top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-17

GitHub, fuck your name change

https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe

5 years ago

Audacity 3.0

https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/

5 years ago

Charts.css

https://chartscss.org/

5 years ago

Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky

https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2021/03/gigapixel-mosaic-of-milky-way-1250.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Video Game in a Font

https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

5 years ago

Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/boosting-dev-success.html

5 years ago

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison

http://www.superrune.com/tutorials/indy3_ega.php

5 years ago

How to Design Programs (2014)

https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/

5 years ago

CodeTour: VS Code extension to record and play guided walkthroughs of codebases

https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour

5 years ago

Why in the world would you own bonds?

https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/why-in-the-world-would-you-own-bonds-when

5 years ago

Let there be more biographies of failures

https://commonreader.substack.com/p/let-there-be-more-biographies-of

5 years ago

Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/tech/microsoft-japan-workweek-productivity/index.html

5 years ago

Super Resolution

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/10/from-the-acr-team-super-resolution.html

5 years ago

Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home

https://soundsofthepub.com/

5 years ago

Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants

https://www.btctimes.com/news/visa-plans-to-enable-bitcoin-purchases

5 years ago

FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience

https://www.tubsta.com/2021/03/freebsd-13-0-full-desktop-experience/

5 years ago

Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online

https://www.learnlatex.org/en/

5 years ago

Tusky has been removed from the Play Store

https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/105904002285019275

5 years ago

The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition

https://jamesward.com/2021/03/16/the-modern-java-platform-2021-edition/

5 years ago

GitHub Has a Permission Problem

https://games.greggman.com/game/github-permission-problem/

5 years ago

AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/03/astrazeneca-vaccine-doesnt-prevent-b1351-covid-early-trial

5 years ago

Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/lost-in-thought-psychological-risks-of-meditation/

5 years ago

Show HN: Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode

https://wiki.dendron.so/

5 years ago

Which color scale to use when visualizing data

https://blog.datawrapper.de/which-color-scale-to-use-in-data-vis/

5 years ago

SQLAlchemy 1.4

https://www.sqlalchemy.org/blog/2021/03/15/sqlalchemy-1.4.0-released/

5 years ago

Avoid Consumer Routers

https://routersecurity.org/consumerrouters.php

5 years ago

Claude Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Cryptography

https://evervault.com/papers/shannon

5 years ago

Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/how-to-stay-safe-in-shell/

5 years ago

How to deal with difficult people on software projects

https://www.howtodeal.dev/

5 years ago

Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up

https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-finally-asking-big-tech-to-pay-up/

5 years ago

Jello 3D Printer (2013)

https://spritesmods.com/?art=jello3dprinter

5 years ago

José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

https://english.elpais.com/historical_memory/2021-03-01/jose-epita-mbomo-the-spanish-electrician-who-sabotaged-the-nazis.html

5 years ago

Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2021/03/small-common-lisp-cli-programs/

5 years ago

Show HN: Cloud GPUs for Deep Learning – At 1/3 the Cost of AWS/GCP

https://gpu.land/

5 years ago

I self-learned to code at 30

https://www.kaapi.team/blog/i-self-learned-to-code-at-30-this-is-how-you-can-too

5 years ago

Daves Old Computers – Robotic DVD Loader

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/dvdload/index.htm

5 years ago

Top Texas regulator ousted as recording emerges of pledge to protect Wall Street

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Ouster-of-top-Texas-utility-regulator-follows-16031381.php

5 years ago

Scientists grow mice embryos in a mechanical womb

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/health/mice-artificial-uterus.html

5 years ago

Audi abandons combustion engine development

https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/16/audi-abandons-combustion-engine-development/

5 years ago

Interfaces and Protocols in Python

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2021/03/interfaces-and-protocols.html

5 years ago

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03344-2

5 years ago

Atari Transputer Workstation

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/atw800/index.htm

5 years ago

Clio: A functional, distributed programming language that compiles to JavaScript

https://github.com/clio-lang/clio

5 years ago

Why Channel 37 Doesn’t Exist

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8by7/why-channel-37-doesnt-exist-and-what-it-has-to-do-with-aliens

5 years ago

Dogs orient and move in synchrony with family members

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/well/move/dogs-kids-family.html

5 years ago

JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet

https://en.jingos.com/jingpad-a1/

5 years ago

Fintech Giant Fiserv Used Unclaimed Domain

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/fintech-giant-fiserv-used-unclaimed-domain/

5 years ago

Apple’s renewable energy projects are helping to create 1.2GW of clean power

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/03/apples-four-point-seven-billion-green-bond-spend-is-helping-to-create-one-point-two-gigawatts-of-clean-power/

5 years ago

Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210315165639.htm

5 years ago

Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you

http://shoutout.so/

5 years ago

The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/CONCEPT/SLOIssues

5 years ago

Line app allowed Chinese firm to access personal user data

https://therecord.media/line-app-allowed-chinese-firm-to-access-personal-user-data-without-permission/

5 years ago

Eclipse IDE 2021-03

https://www.eclipse.org/eclipseide/

5 years ago

Stack Overflow for Teams is now free forever for up to 50 users

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/17/stack-overflow-for-teams-is-now-free-forever-for-up-to-50-users/

5 years ago

I Want a New Duck (2020)

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2020/07/new-duck.html

5 years ago

Google Cloud Networking reporting issues

https://status.cloud.google.com/

5 years ago