top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-02-08

Heuristics that almost always work

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost-always-work

3 years ago

1000 upvotes – 520 comments

Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/02/apple-unveils-contactless-payments-via-tap-to-pay-on-iphone/

3 years ago

847 upvotes – 704 comments

Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/08/bitfinex-hack-bitcoin-arrests/

3 years ago

698 upvotes – 856 comments

SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO

https://www.reuters.com/business/softbanks-66-bln-sale-arm-nvidia-collapses-ft-2022-02-08/

3 years ago

491 upvotes – 236 comments

Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30256016

3 years ago

429 upvotes – 195 comments

Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2022-introducing-garage/

3 years ago

409 upvotes – 130 comments

I would like a job writing Haskell

https://blog.plover.com/2022/02/07/

3 years ago

405 upvotes – 492 comments

Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel

https://erisa.dev/exposing-a-web-service-with-cloudflare-tunnel/

3 years ago

398 upvotes – 178 comments

Gyroflow: Advanced open-source gyro-assisted video stabilization

https://gyroflow.xyz/

3 years ago

360 upvotes – 65 comments

How UTF-8 Works

https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/utf-8

3 years ago

359 upvotes – 190 comments

Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations

https://nerdlegame.com/?a=0

3 years ago

344 upvotes – 141 comments

Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)

https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s-wine-industry-during-prohibition/

3 years ago

344 upvotes – 183 comments

Some mistakes Rust doesn't catch

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/some-mistakes-rust-doesnt-catch

3 years ago

337 upvotes – 177 comments

You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way

https://twitter.com/dnunan79/status/1491072159393148929

3 years ago

305 upvotes – 417 comments

How the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm

https://restofworld.org/2022/documents-reputation-laundering-firm-eliminalia/

3 years ago

302 upvotes – 93 comments

Atari asks for help finding developer of 2600 game Aquaventure

https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/08/atari-asks-gamers-for-help-finding-developer-of-mysterious-2600-game/

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 68 comments

Laravel 9

https://laravel-news.com/laravel-9-released

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 257 comments

Django: Reformatted code with Black

https://github.com/django/django/pull/15387

3 years ago

284 upvotes – 245 comments

The Kelly criterion: How to size bets (2019)

https://explore.paulbutler.org/bet/

3 years ago

271 upvotes – 122 comments

Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/peloton-ceo-john-foley-1.6343537

3 years ago

270 upvotes – 338 comments
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