top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-09

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

5 years ago

1595 upvotes – 509 comments

Embrace the Grind

https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/

5 years ago

1167 upvotes – 310 comments

Docker without Docker

https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/

5 years ago

689 upvotes – 210 comments

Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=0d5fe4b31785b732b71e764b55cda5c8d6e3bbbf

5 years ago

657 upvotes – 328 comments

Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/

5 years ago

592 upvotes – 618 comments

Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-is-ahead-in-union-vote-as-tallying-set-to-resume-11617960604

5 years ago

566 upvotes – 1219 comments

Zoom zero-day discovery

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/exploits-and-vulnerabilities/2021/04/zoom-zero-day-discovery-makes-calls-safer-hackers-200000-richer/

5 years ago

521 upvotes – 236 comments

Prince Philip has died

https://www.royal.uk/

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 511 comments

Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs

https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 132 comments

CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-rice-intel-optimize-ai-commodity.html

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 143 comments

Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit

https://tech.channable.com/posts/2021-04-09-nix-is-the-ultimate-devops-toolkit.html

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 235 comments

FFmpeg 4.4

http://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr4.4

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 130 comments

The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple

https://www.letterspatent.org/p/meet-the-patent-troll-that-won-a

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 272 comments

Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning

https://kwokchain.com/2021/02/05/atomic-concepts/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 244 comments

Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/04/06/joe-rogan-spotify-removing-shows/

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 335 comments

AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/cloudfront-lambda-at-edge-billing-granularity/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 103 comments

HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/587

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 295 comments

Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

https://zserge.com/posts/bfaas/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 44 comments

Hacking a $200 Under Desk Exercise Bike

https://codaris.github.io/UnderDeskBike/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 135 comments

W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/08/w3c_google_multple_domains/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 126 comments

Timeline of Mathematics

https://mathigon.org/timeline

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 61 comments

FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-April/002030.html

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 33 comments

Atlantic Dawn: The Ship from Hell

https://britishseafishing.co.uk/atlantic-dawn-the-ship-from-hell/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 65 comments

Why Hypercard had to die (2011)

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 166 comments

Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/04/monster-mash-sketch-based-tool-for.html

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 21 comments

Am I FLoCed?

https://amifloced.org

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 33 comments

Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension

https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 27 comments

How a carnivorous mushroom poisons its prey

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-carnivorous-mushroom-poisons-its-prey/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

A Guide to Color from 1692

https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692-a-complete-high-resolution-digital-scan.html

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 18 comments

Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt

https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/04/08/egyptologist-zahi-hawass-announces-discovery-of-lost-golden-city-in-luxor/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 31 comments

Eu_sst: 20% probability for large satellite collision

https://twitter.com/EU_SST/status/1380120766071635968

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 95 comments

The Web MiniDisc App (2020)

https://stefano.brilli.me/blog/web-minidisc/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 78 comments

Jurigged – Hot code reloading for Python

https://github.com/breuleux/jurigged

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

A look at LLVM: comparing clamp implementations

https://secret.club/2021/04/09/std-clamp.html

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 23 comments

SEC Charges 1inMM Capital, LLC with Operating a $690M Ponzi Scheme

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-58

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

Was the NE2000 really that bad?

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/was-the-ne2000-really-that-bad/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 72 comments

My Son, the Organ Donor

https://kimmoldofsky.medium.com/my-son-the-organ-donor-5593edbbc526

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 82 comments

Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/in-one-year-a-billion-tons-of-food-got-wasted-mostly-at-home

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 210 comments

VNC client running on a coffee machine

https://raymii.org/s/blog/MS_Teams_on_a_Coffee_Machine_or_Framebuffer_VNC_Client.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Bike Theft Map

https://bike-theft-map.bikmo.com/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 183 comments

Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983)

https://sci-hub.se/10.1093/teamat/2.2.55

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 44 comments

FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-arrests-man-for-plan-to-kill-70-percent-of-internet-in-aws-bomb-attack/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 53 comments

Hawking Hawking

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12235

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 72 comments

800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/04/medieval-jewish-dietary-practices/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 3 comments

The Human Eye Webcam [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMxr8Nq-w_w

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

Tree.h in OpenBSD: dependency-free intrusive binary tree (2002)

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/c1d6f13173b788e34852a303bda0c5a53861979e/sys/sys/tree.h

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 36 comments

LG dryer traffic – 1GB+ daily up/down

https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/comments/mn3p6c/lg_dryer_traffic_1gb_daily_updown/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 86 comments

Some Thoughts on Smart Canes

https://derekriemer.com/posts/2021/01/16/some-thoughts-on-smart-canes/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

Estonian Electronic Identity Card and Its Security Challenges [pdf]

https://dspace.ut.ee/bitstream/handle/10062/71481/parsovs_arnis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Solo developer, what's your recipe to start working?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747318

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 97 comments

Has the era of overzealous cleaning finally come to an end?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-hygiene-cleaning-surfaces.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 177 comments

Is Netflix's Seaspiracy film right about fishing damaging oceans?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56660823

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 133 comments

A Year in the Life of a Compiler Fuzzing Campaign

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/03/23/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-compiler-fuzzing-campaign/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 6 comments

Dvtm: A dynamic tiling window manager for the terminal

https://github.com/martanne/dvtm

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

Boeing Warns of Possible Electrical Issue on 737 Max Planes

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/985764608/boeing-warns-of-possible-electrical-issue-and-airlines-ground-some-737-max-plane?t=1618003981974

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

The Buddhist history of moveable type before Gutenberg (2016)

https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhist-history-moveable-type/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

In Thailand, traditional cannabis cuisine is back on the menu

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannabis-marijuana-in-thai-food

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

European Urbanism and High-Speed Rail

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/04/european-urbanism-and-high-speed-rail/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 97 comments
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