top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-13

The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950

5 years ago

763 upvotes – 477 comments

An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

https://np.reddit.com/user/SaveVideo/comments/oimo6y/the_end_is_nigh/

5 years ago

584 upvotes – 379 comments

Give me /events, not webhooks

https://blog.syncinc.so/events-not-webhooks

5 years ago

568 upvotes – 313 comments

macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

https://wickedchicken.github.io/post/macos-nix-setup/

5 years ago

528 upvotes – 260 comments

Firefox 90

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/90.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 341 comments

$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 449 comments

Building a vision of life without work (2015)

https://livingafi.com/2015/03/09/building-a-vision-of-life-without-work/

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 421 comments

Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it

https://twitter.com/JStoteraux/status/1413326562821246978

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 448 comments

A privacy war is raging inside the W3C

https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 217 comments

Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA

https://ghidra-sre.org/

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 142 comments

Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout

https://www.usehaystack.io/blog/83-of-developers-suffer-from-burnout-haystack-analytics-study-finds

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 289 comments

Delta Variant

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/delta-variant-everything-you-need

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 404 comments

If you want to transform IT, start with finance

https://zwischenzugs.com/2021/07/12/if-you-want-to-transform-it-start-with-finance/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 150 comments

Beating TimSort at Merging

https://earthly.dev/blog/python-timsort-merge/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 69 comments

Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2021/07/inventor-harvests-methane-gas-from-ditches-and-ponds-to-power-his-moped.html

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 174 comments

RabbitMQ Streams Overview

https://blog.rabbitmq.com/posts/2021/07/rabbitmq-streams-overview/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 63 comments

Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 149 comments

Lachlan Morton completes 5,510km Alt Tour, beating peloton to Paris by five days

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/lachlan-morton-completes-alt-tour/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 131 comments

MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business

https://www.mackichan.com/index.html?techtalk/407.htm~mainFrame

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 132 comments

Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0254523

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 263 comments

Carlos Ghosn: How I escaped Japan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57760993

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 224 comments

Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis

https://www.xlwings.org/book

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 90 comments

AWS Cost Saving Recommendations

https://www.vantage.sh/blog/vantage-launches-aws-cost-saving-recommendations

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 94 comments

Apache Heron: A realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine

https://heron.incubator.apache.org/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 120 comments

Apple MagSafe Battery Pack

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJWY3AM/A/magsafe-battery-pack

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 216 comments

What modern animals would look like if we drew them in the same way as dinosaurs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7754553/Nightmarish-sketches-reveal-modern-animals-look-like-drew-based-skeletons.html

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Introduction to Analog Synthesizers (Simulation OK)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27822489

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 122 comments

SDF Fractal Noise

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/fbmsdf/fbmsdf.htm

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 42 comments

Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Huge-Dividend-Cripples-Worlds-Largest-Oil-Company.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: Fakeflix – Netflix open source clone

https://github.com/Th3Wall/Fakeflix

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 79 comments

Plenty of exercise can be enough to offset the negative impacts of poor sleep

https://www.sciencealert.com/plenty-of-exercise-can-be-enough-to-offset-the-negative-impact-of-poor-sleep

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 85 comments

Thinking in Events: From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software [video]

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2021/07/02/debs-keynote-thinking-in-events.html

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 20 comments

Downgrade User Agent Client Hints to 'harmful'

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/552

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 111 comments

EU legislation allows emails, messages and other communications to be scanned

https://edri.org/our-work/its-official-your-private-communications-can-and-will-be-spied-on/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

OpenSearch 1.0

https://opensearch.org/blog/updates/2021/07/opensearch-general-availability-announcement/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 51 comments

Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

https://github.com/edmundhung/maildog

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 46 comments

RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots

https://ashish-kmr.github.io/rma-legged-robots/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 15 comments

Why is standing more tiring than walking? [audio]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1pqm

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 111 comments

France fines Google €500M over copyright row

https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-fines-google-500-mln-over-copyright-row-2021-07-13/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 196 comments

Paternity leave: The hidden barriers keeping men at work

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210712-paternity-leave-the-hidden-barriers-keeping-men-at-work

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 303 comments

Is π the Same in Every Universe?

https://www.askamathematician.com/2020/12/q-is-%cf%80-the-same-in-every-universe/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 203 comments

Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/13/muse-group-continues-tone-deaf-handling-of-audacity/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 67 comments

Mike Levin on using bioelectricity to study how cells form (2019)

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/mike-levin-on-electrifying-insights-into-how-bodies-form/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

ZSA Planck EZ: A Powerful, Backlit, Open-Source, 40% Mechanical Keyboard

https://www.zsa.io/planck/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 118 comments

Reducing the Computational Cost of Deep Reinforcement Learning Research

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/reducing-computational-cost-of-deep.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Inflation climbs higher than expected in June as price index rises 5.4%

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/consumer-price-index-increases-5point4percent-in-june-vs-5percent-estimate.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 86 comments

Launch HN: Café (YC S21) – Find the best days to go to the office

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27823005

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 62 comments

Go 1.17 Release Candidate 1

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/gJE7OtHlRbM/m/21x8zAR-AAAJ

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

Plane Food Simulator 2021

https://sheepandram.itch.io/pfs2021

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Face Maker AI. Sketch to create photorealistic faces

https://massless.io/tool/face-maker-ai/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

Subscription Changes for Computer Backup

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/subscription-changes-for-computer-backup/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 95 comments

Casio SK-1

http://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/sk1.php

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

Optimizing inputs and becoming indistractable

https://sovereign-individual.xyz/posts/becoming-indistractable/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Canada’s Mobile Data Prices vs. the World in One Chart

https://twitter.com/tefficient/status/1414573673500000259

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

Farm – an experiment in distributed peer-to-peer computing

https://github.com/inkandswitch/farm

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre

https://literaryreview.co.uk/night-of-the-guillotine

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 98 comments

Resources for Learning Computational Complexity Theory

https://bcmullins.github.io/complexity_theory_resources/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

Met Police seize record £180m of cryptocurrency in London

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57816644

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

The Triumvirate: Coal, Iron, and Steam

https://technicshistory.com/2021/07/13/the-triumvirate-coal-iron-and-steam/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015632217/cornel-west-has-announced-hes-leaving-harvard-and-says-the-school-has-lost-its-w

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 99 comments

Amazon SQS is 15 Years Old

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sqs-15-years-and-still-queueing/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments
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