top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-14

The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-just-showing-up-everyday/

5 years ago

2075 upvotes – 579 comments

WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM

https://github.com/diekmann/wasm-fizzbuzz

5 years ago

527 upvotes – 89 comments

Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest

https://www.mediaite.com/news/germany-fines-youtube-six-figures-for-removing-video-of-anti-lockdown-protest/

5 years ago

495 upvotes – 451 comments

A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/why-parents-and-kids-get-estranged/617612/

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 665 comments

Goodbye, Fleets

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/goodbye-fleets

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 295 comments

Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine

https://www.polygon.com/22573590/sega-key-master-arcade-game-class-action-lawsuit

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 233 comments

Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

https://monodraw.helftone.com/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 102 comments

Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-twitter-sees-jump-govt-demands-remove-content-journalists-news-outlets-2021-07-14/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 337 comments

Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

https://www.warp.dev

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 173 comments

Assertiveness is a virtue that anyone can develop with practice

https://psyche.co/ideas/assertiveness-is-a-virtue-that-anyone-can-develop-with-practice

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 155 comments

Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: ICFP Contest 2021

https://tonsky.me/blog/icfpc-2021/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 107 comments

Svgbob – Create a graphical representation of text diagrams

https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 34 comments

Windows 365 Cloud PC

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/14/introducing-a-new-era-of-hybrid-personal-computing-the-windows-365-cloud-pc/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 251 comments

iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/solarwinds-hackers-used-an-ios-0-day-to-steal-google-and-microsoft-credentials/

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 75 comments

Mr. Rafieh’s Tehran Pencil Shop

https://www.ana.press/photo/548339/دنیای-مداد-رنگی

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 78 comments

The Art of the Romanian Haystack

https://www.kuriositas.com/2013/09/the-art-of-romanian-haystack.html

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 85 comments

India bans MasterCard from adding new customers

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/14/india-bans-mastercard-from-adding-new-customers/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 171 comments

MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule

https://flip.it/3.eP7F

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 292 comments

Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-has-acquired-facebooks-satellite-internet-group-115312282.html

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 182 comments

Google is capping Meet’s group video calls to an hour for free accounts

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/13/22576137/google-meet-group-meeting-cap-one-hour

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 143 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon

https://thewire.in/tech/jeff-bezos-dystopian-legacy-goes-far-beyond-amazon

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 264 comments

Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

http://charap.co/reading-group-paxos-vs-raft-have-we-reached-consensus-on-distributed-consensus/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 48 comments

What is the Axiom of Choice?

https://jaydaigle.net/blog/what-is-the-axiom-of-choice/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 167 comments

One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

https://www.theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chronicles/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 120 comments

Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements

https://hub.united.com/electric-aircraft-set-to-take-flight-by-2026-under-new-agreements-with-united-airlines-ventures-breakthrough-energy-ventures-mesa-airlines-heart-aerospace-2653765004.html

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 217 comments

Update: SaveVideo is Back

https://www.reddit.com/user/SaveVideo/comments/ojohbq/update_savevideo_is_back/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 55 comments

The Blender Studio Pipeline

https://cloud.blender.org/blog/the-blender-studio-pipeline/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 7 comments

Norman doors are everywhere (2016) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 128 comments

Increasing HTTPS Adoption

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/07/increasing-https-adoption.html

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 194 comments

How to win a hackathon without coming in first place

https://strdr4605.github.io/how-to-win-a-hackathon

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 64 comments

macOS Monterey Beta 3: Apple Redesigns Safari Tab Interface Following Complaints

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/14/macos-monterey-safari-redesign/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 101 comments

A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track down woman

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebook-fired-dozens-abusing-access-user-data-an-ugly-truth-2021-7

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 103 comments

Orbit – open-source design system

https://beta.orbit.kiwi

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 39 comments

A Storage Crisis

http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2021/06/24/a-storage-crisis/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 195 comments

Moon wobble to bring surge in coastal flooding in 2030s, NASA study predicts

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/13/us/moon-wobble-coastal-flooding-scn-trnd/index.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 43 comments

Ascenium wants to reinvent the CPU and kill instruction sets altogether

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ascenium-reinvent-the-cpu

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 65 comments

Where’s the Apple M2?

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/07/12/Slow-M1

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 161 comments

Inside Facebook's Data Wars

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.html

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 91 comments

Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/14/1028447/facebook-brain-reading-interface-stops-funding/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 63 comments

Man Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition Tells Congress His Story

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgx5gd/man-wrongfully-arrested-by-facial-recognition-tells-congress-his-story

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 93 comments

Bank of England to crack down on 'secretive' cloud computing services

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/bank-of-england-to-crack-down-on-secretive-cloud-computing-services-567310

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 119 comments

Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27830978

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [pdf]

https://www.stroustrup.com/hopl20main-p5-p-bfc9cd4--final.pdf

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 137 comments

EU unveils sweeping climate change plan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57833807

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 158 comments

Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

https://github.com/red/red

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27838479

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 74 comments

The most successful global tech bets are efficient and practical startups

https://restofworld.org/2021/forget-everything-silicon-valley-taught-about-tech-investing/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not just for Covid-19

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/07/13/tennessee-halts-all-vaccine-outreach-minors-not-just-covid-19/7928701002/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 152 comments

The terminal is on life support. Is it worth saving?

https://blog.warp.dev/the-terminal-is-on-life-support-is-it-worth-saving/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather/feather-specification

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

Electrochromic nanostructures with high chromaticity and superior brightness

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00904#

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Learn Something Old Every Day

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/nyregion/iran-masih-alinejad-kidnapping.html

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 73 comments

High-resolution holographic interface [video]

https://lookingglassfactory.com/8k

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Time(1) and CPU Frequency Scaling

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2021-07-14/0/POSTING-en.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

Young, Dumb, and Broke: Why Outdoorsy Types Suck at Money

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/money-problems-outdoor-dirtbag-culture/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 133 comments

Public Suffix List

https://publicsuffix.org/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

Boeing discloses a new problem with the 787 Dreamliner

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/13/business/boeing-787-dreamliner-faa/index.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

GM warns some Bolt EV owners: Don’t park them inside or charge them unattended

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/gm-warns-some-bolt-ev-owners-dont-park-them-inside-or-charge-them-unattended-overnight.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 91 comments
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