top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-29

Yayagram

https://twitter.com/mrcatacroquer/status/1386318806411325440

5 years ago

1265 upvotes – 175 comments

Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-worldwide-during-the-covid-pandemic/

5 years ago

726 upvotes – 765 comments

History of Techno

https://www.beatportal.com/features/beatports-definitive-guide-to-techno/

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 319 comments

An Update on the UMN Affair

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/854645/334317047842b6c3/

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 294 comments

U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-labor-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-labor-secretary-says-most-gig-workers-should-be-classified-as-employees-idUSKBN2CG1ZS

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 517 comments

RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT detection

https://blog.netlab.360.com/stealth_rotajakiro_backdoor_en/

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 174 comments

Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken

https://www.intuitibits.com/2021/02/05/whats-going-on-apple-part-2/

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 161 comments

CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security Headers Demystified

https://blog.vnaik.com/posts/web-attacks.html

5 years ago

358 upvotes – 43 comments

New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity

https://www.ethicalsystems.org/new-evidence-that-british-workplaces-are-losing-viewpoint-diversity/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 686 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 100 comments

Simplifier

https://simplifier.neocities.org/index.html

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 41 comments

Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since

https://lolfi.com/wrong/2021/04/28/oneinbox.html

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 308 comments

Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/artist-faked-billionaire-photograph-new-york-citys-best-views

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 248 comments

The Fourier transform is a neural network

https://sidsite.com/posts/fourier-nets/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 163 comments

The story BCG offered me $16k not to tell (2010)

https://thetech.com/2010/04/09/dubai-v130-n18

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 182 comments

We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure

https://blog.replit.com/dns

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 64 comments

GB Studio: A game maker for the Game Boy

https://www.gbstudio.dev/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 53 comments

I booked my cheapest one-month trip

https://benbernardblog.com/how-i-booked-my-absolutely-cheapest-one-month-trip-ever/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 156 comments

Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)

https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 95 comments

A brief history of Rust at Facebook

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/29/developer-tools/rust/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 178 comments

Lambda School lays off 65 employees

https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/update-lambda-school-team

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 265 comments

Brazil Rejects the Gamaleya Vaccine

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/28/brazil-rejects-the-gamaleya-vaccine

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 115 comments

Show your costs to boost sales

https://tips.ariyh.com/p/show-costs-to-boost-sales

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 142 comments

Category theory is a universal modeling language

http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/informatics/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 91 comments

AI Dungeon public disclosure vulnerability report

https://github.com/AetherDevSecOps/aid_adventure_vulnerability_report

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 132 comments

Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

https://blogs.opera.com/tips-and-tricks/2021/04/say-hello-to-web3-as-opera-adds-native-support-to-unstoppable-domains/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 153 comments

Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves

https://www.eater.com/22315684/vegan-cheese-history-ingredients-process-grocery-brands

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 474 comments

QNAP ships NAS backup software with hidden credentials

https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=160849&start=450#p788325

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 157 comments

Plant UML – Open-source UML Tool

https://plantuml.com/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/04/29/facebook-joins-rust-foundation/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 94 comments

Reaper: Digital Audio Workstation

https://www.reaper.fm/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 78 comments

Health of the KDE Community

https://carlschwan.eu/2021/04/29/kde-contributions-health/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 53 comments

Shipping containers are falling overboard at a rapid rate

https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/33002-shipping-containers-are-falling-overboard-at-a-rapid-rate

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 151 comments

Introduction to Pluto.jl

https://www.juliafordatascience.com/first-steps-5-pluto/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 112 comments

Excess Deaths in 2020

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2021/02/24/excess-deaths-february-update/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 209 comments

How to write cold emails to investors

https://www.flowrite.com/blog/cold-email-to-investors?ref=dxse48

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 27 comments

U.S. government probes VPN hack within federal agencies, races to find clues

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-government-probes-vpn-hack-within-federal-agencies-races-find-clues-2021-04-29/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink

https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/web-tutorial/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 59 comments

Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)

https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 127 comments

Nano 5.7

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-04/msg00013.html

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 153 comments

Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code

https://gitlab.com/dbsystel/gitlab-ci-python-library

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 95 comments

Want to Learn Programming and Microcontrollers?

https://www.eejournal.com/article/want-to-learn-programming-and-microcontrollers/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 69 comments

FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-commits-evidence-based-actions-aimed-saving-lives-and-preventing-future-generations-smokers

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 257 comments

Hedonometer: Average Happiness of Twitter over Time

https://hedonometer.org/timeseries/en_all/?from=2019-10-29&to=2021-04-28

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Fortran Package Manager

https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 71 comments

DPA blocks facial recognition system in Italy and MP proposes moratorium

https://reclaimyourface.eu/italy-dpa-blocks-facial-recognition-system-mp-proposes-moratorium/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 57 comments

Cognicull: Knowledge base for mathematics, natural science and engineering

https://cognicull.com/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

Union's evidence in Amazon vote 'could be grounds for overturning election'

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-labor-board-says-evidence-presented-by-union-amazon-vote-could-be-grounds-2021-04-28/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 132 comments

Utsuro-Bune

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/Month

https://mtlynch.io/litestream/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Who doesn’t want to go back to the office?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26981166

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 147 comments

EU court rules software transfer is a sale (2012)

https://bdkadvokati.com/eu-court-rules-software-transfer-is-a-sale/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: Please Dark Mode for HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26978950

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 79 comments

Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01075-4

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 115 comments

Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/mining-robot-stranded-pacific-ocean-floor-deep-sea-mining-trial-2021-04-28/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 116 comments

Battery parts can be recycled without crushing or melting

https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/battery-parts-can-be-recycled-without-crushing-or-melting

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Tape Recovery Simulator 96K

https://www.bluesnews.com/s/221613/tape-recovery-simulator-96k-announced

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Simple way to access various statistics in Git repository

https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Cryptography and how to deal with man-in-the-middle attacks in JavaScript

https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-cryptography-how-to-deal-with-man-in-the-middle-mitm-attacks-bf8fc6be546c?source=collection_home---6------1-----------------------

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 58 comments

Amazon Q1 2021 Quarterly Results [pdf]

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/files/doc_financials/2021/q1/Amazon-Q1-2021-Earnings-Release.pdf

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments
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