top 50% 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

477 upvotes – 324 comments

Make Linux look like Windows 95

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

4 years ago

473 upvotes – 202 comments

No_color

https://no-color.org/

4 years ago

466 upvotes – 200 comments

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

389 upvotes – 476 comments

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

384 upvotes – 130 comments

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

363 upvotes – 303 comments

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

359 upvotes – 411 comments

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

317 upvotes – 45 comments

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

299 upvotes – 125 comments

MetalNES: Transistor Level NES Simulation

https://github.com/iaddis/metalnes

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 49 comments

Gitlab Critical Security Release

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

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 147 comments

Newly published 9/11 footage [video]

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

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 103 comments

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

237 upvotes – 118 comments

Heat people, not spaces (2015)

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

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 321 comments

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

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

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 65 comments

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

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

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 283 comments

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

220 upvotes – 131 comments

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

213 upvotes – 124 comments

Anonymous takes .ru government websites offline

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

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 76 comments

How to waste time and overcomplicate things

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

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 54 comments

An IT Army for Ukraine

https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1497642156076511233

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 13 comments

Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1497607423594536961

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 255 comments

On the Origin of the iPhone

https://daringfireball.net/2022/02/on_the_origin_of_the_iphone

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 129 comments

Brandon Sanderson’s advice for doing hard things

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/02/25/brandon-sandersons-advice-for-doing-hard-things/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 60 comments

So you want to design a programming language (2017)

https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/languagedesignnotes/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 58 comments

Open source 5G core network base on 3GPP R15

https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 48 comments

Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine

https://netblocks.org/reports/twitter-restricted-in-russia-amid-conflict-with-ukraine-JBZrogB6

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 234 comments

Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOHSysMmH0

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 169 comments

PwC fined over exam cheating involving 1,100 of its auditors

https://www.ft.com/content/2e246b48-a6a9-4dc6-b4fb-136b62ab3a3a

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 55 comments

Detailed simulation of complete minimal cellular life

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)01488-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867421014884%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479688

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 240 comments

Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30482060

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 162 comments

OBS Plugin: Background Removal

https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 59 comments

Berkshire Hathaway 2021 annual report [pdf]

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2021ar/2021ar.pdf

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 137 comments

Intel energizes decades-old real-time Linux kernel project

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/intel_linutronix_linux/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 48 comments

Advice to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv

https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1497583307504046087

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 98 comments

S&P lowers Russia's rating to 'junk' status, Moody's issues junk warning

https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/moodys-puts-russia-ukraine-ratings-review-downgrade-2022-02-25/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 56 comments

Failing in Haskell

https://jappie.me/failing-in-haskell.html

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 49 comments

eng.mil.ru is returning HTTP 418

https://eng.mil.ru

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 48 comments

Putin’s Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/putins-historic-miscalculation-may-make-him-a-war-criminal

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 90 comments

Nvidia Hit by Major Cyberattack

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-hit-by-major-cyberattack-that-may-have-completely-compromised-parts-of-its-business/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

Cutting Russia off from SWIFT a “matter of days” – euro zone central banker

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/cutting-russia-off-swift-matter-days-euro-zone-central-banker-2022-02-26/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 188 comments

Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1497701484003213317

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/nhtsa-to-investigate-honda-accords-and-cr-vs-over-phantom-braking/

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 104 comments

Thousands of Romanians waiting in their cars to pick up refugees at the border

https://twitter.com/AM_Friedman/status/1497351012234977291

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 12 comments

Cozy Futurism

https://nintil.com/cozy-futurism

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 75 comments

Lua Devirtualization

https://ferib.dev/blog.php?l=post/Lua_Devirtualization_Part_1_Introduction

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Anatomy of a terminal emulator (2021)

https://poor.dev/blog/terminal-anatomy/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Google announces support for Ukraine by giving $2M in Adwords credit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30476940

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

US Sanctions Vladimir Putin

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20220225_33

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 64 comments

Zulip Cloud security vulnerability with reusable invitation links

https://blog.zulip.com/2022/02/25/zulip-cloud-invitation-vulnerability/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Tabula: Convert PDF Table to CSV

https://tabula.technology/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Gas Embargo Would Hit Russia Hardest

https://www.statista.com/chart/26927/estimated-change-in-russias-gdp-due-to-western-sanctions-per-sector/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 134 comments

Mitsubishi plans to include scene-aware interaction in cars

https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-last-a-self-driving-car-that-can-explain-itself

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments

The Effects of Finland's Possible NATO Membership (2016) [pdf]

https://um.fi/documents/35732/48132/the_effects_of_finlands_possible_nato_membership/c206b3c2-acaa-5809-c545-7aa67c9bcb2a?t=1525861455616

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 124 comments

DJ performance remixing AI-created music- which is then live-remixed by a 2nd AI

https://qosmo.jp/en/projects/ai-dj-project2-ubiquitous-rhythm/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Meta to bar Russian state media from running ads, monetizing on platform

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-bar-russian-state-media-running-ads-monetizing-platform-2022-02-26/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 43 comments

Open-source patient model tops industry standard

https://news.umich.edu/open-source-patient-model-tops-industry-standard/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Minimal English (2018)

https://intranet.secure.griffith.edu.au/schools-departments/natural-semantic-metalanguage/minimal-english

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020)

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-users-locked-out-after-years-2020-10

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Psychiatry and politicians: the ‘hubris syndrome’ (2018)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-psychiatrist/article/psychiatry-and-politicians-the-hubris-syndrome/46643F663C0E79B9CE3FFE0A0F97F09B

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 43 comments

DNA data of sexual assault victims exposed in breach at US laboratory

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/dna-data-of-sexual-assault-victims-exposed-in-breach-at-us-laboratory

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

Germany softens stance on curbing Russian access to SWIFT

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-favour-targeted-functional-swift-curbs-russia-minister-2022-02-26/

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

Nvidia Fires Back at Hackers, Encrypting Stolen Data and Ransomed Their Systems

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-fires-back-at-hackers-by-encrypting-1-tb-stolen-data-successfully-ransomed-their-systems/

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Distributed terrorism/warfare via Telegram channels

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30478391

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine

https://github.com/OB42/RussianBlocker

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 85 comments

Oligarchs Flee Russia

https://www.radarspots.com/oligarchs-flee-russia/

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

Gut Microbiota Regulate Pancreatic Growth, Exocrine Function and Gut Hormones

https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article-abstract/doi/10.2337/db21-0382/144608/Gut-Microbiota-Regulate-Pancreatic-Growth-Exocrine?redirectedFrom=fulltext

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Cut Russia from GitHub due to invasion of Ukraine

https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12042

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 87 comments

Rhodes MK8

https://rhodesmusic.com/

4 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

Military gap between Russia and Ukraine

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/02/25/the-military-gap-between-russia-and-ukraine-is-vast

4 years ago

54 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Esolang Park, a visual debugger for esolangs

https://esolangpark.vercel.app

4 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Pioneer CDJ Guidebook: A Comparison and History of CDJs and XDJs

https://passionatedj.com/pioneer-cdj-the-ultimate-guide-cdj-2000-900-1000mk3-800mk2/

4 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

A list of demonstrations planned around the world against the war on Ukraine

https://www.stopputin.net/

4 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

String-Based Templates vs. DSLs: The Pros and Cons of Each [audio]

https://www.fullstackruby.dev/podcast/3/

4 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Information Warfare Is Without Limits and So Are Its Consequences

https://schmud.de/posts/2022-02-25-info-warfare-without-limits.html

4 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Russian invaders are using internationally-banned butterfly mines

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/02/26/7326201/

4 years ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments

IL2CPP runtime performance improvements in Unity 2021.2

https://blog.unity.com/technology/feature-highlight-il2cpp-runtime-performance-improvements-in-unity-20212

4 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

Russian military uses Premise microtasking platform to aim and calibrate fire

https://twitter.com/hiddenmarkov/status/1497351111656751109

4 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

Library Genesis

https://libgen.rs

4 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

Russian invasion of Ukraine visualized article

https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/zdpxokdxzvx/

4 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments
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