top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-04-06

I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/i-refused-to-become-an-fbi-informant-and-the-government-put-me-on-the-no-fly-list/

5 years ago

Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k

https://robertchen.cc/blog/2021/04/03/github-pages-xss

5 years ago

I hope work from home continues

https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2021/4/6/some-of-the-reasons-i-hope-work-from-home-continues-and-i-never-have-to-return-to-an-office

5 years ago

Programming is hard

https://dorinlazar.ro/2021-02-programming-is-hard/

5 years ago

The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/

5 years ago

Surprisingly Slow

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/

5 years ago

Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messaging-cryptocurrency/

5 years ago

Eliminating Data Races in Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/04/eliminating-data-races-in-firefox-a-technical-report/

5 years ago

Wuffs’ PNG image decoder

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/fastest-safest-png-decoder.html

5 years ago

Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)

https://rbranson.medium.com/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791

5 years ago

Django 3.2

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/apr/06/django-32-released/

5 years ago

AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=58127&start=50&tstart=0

5 years ago

“I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16574

5 years ago

How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client

https://missiveapp.com/blog/how-we-built-1m-arr-email-client

5 years ago

How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages

https://browser.engineering/layout.html

5 years ago

In Support of Richard Stallman

https://stallmansupport.org/#intro

5 years ago

Rust in the Android Platform

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html

5 years ago

Booking.com fined €475k for reporting data breach too late

https://therecord.media/booking-com-fined-e475000-for-reporting-data-breach-too-late/

5 years ago

A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals

https://whitehotharlots.tumblr.com/post/647740298162831360/a-movement-that-cannot-be-criticized-cannot

5 years ago

Apache Mesos to be moved to Attic

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rab2a820507f7c846e54a847398ab20f47698ec5bce0c8e182bfe51ba%40%3Cdev.mesos.apache.org%3E

5 years ago