top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-20

The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/

5 years ago

1109 upvotes – 255 comments

Apple Introduces AirTag

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-introduces-airtag/

5 years ago

947 upvotes – 923 comments

Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3

https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relicensing-to-agplv3/

5 years ago

710 upvotes – 559 comments

IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=4acd47644ef1e1c8f8f5bc40b7cf1c5b9bcbbc4e

5 years ago

695 upvotes – 450 comments

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-gets-freedom-expression-award-sponsored-youtube-1585147

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 254 comments

Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-ends-deal-talks-with-microsoft-11618938806

5 years ago

576 upvotes – 510 comments

YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

https://marketresearchtelecast.com/youtube-ceo-receives-freedom-of-expression-award-sponsored-by-the-video-platform-itself/34449/

5 years ago

510 upvotes – 146 comments

Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

https://singhkays.com/blog/how-spotify-is-killing-the-open-podcast-ecosystem/

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 292 comments

Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus

https://cusdis.com

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 167 comments

iPad Pro M1

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-unveils-new-ipad-pro-with-m1-chip-and-stunning-liquid-retina-xdr-display/

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 488 comments

.NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

https://github.com/dotnet/maui

5 years ago

349 upvotes – 253 comments

Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic

https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-4k/

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 335 comments

Pulumi 3.0

https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pulumi-3-0/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 136 comments

The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 144 comments

Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore

https://shepherd.com/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 152 comments

All-new iMac features the M1 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/imac-features-all-new-design-in-vibrant-colors-m1-chip-and-45k-retina-display/

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 537 comments

Node.js 16 Available Now

https://nodejs.medium.com/node-js-16-available-now-7f5099a97e70

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 173 comments

Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices

https://devrant.com/rants/4186069/dev-my-neighbours-have-so-many-fucking-iot-devices-that-they-basically-fuck-over

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 331 comments

Show HN: Manuzoid – Database of More Than 1M Manuals

https://manuzoid.com/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 29 comments

Facebook wants to 'normalize' the mass scraping of personal data

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvp7y/facebook-normalize-mass-scraping-personal-data

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 54 comments

Forced unemployment and second-class status: Google's data center contractors

https://www.protocol.com/google-contractors-forced-unemployment

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 224 comments

Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption

https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/preparing-rustls-for-wider-adoption/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 132 comments

Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/01/16/home-ownership-is-the-wests-biggest-economic-policy-mistake

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 482 comments

Remote Code Execution Found in CocoaPods

https://justi.cz/security/2021/04/20/cocoapods-rce.html

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 72 comments

_hyperscript: A jQuery and JavaScript Alternative

https://hyperscript.org/comparison/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 126 comments

The Landlord's Game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 168 comments

mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 212 comments

Prank Windows XP simulator

https://geekprank.com/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 60 comments

.NET for Beginners (2020)

https://dusted.codes/dotnet-for-beginners

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 187 comments

Auth0 Has been down for almost 4 hours now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880147

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 101 comments

Charm delivers Stripe's carbon removal purchase ahead of schedule

https://charmindustrial.com/blog/2021/4/19/charm-announces-ahead-of-schedule-delivery-of-stripes-carbon-removal-purchase

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 131 comments

Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26878936

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 141 comments

Porting Doom to the Fastly edge serverless platform

https://www.fastly.com/blog/compute-edge-porting-the-iconic-video-game-doom

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 58 comments

Software designers, not engineers: An interview from alternative universe

http://tomasp.net/blog/2021/software-designers/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 64 comments

Shadow Simulator – run real applications over a simulated Internet topology

https://shadow.github.io/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 21 comments

Lisp in Forth

https://github.com/schani/forthlisp

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 63 comments

Include-what-you-use: A tool to analyze includes in C and C++ source files

https://include-what-you-use.org/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 68 comments

Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

https://suszter.com/reversingonwindows/bug-in-notepad-involving-asterisk-in-title-bar

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26872904

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 134 comments

Geico data breach exposed customers’ driver’s license numbers

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/19/22392566/geico-data-breach-exposed-customer-drivers-license-numbers-security

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 64 comments

The Culture of Whales

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/04/19/988028339/photos-the-culture-of-whales

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 53 comments

Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 99 comments

YouTube Sponsored Freedom of Expression Award Goes to YouTube CEO [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-Employee-100p-Time

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 148 comments

Show HN: Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL

https://github.com/scottrogowski/mongita

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 93 comments

The Discipline of DE (1978) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pjQ0FNzkLQ

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 63 comments

Auth0 Down

https://twitter.com/auth0status/status/1384533309254823940

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 76 comments

Munin Website Redesigned

https://munin-monitoring.org/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

Reading the AGPL

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 65 comments

A curated list of JavaScript tooling not written in JavaScript

https://github.com/RobinCsl/awesome-js-tooling-not-in-js

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

Write Your First Quantum Program (Common Lisp)

https://lambdafaktorie.com/how-to-write-your-first-quantum-program/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

We need to know the origin of Covid-19

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2021/04/15/covid-19-origin-study-ecohealth-important-prevent-pandemics-cdc-world-health-organization-china/7206841002/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 126 comments

Suicide rates are rising among U.S. nurses

https://resetyoureveryday.com/suicide-rates-are-rising-among-u-s-nurses-finds-new-study/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 61 comments

Prolog for Beginners

https://www.coursera.org/projects/prolog-for-beginners-fhqrd

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/155823/memory-tricks

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

Continued Fractions in Haskell

https://cdsmithus.medium.com/continued-fractions-haskell-equational-reasoning-property-testing-and-rewrite-rules-in-action-77a16d750e3f

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: The simplest React state manager now at stable release

https://simpler-state.js.org

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

Dr. Quinn official website from 1998, still online

https://www.drquinnmd.com/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 77 comments

Python Software Foundation Is Hiring a Python Packaging Project Manager

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-psf-is-hiring-python-packaging.html

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

iMac 24-inch

https://www.apple.com/imac-24/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 134 comments

Robinhood Files S-1

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/3/23/robinhood-markets-inc-confidentially-submits-draft-registration-statement

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 54 comments

Understanding Indirect Time-of-Flight Depth Sensing

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-depth-platform/understanding-indirect-tof-depth-sensing/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

OpenSSH 8.6 Released

https://lwn.net/Articles/853445/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

USV Dumps 100% of Coinbase Stock

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001679788/000120919121027149/xslF345X03/doc4.xml

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

https://www.pspad.com/en/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 94 comments

FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)

https://accessibleaudio.co/2018/12/27/fiio-m3k-review-a-pocketable-high-quality-audio-player/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 155 comments
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