top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-17

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

https://blog.haschek.at/2019/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-in-our-network.html

4 years ago

799 upvotes – 262 comments

An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation

https://www.singlelunch.com/2022/01/09/an-anatomy-of-bitcoin-price-manipulation/

4 years ago

622 upvotes – 441 comments

€2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP

https://twitter.com/garybrannan/status/1482866885989478411

4 years ago

566 upvotes – 380 comments

Matrix Multiplication

http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/

4 years ago

438 upvotes – 97 comments

Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)

https://jakobgreenfeld.com/personal-productivity

4 years ago

429 upvotes – 104 comments

Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2022/01/basic-income-would-not-reduce-peoples-willingness-to-work

4 years ago

404 upvotes – 760 comments

Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell

https://sylviavanos.nl/blog/2021/12/24/google_play_hell.html

4 years ago

395 upvotes – 189 comments

Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software

https://graphviz.org/

4 years ago

389 upvotes – 153 comments

Hello Mac OS X Tiger

http://bunn.dev/benchmark/2022/01/16/hello-tiger.html

4 years ago

377 upvotes – 315 comments

Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable

https://www.interneteconomist.com/netflix-and-cable-prices/

4 years ago

338 upvotes – 495 comments

The Color of Infinite Temperature

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/the-color-of-infinite-temperature/

4 years ago

332 upvotes – 132 comments

APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files

https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 46 comments

I Have a Dream (1963)

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 173 comments

A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-dimensional cube

https://stanislavfort.github.io/blog/sphere-spilling-out/

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 135 comments

The SNESticle Liberation Project

https://dataswamp.org/~josk/snesticle/

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 83 comments

Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines

https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/01/13/10-real-world-stories-of-how-weve-compromised-ci-cd-pipelines/

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 117 comments

Window System X (1984)

https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 163 comments

A fuel spill from the U.S. Navy poisons the water of thousands in Hawaiʻi

https://orionmagazine.org/article/voices-from-the-aquifer/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 105 comments

Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Biz Even Scummier Than Imagined

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-shows-googles-ad-business-even-scummier-than-many-imagined.html

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 69 comments

Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/failing-to-learn-zig-via-advent-of-code/

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 329 comments

In defense of flat earthers (2020)

http://danboykis.com/posts/flat-earth/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 441 comments

Show HN: CSS Speedrun – A small game to test and improve your CSS knowledge

https://css-speedrun.netlify.app/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 64 comments

Nerd-dictation, hackable speech to text on Linux

https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 62 comments

The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy of One Laptop per Child

https://morganya.org/charisma.html

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 238 comments

Why I Enjoy PostgreSQL – Infrastructure Engineer's Perspective

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2022/17/why-i-enjoy-postgresql-infrastructure-engineers-perspective/

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 59 comments

Who Watches Watchmen? – Integrating Elixir Applications with Systemd

https://hauleth.dev/post/who-watches-watchmen-i/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 30 comments

Zoroastrians make a comeback in northern Iraq

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-religion-zoroastrianism-idUSKBN26L336

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 105 comments

DOS on Dope (2010)

https://secretgeek.net/dod_intro

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 67 comments

How and why the Relational Model works for databases

https://blog.the-pans.com/relational/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 243 comments

The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/01/14/the-money-printing-press-that-is-chip-maker-tsmc/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 153 comments

Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java

https://jodd.org/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 232 comments

LibreTexts – Free The Textbook

https://libretexts.org/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 19 comments

Mars rover detects carbon signature that may hint at past life source

https://www.science.org/content/article/mars-rover-detects-carbon-signature-hints-past-life-source

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965282

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 76 comments

Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/literary-puzzle-solved-for-just-third-time-in-almost-100-years-cains-jawbone

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 57 comments

Arxiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arxiv-org-reaches-a-milestone-and-a-reckoning/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: MdSilo – A knowledge silo that runs in your web browser

https://mdsilo.com/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 67 comments

Is human behavior just elaborate running and tumbling?

https://nathanieltravis.com/2022/01/17/is-human-behavior-just-elaborate-running-and-tumbling/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 109 comments

Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/israel-fourth-covid-booster-ineffective/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 247 comments

Personal calculator has key to solve any equation f(x)=0 (1979) [pdf]

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Math128/SOLVEkey.pdf

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 30 comments

Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over workplace misconduct

https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-blizzard-pushes-out-dozens-of-employees-over-workplace-misconduct-11642428001

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 291 comments

Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29962846

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 104 comments

A guide to building Lego Classic Town cars

https://brickset.com/article/70066/a-guide-to-building-classic-town-cars

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

Ruby: Porting YJIT to Rust

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18481

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 48 comments

AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-lambda-ipv6-endpoints-inbound-connections/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

The Theoretical Minimum (2013)

http://theoreticalminimum.com/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

Becoming a Synth Dynamo

https://www.syntorial.com/tutorials/ten-steps-to-becoming-a-synth-dynamo/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 82 comments

Containerize Go and SQLite with Docker

https://awstip.com/containerize-go-sqlite-with-docker-6d7fbecd14f0

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 85 comments

You people are just vectors of disease to me

https://www.metafilter.com/194004/You-people-are-just-vectors-of-disease-to-me

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 172 comments

uLisp on the Raspberry Pi Pico

http://www.ulisp.com/show?3KN3

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 14 comments

Ffmpeg 5.0

https://ffmpeg.org/#pr5.0

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

A Fossilized Blood-Engorged Mosquito Is Found for the First Time Ever (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-fossilized-blood-engorged-mosquito-is-found-for-the-first-time-ever-1749788/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 66 comments

The Capital Sponge

https://www.lynalden.com/january-2022-newsletter/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 63 comments

Getting Started with Lockpicking

https://blog.yaelwrites.com/getting-started-with-lockpicking/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966942

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 191 comments

Work Somewhere Dysfunctional

https://bellmar.medium.com/work-somewhere-dysfunctional-54fe5793b7a5

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 80 comments

Native American restaurants

https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2022/01/16/native-american-restaurants/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 134 comments

Building a neural network in pure Lisp using only atoms and lists

https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-16-neural-networks-in-pure-lisp.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 7 comments

Some ways DNS can break

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/15/some-ways-dns-can-break/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

One of the most famous Victorian dishes is a hilarious lie

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-brown-windsor-soup

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments

SpiceDAO misunderstands copyright, wasting $3M buying rare Dune storyboard

https://web3isgoinggreat.com?id=2022-01-15-1

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires Collective Effort

https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/la-cargo-threats-aggressive-response-220116.htm

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 166 comments

A NASA probe has touched plasma and gas that belongs to the sun

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/nasa-sun-parker-solar-probe/621275/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Vast majority of Joe Rogan Spotify letter signatories are not medical doctors

https://dossier.substack.com/p/270-doctors-called-out-joe-rogan

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

The Graphical User Interface History

https://kartsci.org/kocomu/computer-history/graphical-user-interface-history/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins

https://aaronfrancis.com/2022/efficient-pagination-using-deferred-joins

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

UK schools receive 300k CO2 monitors in gov initiative to reduce COVID19 spread

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/233154/curbing-covid-19-schools-imperial-scientists-support/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 71 comments
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