top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-13

Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ng8x/pentagon-americans-surveillance-without-warrant-internet-browsing

5 years ago

What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages

https://blog.roastmylandingpage.com/landing-page-roasts/

5 years ago

Notion API – public beta

https://developers.notion.so

5 years ago

Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance

https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2021/05/13/news/antitrust_sanzione_google-300745107

5 years ago

Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/external-protocol-flooding/

5 years ago

$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/13/bitcoin-btc-price-falls-after-tesla-stops-car-purchases-with-crypto.html

5 years ago

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing

5 years ago

Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-nearly-5-million-in-ransom

5 years ago

Midair Collision over Denver

https://avherald.com/h?article=4e74b6e5

5 years ago

Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan

https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/blob/master/active-rfcs/0038-vue3-ie11-support.md

5 years ago

Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over (2020)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/05/07/fuck-the-bread-the-bread-is-over/

5 years ago

Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)

https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2020/04/best-physics-movies.html

5 years ago

Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker

https://hackaday.io/project/179136-ferrofluid-display-cell-bluetooth-speaker

5 years ago

Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/health/cdc-masks-guidance.html

5 years ago

Big list of HTTP static server one-liners

https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

5 years ago

How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)

https://thomas-godden.medium.com/how-spacex-lands-starship-sort-of-ee96cdde650b

5 years ago

Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-shutting-down-its-azure-blockchain-service/

5 years ago

Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go

https://threedots.tech/go-with-the-domain/

5 years ago

Apple Design Resources

https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

5 years ago

Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact

https://m.dw.com/en/tesla-changes-stance-on-bitcoin-amid-climate-concerns/a-57515879

5 years ago

The brain maps out ideas and memories like spaces

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/

5 years ago

Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/13/pfas-forever-chemicals-breast-milk-us-study

5 years ago

Show HN: Learn Python the Right Way – free introduction to Python book

https://learnpythontherightway.com

5 years ago

Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project

https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas

5 years ago

Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142930

5 years ago

Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments

https://www.courier.com/blog/the-three-things-to-never-build-in-your-app

5 years ago

Dataflow, a self-hosted Observable notebook editor

https://observablehq.com/@asg017/introducing-dataflow

5 years ago

Security researcher found Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that existed since the beginning

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22433134/fragattacks-wi-fi-vulnerabilities-update-security

5 years ago

Enigma: GPT-2 trained on 10K Nature Papers: Can you spot the difference?

https://stefanzukin.com/enigma/

5 years ago

Golden Handcuffs

https://avc.com/2021/05/golden-handcuffs-2/

5 years ago

Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

https://hexo.press

5 years ago

Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/13/frameworks-repairable-laptop-is-up-for-pre-order-starting-at-999/

5 years ago

Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tracking/?date=May13

5 years ago

The Lisperati1000 is a cyberdeck terminal dedicated to Lisp programming

https://www.hackster.io/news/the-lisperati1000-is-a-cyberdeck-terminal-dedicated-to-lisp-programming-bb564f2ffcff

5 years ago

Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016)

https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/

5 years ago

Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swiss-spy-chief-exits-after-reports-row-over-cia-linked-firm-2021-05-12/

5 years ago

Fly’s Prometheus Metrics

https://fly.io/blog/measuring-fly/

5 years ago

The Bizarre World of Scam Audiobooks

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvgaq/bot-gibberish-audio-books-scam

5 years ago

Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-makes-more-money-trading-bitcoin-than-selling-cars-11619517615

5 years ago

Multicore OCaml: April 2021

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-april-2021/7849

5 years ago

Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig

https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-an-efficient-and-portable-programming-language-with-zig

5 years ago

In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/mahles-electric-motor-says-look-ma-no-contacts

5 years ago

Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYbRARW9q2s

5 years ago

Why is load balancing gRPC tricky?

https://majidfn.com/blog/20201222-grpc-load-balancing/

5 years ago

WHO List of Essential Medicines

https://list.essentialmeds.org/

5 years ago

Things I wish someone told me about getting a promotion

https://radhika.dev/mid/

5 years ago

Framework Laptop pre-orders are open, starting at $999

https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-starting-at-999-pre-orders-are

5 years ago

Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

https://www.wbur.org/npr/996284927/covid-19-was-a-preventable-disaster-who-ordered-report-states

5 years ago

Ending CAPTCHAs: Introducing Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attestation-of-personhood/

5 years ago

A pair of memory-allocation improvements in Linux 5.13

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/855226/72737207b5650d33/

5 years ago

"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tmm1

5 years ago

A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate

https://nautil.us/issue/100/outsiders/should-we-terraform-mars-lets-recap

5 years ago

Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have roamed free of academia

https://nautil.us/issue/100/outsiders/the-country-gentleman-of-physics

5 years ago

Target stops selling Pokémon cards in store, citing safety concerns

https://www.polygon.com/22433872/pokemon-cards-target-restock-shining-fates-in-store-availability

5 years ago

A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free

https://souradip.mookerj.ee/blog/free-sequencing

5 years ago

Pg8000 – Pure-Python PostgreSQL driver

https://github.com/tlocke/pg8000

5 years ago

Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382

5 years ago

Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/12/executive-order-on-improving-the-nations-cybersecurity/

5 years ago

Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses

https://nikonrumors.com/2021/05/12/nikon-is-slowly-discontinuing-more-nikkor-f-mount-lenses.aspx/

5 years ago

Framework Laptop – pre-orders are now open

https://frame.work/

5 years ago

‘Misogynistic’ Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22433437/apple-hire-antonio-garcia-martinez-out-petition-investigation

5 years ago