top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-05-23

One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

https://columbianewsservice.com/2021/05/21/one-mans-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-broken-macbooks/

4 years ago

1331 upvotes – 544 comments

Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57219860

4 years ago

1037 upvotes – 829 comments

Why I prefer making useless stuff

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/makinguselessstuff.html

4 years ago

772 upvotes – 270 comments

Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219860

4 years ago

766 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua

https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX

4 years ago

496 upvotes – 97 comments

Monetizing open-source is problematic

https://marak.com/blog/2021-04-25-monetizing-open-source-is-problematic

4 years ago

460 upvotes – 219 comments

Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days

https://github.com/psenough/teach_yourself_demoscene_in_14_days

4 years ago

427 upvotes – 45 comments

Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work

https://ingrids.space/posts/why-distributed-systems-dont-work/

4 years ago

423 upvotes – 296 comments

The Limits to Blockchain Scalability

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.html

4 years ago

417 upvotes – 450 comments

Teardown of a PC Power Supply

https://www.righto.com/2021/05/teardown-of-pc-power-supply.html

4 years ago

407 upvotes – 239 comments

Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/22/22448139/tim-cook-epic-fortnite-trial-testimony-privacy-iap-antitrust

4 years ago

395 upvotes – 833 comments

Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/05/22/apple-user-warning-how-to-stop-facebook-secretly-tracking-your-iphone-ipad/

4 years ago

365 upvotes – 256 comments

Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/aukey-kicked-off-amazon-following-fake-reviews-allegations

4 years ago

353 upvotes – 364 comments

Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (2019)

https://www.laurenceking.com/blog/2019/09/26/dorodango-blog/

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 67 comments

Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (2015)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 91 comments

Triplebyte now showing profiles by default without consent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255742

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: A simple blogging platform I built out of frustration with other tools

https://www.dynablogger.com/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 122 comments

Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES

https://carlchenet.com/how-to-save-up-to-500e-year-switching-from-mailchimp-to-open-source-mailtrain-and-aws-ses/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 111 comments

Counterexamples in Type Systems

https://counterexamples.org/intro.html

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 62 comments

The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/979

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 31 comments
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