top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-04-15

Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

https://blog.google/products/earth/timelapse-in-google-earth/

5 years ago

1209 upvotes – 415 comments

Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate

5 years ago

1017 upvotes – 474 comments

Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

https://tips.ariyh.com/p/good-sound-quality-smarter

5 years ago

920 upvotes – 502 comments

DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome

https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

5 years ago

552 upvotes – 252 comments

SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/sqlite-the-only-database-you-will-ever-need-in-most-cases.html

5 years ago

550 upvotes – 370 comments

Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825017

5 years ago

529 upvotes – 819 comments

Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs

https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/100

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 178 comments

TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tsmcs-q1-profit-rises-19-strong-chip-demand-2021-04-15

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 234 comments

IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption

https://mailbox.org/en/post/it-companies-warn-eu-plans-to-ban-encryption

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 217 comments

The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say-nations-corn-belt-has-lost-third-its-topsoil-180977485/

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 266 comments

Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our customers [resolved]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815768

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 156 comments

Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative

https://calendso.com

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 91 comments

Mac Chimes of Death

https://512pixels.net/2021/04/mac-chimes-of-death/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 78 comments

Psilocybin 'promising' for depression

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 315 comments

Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India

https://restofworld.org/2021/the-rise-and-fall-of-missed-calls-in-india/

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 118 comments

PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI

https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/issues/2678

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 150 comments

Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 180 comments

PHP in 2021

https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2021

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 298 comments

Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to

https://njms.ca/posts/ethical-anti-design.html

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 105 comments

There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/nft-future-of-money.html

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 393 comments
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