top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-08

I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/16/experience-ive-had-the-same-supper-for-10-years

5 years ago

Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

https://portfolio.zxh.io

5 years ago

Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buy-nearby/egoikpnpdihpdfenconkdnndbnhcfmkj

5 years ago

FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1390782451140767749

5 years ago

How I Practice Piano

https://frogurncitadel.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/how-i-practice-piano/

5 years ago

Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-brass-discussed-disclosing-128-million-iphone-hack-then-decided-not-to/

5 years ago

If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159121001258

5 years ago

Linux Foundation starts AgStack, an open-source agtech initiative

https://investableuniverse.com/2021/05/05/linux-foundation-agstack-open-source-agriculture-technology/

5 years ago

The Byte Order Fiasco

https://justine.lol/endian.html

5 years ago

iPad Camera Multitasking

https://blog.thinktapwork.com/post/649630720084639744/ipad-camera-multitasking

5 years ago

Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them

https://techdator.net/over-96-of-apple-users-have-blocked-facebook-from-tracking-them/

5 years ago

Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking [pdf]

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/What-lies-beneath_Collin.pdf

5 years ago

U.S.'s Biggest Gasoline Pipeline Halted After Cyberattack

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/08/cyber-attack-colonial-pipeline/

5 years ago

Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it

https://twitter.com/jjcollinsworth/status/1390328342533054472

5 years ago

People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277000-people-who-live-past-105-years-old-have-genes-that-stop-dna-damage/

5 years ago

Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/05/dark-matter-situation-has-changed.html?m=1

5 years ago

gRPC benchmark results

https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/wiki/2021-04-13-bench-results

5 years ago

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

https://crawl.develz.org/

5 years ago

Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the best piece

https://unrealwill.github.io/lovetris/

5 years ago

Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (2016)

https://medium.com/cuepoint/like-it-is-bob-dylan-explains-what-really-killed-rock-n-roll-f6a4b6587a1a

5 years ago

Rust for Windows 0.9

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/05/06/announcing-rust-for-windows-v0-9/

5 years ago

Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421200133.htm

5 years ago

TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-plus-ce-python

5 years ago

Ursula Le Guin Books

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/best-ursula-le-guin-books-sherryl-vint/

5 years ago

ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/issues/2362

5 years ago

Dropping cache didn’t drop cache

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2021/dropping-cache-didnt-drop-cache.html

5 years ago

My service to check whether an item is counterfeit or not

https://bychgroup.com/i-make-200000-year-by-writing-order-notes/

5 years ago

Google is going to turn on 2FA by default

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/google-will-soon-start-automatically-enrolling-users-in-2fa/

5 years ago

ABI Mistakes

https://elronnd.net/writ/boring/2021-05-07_abi-wrong.html

5 years ago

Apple tries to get Epic to admit there's porn on its store

https://kotaku.com/apple-tries-really-hard-to-get-epic-to-admit-theres-por-1846849388

5 years ago

So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)

http://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html#so-what-s-wrong-with-1975-programming

5 years ago

How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner

https://www.alextoussaint.com/2021-04-28_How-I-built-an-ultrasonic-3d-scanner.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Euporie, a Tui for Jupyter Notebooks

https://github.com/joouha/euporie

5 years ago

It’s not a ‘labor shortage,’ it’s a reassessment of work

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis/

5 years ago

Inefficient Efficiency (2019)

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/inefficient-efficiency-5b3ab5294791

5 years ago

Restaurant menu tricks (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171120-the-secret-tricks-hidden-inside-restaurant-menus

5 years ago

Grazing Goat Problems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/solve-math-equations-that-are-stubborn-as-a-goat-20210506/

5 years ago

Show HN: RonDB – fast key-value database in the cloud

https://www.rondb.com/

5 years ago

Email Explained from First Principles

https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/

5 years ago

Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/childs-burial-78000-years-ago-kenya-was-homo-sapiens-milestone-2021-05-05/

5 years ago

Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript

https://jerue.org/blog/lessons-on-writing-javascript-and-react-from-clojurescript/

5 years ago

Suicide by Culture (2017)

https://250bpm.com/blog:113/

5 years ago

X-Transformers: A fully-featured transformer with experimental features

https://github.com/lucidrains/x-transformers

5 years ago

OpenDrop

http://www.gaudi.ch/OpenDrop/

5 years ago