top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-05

Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistleblower-renewing-scrutiny-of-social-media-giant

4 years ago

Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics

https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/the-most-counterintuitive-facts-in

4 years ago

Phrack Issue 70

http://phrack.org/issues/70/1.html

4 years ago

Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111

4 years ago

Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party

https://www.forwardparty.com

4 years ago

Open Source Tax Software

http://ctskennerton.github.io/2021/08/30/open-source-tax-software/

4 years ago

Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043207218/whistleblower-to-congress-facebook-products-harm-children-and-weaken-democracy

4 years ago

Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves

https://chrisbutner.github.io/ChessCoach/

4 years ago

Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021

https://asahilinux.org/2021/10/progress-report-september-2021/

4 years ago

More details about the October 4 outage

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/

4 years ago

It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1445424833181925376

4 years ago

Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/tab-unloading-in-firefox-93/

4 years ago

My Logging Best Practices (2020)

https://tuhrig.de/my-logging-best-practices/

4 years ago

Stripe Press

https://press.stripe.com/

4 years ago

PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees

4 years ago

Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou

https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1445118812659933187

4 years ago

Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage

https://www.reuters.com/technology/telegram-founder-says-over-70-mln-new-users-joined-during-facebook-outage-2021-10-05/

4 years ago

New York Public Library ends all late fees

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043412502/library-fees-eliminated-new-york

4 years ago

Is 40 the New 60?

https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/10/03/is-40-the-new-60.html

4 years ago

Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud

https://www.rowy.io

4 years ago

Firefox 93

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/

4 years ago

Update about the October 4th outage

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/

4 years ago

Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711182/facebook-whistleblower-smear-pr-response

4 years ago

Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen testifies in Washington – live

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2021/oct/05/facebook-hearing-whistleblower-frances-haugen-testifies-us-senate-latest-news

4 years ago

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/press-release/

4 years ago

Show HN: Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust

https://hurl.dev/index.html

4 years ago

Startup Ideas

https://www.gwern.net/Startup-ideas

4 years ago

Nios V – Intel's RISC-V Processor

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/fpga/nios-processor/v.html

4 years ago

PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/kubegres-is-available-as-open-source-2197/

4 years ago

Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

https://pcengines.ch/leadtime.htm

4 years ago

Running BGP in large-scale data centers

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/05/13/data-center-engineering/bgp/

4 years ago

We need to take CO2 out of the sky

https://www.orbuch.com/carbon-removal/

4 years ago

Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated

https://blog.dshr.org/2021/10/cryptocurrencys-carbon-footprint.html

4 years ago

.NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/05/microsoft_net_foundation_under_fire/

4 years ago

Tools to Explore BGP

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/10/05/tools-to-look-at-bgp-routes/

4 years ago

Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux

4 years ago

A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux

https://blog.ktz.me/a-usb-fan-controller-that-now-works-under-linux/

4 years ago

Under the Hood of Macros in Elixir

https://blog.appsignal.com/2021/10/05/under-the-hood-of-macros-in-elixir.html

4 years ago

LLVM 13.0

https://lwn.net/Articles/871960/

4 years ago

Seattle Votes to Decriminalize Psilocybin and Similar Substances

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/seattle-votes-to-decriminalize-psylocybin-and-similar-substances

4 years ago

After a decade as Apple’s assistant, Siri still hasn’t figured out the job

https://www.theverge.com/22704233/siri-apple-digital-assistant-10-years-development-problems-why

4 years ago

YubiKey Bio Series

https://www.yubico.com/blog/put-your-finger-on-the-pulse-of-whats-new-with-the-yubikey-bio-series/

4 years ago

Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-ex-worker-over-hostile-work-environment-racism.html

4 years ago

Tox: Decentralized and Encrypted Instant Messaging

https://tox.chat/

4 years ago

Open Tax Solver

http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

4 years ago

A new public beta of GitHub Releases

https://github.blog/2021-10-04-beta-github-releases-improving-release-experience/

4 years ago

Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-battleships

4 years ago

Udemy S-1 IPO

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1607939/000119312521291460/d163445ds1.htm

4 years ago

Ask HN: How should I back up data on devices if I'm not smart?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758415

4 years ago

TaleSpire is a beautiful way to play pen and paper RPGs online

https://talespire.com/

4 years ago

Timescale Announces New Database Cloud

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/announcing-the-new-timescale-cloud-and-a-new-vision-for-the-future-of-database-services-in-the-cloud/

4 years ago

Break into this CEO’s laptop to steal company secrets and plant malware

https://twitter.com/SecurityJon/status/1445020885472235524

4 years ago

MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me

4 years ago

Advice from YC founders and partners

https://quest.audio/t/8nzavsX7VY/inside-y-combinator

4 years ago

Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users

https://www.pcgamer.com/hackers-drain-cryptocurrency-accounts-of-thousands-of-coinbase-users/

4 years ago

A quick note on airships (2020)

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/a-quick-note-on-airships/

4 years ago

Long Covid is overblown and often something else, says Oxford professor

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/long-covid-is-overblown-and-often-something-else-says-oxford-professor-x62ghkt3c

4 years ago

JavaScript Restrictor

https://polcak.github.io/jsrestrictor/

4 years ago

Facebook misled investors about its reach, whistleblower tells SEC

https://www.ft.com/content/41b657c8-d716-436b-a06d-19859f0f6ce4?shareType=nongift

4 years ago

GitHub Having Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bdbzpz7qxmbx

4 years ago

Direct detection of dark energy: the XENON1T excess and future prospects

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15834

4 years ago

Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/company-that-routes-sms-for-all-major-us-carriers-was-hacked-for-five-years/

4 years ago