top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-13

Just Be Rich

https://keenen.xyz/just-be-rich/

5 years ago

1875 upvotes – 1084 comments

Deno 1.9

https://deno.com/blog/v1.9

5 years ago

670 upvotes – 236 comments

A top-grossing scam on the App Store

https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1381986746661892096

5 years ago

572 upvotes – 269 comments

System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104

5 years ago

500 upvotes – 414 comments

WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/13/whatsapps-new-privacy-policy-is-so-bad-it-might-be-illegal/

5 years ago

481 upvotes – 234 comments

My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.html

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 595 comments

School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tattleware-privacy-employment-1.5978337

5 years ago

458 upvotes – 291 comments

US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56733715

5 years ago

456 upvotes – 1059 comments

Pass: The standard Unix password manager

https://www.passwordstore.org/

5 years ago

411 upvotes – 205 comments

Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices

https://ieftimov.com/post/deep-dive-cors-history-how-it-works-best-practices/

5 years ago

387 upvotes – 58 comments

1Password Secrets Automation

https://blog.1password.com/introducing-secrets-automation/

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 178 comments

The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC

https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 204 comments

Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)

http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 75 comments

Surface Laptop 4

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2021/04/13/introducing-surface-laptop-4-and-new-accessories-for-enhanced-meeting-experiences/

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 365 comments

Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

https://natto.dev

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 94 comments

Effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/justice-department-announces-court-authorized-effort-disrupt-exploitation-microsoft

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

https://deephn.org

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 112 comments

FreeBSD 13.0

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 59 comments

TTS: Text-to-Speech for All

https://github.com/mozilla/TTS

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 51 comments

‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvgej/counter-strike-bug-allows-hackers-to-take-over-a-pc-with-a-steam-invite

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 151 comments

Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment

https://replit.com/kaboom

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 70 comments

NSFW Server Designation

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005389362-NSFW-Server-Designation

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 282 comments

The latest DSM update makes btrfs drives unavailable on budget Synology models

https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/142519

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 159 comments

The war against money-laundering is being lost

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/04/12/the-war-against-money-laundering-is-being-lost

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 237 comments

Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

https://www.stavros.io/posts/keyyyyyyyys/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 224 comments

The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)

https://refactoring.fm/p/the-true-meaning-of-technical-debt

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 112 comments

I refuse to stand by while my students are indoctrinated

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 96 comments

Update on beta testing payments in Signal

https://signal.org/blog/update-on-beta-testing-payments/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 276 comments

How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus?

https://www.bluedot.space/tutorials/how-many-devices-can-you-connect-on-i2c-bus/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 120 comments

Inside PayPal (2010)

http://paulgraham.com/paypal.html

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 49 comments

What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/What-the-Dunning-Kruger-effect-Is-and-Isnt/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 96 comments

The most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/what-are-the-most-important-statistical-ideas-of-the-past-50-years

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 31 comments

Marbles (2016)

http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/life-in-general/marbles.html

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 90 comments

Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ixZLTmFfnKRbaStA5/book-review-a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 84 comments

China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline

https://www.economist.com/china/2021/04/03/china-is-betting-that-the-west-is-in-irreversible-decline

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 322 comments

We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages (2020)

https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 187 comments

Is content moderation a dead end?

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/4/13/is-content-moderation-a-dead-end

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 296 comments

HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrategy shares

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-cryptocurrency/hsbc-bans-customers-from-buying-bitcoin-backer-microstrategy-shares-idUSKBN2BZ21W

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 92 comments

Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/13/iran-nuclear-natanz-israel/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 262 comments

Rust is for Professionals

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/13/rust-is-for-professionals/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 153 comments

FOVO: A new 3D rendering technique based on human vision

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertPepperell/20200527/363615/FOVO_A_new_3D_rendering_technique_based_on_human_vision.php

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 83 comments

A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners (2018)

https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 77 comments

Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the 'worst year' ever to be alive

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/historians-pinpoint-the-very-worst-year-to-ever-be-alive/927803

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 117 comments

The Crow Whisperer: What happens when we talk to animals?

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/the-crow-whisperer-animal-communicators/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)

https://arcan-fe.com/2017/07/12/the-dawn-of-a-new-command-line-interface/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 103 comments

Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf]

https://www.cs.rpi.edu/~milanova/docs/dls2020.pdf

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 124 comments

Figma: Changes to free plan after April 21, 2021

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061769534

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 83 comments

Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for French town of Bitche

https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-unpublishes-official-page-for-french-town-of-bitche/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 96 comments

In Python, `[0xfor x in (1, 2, 3)]` returns `[15]`

https://twitter.com/nedbat/status/1382027078816653319

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 95 comments

Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 96 comments

We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-living-in-a-climate-emergency-and-were-going-to-say-so/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 227 comments

Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/previous-covid-19-may-cut-risk-reinfection-84

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 116 comments

Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-disproves-group-algebra-unit-conjecture-20210412/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 9 comments

Coinbase’s listing may break records

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/04/12/coinbases-listing-may-break-records

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 134 comments

Student's physics homework picked up by Amazon quantum researchers

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/04/13/student-physics-homework-picked-up-by-amazon-web-services-quantum.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain

https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

Exploring the Kubernetes API with Curl

https://blog.tilt.dev/2021/03/18/kubernetes-is-so-simple.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix’s CEO

https://www.wix.com/blog/2021/04/letter-from-avishai-abrahami-to-matt-mullenweg/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 76 comments

Let us now praise tiny ants

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/science/ants-wilson-photography-niga-rice.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 70 comments

CVE Alerting Platform

https://github.com/opencve/opencve

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 22 comments

Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption (2018) [pdf]

https://svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publications/2018/2018-12-06-Sy-ACSAC-Tracking_Users_across_the_Web_via_TLS_Session_Resumption.pdf

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

Black Girls Code

https://www.blackgirlscode.com/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

Depends on Every Package in NPM

https://www.npmjs.com/package/no-one-left-behind

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Estate agent's hi-tech house tour exposes personal data

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56718046

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 88 comments

Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/13/nominet_civil_war/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity retained at ambient

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05662

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments
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