top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-02-26

'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-when-steam-accepted-bitcoin-for-payments-says-gabe-newell/

4 years ago

Make Linux look like Windows 95

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/make-linux-look-exactly-like-windows

4 years ago

No_color

https://no-color.org/

4 years ago

Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun

https://www.uawire.org/kyiv-full-consensus-for-disconnecting-russia-from-swift-has-been-achieved-the-process-has-begun

4 years ago

Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-02-25/portugal-identifying-job-opportunities-for-refugees/65478

4 years ago

Bitconnect founder indicted in global $2.4B cryptocurrency scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bitconnect-founder-indicted-global-24-billion-cryptocurrency-scheme

4 years ago

Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare

https://mwi.usma.edu/defending-the-city-an-overview-of-defensive-tactics-from-the-modern-history-of-urban-warfare/

4 years ago

GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source

https://github.blog/2022-02-22-github-advisory-database-now-open-to-community-contributions/

4 years ago

Strange plant-like formation captured by Curiosity rover on Mars

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/03397/mhli/3397MH0001630001201030R00_DXXX.jpg

4 years ago

MetalNES: Transistor Level NES Simulation

https://github.com/iaddis/metalnes

4 years ago

Gitlab Critical Security Release

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/02/25/critical-security-release-gitlab-14-8-2-released/

4 years ago

Newly published 9/11 footage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6t31R4tI10

4 years ago

Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2022/02/anonymous-takes-down-websites-defense-ministry-rt-and-kremlin

4 years ago

Heat people, not spaces (2015)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/heating-people-not-spaces.html

4 years ago

She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

http://www.generationterrorists.com/articles/30_years_later.html

4 years ago

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020)

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

4 years ago

How Russia Took over the Internet in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/how-russia-took-over-the-internet-in-crimea-and-eastern-ukraine/

4 years ago

Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers

4 years ago

Anonymous takes .ru government websites offline

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1497574730282541060

4 years ago

How to waste time and overcomplicate things

https://ryanwarnock.me/blog/260222.html

4 years ago