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

Understanding Python through its builtins

https://sadh.life/post/builtins/

4 years ago

544 upvotes – 173 comments

China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/10/05/china-again-blocks-wikimedia-foundations-accreditation-to-world-intellectual-property-organization/

4 years ago

520 upvotes – 280 comments

The latest campus cancellation is different

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/why-latest-campus-cancellation-different/620352/

4 years ago

422 upvotes – 489 comments

Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

https://github.com/localstack/localstack

4 years ago

389 upvotes – 126 comments

Bashcrawl: Learn Linux commands by playing a simple text adventure

https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl

4 years ago

344 upvotes – 37 comments

Which version of JDK should I use?

http://whichjdk.com/

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 249 comments

Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionage-related charges

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-nuclear-engineer-and-spouse-arrested-espionage-related-charges

4 years ago

301 upvotes – 355 comments

Classified tank specs leaked on War Thunder game forums again

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-tank-specs-leaked-on-war-thunder-game-forums-again/

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 218 comments

How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 82 comments

Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 155 comments

SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review

https://serenityos.org/happy/3rd/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 46 comments

Using load shedding to avoid overload

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/using-load-shedding-to-avoid-overload/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 45 comments

Linux from Scratch with Training Wheels

https://philsyme.github.io/lfs-tw/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 41 comments

Kairos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 69 comments

Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI

https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 200 comments

3D Printing Sex Toys

https://www.billieruben.info/post/3d-printing-sex-toys-a-quick-easy-and-safe-method

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 137 comments

Singularity – Microsoft’s Experimental OS

https://codingkaiser.blog/2021/07/23/operating-systems-are-more-exciting-than-you-think/

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 105 comments

Incenser, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables (2014)

https://www.electrospaces.net/2014/11/incenser-or-how-nsa-and-gchq-are.html

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 89 comments

Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/41/e2021636118

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 72 comments

Lisp in a Weekend

https://github.com/fragglet/yoctolisp/blob/master/yoctolisp.md

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 38 comments

Suicides among Swedish men decreased after Viagra became more affordable

https://sapienjournal.org/suicides-among-swedish-men-decreased-after-viagra-became-more-affordable/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 101 comments

Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13722

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 149 comments

Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/magic-mirror-used-by-queen-elizabeth-is-court-astrologer-has-aztec-origins-180978830/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 147 comments

China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/08/chinas-noisy-dancing-grannies-silenced-by-device-that-disables-speakers

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 236 comments

M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne Prime

https://www.mersenne.org/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 116 comments

Reflecting on Four Years at Databricks

https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/ReflectingonFourYearsatDatabricks.html

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 35 comments

Facebook Recruiter Correspondence

https://george.mand.is/2021/10/facebook-recruiter-correspondence/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 146 comments

Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan

https://twitter.com/smalwigwamlight/status/1446881138895568899

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 79 comments

Photos from NASA's Perseverance rover indicate ancient flash floods on Mars

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl4051

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook harms its users because that’s where its profits are

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/10/facebook-whistleblower-haugen-profits-addiction-public-utility-regulation-censorship-moderation-zuckerberg

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 38 comments

Waterfox Browser

https://www.waterfox.net/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 100 comments

How South Dakota has become a global tax haven

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/heres-how-states-like-south-dakota-have-become-global-tax-havens.html

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 135 comments

Sending Emails to Myself

https://voussoir.net/writing/emailing_myself

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 45 comments

Happiness in early adulthood may protect against dementia

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/09/421506/happiness-early-adulthood-may-protect-against-dementia

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

Programming PIC32 Microcontroller with Rust

https://gill.net.in/posts/pic32-blink-led-rust/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 32 comments

Lebanon's central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/09/1044766802/lebanon-power-grid-shutdown-fuel-shortage

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 85 comments

GraphSCAD – A User Friendly Nodal Editor for OpenSCAD (2018)

http://graphscad.blogspot.com/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 46 comments

V-USB – A Firmware-Only USB Driver for Atmel AVR Microcontrollers

https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28819489

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 120 comments

Pump up the charge: Getting -5V from a 5V power supply

https://nicole.express/2021/dont-be-so-negative.html

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

Canada's 'gamble' on delaying, mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines paid off

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-vaccine-effectiveness-data-delayed-doses-mixing-matching-covid-19-vaccines-1.6205993

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 169 comments

The Future Is Getting Farther Away

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/the-future-is-getting-farther-away.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 147 comments

Scaling Large Production Clusters at Alibaba with Partitioned Synchronization

https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/10/10/scaling-large-production-clusters-with-partitioned-synchronization.html

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 4 comments

How I built a modern website in 2021

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-i-built-a-modern-website-in-2021

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 154 comments

Tinyprinter.club

https://tinyprinter.club/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 59 comments

The Plague of the Poor

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/plague-poor-gutentag

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 166 comments

Making the whole web better, one canvas at a time

https://bkardell.com/blog/OffscreenCanvas.html

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

The Cutting Room Floor

https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Poincaré, Heisenberg, Gödel and the limits of scientific knowledge

https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7036

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 43 comments

A web app that can play musical scales according to mathematical equations

https://alexcrist.github.io/scaler/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

The Senegal Programming Language

https://github.com/SenegalLang/Senegal

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 73 comments

G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch Issued for 11 October 2021

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-geomagnetic-storm-watch-issued-11-october-2021

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

The Shocking Immaturity of JavaScript

https://dev.to/jaredcwhite/the-shocking-immaturity-of-javascript-c70

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

First USB-C iPhone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAekbJf4Gsw

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Twitch Leak Reveals Streamers on 'Do Not Ban' List

https://gamerant.com/twitch-leak-streamers-do-not-ban-list/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Taming the BPF Superpowers

https://lwn.net/Articles/870269/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Keybase Browser Extension Insecure

https://www.grepular.com/Keybase_Browser_Extension_Insecure

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What can you do to help the grieving?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28820090

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 79 comments

The history of what we call work

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/james-suzman-work/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-09/california-moves-toward-ban-on-gas-lawnmowers-and-leaf-blowers

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 147 comments

Software for Math Research

https://amathr.org/software/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Foreign money floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/booming-us-tax-haven-industry/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

The Trouble with Checked Exceptions (2003)

https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exceptions

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments
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