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Hacker News (28 Nov 2021)

  1. Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus

    751 points • 730 comments • nov 28, 2021

  2. Books that changed my career as a software engineer

    580 points • 270 comments • nov 28, 2021

  3. Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case

    491 points • 85 comments • nov 28, 2021

  4. Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote

    421 points • 225 comments • nov 28, 2021

  5. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?

    356 points • 223 comments • nov 28, 2021

  6. Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again

    316 points • 265 comments • nov 28, 2021

  7. The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by

    302 points • 127 comments • nov 28, 2021

  8. Floating point visually explained (2017)

    280 points • 55 comments • nov 28, 2021

  9. Why are German numbers backwards?

    280 points • 407 comments • nov 28, 2021

  10. The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered

    266 points • 64 comments • nov 28, 2021