top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-13

What does it mean to listen on a port?

https://paulbutler.org/2022/what-does-it-mean-to-listen-on-a-port/

4 years ago

853 upvotes – 220 comments

White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug

https://cryptoadventure.com/white-hat-hacker-awarded-2-million-for-fixing-eth-creation-bug/

4 years ago

601 upvotes – 332 comments

Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/sm54ri/anyone_else_feel_the_constant_urge_to_leave_the/

4 years ago

471 upvotes – 454 comments

Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH

https://twitter.com/thomasg_eth/status/1492663192404779013

4 years ago

434 upvotes – 406 comments

I have never read a business plan or balance sheet

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492682253612113921

4 years ago

429 upvotes – 326 comments

Traffic Simulator

https://traffic-simulation.de/ring.html

4 years ago

372 upvotes – 85 comments

Prosecutor won't charge reporter who uncovered database flaw

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/prosecutor-wont-charge-reporter-who-uncovered-database-flaw

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 122 comments

Kubernetes: The Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 143 comments

Surveillance too cheap to meter

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3511661

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 107 comments

We at $Famous_company Switched to $Hyped_technology

https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-company-switched-to-hyped-technology/

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30323131

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 133 comments

Guinea worm disease nears eradication

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00385-z

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 113 comments

How to skate a 10k

https://www.howtoskate.se

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 106 comments

An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats

https://doctorow.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats-5dfc54558f2c

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 44 comments

My approach to automatic musical composition

https://flujoo.github.io/en/my-approach-to-automatic-musical-composition/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 39 comments

CORS is not meant to secure an API endpoint

https://nikofischer.com/cors-does-not-secure-api-endpoints

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 154 comments

Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30320837

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 231 comments

Rust started as a personal project in 2006

https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/1492634815748739077

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 79 comments

Mark Cuban's pharmacy started with a cold email

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/mark-cuban-s-pharmacy-started-with-a-cold-email.html

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 216 comments

Ask HN: Disillusioned with the direction of society and technology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30321888

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 188 comments

The once-extinct aurochs may soon roam Europe again

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aurochs-rewilding

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 147 comments

How to Drop Out (2004)

https://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 85 comments

Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization

https://blog.mollywhite.net/off-ramps/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 246 comments

Facebook Pay

https://pay.facebook.com/

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 235 comments

What we lost

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/what-we-lost/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 165 comments

Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibia_(video_game)

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 105 comments

Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) – a leap forward in technology (2020)

https://www.digikey.com/en/blog/single-pair-ethernet-spe

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 95 comments

Corrected identification of object about to hit the moon

https://www.projectpluto.com/temp/correct.htm

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 55 comments

Is YC a Monopoly?

https://every.to/napkin-math/is-yc-the-monopoly-it-thinks-it-is

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 67 comments

Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008) (2000) [pdf]

https://web.archive.org/web/20210413060837/http://robertmatthews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/RM-storks-paper.pdf

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding

https://www.islandix.com/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 100 comments

The Rule of 72 (2007)

https://betterexplained.com/articles/the-rule-of-72/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

Life in the soil was thought to be silent – what if it isn’t?

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/life-soil-was-thought-be-silent-what-if-it-isnt

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: What's your learning strategy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30321632

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 90 comments

Consent, GDPR and Google Analytics

https://cunderwood.dev/2022/02/13/consent-gdpr-and-google-analytics/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

The Fall of Roam

https://every.to/superorganizers/the-fall-of-roam#

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 103 comments

Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/swiss-to-vote-on-protecting-children-from-tobacco-ads/47336990

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 122 comments

The Cost of Financialization-Globalization: You Lost $500k and Gained $137.13

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-cost-of-financialization.html

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 135 comments

The Life of MS-DOS

https://b13rg.github.io/Life-of-MS-DOS/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 102 comments

Learning rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019)

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/index.html

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

IBM executives called older workers 'dinobabies'

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-execs-called-older-workers-dinobabies-in-age-discrimination-lawsuit-2022-2

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

Spongebob-CLI – Watch classic spongebob from the terminal

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Ronja: Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access

http://ronja.twibright.com/about.php

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

A Formal Model of Checked C

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13394

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ur-queen-puabi-mesopotamia-textiles

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

For Humanity’s Sake, Keep Red Crosses on Medevac Helicopters

https://warontherocks.com/2022/02/for-humanitys-sake-keep-red-crosses-on-medevac-helicopters/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 77 comments

Simula One – Linux VR Computer

https://shop.simulavr.com/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 92 comments

Yaw String

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

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2022/02/resurrecting-the-old-wordle-for-procrastinators/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 81 comments

CFIREsim 3.0 – Retirement Simulator

https://www.cfiresim.com

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Simple XMPP command line client

https://holmeinbuch.de/repo/txmppc/file?name=txmppc.c&ci=tip

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Virtual machines with KVM on Pixel 6 and Android 13 DP1

https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1492712401262710784

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

SPARKNaCl: A verified, fast re-implementation of TweetNaCl

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/ada_sparknacl/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

More than half of Bitcoin investors are in the red, study says

https://money.com/bitcoin-crypto-losses-2022/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 93 comments

Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 PeV from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources (2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03498-z

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 38 comments

macOS Monterey shows that Zoom continues to use mic regardless of being in call

https://hothardware.com/news/mac-zoom-mute-mic-because-app-is-spying-on-you

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Hong Kong Refugees Traumatized

https://taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/02/13/2003773041

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Library to send and receive using infra-red signals on an Arduino

https://github.com/Arduino-IRremote/Arduino-IRremote

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

I made an open source project – STM32 for stereovision tasks

https://github.com/Ildaron/STM32_stereovision

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments
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