top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-22

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56842506

5 years ago

931 upvotes – 406 comments

EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-proctorio-behalf-student-it-falsely-accused-copyright-infringement-get

5 years ago

913 upvotes – 520 comments

“Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”

https://twitter.com/Linkletter/status/1385004344903290883

5 years ago

527 upvotes – 9 comments

Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/410

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 317 comments

Ubuntu 21.04

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-21-04-is-here

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 311 comments

Green vs. Brown Programming Languages

https://earthly.dev/blog/brown-green-language/

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 486 comments

Semgrep: Semantic grep for code

https://semgrep.dev

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 104 comments

Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer

http://zellij.dev/news/beta#

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 239 comments

Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

https://simulator.money/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 140 comments

Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure

http://www.iasylum.net/writings/2021-04-21-why-I-distrust-google-cloud-more-than-AWS-or-Azure.html

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 243 comments

Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server

https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2021/04/tiny-container-image/

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 159 comments

Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight

https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1385228111323615239

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 143 comments

How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

https://mhoffman.github.io/2015/05/21/how-to-navigate-directories-with-the-shell.html

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 172 comments

Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands

https://en.mercopress.com/2021/04/22/argentine-version-of-google-falls-into-wrong-hands-leading-to-search-engine-s-temporary-collapse

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images

https://github.com/RH12503/Triangula

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 69 comments

Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processors/cerebras-giant-ai-chip-now-has-a-trillions-more-transistors

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 165 comments

Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool

https://gizmodo.com/signals-ceo-just-hacked-the-cops-favorite-phone-crackin-1846733412

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 120 comments

Wildtype: Sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells

https://www.wildtypefoods.com/oursalmon

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 188 comments

Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

https://innocenceproject.org/jonathan-smith-walks-free-after-21-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment-in-maryland/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 132 comments

DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags

https://mmofallout.com/mmo-rant-dreamworld-raises-all-red-flags/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 195 comments

Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop

https://alexsoto.dev/challenges-building-an-open-source-eink-laptop.html

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 104 comments

Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avy8j/bugs-allowed-hackers-to-dox-all-john-deere-owners

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 68 comments

The real reason to end the death penalty

http://paulgraham.com/real.html

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 516 comments

Noise in Creative Coding

https://varun.ca/noise/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 19 comments

Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

https://www.computer.org/education/bodies-of-knowledge/software-engineering

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 67 comments

Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 109 comments

The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible-rise-of-north-koreas-hacking-army

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 170 comments

Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/19655/7932

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 34 comments

Headless WYSISWYG Text Editor – tiptap editor

https://www.tiptap.dev/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 108 comments

Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26901352

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: DbGate – open-source, cross-platform SQL+noSQL database client

https://dbgate.org/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 76 comments

GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors

https://github.blog/2021-04-22-github-actions-update-helping-maintainers-combat-bad-actors/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 49 comments

How to find a job as Software Developer in Germany

https://germantechjobs.de/blog/how-to-find-job-as-software-developer-in-germany-complete-guide

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 304 comments

Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989588072/a-relic-and-burden-manhattan-district-attorney-to-stop-prosecuting-prostitution

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 264 comments

Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/wisconsin-drastically-scales-back-politically-charged-deal-with-foxconn/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 188 comments

The anti-pattern of responsive design

http://john.ankarstrom.se/responsive/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 148 comments

Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019)

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-video-through-usb-c-hub/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 108 comments

Pgvector – vector similarity search for Postgres

https://github.com/ankane/pgvector

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 31 comments

My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers

https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/04/20/my-three-year-old-has-taught-me-the-value-of-talking-to-strangers

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 128 comments

SolarBatteryBitcoin

https://github.com/ARKInvest/SolarBatteryBitcoin

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 208 comments

Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc

https://themythicalengineer.com/converting-markdown-to-epub-mobi.html

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 54 comments

Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (2019)

https://randomoracle.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/filecoin-storj-and-the-problem-with-decentralized-storage/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 114 comments

How to fuck up software releases (2019)

https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/12/how-to-fuck-up-releases.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

Running code within another process's address space

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/852662/af59b68d9663b1a0/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Litmaps – Visual Research Discovery Tool

https://app.litmaps.co

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

On Being an Outsider

https://lithub.com/on-being-an-outsider-words-by-charles-simic-photos-romeo-alaeff/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 108 comments

Ask HN: Moving from a product org to a consulting org: What should I know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26901468

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Human Lambdas – Create Human in the Loop queues and outsource them

https://humanlambdas.com/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Maybe I'm just not smart enough?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26902219

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 118 comments

Biden eyeing tax rate as high as 43.4% in next economic package

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/biden-to-propose-capital-gains-tax-as-high-as-43-4-for-wealthy

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 194 comments

From WinZips to GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/from-winzips-to-cat-gifs-jacob-zivs-algorithms-have-powered-decades-of-compression

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 21 comments

India's massive COVID surge puzzles scientists

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01059-y

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 154 comments

Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible

https://jabberwocking.com/how-baseball-cards-explain-what-bitcoin-really-is/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 199 comments

Intel Internet Party Line (1997)

https://web.archive.org/web/19970419202411/http://www1.intel.com/iaweb/ipl/index.htm

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/04/22/freebsd-desktop-part-24-configuration-universal-file-opener/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 85 comments

Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-maxwells-demon-continues-to-startle-scientists-20210422/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56822571

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 83 comments

Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/16/americans-overwhelmingly-say-marijuana-should-be-legal-for-recreational-or-medical-use/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 127 comments

Non-profit legal entity for Mastodon being registered in Germany

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/106104387021236353

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds

https://themultidisciplinarian.com/2021/04/22/smart-folk-often-full-of-crap-study-finds/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

Web developer's guide to AVIF images

https://darekkay.com/blog/avif-images/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 75 comments

Moving Forth (1993)

https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Simone Weil and the Need for Roots

https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-great-unsettling

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 70 comments

Waking Up During Surgery (2019)

https://mosaicscience.com/story/anaesthesia-anesthesia-awake-awareness-surgery-operation-or-paralysed/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: Diffie-Hellman exchange for the layman

https://borisreitman.com/privacy.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments
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