top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-14

A URL Lengthener

https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/

4 years ago

1204 upvotes – 294 comments

DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/darkside-ransomware-gang-quits-after-servers-bitcoin-stash-seized/

4 years ago

787 upvotes – 584 comments

Scala 3.0

https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/releases/tag/3.0.0

4 years ago

690 upvotes – 281 comments

Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat

https://blog.zulip.com/2021/05/13/zulip-4-0-released/

4 years ago

617 upvotes – 170 comments

I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff

https://p.haavard.me/407

4 years ago

561 upvotes – 269 comments

FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-has-gained-access-to-sci-hub-founders-apple-account-email-claims-210513/

4 years ago

555 upvotes – 297 comments

Ads are impersonating government websites in Google results, despite ban

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/05/13/ads-are-impersonating-government-websites-in-google-results-despite-ban

4 years ago

487 upvotes – 218 comments

More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/science/virus-origins-lab-leak-scientists.html

4 years ago

440 upvotes – 344 comments

Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/

4 years ago

408 upvotes – 52 comments

Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01299-y

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 219 comments

Lima: Linux-on-Mac

https://github.com/AkihiroSuda/lima/tree/master

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 352 comments

Quake3e, a modern Quake III Arena engine

https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 85 comments

Rust Weird Expressions

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/test/ui/weird-exprs.rs

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 162 comments

Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta

https://tauri.studio/?hn

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 168 comments

Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea

https://herrjemand.medium.com/why-cloudflares-captcha-replacement-with-fido2-webauthn-is-a-really-bad-idea-d5487f6c7566

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 284 comments

Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996499035/freshly-made-plutonium-from-outer-space-found-on-ocean-floor

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 78 comments

Programming and Writing

http://antirez.com/news/135

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 82 comments

Shirts of Peter Norvig

http://charlesbroskoski.com/_/view.php?id=shirts-of-peter-norvig

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 62 comments

Elder.js – An Opinionated, SEO Focused, Svelte Framework

https://elderguide.com/tech/elderjs/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 74 comments

Tether reserves backed by 2.9% cash

https://www.ft.com/content/529eb4e6-796a-4e81-8064-5967bbe3b4d9

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 177 comments

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 185 comments

Don't Talk to Corp Dev (2015)

http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 122 comments

Counter-Strike Global Offsets: reliable remote code execution

https://secret.club/2021/05/13/source-engine-rce-join.html

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 91 comments

Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)

https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 59 comments

Overcoming Tab Overload

https://www.scs.cmu.edu/news/overcoming-tab-overload

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 233 comments

Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app

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

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 47 comments

AmigaOS 3.2

https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 86 comments

Telescope.nvim: Find, Filter, Preview, Pick

https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 37 comments

Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that

https://news.yahoo.com/online-mug-shots-forever-states-181700675.html

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 158 comments

Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world

https://restofworld.org/2021/azar-match-dating-apps/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 102 comments

The IRS Is Coming for Crypto Investors Who Haven’t Paid Their Taxes

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-irs-comes-for-crypto-investors-who-havent-paid-their-taxes-11620937095

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 219 comments

Zstandard v1.5.0

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.0

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 36 comments

Work from Home and Productivity

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/2021-56/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 130 comments

Irish health service hit by cyber attack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57111615

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 149 comments

A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_aMgbcDdvbUv5ehmhMeZ4NlVHzKxIMUC/view

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 141 comments

Ask HN: What do you think will come after Kubernetes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27155526

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 170 comments

Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/14/nobel-archives-reveal-judges-safety-fears-for-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 89 comments

Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL

https://iamsafts.com/posts/postgres-gin-performance/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 33 comments

"I’ve kept silent on the Apple situation; they broke silence, so will I"

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1393335063480131585

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 165 comments

Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/tried-nvidias-gtx-1080-still-no-external-gpu-on-pi

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 60 comments

Using Rust Macros to exfiltrate secrets

https://github.com/lucky/bad_actor_poc

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 75 comments

Brain-Computer Interface User Types 90 Characters per Minute with Mind

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/brain-computer-interface-user-types-90-characters-per-minute-with-mind-68762

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

Fast, Open Source Search

https://typesense.org/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

Forth: Stack-Manipulation Operators

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/2-stack-manipulation-operators-arithmetic/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

EV Range Breakthrough as New Aluminum-Ion Battery Charges 60 Times Faster to Lit

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-range-breakthrough-as-new-aluminum-ion-battery-charges-60-times-faster-than-lithium-ion/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 112 comments

Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside Your Car

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bnz7/ford-wants-billboards-to-beam-distracting-ads-to-screens-inside-your-car

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 94 comments

Launch HN: Moonshot Brands (YC W21) – We buy and grow e-commerce companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154309

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/mammals-can-breathe-through-their-intestines

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 119 comments

System76 Launch Keyboard

https://system76.com/accessories/launch

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 109 comments

Paper Aeroplane Wind Tunnel

http://jellyandmarshmallows.co.uk/blog/projects/paper-aeroplane-wind-tunnel/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% salary?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27156114

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 119 comments

The Memex Method

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Moving to London for a Tech Job

https://relocate.me/blog/expat-stories/moving-to-the-uk-for-a-tech-job/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 121 comments

Rust on the Frontend and Backend

https://blog.abor.dev/p/moonzoon

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 73 comments
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