top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-10-08

Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/

4 years ago

1605 upvotes – 722 comments

Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

https://www.techspot.com/news/91650-facebook-bans-sends-cease-desist-letter-developer-unfollow.html

4 years ago

1513 upvotes – 583 comments

How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2021/10/6/how-the-.net-foundation-kerfuffle-became-a-brouhaha/

4 years ago

449 upvotes – 330 comments

Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/59812-ireland-joins-oecd-international-tax-agreement/

4 years ago

408 upvotes – 359 comments

Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux

https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 118 comments

When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/when-facebook-went-down-this-week-traffic-to-news-sites-went-up/

4 years ago

397 upvotes – 202 comments

Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or a way home

https://www.wsj.com/articles/crews-are-abandoned-on-ships-in-record-numbers-without-pay-food-or-a-way-home-11633699978

4 years ago

365 upvotes – 254 comments

SSH Tunneling Explained

https://goteleport.com/blog/ssh-tunneling-explained/

4 years ago

363 upvotes – 60 comments

1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1443727729476530178

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 611 comments

GPU.js

https://gpu.rocks/#/

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 50 comments

Orion is a new WebKit-based browser for Mac

https://browser.kagi.com/

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 184 comments

Xterm.js

http://xtermjs.org/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 66 comments

XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM

https://xmonad.org/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 163 comments

Super Mario 64 has been ported to iOS

https://old.reddit.com/r/SM64PC/comments/q3nm9f/sm64_has_been_ported_to_ios/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 165 comments

Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece

https://www.livescience.com/byzantine-warrior-fractured-jaw

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 100 comments

Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (2015)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526368/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 98 comments

Multitasking Doesn't Work

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/science-clear-multitasking-doesnt-work/

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 156 comments

Relational databases aren’t dinosaurs, they’re sharks

https://www.simplethread.com/relational-databases-arent-dinosaurs-theyre-sharks/

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 130 comments

136 Countries agree to minimum corporate tax rate

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_ae2e1cd7c5997036404936c0eacc8356

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 188 comments

Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms

https://github.com/mattiasgustavsson/dos-like

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 124 comments
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