top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-15

A viable solution for Python concurrency

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/872869/0e62bba2db51ec7a/

4 years ago

Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-most-canadians-believe-facebook-harms-their-mental-health-survey-2/

4 years ago

Nomad vs. Kubernetes

https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/nomad-vs-kubernetes

4 years ago

PinePhone Pro Announced

https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

4 years ago

Remote OK Open Startup

https://remoteok.io/open

4 years ago

Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728425/valve-steam-blockchain-nft-crypto-ban-games-age-of-rust

4 years ago

Tether Fined $41M for Lying About Reserves

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-15/tether-bitfinex-to-pay-fines-totaling-42-5-million-cftc-says

4 years ago

Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/

4 years ago

Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/trust-busting-as-the-unsexy-answer-to-google-and-facebook/

4 years ago

Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications

https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

4 years ago

Open source is coming to financial services

https://future.a16z.com/open-source-financial-services/

4 years ago

Mezzano on Librebooted ThinkPads

https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=445

4 years ago

The Single-Page-App Morality Play

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/single-page-app-morality-play/

4 years ago

7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent

https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-eleven-collected-customer-facial-imagery-during-in-store-surveys-without-consent/

4 years ago

CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5M

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21

4 years ago

The void in Calgary: How office towers emptied in a once bustling downtown

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-the-void-in-calgary-how-office-towers-emptied-in-a-once-bustling/

4 years ago

Speed Matters

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/speed-matters/

4 years ago

Meat and mental health: Meat eaters suffer less depression, anxiety

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2021.1974336

4 years ago

The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video]

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

4 years ago

Antiviral compound blocks SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/antiviral-compound-blocks-sars-cov-2-from-entering-cells/

4 years ago

Crystal 1.2.0

https://crystal-lang.org/2021/10/14/1.2.0-released.html

4 years ago

New Zealand council ends contract with wizard after 23 years of service

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/15/new-zealand-council-ends-contract-with-wizard-after-two-decades-of-service

4 years ago

Launch HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for people with ADHD

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877003

4 years ago

Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibility-in-the-firefox-pdf-viewer/

4 years ago

Create and share images of your source code

https://carbon.now.sh/

4 years ago

Functional Algorithms, Verified

https://functional-algorithms-verified.org

4 years ago

Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for the 12th straight year

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/women-earned-the-majority-of-doctoral-degrees-in-2020-for-the-12th-straight-year-and-outnumber-men-in-grad-school-148-to-100/

4 years ago

Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/15/privacy-fears-moscow-metro-rolls-out-facial-recognition-pay-system

4 years ago

How PHP Opcache Works

https://www.npopov.com/2021/10/13/How-opcache-works.html

4 years ago

Cloudflare Uses HashiCorp Nomad (2020)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-hashicorp-nomad/

4 years ago

Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/saudi-dissident-twitter-lawsuit-spies

4 years ago

Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program

https://medium.com/zendesk-engineering/hunting-down-a-c-memory-leak-in-a-go-program-2d08b24b617d

4 years ago

OpenBSD Webzine Issue #2

https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-2.html

4 years ago

Multiple vulnerabilities in WP Fastest Cache plugin

https://jetpack.com/2021/10/14/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-wp-fastest-cache-plugin/

4 years ago

Senators aim to block tech giants from prioritizing own products over rivals’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/14/klobuchar-grassley-antitrust-bill/

4 years ago

Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapor in one hemisphere of Europa

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hubble-evidence-persistent-vapor-hemisphere.html

4 years ago

Postgres text search: balancing query time and relevancy

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/postgres-text-search-balancing-query-time-and-relevancy/

4 years ago

What’s Vivaldi’s business model?

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

4 years ago

Army delays $22B augmented reality goggle program

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/army/2021/10/army-delays-22-billion-augmented-reality-goggle-program/

4 years ago

PostgreSQL adds support for OUT parameters in Procedures

https://www.migops.com/blog/2021/10/14/stored-procedure-out-parameters-in-postgresql-14/

4 years ago

How not to blow up the production database

https://blog.battlefy.com/how-not-to-blow-up-the-production-database-424c162dccc6?gi=8ec446ad5e47

4 years ago

How Animals Map 3D Spaces Surprises Brain Researchers

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-animals-map-3d-spaces-surprises-brain-researchers-20211014/

4 years ago

Missouri website that leaked SSN

https://web.archive.org/web/20210814172757/https://apps.dese.mo.gov/HQT/CredentialListerChecker.aspx

4 years ago

A study of data collection by Android devices

https://lwn.net/Articles/872639/

4 years ago

Bugs in Our Pockets?

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/10/15/bugs-in-our-pockets/

4 years ago

Cloudflare Tunnel – Generate a live updating URL to any localhost project

https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/how-to/preview-with-cloudflare-tunnel

4 years ago

The first study of individualized brain stimulation to treat severe depression

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/health/depression-treatment-deep-brain-stimulation.html

4 years ago

Netflix fires organizer of trans employee walkout

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728337/netflix-fires-organizer-trans-employee-walkout-dave-chappelle

4 years ago

Show HN: Munchy, a search engine to discover recipes

https://joinmunchy.com/

4 years ago

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby

https://shopify.engineering/yjit-just-in-time-compiler-cruby

4 years ago

Students’ solar-powered camper van turns heads on 1,800-mile road trip

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/15/students-solar-powered-camper-van-turns-heads-on-1800-mile-road-trip

4 years ago

“as_strided” and “sum” are all you need

https://jott.live/markdown/as_strided

4 years ago

How my ivermectin research led to Twitter death threats

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/how-my-ivermectin-research-led-to-twitter-death-threats

4 years ago

Explore the most detailed map of the universe – EPFL Longread

https://longread.epfl.ch/en/dossier/virup/

4 years ago

Bayesian histograms for rare event classification

https://dionhaefner.github.io/2021/09/bayesian-histograms-for-rare-event-classification/

4 years ago

What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer

https://github.com/readme/featured/why-the-lucky-stiff

4 years ago

From Æthelflæd to Ælfthryth: The Idea of Queenship in Tenth-Century England

https://jhiblog.org/2021/10/11/from-aethelflaed-to-aelfthryth-the-idea-of-queenship-in-tenth-century-england/

4 years ago

Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35M Bank Heist in 2020

https://www.unite.ai/deepfaked-voice-enabled-35-million-bank-heist-in-2020/

4 years ago

Haunted Houses Have Nothing on Lighthouses

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/haunted-houses-lighthouses-ghost-stories

4 years ago

V8 Release v9.6

https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-96

4 years ago

Stripe Shut Us Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28881026

4 years ago

Facebook accused of 'fanning ethnic violence' in Ethiopian civil war

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046106922/social-media-misinformation-stokes-a-worsening-civil-war-in-ethiopia

4 years ago

Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22727123/apple-fires-leader-apple-too-movement

4 years ago