top 50% 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/

5 years ago

1331 upvotes – 544 comments

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

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

5 years ago

1037 upvotes – 829 comments

Why I prefer making useless stuff

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

5 years ago

772 upvotes – 270 comments

Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist

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

5 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

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 97 comments

Monetizing open-source is problematic

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

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 219 comments

Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days

https://github.com/psenough/teach_yourself_demoscene_in_14_days

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 45 comments

Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work

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

5 years ago

423 upvotes – 296 comments

The Limits to Blockchain Scalability

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

5 years ago

417 upvotes – 450 comments

Teardown of a PC Power Supply

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

5 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

5 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/

5 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

5 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/

5 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

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 91 comments

Triplebyte now showing profiles by default without consent

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

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 78 comments

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

https://www.dynablogger.com/

5 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/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 111 comments

Counterexamples in Type Systems

https://counterexamples.org/intro.html

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 62 comments

The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems

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

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 31 comments

Yuan Longping has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Longping

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57156799

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 129 comments

HAProxy 2.4

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-2-4/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 68 comments

Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer

https://ygoliya.medium.com/rapid-prototyping-with-a-100-inkjet-printer-e9bf9ef1e0d3

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 35 comments

Saying Goodbye to Typo CI

https://mikerogers.io/2021/05/23/saying-goodbye-to-typo-ci

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

Video uploads now available across GitHub

https://github.blog/2021-05-13-video-uploads-available-github/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Wg-easy] Easy to setup, all-in-one WireGuard and Management Web UI

https://github.com/WeeJeWel/wg-easy/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 15 comments

Rustc_codegen_GCC can now run libcore’s tests and pass most of them

https://blog.antoyo.xyz/rustc_codegen_gcc-run-core-tests

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 15 comments

Preparing your game for deterministic netcode

https://yal.cc/preparing-your-game-for-deterministic-netcode/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

For soccer players, the less brain they use, the better for penalty kicks

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/may-15-california-condor-genetics-a-strange-star-goes-supernova-don-t-think-just-kick-and-more-1.6025290/for-soccer-players-the-less-brain-they-use-the-better-for-penalty-kicks-1.6025297

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 101 comments

Scion – A Novel Internet Architecture

https://labs.ripe.net/author/hausheer/scion-a-novel-internet-architecture/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 16 comments

Trabant: The East German car remains iconic

https://www.dw.com/en/trabant-the-east-german-car-remains-iconic/a-41251024

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 102 comments

SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator Autopilot in Elixir

https://github.com/obivan/autopilot

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

https://www.kiter.app/#/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

Digging for Diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas

https://www.afar.com/magazine/digging-for-diamonds-at-crater-of-diamonds-state-park-in-arkansas

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 65 comments

The GNU D Compiler on OpenBSD/armv7

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210522.html

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: CandyGraph, a flexible, fast-by-default WebGL plotting library

https://github.com/wwwtyro/candygraph

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 28 comments

ESA advances its plan for satellites around the Moon

https://www.moondaily.com/m/reports/ESA_advances_its_plan_for_satellites_around_the_Moon_999.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

Web worker meets worker threads – threads.js

https://threads.js.org/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Neural Network Enabled Filmmaking

https://www.flawlessai.com/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

On Weakness

https://victorrotariu.com/2021/05/on-weakness/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 47 comments

Counting Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB of Memory (2012)

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/5/big-data-counting-how-to-count-a-billion-distinct-objects-us.html

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

C++ Workflow: C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine

https://github.com/sogou/workflow

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Cray-2 Memories [pdf]

https://0x07bell.net/xYxY/Cray-2_MemoriesFINAL.pdf

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments
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