top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-23

The Framework Laptop is now shipping

https://frame.work/blog/the-framework-laptop-is-now-shipping-and-press-reviews

5 years ago

1502 upvotes – 762 comments

AWS's Egregious Egress

https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/

5 years ago

742 upvotes – 229 comments

BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound

https://birdnet.cornell.edu

5 years ago

706 upvotes – 155 comments

Syncthing: Syncing All the Things

https://lwn.net/Articles/861978/

5 years ago

433 upvotes – 172 comments

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/

5 years ago

431 upvotes – 163 comments

Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company

https://blog.x.company/introducing-intrinsic-1cf35b87651

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 267 comments

We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship

https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/wed-rather-have-the-iceberg-than-the-ship

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 327 comments

Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/why-university-california-dropping-sat/619522/

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 606 comments

Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink

https://realless.glitch.me/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 192 comments

My Steam Game Revenue Stats

https://donislawdev.com/my-first-indie-steam-game-revenue-first-month-in-early-access-yerba-mate-tycoon/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 169 comments

Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930562

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 124 comments

Tylr: Demo of tile-based editing, a new kind of structure editing

https://twitter.com/dm_0ney/status/1414742742530498566

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 40 comments

If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)

https://sellsbrothers.com/12395

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 199 comments

Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22589403/porn-site-bought-expired-video-hosting-site-old-embeds

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 121 comments

A 3°C world has no safe place

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/24/a-3degc-world-has-no-safe-place

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 282 comments

The value of doing a little

https://trms.me/the-value-of-doing-a-little/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 47 comments

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-metaverse-interview

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 370 comments

Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210715/17183547176/techdirt-has-been-released-gag-order-regarding-federal-investigation-into-silly-comment.shtml

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 78 comments

Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

https://github.blog/2021-07-22-github-supply-chain-security-features-go-community/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 71 comments

Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result

https://searchengineland.com/google-now-shows-why-it-ranked-a-specific-search-result-350659

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 115 comments

Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_IKsz0GdgyLlO9-MAtpTPQ7vnfpN8Ng/view?usp=drivesdk

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 91 comments

Beating the L1 cache with value speculation

https://mazzo.li/posts/value-speculation.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/22/apple-to-pill-idos-2-emulator-from-app-store/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 2 comments

Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/cockatoos-learn-open-garbage-bins-observing-their-peers-180978248/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 95 comments

Huawei hiring former Democratic super lobbyist Tony Podesta

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/23/huawei-hires-tony-podesta-500649

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 87 comments

Modern C++ for C Programmers (2018)

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/c++-1/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 162 comments

Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/21/floating-wind-turbines-could-rise-to-great-heights

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 99 comments

“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1418248256937775105

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 219 comments

Judges reject Viasat’s plea to stop SpaceX Starlink satellite launches

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/spacex-wins-court-ruling-that-lets-it-continue-launching-starlink-satellites/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 80 comments

Striking to End Suicide Shifts, Frito-Lay Workers Ask People to Drop the Doritos

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018634768/frito-lay-workers-are-in-the-third-week-of-a-strike-over-wages-and-working-condi

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 57 comments

The Dig

https://www.filfre.net/2021/07/the-dig/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 62 comments

Learn Python by doing fun interactive exercises

https://epicpython.com/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

Blockly: A JavaScript library for building visual programming editors

https://developers.google.com/blockly

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Edward Snowden on privacy and threats to democracy (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9yK1QndJSM

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 1 comments

The Web from 1989 to 1994

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/timeline/?date_from=1989&date_to=1994

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 22 comments

The Chernobyl Tragedy – From the Memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhkov

https://itsmydutytotell.wordpress.com/2021/06/07/the-chernobyl-tragedy-from-the-memoirs-of-nikolai-ryzhkov/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 34 comments

Inside TikTok’s Algorithm [video]

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/inside-tiktoks-highly-secretive-algorithm/investigation-how-tiktok-algorithm-figures-out-your-deepest-desires/6C0C2040-FF25-4827-8528-2BD6612E3796

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 76 comments

The Nightmare of Our Snooping Phones

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/phones-location-data.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Update to our privacy policy and apology

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 69 comments

After Slashing 33% of Workers in 6 Years, Railroads Complain of Labor Shortages

https://wolfstreet.com/2021/07/22/after-slashing-33-of-their-workers-in-six-years-railroads-complain-about-labor-shortages-amid-uproar-from-shippers-over-slow-shipments/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 173 comments

The Grayness of the Origin of Life

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/6/498/htm

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 73 comments

The Antikythera Mechanism

https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/the-antikythera-mechanism/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016854764/social-media-balance-relationship-boundaries

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 101 comments

MicroLEDs Moving from Lab to Fab

https://semiengineering.com/microleds-moving-from-lab-to-fab/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

Design for Obsolete Devices

https://anaellebeignon.fr/design-for-obsolete-devices.html

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

https://osf.io/x4fk3/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 100 comments

Bezos and Branson not yet astronauts, US says

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57950149

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 149 comments

Hillwalkers should love the Comte de Buffon (2020)

http://bencraven.org.uk/2020/08/05/why-hillwalkers-should-love-the-comte-de-buffon/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

Privacy is an afterthought. Here's how devs can easily make it better.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/19/privacy-is-an-afterthought-in-the-software-lifecycle-that-needs-to-change/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 45 comments

Another misstep for Audacity

https://lwn.net/Articles/862073/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 49 comments

A new air-conditioning system manages without nasty gases

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/21/a-new-green-air-conditioning-system-manages-without-nasty-gases

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 63 comments

Ghana’s anti-LGBT+ bill seeks 10-year jail term for activists

https://africafeeds.com/2021/07/23/ghanas-anti-lgbt-bill-seeks-10-year-jail-term-for-activists/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 148 comments

Ethereum dev Virgil Griffith back in jail after checking $1M Coinbase account

https://protos.com/griffith-virgil-coinbase-account-ethereum-jail-north-korea-arrest/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 111 comments

Cats N Wires

https://kultisti.itch.io/cats-n-wires

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

“I decided to make a small synthesiser about finance in the year 2020”

https://gieskes.nl/instruments/files/insolventunclesam/insolventunclesam/manual/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Galleri: Interpreting results from GRAIL's multi-cancer early detection study

https://arsham.substack.com/p/is-this-the-holy-grail-for-cancer

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Squashfs turning 20, Squashfs tools 4.5 released

https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/mailman/message/37324506/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light

https://twitter.com/JordanTeslaTech/status/1418413307862585344

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 87 comments

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Exoplanet building its own moons

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/23/exoplanet_ring_telescope/

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments
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