top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-21

Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

https://mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-its-customers/

6 years ago

98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

6 years ago

A possible new back end for Rust

https://jason-williams.co.uk/a-possible-new-backend-for-rust

6 years ago

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

https://www.getintention.com/

6 years ago

Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1

https://www.blog.google/products/duo/4-new-google-duo-features-help-you-stay-connected/

6 years ago

Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech

https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/lab.html

6 years ago

Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers

https://whoisnnamdi.com/remote-software-developers-earn-more/

6 years ago

Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis

https://copetti.org/projects/consoles/playstation/

6 years ago

Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns

https://github.com/bansal-io/pattern.css

6 years ago

★ 3.9k HTML

Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

https://vercel.com/blog/zeit-is-now-vercel

6 years ago

On WD Red NAS Drives

https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/

6 years ago

Netflix now supports TLS 1.3

https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-brings-safer-and-faster-streaming-experience-to-the-living-room-on-crowded-networks-78b8de7f758c

6 years ago

Engineering code quality in Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/code-quality-tools-at-mozilla/

6 years ago

Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists

https://www.cyklistbloggen.se/dear-google-its-time-for-cyclists/

6 years ago

GitHub is degraded/down

https://githubstatus.com/

6 years ago

The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)

https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/why-the-nsa-called-me-after-midnight-and-requested-my-source-code-f7076c59ab3d

6 years ago

Show HN: I made a macOS app to let me draw on the screen while on video calls

https://apps.apple.com/app/presentify/id1507246666

6 years ago

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

http://250bpm.com/blog:4

6 years ago

Don't Mess with Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Mess_with_Texas

6 years ago

An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2020/04/21/japan-coronavirus/

6 years ago

If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/GNUGrepForceText

6 years ago

How Tech Can Build

https://stratechery.com/2020/how-tech-can-build/

6 years ago

Bangkok Smoking Kid

https://creativesamba.substack.com/p/bangkok-smoking-kid-you-worry-about

6 years ago

Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers

https://twitter.com/mdiep/status/1252586799098183682

6 years ago

OpenSSL high-severity bug – affects 1.1.1d, 1.1.1e, 1.1.1f

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20200421.txt

6 years ago

LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/21/labcorps-at-home-covid-19-test-kit-is-the-first-to-be-authorized-by-the-fda/

6 years ago

Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (2016)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37612083

6 years ago

Guitar Chord Voicings with Prolog

http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2020/04/21/guitar-chord-voicings-with-prolog/

6 years ago

Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly-dynamic self-bootstrapping language

https://github.com/asrp/flpc

6 years ago

★ 226 Forth

Ask HN: How to get good at social media?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933182

6 years ago

Lambda School lays off 19 employees

https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/a-note-from-our-ceo-company-update

6 years ago

AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15736/amd-ryzen-3-3300x-and-ryzen-3-3100-new-low-cost-quadcore-zen-2-processors-from-99

6 years ago

SYN cookies ate my dog – breaking TCP on Linux (2018)

https://kognitio.com/blog/syn-cookies-ate-my-dog-breaking-tcp-on-linux/

6 years ago

30 Years of iRobot

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-rover-send-moon-sell-movie-rights-30-years-irobot-colin-angle/

6 years ago

Combining event sourcing and stateful systems

https://stitcher.io/blog/combining-event-sourcing-and-stateful-systems

6 years ago

Running an independent Arch Linux rebuilder

https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2020-April/001905.html

6 years ago

Google drops charges on shopping service to counter Amazon's surging ad sales

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-amazon-idUSKCN2231UC

6 years ago

Show HN: Desed – Debugger for Sed

https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed/

6 years ago

★ 1.2k Rust GPL-3.0

Google's Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-head-quantum-computing-hardware-resigns/

6 years ago

The Chaos Programming Language

https://chaos-lang.org/

6 years ago

An important safety note about chown and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ChownSymlinkSafety

6 years ago

An un-edited view of Saturn

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2019/05/20/an-un-edited-view-of-saturn/

6 years ago

Hacking website like HN in French

https://www.journalduhacker.net/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Why are there almost no intermediate-level learning resources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22932794

6 years ago

New Zealand relied on science and empathy

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52344299

6 years ago

The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html

6 years ago

Running decade-old games in containers

https://misha.brukman.net/blog/2020/04/running-decade-old-games-in-containers/

6 years ago

Incremental Regular Expressions (2012)

http://jkff.info/articles/ire/

6 years ago

Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-matheminecraft-math-minecraft.html

6 years ago