top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-01

Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust

https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/latest-emdrive-tests-at-dresden-university-shows-impossible-engine-does-not-develop-any-thrust20210321/

5 years ago

534 upvotes – 296 comments

Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail

https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-vulnerability-in-apples-macos-mail-59e0c14b106c

5 years ago

443 upvotes – 257 comments

Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard

https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 349 comments

Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BO55Y

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 459 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661443

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 966 comments

Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails

https://mailstudio.app/

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 209 comments

Security Breach at US Universities

https://dorper.me/articles/unileak.aspx

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 240 comments

A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16

https://advancedweb.hu/a-categorized-list-of-all-java-and-jvm-features-since-jdk-8-to-16/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 241 comments

LineageOS 18.1

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-25/

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 134 comments

TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-cancels-chip-price-cuts-and-promises-100bn-investment-surge

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 245 comments

Show HN: Simplenetes – I replaced Kubernetes with 17k lines of shell script

https://github.com/simplenetes-io/simplenetes

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 148 comments

Great Bitter Lake Association, the Sort-of-Micronation Formed in the Suez Canal

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/great-bitter-lake-association/

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 57 comments

OpenTTD 1.11

https://www.openttd.org/news/2021/04/01/openttd-1-11-0.html

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 58 comments

Update on campaign targeting security researchers

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/update-campaign-targeting-security-researchers/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 69 comments

MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

https://status2.azure.com/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor

https://www.attejuvonen.fi/mouse/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 136 comments

Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash

https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 73 comments

100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines

https://buzzsumo.com/resources/hundred-million-best-headlines-study/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 110 comments

Category Theory: Orders

https://boris-marinov.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/04_order/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26657803

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 142 comments

54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today

https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/illegal_homes.html

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 220 comments

OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=161730046519995

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 97 comments

Arabian Nights

https://blog.pgdp.net/2021/04/01/arabian-nights/

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 108 comments

Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further notice: telecoms sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-internet/myanmar-orders-wireless-internet-shutdown-until-further-notice-telecoms-sources-idUSKBN2BO5H2

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 102 comments

OpenBSD adds support for Coordinated Mars Time

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=161730046519995&w=2

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 63 comments

Zoomable lens without any moving parts

https://medium.com/extremetech-access/mit-creates-zoomable-lens-without-any-moving-parts-87286a791047

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661279

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 219 comments

Game Engine: How I Implemented Skeletal Animation

https://vladh.net/articles/game-engine-skeletal-animation.html

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 28 comments

Cheers to 10 Years

https://blog.elementary.io/ten-years/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 77 comments

On the Decline of Perl – external factors

https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/03/msg259484.html

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 297 comments

Don’t use environment variables for configuration

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2021/03/never-use-environment-variables-for.html

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 286 comments

Goblins: A transactional, distributed actor model environment

https://docs.racket-lang.org/goblins/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 30 comments

Software development is a loser’s game

https://thehosk.medium.com/software-development-is-a-losers-game-fc68bb30d7eb

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 153 comments

Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-networking-data-breach-response-whistleblower-cybersecurity-incident

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 81 comments

1983: Suspended

https://if50.substack.com/p/1983-suspended

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 20 comments

OpenMW – open-source TES3 Morrowind reimplementation

https://openmw.org/en/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

Someone in the Kalahari Collected Crystals 105,000 Years Ago

https://www.sciencealert.com/someone-in-the-kalahari-collected-crystals-a-whopping-100-000-years-ago

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 105 comments

Coinbase Announces Listing Date of Its Stock on the Nasdaq

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-announces-effectiveness-of-registration-statement-and-anticipated-listing-date-of-its-1509b281f760

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 112 comments

Photos and Video Taken Inside Illegal Click Farms (2018)

https://www.core77.com/posts/81665/Eye-Opening-Photos-and-Video-Taken-Inside-Illegal-Click-Farms

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2021/04/01/filecoin-foundation-grants-50000-fil-to-the-internet-archive/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 109 comments

Evaluating Search Algorithms

https://shopify.engineering/evaluating-search-algorithms

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

RFC8962: Establishing the Protocol Police

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8962.txt

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Clubhouse clones are coming

https://philsiarri.medium.com/the-clubhouse-clones-are-coming-4b927ccdac4e

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 108 comments

Azure was having DNS issues

http://status.azure.com/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing

https://wormhole.app/?ref=hn

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

The strangest time zones in the world (2015)

https://qz.com/357697/time-zone-deviants-part-i-the-strangest-time-zones-in-the-world/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

Google Play limiting Android 11 apps from seeing what’s installed on devices

https://9to5google.com/2021/03/31/installed-android-apps-limit/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 76 comments

New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets

https://www.univaasa.fi/en/articles/new-study-detects-lottery-behavior-cryptocurrency-markets

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 184 comments

Gut microbial taxa elevated by dietary sugar disrupt memory function

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01309-7

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults

https://apnews.com/article/us-hunger-crisis-kids-older-adults-fce1aba64d777f4a0f2bbf18b15040c6

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 130 comments

Welcome to the Decade of Concern

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2021/04/welcome-to-decade-of-concern.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out

https://threatpost.com/google-apple-track-mobile-opting-out/165147/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: I built Creodocs, a document creation platform based on LaTeX

https://www.creodocs.com

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Who Owns the Nile?

https://blog.datawrapper.de/who-owns-the-nile-map/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 101 comments

Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)

https://tsangchungshu.medium.com/building-a-functional-one-party-democracy-5cb40cf1720f

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 71 comments

Background: how we got the generics we have (2020)

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/erasure.html

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 101 comments

Proposal: Downward Assignments

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17768

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Commoditize your complements (2002)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

A billion for every chip-maker who 'makes in India,' sources say

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-semiconductor-exclusive/exclusive-a-billion-dollars-for-every-chip-maker-who-makes-in-india-idUSKBN2BN12J

5 years ago

60 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661442

5 years ago

60 upvotes – 102 comments

By 2012, scientists will have announced a cure for breast cancer (2006)

https://longbets.org/240/

5 years ago

59 upvotes – 98 comments

You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/you-cant-trust-amazon-when-it-feels-threatened/

5 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Exfiltrate Files Using the DNS

https://www.go350.com/posts/exfiltrate-files-using-the-dns/

5 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments
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