top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-19

Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/microsoft-says-mandatory-password-changing-is-ancient-and-obsolete/

5 years ago

797 upvotes – 424 comments

The “Granny Knot”

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

5 years ago

673 upvotes – 255 comments

First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KolyCqICI

5 years ago

546 upvotes – 116 comments

Unsettling capital letters

https://art-by-kaine-shields.tumblr.com/post/643105913844154368/fun-fact-about-me-is-that-when-i-was-a-kid-id

5 years ago

532 upvotes – 136 comments

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 119 comments

Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work

https://truzzi.me/hire-me-pay-what-you-want-interesting-work/

5 years ago

507 upvotes – 408 comments

Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuegrU_kIq8

5 years ago

467 upvotes – 216 comments

Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

https://www.mvanga.com/blog/basic-music-theory-in-200-lines-of-python

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 188 comments

Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_1C-3_23159_paper.pdf

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 201 comments

Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/04/19/is-facebook-buying-off-the-new-york-times/

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 214 comments

Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proposed-acquisition-of-arm-limited-by-nvidia-corporation-public-interest-intervention

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 205 comments

Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader

https://www.tnhh.net/posts/zenreader-4.7-in-rss-eink-reader.html

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 111 comments

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 255 comments

Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist

https://erikbern.com/2021/04/19/software-infrastructure-2.0-a-wishlist.html

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 195 comments

Firefox 88.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/88.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 202 comments

Open Source Goes to Mars

https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 58 comments

Open source “split-flap” mechanical display

https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 91 comments

Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization

https://symphony.iohk.io/en/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 43 comments

You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)

https://zackkanter.com/2016/01/13/you-are-not-behind/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

https://autonews.io

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 204 comments

Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2021/april/bank-of-england-statement-on-central-bank-digital-currency

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 263 comments

Show HN: React Flow – library for creating node based editors and apps

https://github.com/wbkd/react-flow

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 58 comments

Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering

https://fiftysevendegreesofrad.github.io/JupyterNotes/piano.html

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 84 comments

DIY Camera Using Raspberry Pi

https://ruha.camera/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 122 comments

How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 230 comments

ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving

https://archivebox.io/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 59 comments

Everyone Loves the $100M Deli

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-19/everyone-loves-the-100-million-new-jersey-deli-except-david-einhorn-knottrmb

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 138 comments

Job board to work on problems like climate change and food insecurity

https://goodjobs.careers/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 58 comments

MirkoPC – a Raspberry Pi CM4-powered computer made in Poland

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/mirkopc-full-featured-raspberry-pi-desktop-computer

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 72 comments

Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars

https://francoisbest.com/posts/2021/hashvatars?demo=Hello,%20Hacker%20News%21

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 72 comments

This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display

https://twitter.com/jankais3r/status/1383865733063479304

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 63 comments

Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/17/brooklyn-center-protests-police-round-up-journalists/7268057002/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 191 comments

The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/9/17544220/serial-experiments-lain-anime-20-years

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 169 comments

Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU

https://lwn.net/Articles/851184/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 38 comments

What's in the Box?

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-the-box

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 74 comments

Word usage guidance and alternative terms

https://developers.google.com/style/word-list

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 371 comments

Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor

https://starboard.gg/gz/open-source-observablehq-nfwK2VA

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 19 comments

Prions

https://www.countere.com/home/prions-are-going-to-end-the-world

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 168 comments

Start a Business from Plastic Waste

http://preciousplastic.com/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 98 comments

Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 103 comments

On the bare necessity of psychological safety

https://medium.com/luminovo/on-the-bare-necessity-of-psychological-safety-bdb34e311b8c

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 129 comments

Visual Studio 2022

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=232313

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 105 comments

Curl those funny IPv4 addresses

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4-addresses/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 36 comments

Test for lists in Cython

https://github.com/00sapo/cython_list_test

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 136 comments

Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI

https://www.humio.com/whats-new/blog/why-we-chose-elm-for-humio-s-web-ui

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 133 comments

Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01024-9

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 83 comments

Huawei ‘may have eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network’s calls’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/19/huawei-may-have-eavesdropped-on-dutch-mobile-networks-calls

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 56 comments

PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi

https://retroviator.com/2020/03/01/pidp-11/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 52 comments

Why Specifications Don't Compose

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/spec-composition/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 63 comments

Heating Water with Fire (2019)

https://www.homewoodstoves.co.nz/resources/heating-water-with-fire/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/19/apple-parler-return-app-store/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 227 comments

A practical guide on generating hellishly good ideas

https://www.sobieckipioneering.com/creativity-guide?ref=hackernews0419

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 1 comments

AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-epyc-milan-breaks-cinebench-record-heres-a-10nm-ice-lake-xeon-comparison

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indians-who-cycled-around-the-world

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

J2 open processor: an open source processor using the SuperH ISA

https://j-core.org/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 45 comments

Cost Of Goods Sold

https://every.to/napkin-math/cogs-how-i-bankrupted-moviepass-09e6aa23-a102-40eb-92ff-3f920a291927

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Patent Loving Judge Keeps Pissing Off Patent Appeals Court, Doesn't Seem to Care

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210409/00165046581/patent-loving-judge-keeps-pissing-off-patent-appeals-court-doesnt-seem-to-care-very-much.shtml

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Coalition of big investors pushes banks to defund carbon emitters

https://www.ft.com/content/cad45ac2-3778-4db6-a43c-96b83b195516

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 125 comments

Cellular Automata (1983) [pdf]

https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/34/2020/07/cellular-automata.pdf

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

Tail latency might matter more than you think

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/04/19/latency.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 53 comments

Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by user, subreddit, and date

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments
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