top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-23

Why Lichess will always be free

https://lichess.org/blog/YF-ZORQAACAA89PI/why-lichess-will-always-be-free.

5 years ago

1524 upvotes – 446 comments

The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/23/great-malaria-vaccine-news

5 years ago

763 upvotes – 277 comments

Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

https://nofilmschool.com/apple-movie-buys

5 years ago

753 upvotes – 464 comments

Get better at Googling

https://markodenic.com/use-google-like-a-pro/

5 years ago

678 upvotes – 289 comments

Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/322120-apples-m1-positioning-mocks-every-x86-cpu-amd-and-intel-have-ever-launched

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 918 comments

A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap

https://protomaps.com/blog/new-way-to-make-maps/

5 years ago

508 upvotes – 98 comments

Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]

http://beej.us/guide/bgc/pdf/bgc_usl_c_1.pdf

5 years ago

507 upvotes – 171 comments

Light Pollution Map

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 191 comments

Cycles X

https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 148 comments

Lego Microscope

https://github.com/tobetz/LegoMicroscope

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 108 comments

Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 4 comments

Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56841946

5 years ago

363 upvotes – 327 comments

UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/23/court-clears-39-post-office-staff-convicted-due-to-corrupt-data

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 284 comments

Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26912321

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 366 comments

Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser

https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 71 comments

Mars sucks

https://www.marssucks.com/

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 228 comments

The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searching/

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 81 comments

Referees’ home-bias in football disappears without audience: study

https://runrepeat.com/refereeing-analysis-post-covid-soccer

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 72 comments

Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4

https://abc7.com/volkswagen-id4-electric-suv-vehicles-volkswagon/10539182/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 632 comments

A curated list of Music DSP and audio programming resources

https://github.com/olilarkin/awesome-musicdsp

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 39 comments

4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 371 comments

Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

https://vizycam.com/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 57 comments

CDC panel recommends resuming use of Johnson and Johnson vaccine

https://www.axios.com/cdc-panel-johnson-johnson-vaccine-pause-lift-dfc002cf-716c-465b-86db-861cb0f1b4a1.html

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 218 comments

Wasm3 compiles itself (using LLVM/Clang compiled to WASM)

https://twitter.com/wasm3_engine/status/1384288567627640839

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 105 comments

Minio Changes License to AGPL

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/069432566fcfac1f1053677cc925ddafd750730a

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 141 comments

NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nasas-starship-award-is-a-watershed-moment-in-spaceflight/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 120 comments

The culture war is killing us [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRHn_Dz_js

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 191 comments

Some useful regular expressions for programmers

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/22/some-useful-regular-expressions-for-programmers/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 72 comments

Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab

https://newatlas.com/science/human-monkey-chimera-embryos/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 231 comments

Digging for performance gold: finding hidden performance wins

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/04/digging-for-performance-gold.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

'World’s most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-56818538

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 119 comments

Using <details> for menus and dialogs (2019)

https://css-tricks.com/using-details-for-menus-and-dialogs-is-an-interesting-idea/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 50 comments

The Secret Life of Components: Springs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dethuGX2IGs

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 27 comments

Suicide has become rarer during the pandemic

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/04/24/surprisingly-suicide-has-become-rarer-during-the-pandemic

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 145 comments

Police search cryptocurrency trading firm after Turks say they were scammed

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkish-crypto-traders-file-complaints-after-access-accounts-frozen-lawyer-2021-04-22/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 149 comments

Semantic Satiation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

A Better Model for Stacked Pull Requests

https://timothyandrew.dev/blog/git-stack/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 63 comments

Do you hate the Google's Chrome shortened address bar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26912317

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

IPv6 Fragmentation Loss

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2021-04/v6frag.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: How to Contact YouTube?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916096

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

A strange determinant – Timothy Gowers solves a problem [video]

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

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google code?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/does-andy-warhol-get-same-copyright-treatment-as-google-code

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 58 comments

Am I Doctor Stallman?

https://stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 116 comments

Large-scale origami locks into place under pressure

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00971-7

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Reinventing a Prolog Machine (2018)

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8453/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Mall department stores were struggling; the pandemic has pushed them to the edge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/half-countrys-remaining-mall-based-department-stores-are-expected-shutter-by-2025/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 260 comments
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