top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-27

Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix

5 years ago

809 upvotes – 339 comments

Windows 96

https://windows96.net

5 years ago

724 upvotes – 316 comments

Naval Architecture

https://ciechanow.ski/naval-architecture/

5 years ago

717 upvotes – 138 comments

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/father-builds-exoskeleton-help-wheelchair-bound-son-walk-2021-07-26/

5 years ago

687 upvotes – 191 comments

Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database

https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-a-search-engine-in-a-database

5 years ago

601 upvotes – 137 comments

For developers, Safari is crap and outdated

https://blog.perrysun.com/2021/07/15/for-developers-safari-is-crap-and-outdated/

5 years ago

500 upvotes – 598 comments

Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

https://www.axios.com/activision-blizzard-walkout-harassment-lawsuit-fefa807b-107e-41e2-a6e2-78a086119e04.html

5 years ago

495 upvotes – 528 comments

Discord Launches Threads

https://blog.discord.com/connect-the-conversation-with-threads-on-discord-3f5fa8b0f6b

5 years ago

441 upvotes – 225 comments

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill%27s_mystery_soda_machine

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 150 comments

Curated list of personal blogs

https://refined.blog/

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 126 comments

Netcat – All you need to know

https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/netcat/

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 45 comments

Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 133 comments

Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595227/star-wars-lucasfilm-mandalorian-rogue-one-hire-deepfake-shamook

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 213 comments

Monkey Island PC-speaker music player

https://www.thanassis.space/monkeyisland.html

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 114 comments

Google launches new vulnerability reward platform

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/07/a-new-chapter-for-googles-vulnerability.html

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 104 comments

Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-emerge-from-open-ended-play

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 51 comments

Israeli military search team helped recover majority of Surfside victims

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/07/26/surfside-condo-collapse-how-israeli-team-found-majority-victims/8021350002/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 131 comments

Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971757

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 182 comments

TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA17674

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 188 comments

FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia

https://forums.fast.ai/t/ann-announcing-fastai-jl-fastai-for-julia/90228

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 23 comments

Live Starlink Satellite Map

http://satellitemap.space/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 109 comments

A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-soil-science-revolution-upends-plans-to-fight-climate-change-20210727/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 69 comments

Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

https://candidegardening.com/GB/identify-plants

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 98 comments

WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencents-wechat-suspends-new-user-registration-cites-technical-upgrade-2021-07-27/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 182 comments

Functional Programming in OCaml

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2021sp/textbook/intro/intro.html

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 108 comments

Columbo: an origin story (2018)

https://columbophile.com/2018/02/17/columbo-an-origin-story/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 93 comments

Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-ebay-employee-gets-18-months-prison-abominable-cyberstalking-campaign-2021-07-27/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 77 comments

It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it

https://groundtruthautonomy.com/its-not-self-driving-car-unless-you-can-sleep-in-it/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 194 comments

Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf

https://nicole.express/2021/remember-alf.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 30 comments

In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games

https://waywardstrategy.com/2021/07/27/hard-counters/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 189 comments

Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/western-canada-wildfires-creating-own-weather-experts-firestorm-1.6118889

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 60 comments

Launch HN: Abbot (YC S21) – ChatOps as a Service, inspired by GitHub's Hubot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27974077

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

Getting sweet patron money on the modern internet (2020)

https://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2020/02/getting-sweet-patron-money-on-modern.html

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 61 comments

Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little

https://dankennedy.net/2020/12/09/blogging-is-dead-long-live-blogging-or-why-the-substack-hype-is-much-ado-about-very-little/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 153 comments

I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)

https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/26/how-i-created-a-350m-software-company-knowing-nothing-about-software/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

https://www.charlieharrington.com/smart-phone-dumb-terminal/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 153 comments

Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/26/exclusive-half-covid-hospitalisations-tested-positive-admission/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 229 comments

We need to talk about testing

https://dannorth.net/2021/07/26/we-need-to-talk-about-testing/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 72 comments

Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone

https://vgnotepad.blogspot.com/2021/04/reprogramming-old-sennheiser-skm-3072-u.html

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code

https://tinkerstellar.com

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

United States sells Wu-Tang album forfeited by Martin Shkreli

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-sells-unique-wu-tang-clan-album-forfeited-convicted-hedge-fund-manager

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 109 comments

Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)

https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 99 comments

IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-07-27-Announcing-IBM-z-OS-V2-5,-Next-Gen-Operating-System-Designed-for-Hybrid-Cloud-and-AI

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 193 comments

Cryptanalysis of Meow Hash

https://peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysis

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: AI Background Remover

https://www.photoroom.com/background-remover/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

Compilers as Teachers

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/compilers-as-teachers/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/07/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 164 comments

Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v2

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 91 comments

Large cars kill US pedestrians, don't make drivers safer

https://twitter.com/justin_tyndall/status/1419790491076288516

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 165 comments

Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can record iPhone screens (2017)

https://wccftech.com/apple-uber-secret-record-iphone-screen/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic)

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/47

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

Tesla second-quarter profits top $1B even as it struggles to handle demand

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/26/tesla-profits-second-quarter-demand-chip-shortage

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 87 comments

Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change evidence gets

https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2021/07/japans-cherry-blossom-as-indisputable-as-climate-change-evidence-gets/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 124 comments

Analysis of large binaries and games in Ghidra-SRE

https://kiwidog.me/2021/07/analysis-of-large-binaries-and-games-in-ghidra-sre/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27968255

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 55 comments

Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues

https://www.quantamagazine.org/fractons-the-weirdest-matter-could-yield-quantum-clues-20210726/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

Mercedes-Benz teases super-efficient EV with over 1,000km of range

https://electrek.co/2021/07/22/mercedes-benz-teases-super-efficient-electric-car/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 222 comments

Get ready for many more record-shattering heatwaves

https://www.axios.com/record-shattering-heat-waves-becoming-far-more-likely-study-e13fde50-45d8-4bcd-bc86-efecba6c5217.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

THC: Tight Home Control, automation framework in Tcl

https://github.com/Drolla/thc

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

Lego logic gates and mechanical computing

https://www.randomwraith.com/logic.html

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Blogger has bad UX and it annoys me

https://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/2021/07/blogger-has-bad-ux-and-it-annoys-me.html

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 53 comments

Composable Data Validation with Haskell

https://www.foxhound.systems/blog/composable-data-validation/

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Room C, where my little ballerina danced

https://jenniferbrogdon.substack.com/p/room-c

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments
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