top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-21

Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

https://chromium.woolyss.com/f/HTML-Google-Tag-Manager-the-new-anti-adblock-weapon.html

4 years ago

1384 upvotes – 867 comments

I have no capslock and I must scream

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/48-i-have-no-capslock.gmi

4 years ago

897 upvotes – 520 comments

I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss

https://twitter.com/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056

4 years ago

797 upvotes – 397 comments

Chris Lattner left Swift core team

https://forums.swift.org/t/core-team-to-form-language-workgroup/55455/6

4 years ago

559 upvotes – 487 comments

Coinbase CEO tweets how they came up with Super Bowl ad, lied about it

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-21-0

4 years ago

481 upvotes – 230 comments

What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2021.1938081

4 years ago

396 upvotes – 98 comments

Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30413228

4 years ago

385 upvotes – 377 comments

Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/MJBKVd-xrEE/m/joVNaDgAAgAJ

4 years ago

363 upvotes – 91 comments

Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?

https://vaghetti.dev/posts/times-are-great/

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 602 comments

Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/20/google-drive-to-sqlite/

4 years ago

305 upvotes – 32 comments

What a $500k grant proposal looks like

https://austinhenley.com/blog/500kgrant.html

4 years ago

293 upvotes – 130 comments

Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently

https://github.com/automerge/automerge

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 69 comments

I wrote the least-C C program I could

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220220.html

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 131 comments

An elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 112 comments

I was wrong, we need crypto

https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb03

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 321 comments

Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone

https://positive.security/blog/find-you

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 102 comments

Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-orders-russian-peacekeepers-eastern-ukraines-two-breakaway-regions-2022-02-21/

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 315 comments

Valencia's irrigation system is now a model for sustainable farming

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220220-valencias-la-huerta-spains-ingenious-water-maze

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 64 comments

The Poison Papers: Hidden history of chemical and pesticide hazards in the U.S

https://www.poisonpapers.org/

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 55 comments

Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)

https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/feynmans-advice-to-wm-student-resonates-45-years-later.php

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 78 comments

What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling?

https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/what-made-world-of-warcrafts-environments-so-compelling/

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 138 comments

Thanks HN for keeping it free of ads and trackers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416631

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 22 comments

Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time

http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/02/dutch-antitrust-authority-fines-apple.html

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 124 comments

Apple’s Mistake (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 262 comments

Google could have updated the Pixel 3 until Android 13, it just didn't want to

https://www.androidpolice.com/the-pixel-3-deserves-longer-updates/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 137 comments

Medieval Photoshop

https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/medieval-photoshop

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 42 comments

95%-ile isn't that good (2020)

https://danluu.com/p95-skill/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 156 comments

DYMO's new label printer uses RFID tags to prevent the use of non-OEM paper

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/21/if-you-thought-printer-cartridge-drm-was-bad-dymo-is-forcing-users-to-buy-rfid-paper

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 66 comments

C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines

https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 99 comments

The new FreeDOS 1.3 is now available for download

https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2022/02/freedos-13/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 84 comments

The Price of Nails Since 1695

https://www.nber.org/papers/w29617

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 64 comments

Nacirema

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

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 44 comments

Data Structures in the Fleet Editor

https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2022/02/fleet-below-deck-part-ii-breaking-down-the-editor/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

Atlassian co-founder wants to buy Australia’s biggest polluter to make it green

https://www.wsj.com/articles/atlassian-co-founder-wants-to-buy-australias-biggest-polluter-to-make-it-greener-11645427453

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 75 comments

Wallabag: Self-hostable application for saving web pages and articles

https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Prisma Python – A fully typed ORM for Python

https://github.com/RobertCraigie/prisma-client-py

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 87 comments

Minsky Moments in Venture Capital

https://pivotal.substack.com/p/minsky-moments-in-venture-capital

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Kubernetes Documentary: A Critical Review

https://www.cloudcritical.org/article/kubernetes-documentary-part-1/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 122 comments

A Vicious Cycle: The Dangerous Dehumanisation of Cyclists

https://lens.monash.edu/@technology/2019/03/27/1374089/dangerous-dehumanisation-of-cyclists

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 265 comments

New study disavows marshmallow test’s predictive powers

https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmallow-tests-predictive-powers/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 60 comments

Bootloader Basics

https://notes.eatonphil.com/bootloader-basics.html

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: How do I develop skills to comfort people and offer compassion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30412165

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 87 comments

Americans Will Need to Register to Travel to Europe in 2023

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/02/18/americans-will-need-to-register-to-travel-to-europe-in-2023/

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 176 comments

Frugal Computing (2021)

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 95 comments

Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers (2007)

https://dercuano.github.io/notes/tiny-interpreters-for-microcontrollers.html

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 17 comments

A PM's guide to communicate effectively with software engineers

https://www.mindtheproduct.com/effective-communication-with-software-engineers/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 56 comments

Scientific integrity in a climate of perverse incentives and competition (2017)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206685/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: How to track flying objects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30415599

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 63 comments

Data races in Python, despite the Global Interpreter Lock

https://verdagon.dev/blog/python-data-races

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

Camp that imprisoned 7000 Japanese Americans could become National Historic Site

https://www.axios.com/japanese-american-incarceration-amache-818b557c-30a1-478b-972d-b7703e010944.html

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone else miss TouchID?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416792

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 103 comments

Lattner: Swift Core Team toxic and departure

https://forums.swift.org/t/core-team-to-form-language-workgroup/55455

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Hyperloop lays off half of its employees as it pivots away from passenger travel

https://www.businessinsider.com/virgin-hyperloop-layoffs-passenger-travel-cargo-transport-2022-2

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 150 comments

Ask HN: Is remote work killing your network?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30421782

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 107 comments

SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (Nee HyperNeWS) (2018)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 3 comments

Increase in Adipose Tissue Linoleic Acid of US Adults in the Last Half Century

https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/6/6/660/4555155

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 55 comments

Apple retail employees organize a union using Android phones to prevent spying

https://futurism.com/the-byte/apple-union-android

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30413629

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 138 comments
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