top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-06

My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

https://alexanderell.is/posts/infinite-scroll/

4 years ago

905 upvotes – 448 comments

Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages

https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1500458582902460420

4 years ago

686 upvotes – 362 comments

Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it

https://0ut3r.space/2022/03/06/windows-defender/

4 years ago

560 upvotes – 285 comments

IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)

https://ibm-research.medium.com/ibm-open-sources-300-fully-functional-lego-microscope-design-248a6cdc81bf

4 years ago

460 upvotes – 48 comments

Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7585078/156935120-91e35d8f-fed2-4f97-a31e-2460c884db94.png

4 years ago

454 upvotes – 215 comments

Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html

4 years ago

394 upvotes – 112 comments

iMac G4 to M1 conversion process

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/imac-g4-to-m1-conversion-progress.2329778/

4 years ago

387 upvotes – 99 comments

C++ Cheat Sheets

https://hackingcpp.com/cpp/cheat_sheets.html

4 years ago

353 upvotes – 80 comments

EU Buried $400k Study Showing Piracy Have Almost No Effect on Sales (2017)

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/09/21/eu-buried-own-400000-study-showing-unauthorized-downloads-have-almost-no-effect-sales/

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 126 comments

A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap4.html

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 189 comments

Stellarium

https://stellarium.org/

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 31 comments

Adding a “duress” password with PAM Duress (2021)

https://lwn.net/Articles/867158/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 158 comments

Pair Programming Antipatterns

https://tuple.app/pair-programming-guide/antipatterns

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

https://blobbackup.com

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 119 comments

Just say no to :latest

https://platformers.dev/log/2022-03-02-latest-literally-kills-puppies/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 129 comments

Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

https://noteplan.co/n/3D073DDB-CB0F-4ABC-BC93-01A94141445B

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 255 comments

Notes on Nationalism (1945)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/notes-on-nationalism/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 210 comments

Putin signs law to seize funds of officials that exceed declared income by $100

https://then24.com/2022/03/06/putin-signed-a-decree-on-the-confiscation-of-illegal-funds-of-officials/

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 146 comments

SymSpell: 1M times faster spelling correction

https://github.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 32 comments

The Art of Assembly Language Programming (1996)

http://www.phatcode.net/res/223/files/html/toc.html

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 61 comments

I can no longer compile my first Flash game

https://devtails.xyz/i-can-no-longer-compile-my-first-flash-game

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 274 comments

Using email wrong

https://arne.me/blog/youre-using-email-wrong/

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 182 comments

Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/germany-considers-keeping-nuclear-power-plants-online/

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 136 comments

$1 Microcontrollers (2017)

https://jaycarlson.net/microcontrollers/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 93 comments

Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal (2017)

https://whistleblowersblog.org/government-whistleblowers/intelligence-community-whistleblowers/dr-whitehurst-and-the-fbi-lab-scandal/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 45 comments

“Open source” does not mean “includes free support” (2020)

https://raccoon.onyxbits.de/blog/bugreport-free-support/

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 99 comments

Build or don't build a software feature?

https://dont.build

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 42 comments

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 15 comments

Quicker and easier ways to get more light

https://blog.plover.com/tech/corn-bulbs.html

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 92 comments

Selling to the Fortune 500, Government, and Other Lovecraftian Horrors

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterprise_sales

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 37 comments

Request Coalescing in Async Rust

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/request-coalescing-in-async-rust

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 38 comments

Spotify made a cowardly choice: to submit to the Kremlin

https://copyriot.se/2022/03/05/spotify-made-a-cowardly-choice-to-submit-to-the-kremlin-rather-than-to-support-russian-dissenters/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 113 comments

The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 98 comments

Non blocking and zero downtime ALTER statements in PostgreSQL with pg-osc

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2022/47/pg-osc-zero-downtime-schema-changes-in-postgresql/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 23 comments

On resuming discord.py development

https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/c4324f17a80c94776832430007ad40e6

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 66 comments

Interop 2022: browsers working together to improve the web for developers

https://web.dev/interop-2022/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 44 comments

NSA Network Infrastructure Security Guidance [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/01/2002947139/-1/-1/0/CTR_NSA_NETWORK_INFRASTRUCTURE_SECURITY_GUIDANCE_20220301.PDF

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 55 comments

A Request to Terminate ENOG

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2022-March/004392.html

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 10 comments

We automatically fixed thousands of Ruby 2.7 deprecation warnings

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/02/03/how-we-automatically-fixed-hundreds-of-ruby-2-7-deprecation-warnings/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

War in Ukraine: Marshall Mud is winning again

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/06/war-in-ukraine-marshall-mud-is-winning-again/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 16 comments

Advanced Programming Languages (2009)

https://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 98 comments

What's the risk from fake Yubikeys?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/03/whats-the-risk-from-fake-yubikeys/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 75 comments

Escaping privileged containers for fun

https://pwning.systems/posts/escaping-containers-for-fun/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

Modern Fascism Looks Like

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1500495309595725831

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 32 comments

Zotonic, the Erlang Web Framework

http://zotonic.com/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 8 comments

If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, or India’s?

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1447997574556880902

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 158 comments

Binary search with confidence

https://blog.tylerhou.io/posts/binary-search-with-confidence/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 76 comments

How we end up with different intuitions about problems

https://juliawise.net/how-we-end-up-with-different-intuitions-about-problems/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

How to Write a Spelling Corrector (2007)

http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Do you pull and run code as part of code review?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30577735

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 141 comments

Possibility for strong high-latitude cooling under negative emissions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28573-5

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: What concepts have you never truly understood?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30582221

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 179 comments

Ryven – Flow-based visual scripting for Python

https://ryven.org/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

Open Letter to Visa and Mastercard from IT Specialists Fleeing Russia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30580767

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applications?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30577911

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 128 comments

InstaNFC – Access Control Hardware for Developers

https://instanfc.com/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Russian banks rush to switch to Chinese card system

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-banks-rush-switch-chinese-card-system-2022-03-06/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

The Einstein Telescope

https://www.einsteintelescope.nl/en/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

Russia forcing all businesses to relocate away from Internet in 5 days

https://twitter.com/krisnova/status/1500590809585893378

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Send a text message about Ukraine to a random Russian mobile number

http://1920.in/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 75 comments

Pope Francis says Ukraine conflict is not a 'military operation but a war'

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-francis-says-ukraine-conflict-is-not-military-operation-war-2022-03-06/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling

http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

Denmark Will Hold June Referendum on Joining EU’s Defense Pact

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-06/denmark-will-hold-vote-on-joining-eu-s-defense-pact-tv2-says

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

How did Russia get so big?

https://kamilkazani2.substack.com/p/how-did-russia-get-so-big

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 2 comments

Nvidia hackers leak 190GB of sensitive data from Samsung

https://www.techspot.com/news/93663-nvidia-hackers-leak-190gb-sensitive-data-samsung.html

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

High Definition Radio

https://computer.rip/2022-03-05-high-definition-radio.html

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

Tell HN: Google removes Russian news from results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30575992

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 33 comments

Dr. Bronner’s, the Soap Company, Dips into Psychedelics

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/health/ketamine-bronner-bros.html

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

The technological case against Bitcoin and blockchain

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-technological-case-against-bitcoin-and-blockchain/

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

Commodore 64 – Reverse Engineered BusCard

https://pdbuchan.com/commodore/buscard/buscard.html

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Car Models with the Most DUIs

https://insurify.com/insights/car-models-with-the-most-duis/

4 years ago

54 upvotes – 106 comments

Digital Health Rules

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/9-digital-health-rules

4 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments
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