top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-14

Show HN: Lofi.cafe

https://lofi.cafe

5 years ago

1192 upvotes – 230 comments

Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

https://y-n10.com/

5 years ago

946 upvotes – 276 comments

YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/mq00n9/cannot_post_to_youtube_for_a_week_got_a_strike/

5 years ago

801 upvotes – 290 comments

Coinbase from YC to DPO

https://blog.ycombinator.com/coinbase-from-yc-to-ipo/

5 years ago

714 upvotes – 846 comments

An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1023

5 years ago

503 upvotes – 261 comments

Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

https://decrypt.co/66411/cia-bitcoin-surveillance

5 years ago

372 upvotes – 375 comments

Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?

https://surma.dev/things/js-to-asc/

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 248 comments

Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/04/logica-organizing-your-data-queries.html

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 98 comments

My simple GitHub project went viral

https://gourav.io/blog/my-simple-github-project-went-viral

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 109 comments

The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/victory-for-municipal-broadband-as-wash-state-lawmakers-end-restrictions/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 112 comments

$7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved

https://twitter.com/CryptoWhale/status/1382392286819057668

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 270 comments

The first 18 months of a startup

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1382351985584721926

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 89 comments

Our plans for PeerTube v4

https://joinpeertube.org/news#roadmap-v4

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 157 comments

Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore

https://restofworld.org/2021/singapore-facebook-ruling/

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 194 comments

Webamp: Winamp 2 in the browser

https://webamp.org/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 104 comments

Great Vowel Shift

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

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 268 comments

Why Rust strings seem hard

https://www.brandons.me/blog/why-rust-strings-seem-hard

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 241 comments

Foundations of Databases (1995)

http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 53 comments

Terraform 0.15 General Availability

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-terraform-0-15-general-availability

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 234 comments

Bernie Madoff has died

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-14/ap-source-ponzi-schemer-bernie-madoff-dies-in-prison

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 387 comments

FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge

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

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 222 comments

Space junk removal is not going smoothly

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-removal-is-not-going-smoothly/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 222 comments

I am Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower. Ask me anything

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zhang_whistleblower_at_fb_i_worked_to/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 13 comments

The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)

https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/03/09/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 447 comments

Awesome-Selfhosted

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 42 comments

Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes

https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1381992698815545344

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 127 comments

The TTY Demystified (2008)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Encore – Go framework for building distributed systems

https://github.com/encoredev/encore

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 69 comments

Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2C118T

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 334 comments

Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for everyone

https://github.com/coqui-ai

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 59 comments

How to Read Books When You Have ADHD

https://untappedbrilliance.com/how-to-read-books-when-you-have-adhd/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 198 comments

Show HN: Run unknown shell script with a line-by-line confirmation prompt

https://gist.github.com/wlib/093f8b8f670016813073a4c4f8b28e81

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 82 comments

Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56745730

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 147 comments

Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-fake-engagement-whistleblower-sophie-zhang

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 43 comments

Effective altruism is not effective

http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2021/04/effective-altruism-is-not-effective.html

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 240 comments

Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/14/986997576/once-on-the-brink-of-eradication-syphilis-is-raging-again

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 328 comments

Employee refuses to download app that monitors location, says it got her fired

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tattleware-privacy-employment-1.5978337?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network

https://github.com/franklbt/RentMyCPU

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 57 comments

Ten years of OP-1

https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/anniversary

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 204 comments

Ask HN: How to Speak Confidently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26807085

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 108 comments

EU Commission to end AstraZeneca and J&J vaccine contracts at expiry

https://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService_2_MOLT/idUSKBN2C10MU

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 195 comments

Butterchurn – A WebGL Implementation of the Milkdrop Visualizer

https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 23 comments

Images of Hatha Yoga from the Joga Pradīpikā (19th Century)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hatha-yoga-images-from-the-joga-pradipika

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 71 comments

Azimuth unlocked iPhone at center of legal battle between the FBI and Apple

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/14/azimuth-san-bernardino-apple-iphone-fbi/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813725

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 93 comments

Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files

https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/commit/bc8e96e5467202ea8f78f50582adfd221b91a948

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

The Wolfram Physics Project: A One-Year Update

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/the-wolfram-physics-project-a-one-year-update/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 148 comments

The Latino Programming Language

https://www.lenguajelatino.org

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 239 comments

DuckDuckGo Announces Plans to Block Google’s FLoC

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-announces-plans-to-block-googles-floc/401993/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 15 comments

Download the FCC Speed Test App

https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/consumers#speed-test

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 76 comments

How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers

https://traced.app/2021/04/13/whatsapp-status-loophole-is-aiding-cyberstalkers/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

A new twist on using ‘personalized’ stem cells for studying dementia

https://singularityhub.com/2021/04/13/a-massive-new-gene-editing-project-is-out-to-crush-alzheimers/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 43 comments

Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla's greatest industry contribution

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/rust-not-firefox-is-mozillas-greatest-industry-contribution/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Excommunicating a Heretic

https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2021-04-12-excommunicating.html

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Serbian freelancers protest new taxation law that threatens push into poverty

https://globalvoices.org/2021/04/09/serbian-freelancers-protest-new-taxation-law-that-threatens-to-push-thousands-into-poverty/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 78 comments

“It's Not Cancel Culture – It's a Platform Failure.”

https://warzel.substack.com/p/its-not-cancel-culture-its-a-platform

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 103 comments

Write tasks not user stories – Linear Method

https://linear.app/method/write-tasks-not-user-stories

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 81 comments
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