top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-21

“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH+zwQgBBGUJdiVK@unreal/

5 years ago

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

5 years ago

Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research

https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-bans-university-of-minnesota-for-sending-buggy-patches-in-the-name-of-research/

5 years ago

Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-initial-preview-of-gui-app-support-is-now-available-for-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2/

5 years ago

UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-cse-linux-kernel-research-april-21-2021

5 years ago

The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html

5 years ago

Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/The%20Fourth%20Amendment%20Is%20Not%20For%20Sale%20Act%20of%202021%20Bill%20Text.pdf

5 years ago

Godot 3.3

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-3-has-arrived

5 years ago

Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript

https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-the-complete-orm-inw24qjeawmb

5 years ago

My collection of machine learning paper notes

https://www.notion.so/Paper-Notes-by-Vitaly-Kurin-97827e14e5cd4183815cfe3a5ecf2f4c

5 years ago

Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

https://github.com/jdah/tetris-os

5 years ago

India’s second wave

https://www.ft.com/content/683914a3-134f-40b6-989b-21e0ba1dc403

5 years ago

Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’s key startup hub

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/belarusian-regimes-thugs-shut-down-imaguru-the-countrys-key-startup-hub/

5 years ago

Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/health/sleep-dementia-risk-study-wellness/index.html

5 years ago

Apple AirDrop shares more than files

https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/fb20/ueber_uns_details_231616.en.jsp

5 years ago

Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform

https://github.com/netdata/netdata

5 years ago

Starting a new digital identity

https://k3tan.com/starting-a-new-digital-identity

5 years ago

Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)

http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/

5 years ago

Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, Says Tim Cook

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/21/apple-silicon-mac-sales-intel/

5 years ago

Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

https://www.metachris.com/2021/04/starting-a-typescript-project-in-2021/

5 years ago

Hunting down the stuck BGP routes

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-stuck-routes-tcp-zero-window

5 years ago

Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones

https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2021/04/16/whatsapp-tracking-2

5 years ago

Git from the Bottom Up (2008)

https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

5 years ago

SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

5 years ago

Show HN: I made a tool to communicate data using the PC speaker

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave/tree/master/examples/r2t2

5 years ago

Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

https://cobylefko.medium.com/no-were-not-in-a-bubble-f6bc44b960dd

5 years ago

Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56828173

5 years ago

Ethereum: A Store of Value with Cash Flow [pdf]

https://ethereumcashflow.com/

5 years ago

Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

https://info.utradea.com/feed

5 years ago

Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/20/man-sues-apple-for-terminating-apple-id-with-24k-worth-of-content

5 years ago

Quantum astronomy could create telescopes hundreds of kilometers wide

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-astronomy-could-create-telescopes-hundreds-of-kilometers-wide/

5 years ago

US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2021/04/20/european-super-league-us-owners-find-greed-doesnt-work-europe/7310165002/

5 years ago

How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/how-many-x86-instructions-are-there/

5 years ago

Show HN: High-speed UTF-8 validation in Rust

https://github.com/rusticstuff/simdutf8

5 years ago

Trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, was no match for city bureaucracy

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/S-F-ice-cream-shop-hopeful-sees-dreams-melted-by-16116082.php

5 years ago

DNA of giant ‘corpse flower’ parasite surprises biologists

https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-of-giant-corpse-flower-parasite-surprises-biologists-20210421/

5 years ago

Italian ‘king of absentees’ allegedly skipped work for 15 years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/21/italian-king-of-absentees-allegedly-skipped-work-for-15-years

5 years ago

OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 1

https://opencv.org/opencv-ai-competition-2021-highlights-and-team-profiles-part-1/

5 years ago

Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26896611

5 years ago

Researcher says he can link Facebook accounts to 5M email addresses per day

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/tool-links-email-addresses-to-facebook-accounts-at-scale/

5 years ago

The Girl in the Kent State Photo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/04/19/girl-kent-state-photo-lifelong-burden-being-national-symbol/

5 years ago

Unreleased MacBook Schematics Stolen in $50M Ransomware Attack on Apple Supplier

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/21/apple-supplier-ransomware-attack/

5 years ago