top 50% 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

Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28798089

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 186 comments

AutoEQ: Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses

https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 49 comments

The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ham-radio

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 312 comments

Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla

https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 100 comments

USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program

https://prospect.org/economy/usps-begins-postal-banking-pilot-program/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 182 comments

Hugo Themes ranked by GitHub Stars

https://hugoranked.com/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to share their location

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/08/mozilla_adding_sponsored_search_results/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 100 comments

Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing

http://lucasfcosta.com/2021/09/30/explaining-in-writing.html

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28795005

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 146 comments

ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

https://airbyte.io/blog/airflow-etl-pipelines

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 86 comments

SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/elon-musks-spacex-valuation-100-billion.html

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 140 comments

Lots to See in Firefox 93

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/lots-to-see-in-firefox-93/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 162 comments

Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floor yields hours of video

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/seal-camera-lost-at-sea-retrieved-offshore-nova-scotia-1.6204068

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 57 comments

Git as a Storage

https://bronevichok.ru/posts/git-as-a-storage.html

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 64 comments

Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

https://www.engadget.com/google-guitar-tuner-search-113540630.html

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 159 comments

What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage

https://blog.cloudflare.com/during-the-facebook-outage/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

Rust, Wright's Law, and the Future of Low-Latency Systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuvp-e4ztC0

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 87 comments

Leonardo, the Bipedal Robot, Can Ride a Skateboard and Walk a Slackline

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/leonardo-the-bipedal-robot-can-ride-a-skateboard-and-walk-a-slackline

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: “Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils” eBook

https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_coreutils/introduction.html

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyregion/gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 255 comments

Web3 architecture and how it compares to traditional web apps

https://thenewstack.io/web3-architecture-and-how-it-compares-to-traditional-web-apps/

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 125 comments

136 Countries agree to minimum corporate tax rate

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/business/ireland-global-tax-deal-oecd/index.html

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

Rust: Enums to Wrap Multiple Errors

https://fettblog.eu/rust-enums-wrapping-errors/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 65 comments

Roapi: An API Server for Static Datasets

https://tech.marksblogg.com/roapi-rust-data-api.html

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

Good leaders know you can’t fight reality

https://hbr.org/2021/10/good-leaders-know-you-cant-fight-reality

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 62 comments

Elite MBAs are no Longer Relevant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28798440

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 77 comments

Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58850041

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

US Justice Department Launches a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

https://therecord.media/justice-department-launches-a-national-cryptocurrency-enforcement-team/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

The American Aristotle

https://aeon.co/essays/charles-sanders-peirce-was-americas-greatest-thinker

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

Iceland stops using Moderna Covid-19 vaccine

https://www-visir-is.translate.goog/g/20212167101d/stodva-notkun-boluefnis-moderna-her-a-landi-i-ljosi-nyrra-gagna?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 102 comments

An Introduction to VisiData

https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/index.html

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 6 comments

Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit

https://paweldu.dev/posts/vim-anti-patterns-that-cause-beginners-to-quit/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 132 comments

NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of Redefining Language

https://reason.com/2021/10/08/nyc-scrapping-gifted-and-talented-program-is-a-triumph-of-redefining-language/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Compilers for Contrarians

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/compiler/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

Reading the web offline and distraction-free

https://blog.owulveryck.info/2021/10/07/reading-from-the-web-offline-and-distraction-free.html

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments
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