top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-04-30

Internal Combustion Engine

https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

5 years ago

2333 upvotes – 392 comments

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1388212468510380034

5 years ago

1366 upvotes – 1965 comments

It's your device, you should be able to repair it

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56799069

5 years ago

707 upvotes – 553 comments

EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/30/eu-says-apples-app-store-breaches-competition-rules.html

5 years ago

684 upvotes – 809 comments

Labor shortage or terrible jobs?

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-capitalism-is-broken-economy

5 years ago

553 upvotes – 993 comments

Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

5 years ago

543 upvotes – 91 comments

QEMU 6.0

https://www.qemu.org/2021/04/30/qemu-6-0-0/

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 84 comments

New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210430165903.htm

5 years ago

417 upvotes – 189 comments

A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email

5 years ago

★ 3k MIT
406 upvotes – 212 comments

Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir

https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 115 comments

YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute

https://www.axios.com/roku-youtube-tv-removed-google-5580ffdf-b865-428c-91ca-8ad83802fedf.html

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 399 comments

The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/blog/apple_hell.html

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 205 comments

Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

https://tldp.org/docs.html#howto

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 77 comments

Scaling monorepo maintenance

https://github.blog/2021-04-29-scaling-monorepo-maintenance/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 75 comments

Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards

https://coolgadget.substack.com/p/beginners-guide-to-mechanical-keyboards

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 434 comments

Space Cloud: Open-Source Firebase and Heroku on Kubernetes

https://github.com/spaceuptech/space-cloud

5 years ago

★ 3.9k Go Apache-2.0
251 upvotes – 17 comments

Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

https://squoosh.app/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 68 comments

Beware HN: The rise of weaponized "abuse" reports

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995211

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 26 comments

Launch HN: Porter (YC S20) – Open-source Heroku in your own cloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26993421

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 74 comments

Inheritance was invented as a performance hack

http://catern.com/inheritance.html

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 252 comments

Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/04/stock-market-returns-are-anything-but-average/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 413 comments

Taiwan bans recruitment for jobs in China

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Taiwan-bans-recruitment-for-jobs-in-China-to-combat-brain-drain

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 181 comments

A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 50 comments

The Intelligent Timing Lock

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1387999563382857729

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 82 comments

Hopfield Networks Is All You Need

https://ml-jku.github.io/hopfield-layers/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 40 comments

Windows Terminal Quake Mode

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%23653%20-%20Quake%20Mode/%23653%20-%20Quake%20Mode.md

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 88 comments

Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps

https://thume.ca/2021/03/14/iforests/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 24 comments

What's going on here, with this human?

https://grahamduncan.blog/whats-going-on-here/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 88 comments

I’m now in charge of Audacity [video]

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

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 63 comments

Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit

https://www.businessinsider.com/googles-resistance-to-going-fully-remote-is-frustrating-employees-2021-4

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 288 comments

A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252705424

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 116 comments

Weary of Work

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/weary-work

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 83 comments

The ransomware surge

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56933733

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 208 comments

Evolution of Random Number Generators

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/29/reinventing-rng/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

Making Generative Art with Rust

https://blog.abor.dev/p/making-generative-art-with-rust

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: A RISC-V core in Racket

http://guillaume.baierouge.fr/2021/04/23/simulating-digital-circuits-in-racket/a-risc-v-core-in-racket/index.html

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995874

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 72 comments

The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/hokusai-great-wave-ukiyo-e-woodblock/index.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 63 comments

PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python [video]

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/fsr_pysdr_guide_to_sdr_and_dsp_using_python/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 10 comments

FB JavaScript SDK down

https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/492652922187445/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 29 comments

Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly [pdf]

https://www.unibw.de/patch/papers/usenixsecurity20-wasm.pdf

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 70 comments

Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Anti-Discrimination Policy

https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/04/29/credit-card-ads-were-targeted-by-age-violating-facebooks-anti-discrimination-policy

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 117 comments

Avoiding Leetcode Anxiety

https://leetcodetherapy.com/leetcode-anxiety

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 148 comments

Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69

https://oxide.computer/blog/lpc55/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets (2016)

https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical-advice-for-analysis-of-large.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

Washington state approves capital gains tax

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/washington-lawmakers-approve-capital-gains-tax-first-time-state-history/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 274 comments

Apple reveals more about AirTag stalking protections

https://www.fastcompany.com/90630404/apple-airtags-could-enable-domestic-abuse-in-terrifying-ways

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 131 comments

Inside The MTA’s Money Room

https://www.curbed.com/2021/04/al-putre-mta-money-room.html

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 49 comments

October CMS as you know it is dead

https://wintercms.com/blog/post/october-cms-you-know-it-dead

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: What are the best maintained how-to sites for Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26997498

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 72 comments

AWS inter-region latency chart

https://www.cloudping.co/grid

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 57 comments
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