top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-02

Microsoft Coffee

https://www.microsoftcoffee.org/

5 years ago

1558 upvotes – 371 comments

Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong

https://www.paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-man-thought-opening-txt-file-is.html

5 years ago

986 upvotes – 304 comments

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters

http://tom7.org/lowercase/

5 years ago

727 upvotes – 165 comments

This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html

5 years ago

711 upvotes – 201 comments

The Norway Problem

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/

5 years ago

656 upvotes – 325 comments

Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/fed-up-with-the-mac-i-spent-six-months-with-a-linux-laptop-the-grass-is-not-greener-on-the-other-side.html

5 years ago

478 upvotes – 816 comments

Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

https://dmitryelj.medium.com/windows-95-how-does-it-look-today-feda837922d9

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 513 comments

Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/nuclear-should-be-considered-part-of-clean-energy-standard-white-house-says/

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 354 comments

Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/02/national/isamu-akasaki-dies/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 119 comments

Move Slow and Make Things

https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/move-slow-make-things/

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 125 comments

Every Noise at Once

https://everynoise.com/

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 94 comments

Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/tmux-psa/

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 193 comments

Securing a Postgres Database

https://goteleport.com/blog/securing-postgres-postgresql/

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 93 comments

IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials

https://taxfoundation.org/irs-guidance-thieves-drug-dealers-and-corrupt-officials/

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 269 comments

An HTTP server in a single .c file

https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 98 comments

MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager

https://github.com/climech/grit

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 45 comments

Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/almost-third-of-uk-covid-hospital-patients-readmitted-within-four-months

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 197 comments

Get Started with Tmux

https://sunainapai.in/blog/get-started-with-tmux/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 92 comments

An insider-trading indictment shows ties to Bloomberg News scoops

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/an-insider-trading-indictment-shows-ties-to-bloomberg-news-scoops.php

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 102 comments

I bought ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/comments/mikuj1/i_bought_iso_860112019_and_860122019_ask_me/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 159 comments

Why machine learning struggles with causality

https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/03/15/machine-learning-causality/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 119 comments

The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01528

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

Handles are the better pointers (2018)

https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 88 comments

A lot of free software is free as in piano

https://twitter.com/leahvelleman/status/1377829865504833536

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 102 comments

CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving

https://blog.waymo.com/2021/04/capstone-of-my-career-email-from-john.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 240 comments

Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/01/climate-crisis-global-heating-food-farming-agriculture

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 176 comments

HPy: A better C API for Python?

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/851202/8981fa354a584aeb/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 9 comments

Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/penny-stocks-trading.html

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 238 comments

Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/01/arabian-coins-found-in-us-may-unlock-17th-century-pirate-mystery

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 17 comments

Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56617049

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 92 comments

Error-riddled data sets are warping our sense of how good AI is

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/01/1021619/ai-data-errors-warp-machine-learning-progress

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

Summary of C/C++ integer rules

https://www.nayuki.io/page/summary-of-c-cpp-integer-rules

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 95 comments

Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syntax Releases 1.0

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/04/crystal-ruby-c-release-1/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 52 comments

The ideology hiding in SimCity’s black box

https://www.polygon.com/videos/2021/4/1/22352583/simcity-hidden-politics-ideology-urban-dynamics

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 76 comments

Writing Your First Kernel Module (2019)

https://scottc130.medium.com/writing-your-first-kernel-module-98ae68edf0e

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

Atomic structure of a glass imaged at last

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00794-6

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Docker as an Integrated Development Environment (2019)

https://medium.com/@ls12styler/docker-as-an-integrated-development-environment-95bc9b01d2c1

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 91 comments

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-created-the-amazon-rain-forest/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 79 comments

Richard Stallman Removed from the GCC Steering Committee

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235245.html

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 97 comments

Big Book of Amiga Hardware

https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 8 comments

Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federal robocall ban

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/04/supreme-court-sides-with-facebook-in-narrowing-the-federal-robocall-ban/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 92 comments

Exploring Tweets with SQLite and WASM

https://divu.in/experiments/wasm/twitter-sqlite

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas

https://www.sysselmannen.no/en/alcohol/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 158 comments

Coinbase to go public on 4/14

https://decrypt.co/63671/coinbase-going-public-in-april-14-announce-q1-earnings-beforehand

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 76 comments

Raspberry Pi 2.5 Gbps OMV NAS Performance

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-25-gbps-16-tb-omv-nas-setup-and-performance

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

The Multi-Generational LRU

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/851184/01351eb745a6405d/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Grids in Rust, Part 2: const generics

https://blog.adamchalmers.com/grids-2/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

How many lines of code is Candy Japan? (2016)

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-many-lines-of-code-is-candy-japan

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

NFT Canon

https://a16z.com/2021/04/02/nfts-readings-resources/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 103 comments

Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'Asian' as adult content

https://sea.mashable.com/tech/15130/apple-will-finally-fix-the-ios-issue-that-blocked-searches-for-asian-as-adult-content

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 105 comments

Does LEED Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Federal Buildings

https://www.nber.org/papers/w28612

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 97 comments

Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]

https://novaramedia.com/2021/03/26/luddites-hackers-saboteurs/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 106 comments
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