top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-28

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/509599284/forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dies

4 years ago

1252 upvotes – 180 comments

Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads

https://danfabulich.medium.com/never-run-google-ads-if-you-have-an-android-app-897a20604450

4 years ago

1049 upvotes – 393 comments

The health benefits of better air

https://dynomight.net/air/

4 years ago

693 upvotes – 455 comments

Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/dominance-of-apple-and-google%E2%80%99s-app-stores-impacting-competition-and-consumers

4 years ago

647 upvotes – 484 comments

The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years

https://gammawire.com/the-number-of-cities-with-municipal-broadband-has-jumped-over-450-in-two-years/

4 years ago

584 upvotes – 325 comments

Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

https://therecord.media/security-firm-kaspersky-believes-it-found-new-cia-malware/

4 years ago

578 upvotes – 294 comments

GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-04-27-github-pages-permissions-policy-interest-cohort-header-added-to-all-pages-sites/

4 years ago

555 upvotes – 212 comments

Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California

https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/

4 years ago

538 upvotes – 219 comments

Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-04-28/google-is-saving-1-billion-per-year-as-a-result-of-employees-working-from-home

4 years ago

514 upvotes – 329 comments

Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

https://www.tglyn.ch/blog/amstel_gold/

4 years ago

504 upvotes – 192 comments

Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

https://projectifi.io/

4 years ago

479 upvotes – 255 comments

Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?

https://blog.cloudandtree.com/2021/04/the-other-dollar/

4 years ago

407 upvotes – 229 comments

Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/27/1208

4 years ago

389 upvotes – 196 comments

Why we switched from Webpack to Vite

https://blog.replit.com/vite

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 222 comments

Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/cuomo-aides-nursing-home-deaths.html

4 years ago

338 upvotes – 158 comments

TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M

https://twitter.com/TikTokInvestors/status/1385365742506364929

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 220 comments

What's Accenture? (2020)

https://retool.com/blog/whats-accenture

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 252 comments

Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets

https://github.com/supabase/realtime

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 89 comments

Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/04/vertical-turbines-far-more-efficient-in-large-scale-wind-farms/

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 162 comments

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 116 comments

Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/facebook-hides-posts-calling-for-pm-modis-resignation-in-india/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 165 comments

Show HN: Minimal 3D creative coding tool – control 8×8×8 dots with JavaScript

https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 30 comments

Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22407939/fortnite-biggest-platform-revenue-playstation-not-ios-iphone

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 372 comments

Where does a candle go when it burns?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/science/randall-munroe-candle-xkcd.html

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 145 comments

What Really Happened at Basecamp

https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 319 comments

A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-immune-system-protects-the-brain-20210428/

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 44 comments

Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob

https://benstoneonline.com/posts/microsoft-bob-easter-egg/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 64 comments

Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-28/facebook-instagram-teenager-tageted-advertising-alcohol-vaping/100097590

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 92 comments

Film simulations from scratch using Python

https://kevinmartinjose.com/2021/04/27/film-simulations-from-scratch-using-python/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 34 comments

30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds

https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 77 comments

A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js.git

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors

https://mars26.com/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 47 comments

The United States needs to learn how to learn

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/28/the-united-states-needs-to-learn-how-to-learn/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 124 comments

Ideal divisors: when a division compiles down to just a multiplication

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/28/ideal-divisors-when-a-division-compiles-down-to-just-a-multiplication/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 67 comments

Tell HN: HN Replies Data Security Incident

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968908

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 38 comments

On UML

https://www.sicpers.info/2021/04/on-uml/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 93 comments

Leaving No Pixel Behind: Three Years in Xenia's GPU Emulation

https://xenia.jp/updates/2021/04/27/leaving-no-pixel-behind-new-render-target-cache-3x3-resolution-scaling.html

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 6 comments

Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rare-chunks-of-earths-mantle-found-exposed-in-maryland

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 84 comments

SEC Director of Enforcement resigns after a few days on the job

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-75

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 65 comments

Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2021/04/s3-strong-consistency.html

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

Better drainage of brain debris improves Alzheimer's disease therapies

https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2021/04/better-drainage-of-brain-debris-improves-alzheimers-disease-therapies

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 54 comments

Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android-eddy-cue-emails-apple-epic-deposition

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 195 comments

A theory of how developers seek information

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/informationforaging.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/books/book-sales-publishing-pandemic-coronavirus.html

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 90 comments

Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egyptologists-uncover-rare-tombs-before-pharaohs-2021-04-28/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook advertisers target children interested in smoking, alcohol, weight loss

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/28/facebook-allows-advertisers-to-target-children-interested-in-smoking-alcohol-and-weight-loss

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

AI Dungeon will block certain words, review content flagged as inappropriate

https://latitude.io/blog/update-to-our-community-ai-test-april-2021/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 163 comments

Why AI is harder than we think

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12871

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 75 comments

‘Frenssh’ as it was ‘spak’ in medieval England

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/04/frenssh-as-it-was-spak.html

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 46 comments

Ed Balls Day

https://johnager.co.uk/2021/04/28/ed-balls-day-2011/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Next.js 10.2

https://nextjs.org/10-2

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 60 comments

DHH: Let It All Out

https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Adam's Apples

http://adamapples.blogspot.com/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/netspace

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 172 comments

GitHub Collection: Made in India

https://github.com/collections/made-in-india

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 7 comments

Protocol – An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols

http://www.luismg.com/protocol/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments
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