top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-29

Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding-mRNA-sequences-for-vaccines-BNT-162b2-and-mRNA-1273/blob/main/Assemblies%20of%20putative%20SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding%20mRNA%20sequences%20for%20vaccines%20BNT-162b2%20and%20mRNA-1273.docx.pdf

4 years ago

1248 upvotes – 367 comments

Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-floated/suez-canal-says-traffic-in-channel-resumes-after-stranded-ship-refloated-idUSKBN2BL1S9

4 years ago

1068 upvotes – 569 comments

The Deno Company

https://deno.com/blog/the-deno-company

4 years ago

883 upvotes – 431 comments

Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time

https://www.axios.com/church-membership-gallup-26cc020b-5405-417a-a786-e10c286a30db.html

4 years ago

698 upvotes – 1404 comments

Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

https://twitter.com/superdealloc/status/1376626243865604100

4 years ago

634 upvotes – 319 comments

Numi – Calculator app for Mac

https://numi.app/

4 years ago

406 upvotes – 179 comments

PHP's Git server compromised, moving to GitHub

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 135 comments

68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News

http://68k.news/

4 years ago

404 upvotes – 141 comments

USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/io/universal-serial-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html

4 years ago

364 upvotes – 226 comments

Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/0d556e45afc54afeb2eb6b51a9bc1827b9961ff4.pdf

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 112 comments

Ever Given Everywhere

https://evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me/

4 years ago

350 upvotes – 68 comments

Hello, HPy

https://hpyproject.org/blog/posts/2021/03/hello-hpy/

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative

https://coollabs.io/coolify

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 116 comments

AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enough

4 years ago

340 upvotes – 219 comments

React and D3.js

https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-and-d3

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees

https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 53 comments

Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 1996 news article

https://twitter.com/oliviasolon/status/1171200746240372737

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 100 comments

Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative

https://blog.tonari.no/introducing-innernet

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 70 comments

Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/29/amazon-twitter-hack-union-jeff-bezos/

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 262 comments

Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-visa-exclusive/exclusive-visa-moves-to-allow-payment-settlements-using-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN2BL0X9

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 250 comments

Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/29/22349978/boston-dynamics-stretch-robot-warehouse-logistics

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 166 comments

&& operator chains (and ||, possibly) generates unoptimizable LLVM IR

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/83623

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 100 comments

The uninvited Internet of things

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/850218/9c0f0946579fe577/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 190 comments

Git email flow vs. GitHub flow

https://blog.brixit.nl/git-email-flow-versus-github-flow/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 175 comments

Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (1996) [pdf]

https://cs.nyu.edu/davise/papers/hofstadter.pdf

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 150 comments

Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (1981)

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-fires-11359-air-traffic-controllers

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 251 comments

Work peak and professional decline (2019)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 155 comments

VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy

https://blog.gwlab.page/vpn-over-ssh-the-socks-proxy-8a8d7bdc7028

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 97 comments

How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries

https://shopify.engineering/building-web-app-ruby-rails

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 60 comments

Problems with low DNS TTLs

https://00f.net/2019/11/03/stop-using-low-dns-ttls/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 158 comments

Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-28/progress-made-in-moving-ship-more-vessels-diverted-suez-update

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 246 comments

The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from it

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 121 comments

The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 44 comments

The makers of Eleuther hope it will be an open source alternative to GPT-3

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generate-convincing-text-anyone-use-it/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 95 comments

FreeBSD Core Team Statement on FreeBSD Development Processes

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2021-March/057127.html

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 75 comments

Speech to Birdsong Conversion

http://www.windytan.com/2021/03/speech-to-birdsong-conversion.html

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 27 comments

FTC to close down mobile banking app Beam

https://finledger.com/2021/03/29/ftc-to-close-down-mobile-banking-app-beam-pending-district-court-judge-approval/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

Quickdraw with Google AI

https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”

https://www.google.com/search?q=ever+given

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 51 comments

Launch HN: Greywing (YC W21) – Automated ship operations focused on crew

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26621266

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free Software Foundation

https://social.librem.one/@johns/105971045184138347

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 403 comments

Why do interviewers ask linked list questions?

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/linked-lists/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 153 comments

No one gives a shit what programming language you use

https://georgestocker.com/2021/03/28/no-one-gives-a-shit-what-programming-language-you-use/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Nettu Scheduler – A self-hosted calendar and scheduler server

https://github.com/fmeringdal/nettu-scheduler

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 26 comments

What I learned living in a trailer in the Utah desert for two decades

https://www.outsideonline.com/2421817/moab-trailer-mark-sundeen-essay

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

Netmask NPM package, used by 270k+ projects, vulnerable to octal input data

https://sick.codes/universal-netmask-npm-package-used-by-270000-projects-vulnerable-to-octal-input-data-server-side-request-forgery-remote-file-inclusion-local-file-inclusion-and-more-cve-2021-28918/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 87 comments

Stretch from Boston Dynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 65 comments

Thoughts on Rust bloat (2019)

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/2019/08/21/rust-bloat.html

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

Software freedom isn’t about licenses – it’s about power

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/software-freedom-isnt-about-licenses-its-about-power.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

How much can a Clojure developer do alone?

https://yyhh.org/blog/2021/03/how-much-can-a-clojure-developer-do-alone/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 102 comments

Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-experts-will-lie-to-you-sometimes

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 166 comments

Court Orders UK Man to Pay $571m for Operating Fraudulent Bitcoin Trading Scheme

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8371-21

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 79 comments

Sleeping octopuses may have dreams, but they're probably brief

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980944495/sleeping-octopuses-may-have-dreams-but-theyre-probably-brief

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 56 comments

Tar is an ill-specified format (2015)

https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/portability-tar.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 110 comments

A new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall

https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-cloudflare-waf/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time

https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

How to Manage a Dark Ages Estate

https://www.le.ac.uk/hi/polyptyques/capitulare/trans.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

Laser Bear Honeycomb lidar

https://waymo.com/lidar/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 115 comments

Vessel Finder

https://www.vesselfinder.com/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Smart design: When the package is a functional part of the tool it’s carrying

https://www.core77.com/posts/107394/Smart-Design-When-the-Package-is-a-Functional-Part-of-the-Tool-Its-Carrying

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 52 comments

Kroki – Generate Diagrams from GraphViz, Mermaid, PlantUML, Vega, Vega-Lite

https://kroki.io/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

GNU Autotools: A Tutorial [pdf]

https://elinux.org/images/4/43/Petazzoni.pdf

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 77 comments

Tips for Individual and Group Brainstorming

https://runpondr.com/blog/brainstorming

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Why no Easter Eggs? (2005)

https://web.archive.org/web/20171123041231/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/10/21/why-no-easter-eggs/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 59 comments

On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand Russell

https://cantorsparadise.substack.com/p/on-norbert-wieners-relationship-with

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Personal Data: Instagram Is a Real Tattletale

https://www.statista.com/chart/24495/apps-sharing-personal-information-with-third-parties/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments
show: top 10 top 20 top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: date score comments