top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-17

Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

https://madned.substack.com/p/thanks-for-the-bonus-i-quit

5 years ago

1245 upvotes – 656 comments

5G: The outsourced elephant in the room

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/

5 years ago

590 upvotes – 239 comments

Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?

https://jonatron.github.io/webgl-fingerprinting/

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 226 comments

Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners

https://projectlovelace.net/problems/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 73 comments

Internet Search Tips

https://www.gwern.net/Search

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 77 comments

Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2018/everything-easy/

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 258 comments

I'd like to review your README

https://liw.fi/readme-review/

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htk6eXxpSNA

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 119 comments

The Story of the SolarWinds Hack

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/16/985439655/a-worst-nightmare-cyberattack-the-untold-story-of-the-solarwinds-hack

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 129 comments

Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)

https://ash.ms/2019-10-02/retro-website-launch/

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 132 comments

Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/peloton-treadmill-injuries-death-cpsc/

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 341 comments

Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/321919-alienware-really-doesnt-want-you-to-buy-an-amd-ryzen-pc

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 125 comments

Ask HN: What was the biggest leadership challenge of your career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26847816

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 227 comments

Librem 14 begins shipping

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-begins-shipping/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 146 comments

When 70M people visit your joke site

https://warzel.substack.com/p/a-ship-got-stuck-so-he-built-a-website

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

http://bef.no/radio/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 117 comments

WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

https://niemarwinget.medium.com/winget-is-terrible-i-want-appget-back-41b3ca598596

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 157 comments

GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem

https://torrentfreak.com/github-reinstated-youtube-dl-but-restoring-forks-is-apparently-a-problem-210417/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Compare news from the political left and right

https://their.news

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 126 comments

Codecov breach impacts GoDaddy, Atlassian, P&G etc.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-investigators-probing-breach-san-francisco-code-testing-company-firm-2021-04-16/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 73 comments

Self-Supervised Video Object Segmentation by Motion Grouping

https://charigyang.github.io/motiongroup/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 26 comments

Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4B in profits out of Ireland

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-used-double-irish-to-shift-75-4bn-in-profits-out-of-ireland-1.4540519

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 209 comments

Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

https://nltimes.nl/2021/04/17/chinese-technology-company-huawei-eavesdropped-dutch-mobile-network-kpn

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 62 comments

Seam carving (2020) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpB6zQNsbQU

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 11 comments

Onboarding with an M1

https://authzed.com/blog/onboarding-with-an-m1/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 161 comments

I Implemented /dev/printerfact in Rust

https://christine.website/blog/dev-printerfact-2021-04-17

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 88 comments

Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (2012)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/30/facebook-sad-manipulating-emotions-socially-responsible-company

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 146 comments

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

https://oeis.org/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

Stamping the joy out of collectors

https://notalwaysright.com/stamping-the-joy-out-of-collectors/224082/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 128 comments

The Many Faces of Berlin U-Bahn Line U7

https://berlintypography.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/the-many-faces-of-the-u7/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 33 comments

Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona

https://web.dahliaos.io/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 128 comments

What’s the origin of the phrase “big data doesn’t fit in excel”?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/04/whats-the-origin-of-the-phrase-big-data-doesnt-fit-in-excel/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Easy cloud instance comparison (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, Alibaba and more)

https://cloudoptimizer.io

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 49 comments

Corrupt Signal DB issue crashing App and losing data

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11160

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 75 comments

A Universal I/O Abstraction for C++ (2020)

https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/iouring/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 86 comments

B. Traven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 36 comments

EasyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin for payments

https://easydns.com/blog/2021/04/16/easydns-now-accepting-doge-payments/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 82 comments

Buy it for life: Durable, Quality, Practical

https://www.buyforlife.com/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 98 comments

Zorin OS 16

https://blog.zorin.com/2021/04/15/introducing-zorin-os-16-test-the-beta-today/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

Canada Proposes New Regime to Block and Deindex Pirate Sites

https://torrentfreak.com/canada-proposes-new-regime-to-block-and-deindex-pirate-sites-210415/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Free Remote jobs search platform with verified handpicked jobs

https://www.beefrii.com

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 61 comments

Twitter Experiences Widespread Outages

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-1234953749/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 67 comments

SPAC Wipeout Is Punishing Followers of Chamath Palihapitiya

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-17/spac-wipeout-is-punishing-followers-of-chamath-palihapitiya

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 55 comments
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