top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-08

The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/one-man-saas-architecture/

5 years ago

Monkey MindPong

https://neuralink.com/blog/

5 years ago

Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-data-leak-idUSKBN2BU2ZY

5 years ago

The Real Book

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/

5 years ago

An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

https://www.thecut.com/2021/04/a-q-and-a-with-the-man-who-keeps-uploading-my-feet-to-wikifeet.html

5 years ago

New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity

https://innocenceproject.org/new-mexico-historic-legislation-to-end-qualified-immunity/

5 years ago

A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.5978289/this-man-is-looking-for-the-friends-who-shipped-him-overseas-in-a-crate-in-1965-1.5978296

5 years ago

How to make a Python package in 2021

https://antonz.org/python-packaging/

5 years ago

You Don't Need a GUI

https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-GUI

5 years ago

Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (2015)

https://dberard.com/home-built-stm/

5 years ago

Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)

https://blog.djmnet.org/2019/08/02/why-do-long-options-start-with/

5 years ago

Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)

https://github.blog/2020-12-17-commits-are-snapshots-not-diffs/

5 years ago

Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26739220

5 years ago

A simple C implementation to stream H.264 to browser using WebRTC

https://github.com/sepfy/pear

5 years ago

AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx

https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2021-04-07-amd-and-xilinx-stockholders-overwhelmingly-approve-amd-s-acquisition

5 years ago

Show HN: A Twitter crawler for app ideas

https://iwishtherewas.app/

5 years ago

How to Learn Complex Things Quickly: A Guide

https://product.hubspot.com/blog/how-to-learn-complex-things-quickly

5 years ago

Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/07/rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame

5 years ago

Facebook Down?

https://www.facebook.com/

5 years ago

Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it

https://tkainrad.dev/posts/why-keyboard-shortcuts-dont-work-on-non-us-keyboard-layouts-and-how-to-fix-it/

5 years ago

Ory Keto, open source authorization server based on Google Zanzibar

https://github.com/ory/keto

5 years ago

Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26734079

5 years ago

The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history

5 years ago

Perfect Motherfucking Website

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/

5 years ago

EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

https://www.eff.org/ar/document/eff-letter-re-virtual-coachella-video

5 years ago

Tell HN: Today I learned Epub is just HTML/CSS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB#:~:text=EPUB%20is%20an%20e%2Dbook,smartphones%2C%20tablets%2C%20and%20computers.

5 years ago

Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19

https://www.israel21c.org/israel-may-have-achieved-herd-immunity-against-covid-19/

5 years ago

1984: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

https://if50.substack.com/p/1984-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy

5 years ago

MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/MacBook-and-iPad-production-delayed-as-supply-crunch-hits-Apple

5 years ago

Netscape ISP Homepage

https://isp.netscape.com

5 years ago

U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-commerce/u-s-adds-chinese-supercomputing-entities-to-economic-blacklist-idUSKBN2BV1XU

5 years ago

Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir

https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon

5 years ago

Silphium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium

5 years ago

We scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis

https://github.blog/2021-04-05-how-we-scaled-github-api-sharded-replicated-rate-limiter-redis/

5 years ago

A “deepfake” is at the center of a harassment case, but what if it’s not faked?

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/deepfake-vaping-video-cheerleaders/

5 years ago

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction (2019)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/08/reading-in-the-age-of-constant-distraction/

5 years ago

Links are not buttons (2013)

https://karlgroves.com/2013/05/14/links-are-not-buttons-neither-are-divs-and-spans/

5 years ago

Muon G-2 Experiment at Fermilab Finds Hint of New Particles

https://www.quantamagazine.org/muon-g-2-experiment-at-fermilab-finds-hint-of-new-particles-20210407

5 years ago

Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Complexity, and the Lambda Calculus [pdf]

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis511/notes/proofslambda.pdf

5 years ago

lscpu + neofetch = cpufetch

https://github.com/Dr-Noob/cpufetch

5 years ago

Show HN: I built a reverse image search for pixel art

https://github.com/emnh/PixelArtSearch/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques (2012)

https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/

5 years ago

GnuCOBOL – a free/libre COBOL compiler

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/

5 years ago

Flight incident: Passengers titled ‘Miss’ counted as children [pdf]

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/604f423be90e077fdf88493f/Boeing_737-8K5_G-TAWG_04-21.pdf

5 years ago

Which type of exercise is best for the brain? (2016)

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exercise-is-best-for-the-brain/

5 years ago

A Brief F# Exploration

https://notes.srid.ca/fsharp-exploration

5 years ago

A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech

https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/07/consumer-neurotech-skeptic/

5 years ago

The Tarnished Moon

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Mar21/tarnished-Moon.html

5 years ago

Vald: A Highly Scalable Distributed Vector Search Engine

https://github.com/vdaas/vald

5 years ago

Medical Student banished from UVA campus for questioning Microaggressions

https://reason.com/2021/04/07/microaggressions-uva-student-kieran-bhattacharya-threat/

5 years ago

The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/philip-roth-the-tourist

5 years ago

Run Bhyve in FreeBSD jails – The view from inside the forest (2020)

https://neirac.byteswizards.com/posts/run-bhyve-in-freebsd-jails/

5 years ago

Cryptographically verifiable code review system for cargo Rust package manager

https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev

5 years ago

Texas Senate passes bill aiming to counter federal subsidies for wind and solar

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Senate-passes-bill-aiming-to-counter-16062267.php

5 years ago

Hooking keyboard input to play Snake in Notepad.exe (2020)

http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Hooking-Input-Snake-In-Notepad.html

5 years ago