top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-11-28

Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus

https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-people-promoting-it-are-scammers/

3 years ago

786 upvotes – 796 comments

Books that changed my career as a software engineer

https://julianogtz.github.io/my-personal-blog/posts/five-books-that-changed-my-career-as-a-software-engineer/

3 years ago

626 upvotes – 279 comments

Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/indian-academics-throw-weight-behind-sci-hub-and-libgen-in-landmark-case-51780

3 years ago

510 upvotes – 89 comments

Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0GXWQDk0Q

3 years ago

442 upvotes – 234 comments

Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/is-watching-the-1984-ghostbusters-movie-killing-people-a-statistician-s-perspective

3 years ago

368 upvotes – 230 comments

Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again

https://capiche.com/e/consumer-dev-tools-command-palette

3 years ago

321 upvotes – 267 comments

The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/story-behind-famed-sr-71-blackbird-super-low-knife-edge-pass/

3 years ago

308 upvotes – 132 comments

Floating point visually explained (2017)

https://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 57 comments

Why are German numbers backwards?

https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/5009/why-are-german-numbers-backwards

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 419 comments

Update on Omicron

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron

3 years ago

273 upvotes – 694 comments

The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered

https://www.righto.com/2021/11/reverse-engineering-yamaha-dx7_28.html

3 years ago

271 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator

https://tanck.nl/wallpaper/

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 75 comments

“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-cant-be-stopped-co-founder-says-211128/

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 270 comments

Linus on Line Breaks (2020)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 188 comments

I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/devops-on-call/

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 370 comments

Open source Business intelligence platform made with Python

https://superset.apache.org/

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 49 comments

GitHub Broken Download URLs

https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 97 comments

RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website

https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

3 years ago

200 upvotes – 25 comments

BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage

https://www.autoblog.com/2021/11/05/bmws-losing-touchscreen-functionality/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 203 comments

I returned my Remarkable2

https://offbyone.us/posts/remarkable/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 227 comments
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