top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-04-05

Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf

4 years ago

4103 upvotes – 932 comments

Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/technology/amazon-nlrb-activist-workers.html

4 years ago

713 upvotes – 380 comments

Writing tools I learned from The Economist

https://builtbywords.substack.com/p/writing-tools-i-learned-from-the

4 years ago

633 upvotes – 246 comments

LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

https://www.axios.com/lg-is-getting-out-of-the-mobile-phone-business-a1398158-51e4-428b-a649-47e080884fee.html

4 years ago

620 upvotes – 683 comments

Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021

https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN35642.html

4 years ago

585 upvotes – 367 comments

The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2019)

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-unparalleled-genius-of-john-von-neumann-791bb9f42a2d

4 years ago

484 upvotes – 261 comments

Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra

https://waffleironer.medium.com/legalizing-gay-marriage-in-crusader-kings-iii-with-ghidra-2602e6aa8689

4 years ago

429 upvotes – 170 comments

Show HN: My personal website is a shell

https://aava.sh

4 years ago

425 upvotes – 171 comments

Have I Been Facebooked?

https://haveibeenfacebooked.com/

4 years ago

384 upvotes – 219 comments

Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/leaked-phone-number-of-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-he-is-on-signal-1787396-2021-04-05

4 years ago

378 upvotes – 172 comments

Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 322 comments

Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent

https://itep.org/pandemic-profits-netflix-made-record-profits-in-2020-paid-a-tax-rate-of-less-than-1-percent/

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 391 comments

Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JZZENevaLzLLeC3zn/predictive-coding-has-been-unified-with-backpropagation

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 85 comments

Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56583428

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 486 comments

Things I learned while developing a billing system

https://arnon.dk/5-things-i-learned-developing-billing-system/

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 118 comments

Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019)

https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-prison-reform-morality-unconstitutional-20190101-story.html

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 304 comments

Elixir and Phoenix after two years

https://nts.strzibny.name/elixir-phoenix-after-two-year/

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 111 comments

Cesium for Unreal Now Available

https://cesium.com/blog/2021/03/30/cesium-for-unreal-now-available/

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 46 comments

Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats

https://github.blog/2021-04-05-behind-githubs-new-authentication-token-formats/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 79 comments

Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries

https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 42 comments
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