top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-02

Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI

4 years ago

1130 upvotes – 513 comments

Curves and Surfaces

https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/

4 years ago

876 upvotes – 66 comments

Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89

https://www.brown.edu/academics/physics/news/2021/11/brown-physics-student-manfred-steiner-earns-phd-age-89

4 years ago

811 upvotes – 315 comments

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/

4 years ago

804 upvotes – 230 comments

Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/zillow-to-stop-flipping-homes-for-good-as-it-stands-to-lose-more-than-550-million-will-lay-off-a-quarter-of-staff-11635885027

4 years ago

589 upvotes – 458 comments

The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-metaverse-is-already-here-its-minecraft-99c89ed8ba2

4 years ago

567 upvotes – 364 comments

Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/

4 years ago

512 upvotes – 505 comments

People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency

4 years ago

510 upvotes – 303 comments

Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed

https://bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-backups-adapting-recovery-strategies-evolving-platform

4 years ago

451 upvotes – 403 comments

Backblaze IPO

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001462056/000119312521316078/d62601ds1a.htm

4 years ago

428 upvotes – 285 comments

Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord

https://torontolife.com/city/this-man-is-the-jeff-bezos-of-the-international-drug-trade/

4 years ago

377 upvotes – 245 comments

An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software

https://margin.re/media/an-opinionated-guide-on-how-to-reverse-engineer-software-part-1.aspx

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 44 comments

Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14

https://lwn.net/Articles/861251/

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 72 comments

Firefox 94

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/94.0/releasenotes/

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 322 comments

Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service

https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-continued-access-for-basic-users-with-advertising-program/

4 years ago

342 upvotes – 220 comments

What is the inverse of a vector?

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/geometric-algebra

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 187 comments

Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator

https://www.poor.dev/terminal-anatomy/

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 70 comments

Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-01/zillow-selling-7-000-homes-for-2-8-billion-after-flipping-halt

4 years ago

301 upvotes – 616 comments

Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/11/02/stop-spending-so-much-time-being-trolled-by-billionaire-corporations/

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 166 comments

SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (2019)

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop/

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29079096

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 298 comments

Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/technology/facebook-facial-recognition.html

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 186 comments

Fedora 35

https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 179 comments

When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/when-foundation-gets-the-blockbuster-treatment-isaac-asimovs-vision-gets-lost-sci-fi

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 492 comments

Show HN: Motor Admin – No-code admin panel

https://www.getmotoradmin.com

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 77 comments

Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions

https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 30 comments

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

https://youglish.com/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 109 comments

Mysorean Rockets

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

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 103 comments

ct.css – Take a look inside your <head>

https://github.com/csswizardry/ct

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 24 comments

How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight

https://medium.com/@timothy_downs/how-many-requests-can-be-served-per-second-from-one-square-meter-of-sunlight-675db9d0c819

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 138 comments

Apache Traffic Server

https://trafficserver.apache.org/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 37 comments

How to Read “Gilgamesh” (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/how-to-read-gilgamesh

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 118 comments

DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers

https://devutils.app/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

https://papyrus.so/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 75 comments

Bringing back Cartoon Modern, a rare animation artbook

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/our-treat-to-you

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 24 comments

Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete

https://stackfull.dev/trie-in-javascript-the-data-structure-behind-autocomplete

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

Meadowlark, a DAW written in Rust

https://github.com/MeadowlarkDAW/Meadowlark

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 118 comments

Leaving Debian

https://corecursive.com/leaving-debian/

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 98 comments

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) in 2021

https://raymii.org/s/blog/The_Common_Desktop_Environment_CDE_is_still_developed_in_2021.html

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 186 comments

The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-story-behind-tech-founders-225037288.html

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 189 comments

Microsoft Edge GA on Linux

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/11/02/edge-ignite-nov-2021/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 191 comments

A U.S. submarine struck an underwater mountain last month, the Navy says

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051422572/navy-submarine-nuclear-collision-south-china-sea

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 198 comments

High-fidelity remote communication

https://olivierlacan.com/posts/high-fidelity-remote-communication/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 57 comments

Tesla opens charging network to other EVs for the first time

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-opens-charging-network-other-evs-netherlands-2021-11-01/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 145 comments

Raft Consensus Protocol

https://www.consul.io/docs/architecture/consensus

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

The growing complexity of modern software systems

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 57 comments

SSH alternatives for mobile, low-latency or unreliable connections

https://console.dev/articles/ssh-alternatives-for-mobile-low-latency-unreliable-connections/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

Facebook Makes Us Know Too Much About Each Other

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/facebook-social-media-problems.html

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 82 comments

New research highlights the damage caused by processed food

https://www.levelshealth.com/blog/new-research-highlights-the-damage-caused-by-processed-food

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 165 comments

Microsoft Loop brings back Google Wave?

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/microsoft-launches-google-wave/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 109 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx (2012)

https://aosabook.org/en/nginx.html

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/5d-storage-optical-data-cube

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 134 comments

Justice sues to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon and Schuster

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-penguin-random-house-s-acquisition-rival-publisher-simon

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

Ada implementation of an X Window System Server (1989)

https://sci-hub.se/10.1145/74261.74264

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29078836

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 82 comments

Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on Pfizer vaccine trial data integrity

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 81 comments

U.S. Recession Probabilities September 2021: 44%

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RECPROUSM156N

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to allocate memory (2018)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SbrkVersusMmap

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

The welfare effects of eviction policies

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/the-welfare-effects-of-eviction-policies.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 149 comments

Bitcoin Is a Ponzi Scheme

https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 122 comments

Energy, and How to Get It

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/energy-and-how-to-get-it

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 66 comments

Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/08/ammonia-sparks-unexpected-exotic-lightning-jupiter

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Betting Against Bitcoin

https://paulbutler.org/2021/betting-against-bitcoin/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

IPv4 addresses are silly, inet_aton(3) doubly so

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/inet_aton.html

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Open-source, self-hosted data management app and internal tool builder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081054

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook will let Kazakhstan government directly flag content it deems harmful

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-facebook-will-let-kazakhstan-government-directly-flag-content-the/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Mullvad VPN Introducing WireGuard over TCP and IPv6

https://mullvad.net/de/blog/2021/11/1/introducing-wireguard-over-tcp-and-ipv6/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Launch HN: Typedream (YC W20) – WYSIWYG website builder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29084309

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 68 comments

The Pioneer PX-V7: MSX over All?

https://nicole.express/2021/palcom-ntsc-edition.html

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

John Deere boosts pay, retirement benefits in new offer to striking UAW

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2021/10/31/john-deere-boosts-pay-retirement-benefits-new-offer-striking-uaw-labor-union-united-auto-workers/6225314001/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 120 comments

How Learning Works: Components, Systems, Loops

https://romandesign.co/how-learning-works-components-systems-and-loops/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

On “Trojan Source” Attacks

https://research.swtch.com/trojan

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments
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