top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-30

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/

5 years ago

Let’s fix font size

https://tonsky.me/blog/font-size/

5 years ago

'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56581266

5 years ago

Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS

https://therecord.media/google-collects-20-times-more-telemetry-from-android-devices-than-apple-from-ios/

5 years ago

Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

https://unsplash.com/blog/unsplash-getty/

5 years ago

Voltswagen of America

https://media.vw.com/en-us/releases/1499

5 years ago

Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)

https://www.gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/

5 years ago

Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python

https://github.com/gruns/icecream

5 years ago

Kafka without ZooKeeper

https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-without-zookeeper-a-sneak-peek/

5 years ago

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity

https://anonymousplanet.org/

5 years ago

Voxel Space: Comanche's terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020)

https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace

5 years ago

PayPal launches crypto checkout service

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-paypal-exclusive-idUSKBN2BM10N

5 years ago

Scientists create simple synthetic cell

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2021/03/scientists-create-simple-synthetic-cell-grows-and-divides-normally

5 years ago

Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16584/arm-announces-armv9-architecture

5 years ago

Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since records began'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56574142

5 years ago

Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf

https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/improving-shell-workflows-with-fzf/

5 years ago

Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study

https://www.u-fukui.ac.jp/en-news/67075/

5 years ago

Breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage

https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/ims/news/Pages/Big-breakthrough-for-’massless’-energy-storage.aspx

5 years ago

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-is-back-in-its-all-online-format/

5 years ago

Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in union vote

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/amazon-loses-effort-to-install-camera-to-watch-ballot-box-in-union-vote.html

5 years ago

Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”

http://ifconfig.co/

5 years ago

Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy

https://torrentfreak.com/sega-lawyers-demand-immediate-suspension-of-steam-database-over-alleged-piracy-210330/

5 years ago

See a Satellite Tonight

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

5 years ago

Benzene detected in hand sanitizers

https://www.valisure.com/blog/valisure-news/valisure-detects-benzene-in-hand-sanitizers/

5 years ago

Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56578544

5 years ago

The sixtyforgan: Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb

https://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/index.php

5 years ago

Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)

https://supabase.io/blog/2021/03/30/supabase-storage

5 years ago

EC2 Serial Console

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/troubleshoot-boot-and-networking-issues-with-new-ec2-serial-console/

5 years ago

Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole

https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/27/down-the-golang-nil-rabbit-hole/

5 years ago

Wezterm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer

https://github.com/wez/wezterm

5 years ago

Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/technology/intel-arizona-chip-factories.html

5 years ago

Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-name/volkswagen-will-not-change-name-of-u-s-operations-sources-idUSKBN2BM2YJ

5 years ago

What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove?

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/what-does-a-pgp-signature-on-a-git-commit-prove

5 years ago

Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying

https://news.uga.edu/social-media-addiction-linked-to-cyberbullying/

5 years ago

Building a Magical 3D Button with Vanilla HTML/CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/3d-button/

5 years ago

C# 9 top-level programs and target-typed expressions

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/03/30/c-9-top-level-programs-and-target-typed-expressions/

5 years ago

A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)

https://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic

5 years ago

Golang: Know Your 'Nil'

http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2017_03_29_know_your_nil.html

5 years ago

Man Built a $188M Fortune Investing in Stocks Then Donated It to Charity

https://www.joshuakennon.com/add-jack-macdonald-list-secret-millionaires-just-died-left-188-million-built-investing-stocks-charity/

5 years ago

Compiling a Lisp to x86_64 (2020)

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/lisp/

5 years ago

Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoNilIsTypedSortOf

5 years ago

China passes Hong Kong “patriot” election law

https://www.axios.com/china-passes-hong-kong-patriot-election-law-37117377-8d34-44c6-b44d-20913c6afae0.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything

http://sickofthis.xyz/

5 years ago

Show HN: Poulette – A Color Palette GUI

https://github.com/grgrdvrt/poulette

5 years ago

Raspberry Pi Floppy Controller Board

https://www.smbaker.com/raspberry-pi-floppy-controller-board

5 years ago

U.S. Strategic Command response to FOIA request regarding gibberish tweet

https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1376653334396903428

5 years ago

Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Format

https://rainway.com/blog/2020/12/09/bebop-an-efficient-schema-based-binary-serialization-format/

5 years ago

Overnight Pizza and the Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines

https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/overnight-pizza-and-the-consistent

5 years ago

Lisp-stat: An environment for Statistical Computing

https://lisp-stat.dev/

5 years ago

Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00352

5 years ago

People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdj79/peoples-expensive-nfts-keep-vanishing-this-is-why

5 years ago

The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war

https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/03/28/the-french-armed-forces-are-planning-for-high-intensity-war

5 years ago

How to backdoor curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/30/howto-backdoor-curl/

5 years ago

AI skills are worth less than you think (2019)

https://medium.com/inside-inovo/your-ai-skills-are-worth-less-than-you-think-e4b5640adb4f

5 years ago

Humans display a few consistent behavioral phenotypes in two player games (2016)

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600451

5 years ago

Starship SN11 Launch Attempt Ends in Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1376884533841170432

5 years ago

Stuck Suez cargo ship in Microsoft Flight Simulator

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-the-stuck-suez-cargo-ship-in-microsoft-flight-simulator/

5 years ago