top 50% 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/

4 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/

4 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

4 years ago

510 upvotes – 89 comments

Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote

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

4 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

4 years ago

368 upvotes – 230 comments

Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again

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

4 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/

4 years ago

308 upvotes – 132 comments

Why are German numbers backwards?

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

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 419 comments

Floating point visually explained (2017)

https://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 57 comments

Update on Omicron

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

4 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

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator

https://tanck.nl/wallpaper/

4 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/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 270 comments

Linus on Line Breaks (2020)

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

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 188 comments

I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore

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

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 370 comments

Open source Business intelligence platform made with Python

https://superset.apache.org/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 49 comments

GitHub Broken Download URLs

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

4 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

4 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/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 203 comments

I returned my Remarkable2

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

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 227 comments

McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

https://doctorow.medium.com/mckinsey-taught-big-pharma-how-to-price-gouge-364dcc89f26e

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Life Simulation Written in Rust

https://joelthelion.github.io/life_web/demo/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 32 comments

Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2895

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 288 comments

Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059413217/crypto-enthusiasts-want-to-buy-an-nba-team-after-failing-to-purchase-us-constitu

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 181 comments

Show HN: Giving a 2D grid a 3D look – part 4

https://victorribeiro.com/random4/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 37 comments

How the ancient Romans managed their toilets

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-ancient-romans-went-to-the-bathroom-180979056/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 93 comments

Importance of muscle mass, strength and cardiorespiratory fitness for longevity

https://peterattiamd.com/ama27/

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 169 comments

Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-introduce-new-laws-force-media-platforms-unmask-online-trolls-2021-11-28/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 157 comments

Omicron Update: Nov 27

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/omicron-update-nov-27

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 185 comments

Calling Rust from Python using PyO3

http://saidvandeklundert.net/learn/2021-11-18-calling-rust-from-python-using-pyo3/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 49 comments

Z Library

https://z-lib.org/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 36 comments

Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (2019)

https://colobot.info/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 43 comments

Web4 Should Run on LaTeX

https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/web4.html

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 151 comments

Lessons from a year of AI research

https://jetnew.notion.site/100-Lessons-from-1-Year-of-AI-Research-cf431d0f43764750acb83462de06979b

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

How to Save a Ski Town

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/how-to-save-a-ski-town-west-tourism-economy/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 288 comments

Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/11/26/venus-on-qemu-enabling-new-virtual-vulkan-driver/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 21 comments

Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-legendary-f1-team-boss-sir-frank-williams-dies-aged-79.mCPM4nj5n62elIhFoPhtv.html

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 18 comments

The truth about turbinates (and sinusitis)

https://westportfacialplasticsurgery.com/blog/turbinate/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 122 comments

A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K

https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370922

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 206 comments

Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371088

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 88 comments

Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

https://blog.otoro.net/2021/11/18/attentionneuron/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

Aphantasia

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

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 276 comments

Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books

https://fs.blog/schopenhauer-on-reading/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use?

https://thevaluable.dev/complexity-metrics-software/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments

A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01221-6

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

Generate Musical Accompaniment with R

https://flujoo.github.io/en/generate-accompaniment-progression/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Backpressure – the resisted flow of data through software

https://medium.com/@jayphelps/backpressure-explained-the-flow-of-data-through-software-2350b3e77ce7

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience

https://www.sfgate.com/travel-column/article/Disneyland-is-a-price-gouge-16616134.php

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 133 comments

Software development pushes us to get better as people

https://jessitron.com/2021/11/28/software-development-pushes-us-to-get-better-as-people/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age detective fiction

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-murder-mystery-edition

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp)

https://blog.michaeldresser.io/posts/2021-11-27_how-to-parse-eve-chat-log.html

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

A man who shoots at birds to keep them off a toxic pit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlPTE-UmY4

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: A search engine that lets you refine your queries

https://www.occamm.com/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Indiedevs.net – A place for indie game developers

https://indiedevs.net/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373440

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: Jaded about the internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370894

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 109 comments

The time complexity of the libc++ deque push_front implementation is O(log n)

https://1f604.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-libc-implementation-of-stl-deque.html

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 54 comments
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