http://deconcentration-of-attention.com/deconcentration-software.html

4 years ago

First Principles of Interaction Design (2014)

https://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/

4 years ago

Six Hacktoberfest spam PRs have been sent to the HTML Standard in just one day

https://twitter.com/domenic/status/1444103114072727553

4 years ago

Researchers Have Developed a New Kind of 'Unbreakable' Glass

https://interestingengineering.com/researchers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-unbreakable-glass

4 years ago

BANCStar: Financial Programming Language

https://esolangs.org/wiki/BANCStar

4 years ago

Double-Odd Elliptic Curves

https://doubleodd.group/front.html

4 years ago