top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-07

Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

5 years ago

The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/

5 years ago

Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-threatens-to-make-ios-users-pay-please-do-it-mr-zuckerberg/

5 years ago

Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/amazon-reviews-leak-report/

5 years ago

Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)

http://css.umich.edu/publication/beyond-meats-beyond-burger-life-cycle-assessment-detailed-comparison-between-plant-based

5 years ago

Searching the web for under $1000/month

https://quickwit.io/blog/commoncrawl/

5 years ago

WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/07/whatsapp-chickens-out-on-its-privacy-policy-deadline/

5 years ago

Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/07/most-iphone-users-app-tracking-opt-out/

5 years ago

JavaScript for Shell Scripting

https://github.com/google/zx

5 years ago

Honeywell gets hit with $13M fine for defense export violations

https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2021/05/04/honeywell-fined-13-million-for-defense-export-violations/

5 years ago

The Pinecone Overlay Network

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network

5 years ago

Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga

https://github.com/Mukosame/Anime2Sketch

5 years ago

Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19

http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-reported-covid-19-deaths

5 years ago

Apple Silicon Hardware: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF)

https://blog.svenpeter.dev/posts/m1_sprr_gxf/

5 years ago

WinBox: Window manager in a web browser

https://github.com/nextapps-de/winbox

5 years ago

Use Alacritty instead of Termite

https://github.com/thestinger/termite

5 years ago

Smithy: A language for defining services and SDKs

https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/

5 years ago

Starlink Satellites Tracker

https://findstarlink.com

5 years ago

California population declines for first time in more than a century

https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-population-declines-for-first-time-in-more-than-a-century-11620416887

5 years ago

A New AWS SDK for Rust

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/a-new-aws-sdk-for-rust-alpha-launch/

5 years ago

How to survive a toxic workplace and how to avoid creating one

https://newsletter.timber.fm/p/how-to-survive-a-toxic-workplace

5 years ago

Java's records, Lombok's data, and Kotlin's data classes

https://nipafx.dev/java-record-semantics/

5 years ago

Bird song sonographs show distinct drawing patterns

https://soundshader.github.io/hss/gallery/

5 years ago

The Complete Hypercard Handbook (1988)

https://archive.org/details/The_Complete_HyperCard_Handbook/

5 years ago

How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook

https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/05/06/how-big-pharma-finds-sick-users-on-facebook

5 years ago

Be in a field where tech is the limit

https://mathiaskirkbonde.substack.com/p/be-in-a-field-where-tech-is-the-limit

5 years ago

Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993821945/goodwill-doesnt-want-your-broken-toaster

5 years ago

Racket 8.1

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/05/racket-v8-1.html

5 years ago

Grain: WebAssembly-First Programming Language

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/05/grain-web-assembly-first/

5 years ago

PatchELF: Simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries

https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf

5 years ago

The digital currencies that matter

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/05/08/the-digital-currencies-that-matter

5 years ago

Illumos to drop SPARC Support

https://github.com/illumos/ipd/blob/master/ipd/0019/README.md

5 years ago

Worg (Emacs Org documentation) maintainer needed

https://orgmode.org/list/[email protected]/

5 years ago

Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps

https://crossbar.io/

5 years ago

Towards an HD44780-Based Video Mode

https://github.com/MisterHW/44780HD

5 years ago

Decentralized trust graph for online value exchange without a blockchain (2017)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170722064044/https://settle.network/posts/intro/

5 years ago

Linux Air Combat (2019)

https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/IntroducingLinuxAirCombat.htm

5 years ago

Little Free Library

http://littlefreelibrary.org/

5 years ago

Shelljs – Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs

5 years ago

Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Compaction

https://jemma.dev/blog/gc-compaction

5 years ago

Unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer 40k universe with loremaster Dan Abnett

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1762186

5 years ago

A unified theory of low/no code and middleware

https://mslotnick.substack.com/p/a-unified-theory-of-lowno-code-middleware

5 years ago

Movie Tycoon Sues YouTube over Piracy and Exposes Content-ID ‘Caveat’

https://torrentfreak.com/movie-tycoon-sues-youtube-over-piracy-and-exposes-content-id-caveat-210506/

5 years ago

Where the top of the stack is on x86 (2011)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/02/04/where-the-top-of-the-stack-is-on-x86/

5 years ago

Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/musk-s-autopilot-claims-don-t-match-reality-tesla-engineer-says

5 years ago

China emissions exceed all developed nations combined

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57018837

5 years ago

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

5 years ago

The metabolic face of migraine

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-019-0255-4

5 years ago

I made a $2M funeral startup and became a monster

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/may/07/funeral-grace-cremation-startup-alex-kruger

5 years ago

How JavaScript works: 3 types of polymorphism

https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-3-types-of-polymorphism-f10ff4992be1?source=collection_category---4------0-----------------------

5 years ago

U.S. adds just 266,000 jobs in April, far below expectations

https://www.axios.com/april-jobs-report-economy-f56e27dc-7048-43b2-a0ee-5845bb01a7f8.html

5 years ago

Ask HN: Why Google cookies are exempted when blocking third-party cookies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27078077

5 years ago

The future of work is not threatening your employees

https://warzel.substack.com/p/the-future-of-work-is-not-threatening

5 years ago

Comparing Tesla, Ford and VW’s Electrical Architectures [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRkm6-bBk4U

5 years ago

Blender Foundation Annual Report 2020 [pdf]

https://download.blender.org/institute/blender-annual-report-2020-v1.pdf

5 years ago

Why are there so many people in prison in America? (2017)

http://braino.org/essays/why_so_many_people_in_prison/

5 years ago