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Ask HN: What is your top submission according to HN and top acc to yourself?

8 points by pieter_mj 2y ago

pieter_mj 2y ago
I'll start. According to Hacker News, my top 2 submissions are : - The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol (ietf.org) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863915 - Attacker with access to XML config can trigger keepass.exe to obtain passwords (mitre.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545010 According to myself : - Fast food makes the immune system more aggressive in the long term (uni-bonn.de) no comments, 2 points. - Attacks on genetic privacy via uploads to genealogical databases (elifesciences.org) no comments, 2 points.
mikewarot 2y ago
I liked Thomas Hawk's story -Collecting vernacular photography[1] The top according to HN is when I asked about how to program without a build system [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008376 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154
ecesena 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831272 I’d say pretty accurate, especially if we take a long term view approach vs what I may think is the most important right now.
admissionsguy 2y ago
No spectacular successes here, but... I got 16 points for this political drivel: - The White House and Twitter Censorship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32451727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32451727 and mere 5 points for a Show HN of my side-project that I'd thought would have been of interest to many people here: - Show HN: Find book authors with a specific background, e.g. sci-fi by physicists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680056
crush_robo_1536 2y ago
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7373737373 2y ago
I linked to a blog post about Collatz-like problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609578 But before that and after I tried to link to another by the same author, which I thought is even more interesting, but for some reason didn't get any attention :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637592 It's about the "first"/"smallest" program (in terms of the number of turing machine states needed to describe it - 6), that humanity doesn't know how to solve. A codegolfed Python program with its behavior (by mxdys): a,b=8,3 while b:a+=a>>1;b+=2-a%2*3 Does this halt or not? Knowing this will be necessary to prove the value of the 6th busy beaver number (the 5th has been recently proven).

8 points by pieter_mj 2y ago

I'll start. According to Hacker News, my top 2 submissions are : - The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol (ietf.org) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863915 - Attacker with access to XML config can trigger keepass.exe to obtain passwords (mitre.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545010 According to myself : - Fast food makes the immune system more aggressive in the long term (uni-bonn.de) no comments, 2 points. - Attacks on genetic privacy via uploads to genealogical databases (elifesciences.org) no comments, 2 points.

mikewarot 2y ago

I liked Thomas Hawk's story -Collecting vernacular photography[1] The top according to HN is when I asked about how to program without a build system [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008376 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154

ecesena 2y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831272 I’d say pretty accurate, especially if we take a long term view approach vs what I may think is the most important right now.

admissionsguy 2y ago

No spectacular successes here, but... I got 16 points for this political drivel: - The White House and Twitter Censorship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32451727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32451727 and mere 5 points for a Show HN of my side-project that I'd thought would have been of interest to many people here: - Show HN: Find book authors with a specific background, e.g. sci-fi by physicists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680056

crush_robo_1536 2y ago

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7373737373 2y ago

I linked to a blog post about Collatz-like problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609578 But before that and after I tried to link to another by the same author, which I thought is even more interesting, but for some reason didn't get any attention :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637592 It's about the "first"/"smallest" program (in terms of the number of turing machine states needed to describe it - 6), that humanity doesn't know how to solve. A codegolfed Python program with its behavior (by mxdys): a,b=8,3 while b:a+=a>>1;b+=2-a%2*3 Does this halt or not? Knowing this will be necessary to prove the value of the 6th busy beaver number (the 5th has been recently proven).