White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug — and I have never read a business plan or balance sheet

Issue #677 — February 14, 2022

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White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug cryptoadventure.com \| points: 447 \| comments: 261

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I have never read a business plan or balance sheet twitter.com \| points: 407 \| comments: 311

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Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber? old.reddit.com \| points: 353 \| comments: 385

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Traffic Simulator traffic-simulation.de \| points: 342 \| comments: 71

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What does it mean to listen on a port? paulbutler.org \| points: 338 \| comments: 109

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Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ” news.ycombinator.com \| points: 290 \| comments: 129

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Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH twitter.com \| points: 278 \| comments: 208

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Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs developer.apple.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 174

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Prosecutor won’t charge reporter who uncovered database flaw kshb.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 110

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FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling opensource.googleblog.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 51

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Still-active phreak numbers, all safe and free stormrider.io \| points: 247 \| comments: 80

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HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol portswigger.net \| points: 205 \| comments: 140

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CORS is not meant to secure an API endpoint nikofischer.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 139

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Guinea worm disease nears eradication nature.com \| points: 189 \| comments: 80

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Rust started as a personal project in 2006 twitter.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 66

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Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer dino.im \| points: 180 \| comments: 60

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Ask HN: Disillusioned with the direction of society and technology news.ycombinator.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 172

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My approach to automatic musical composition flujoo.github.io \| points: 175 \| comments: 25

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How to Drop Out (2004) ranprieur.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 78

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Facebook Pay pay.facebook.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 222

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