Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus — and Books that changed my career as a software engineer

Issue #601 — November 29, 2021

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Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus yanmaani.github.io \| points: 706 \| comments: 673

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Books that changed my career as a software engineer julianogtz.github.io \| points: 536 \| comments: 253

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Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case trtworld.com \| points: 471 \| comments: 80

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Tell HN: GitHub is down again news.ycombinator.com \| points: 430 \| comments: 261

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Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote youtube.com \| points: 382 \| comments: 207

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My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours news.ycombinator.com \| points: 374 \| comments: 225

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Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? covid-datascience.com \| points: 340 \| comments: 213

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SQLite Release 3.37.0 sqlite.org \| points: 327 \| comments: 101

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Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 300 \| comments: 306

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Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1) godotengine.org \| points: 251 \| comments: 65

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Floating point visually explained (2017) fabiensanglard.net \| points: 227 \| comments: 48

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Why are German numbers backwards? german.stackexchange.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 353

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Show HN: 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator tanck.nl \| points: 193 \| comments: 55

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GitHub Broken Download URLs github.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 93

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Linus on Line Breaks (2020) lkml.org \| points: 174 \| comments: 139

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“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says torrentfreak.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 162

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The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer’s clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered righto.com \| points: 163 \| comments: 29

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Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution npr.org \| points: 159 \| comments: 169

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The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by theaviationgeekclub.com \| points: 148 \| comments: 46

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I returned my Remarkable2 offbyone.us \| points: 145 \| comments: 156

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