top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-21

The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/

5 years ago

626 upvotes – 84 comments

Kubernetes is our generation's Multics

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-2.html

5 years ago

589 upvotes – 538 comments

Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle

https://www.techspot.com/news/90483-grandfather-died-heart-attack-after-minors-swatted-over.html

5 years ago

536 upvotes – 592 comments

Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix

5 years ago

522 upvotes – 140 comments

It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/17/standing-out/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 374 comments

Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/07/15/airbnb-raises-violent-crime-rates-in-cities-as-long-term-residents-are-pushed-out-says-us-

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 319 comments

Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shubham-sharma-34bbab18b_webdevelopment-css-html-activity-6820715919568961536-WApS/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 234 comments

A digital museum of video game levels

https://noclip.website

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 62 comments

Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/opinion/intuit-turbotax-free-filing.html

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 248 comments

Planning and estimating large-scale software projects

https://tomrussell.co.uk/writing/2021/07/19/estimating-large-scale-software-projects.html

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 136 comments

Pelosi and a lifetime of trading

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 178 comments

Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 128 comments

BBEdit 14

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit14.html

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 159 comments

Twike

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

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 195 comments

Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28044450/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 243 comments

Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack

https://slack.com/intl/en-es/blog/news/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-slack

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 268 comments

Programmatic Video Editing with Python

https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 42 comments

Crystal 1.1.0

https://crystal-lang.org/2021/07/16/1.1.0-released.html

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 66 comments

NSO Group Hacked

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/nso-group-hacked.html

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 86 comments

Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/media/van-jones-bezos-100-million/index.html

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 805 comments

How to gain more from your reading

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-gain-more-from-reading-by-taking-it-all-in-more-slowly

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 93 comments

Spanish police seize large drone used to carry drugs from Morocco

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-07-15/spanish-police-seize-large-drone-used-to-carry-drugs-from-morocco.html

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 171 comments

Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-plans-open-up-its-charging-network-other-evs-later-this-year-2021-07-20/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 339 comments

Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/useful-algorithms-that-are-not-optimized-by-jax-pytorch-or-tensorflow/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 28 comments

THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief

https://www.dw.com/en/thw-germanys-army-of-volunteers-for-disaster-relief/a-58320465

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 124 comments

A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew

https://github.com/withfig/fig/discussions/300

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 105 comments

Mastering the Basics of Icon Design

https://blog.thenounproject.com/mastering-the-basics-of-icon-design-with-adrien-coquet-9c3802093e30

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

https://github.com/goranmoomin/HackerNews

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 81 comments

Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust

https://web.dev/webassembly-threads/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 89 comments

Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued

https://lichess.org/blog/YPc7GREAACgAevs5/fat-fritz-is-not-the-only-ripoff-and-now-chessbase-is-getting-sued

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 44 comments

Enough is enough

https://www.nsogroup.com/Newses/enough-is-enough/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 125 comments

I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/21/magazine/i-just-learned-i-only-have-months-live-this-is-what-i-want-say/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 55 comments

The Colorado River is shrinking

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/colorado-river-shrinking-hard-choices-lie-ahead-scientist-warns

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 251 comments

Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons

https://www.moll.dev/projects/effective-multi-dispatch/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 108 comments

0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (2011)

http://pvk.ca/Blog/LowLevel/software-reciprocal.html

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 24 comments

Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/21/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-listed-spyware-targets-nso-leak-pegasus

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 49 comments

AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-allows-customers-pay-their-usage-in-advance/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 182 comments

Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/dubai-fake-rain-heat-b1887596.html

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 99 comments

How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance?

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-extension-performance-2021

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 90 comments

MGBA Integration: Introducing the Integrated GBA

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/07/21/integrated-gba/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 9 comments

Launch HN: Epsilon3 (YC S21) – Software for spacecraft and complex operations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906787

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 62 comments

I built my first serverless robot and won $1000

https://towardsdev.com/how-i-built-my-first-serverless-robot-and-won-200-87127a0b108c

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Digger.dev – A PaaS that generates Terraform, in your AWS account

https://diggerdev.com

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 67 comments

Intel Distribution for Python

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/oneapi/components/distribution-for-python.html

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop applications to the browser

https://neverinstall.com

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 104 comments

Quantum computing hype is bad for science

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quantum-computing-hype-bad-science-victor-galitski-1c

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 126 comments

A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it

https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Sunflower Editor – like adding console.log to every line of your code

https://editor.sunflower.industries/?loadExample=basicExample

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27905277

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 152 comments

Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/serial-swatter-who-caused-death-gets-five-years-in-prison/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 155 comments

Vulkan Memory Allocator

https://gpuopen.com/vulkan-memory-allocator/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Web-based visualization for robotics and autonomous vehicles

https://foxglove.dev/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 14 comments

A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s founder

https://www.cjr.org/opinion/nieman-lab-lawsuit-joshua-benton-francesca-viola.php

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 300 comments

Namedtuple in a Post-Dataclasses World

https://death.andgravity.com/namedtuples

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 88 comments

Yet another background music for developer, if you missed working at cafe

https://sudo.fm

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: “You can hurt yourself in the ocean” (2016)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/with-every-splashdown-nasa-embraces-the-legacy-of-gus-grissom/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

Why aren't there more programming-language startups?

https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/why-arent-there-more-programming-languages-startups

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 148 comments

A monorepo misconception – atomic cross-project commits

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2021-07-21-monorepo-atomic/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 102 comments

How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-the-ibm-pc-won-then-lost-the-personal-computer-market

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 101 comments

Photographic Reference Scale (2019)

https://smallpond.ca/jim/scale/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-microbially-fibers-stronger-steel-tougher.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation

https://morrick.me/archives/9407

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 58 comments

Watching Jeff Bezos Go to Space Was More Depressing Than Inspiring

https://variety.com/2021/tv/columns/jeff-bezos-space-richard-branson-1235023553/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 99 comments

Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1346

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 82 comments

Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed alleged use of Grindr

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-quits-after-anonymized-data-revealed-alleged-use-of-grindr/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License

https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/50e48200cde7e2eaffdc6b726a9cdf2659f0e073

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 95 comments

Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/21/epic-games-acquires-sketchfab-a-3d-model-sharing-platform/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

There’s Toxicity, and There’s Toxicity (2017)

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/11/06/theres-toxicity-and-theres-toxicity

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-57888460

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 157 comments

Ask HN: How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27912487

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 86 comments

Binary Trees are optimal except when they’re not

https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/binary-trees-are-optimal-except-when-theyre-not/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

AI and Robots Are a Minefield of Cognitive Biases

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/humans-cognitive-biases-facing-ai

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments
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