top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-30

Who Owns My Name?

https://amandamarieknox.medium.com/who-owns-my-name-93561f83e502

5 years ago

908 upvotes – 267 comments

Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

http://static.wiki/

5 years ago

796 upvotes – 189 comments

Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission

https://mwcampbell.github.io/cloudflare-browser-isolation-letter/

5 years ago

751 upvotes – 388 comments

1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-number-1-of-153-us-workers-head-count-2021-7

5 years ago

646 upvotes – 532 comments

New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-exotic-particle-tetraquark.html

5 years ago

555 upvotes – 209 comments

DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

https://daisyui.com/

5 years ago

474 upvotes – 166 comments

Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS

https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 149 comments

We Still Don’t Get Things Done

https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 176 comments

38% of remote workers work from bed

https://www.axios.com/38-percent-remote-workers-work-bed-f8708125-a068-47ff-9519-bb7870011cd5.html

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 386 comments

The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 181 comments

Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/amazon-given-record-888-million-eu-fine-for-data-privacy-breach

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 218 comments

The Inter typeface family

https://rsms.me/inter/

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 95 comments

Craig Murray will surrender himself for prison

https://thedissenter.org/whistleblower-craig-murray-will-surrender-himself-for-prison/

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 249 comments

B-tree Path Hints

https://github.com/tidwall/btree/blob/master/PATH_HINT.md

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28008571

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 176 comments

Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver

https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/facial-expression-software-knows-which-olympic-medal-makes-you-happier-and-why

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 129 comments

Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012969

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 189 comments

Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby

https://sorbet.org/blog/2021/07/30/open-sourcing-sorbet-compiler

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 83 comments

How I store my files

https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/how-i-store-my-files-and-why-you-should-not-rely-on-fancy-tools-for-backup.html

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 139 comments

Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

https://www.google.com/search?q=rooster+in+spanish

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 105 comments

Billions in 'unknown' funds flowing into Canada's housing market [video]

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/real-estate/video/billions-in-unknown-funds-flowing-into-canada-s-housing-market-transparency-international~1644554

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 375 comments

The dark side of entrepreneurship

https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amd.2018.0194.summary

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 82 comments

“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/1421078387376918529

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 239 comments

Open Terms Archive – Follow changes to terms of service

https://www.opentermsarchive.org/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 25 comments

Oracle loses bid to upend HP’s $3B win

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/oracle-loses-bid-upend-hps-3-billion-win-2021-06-14/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 115 comments

Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58022068

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 137 comments

ASCII Play

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 20 comments

Yarn 3.0

https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 135 comments

Why does “Turn! Turn! Turn!” equal 241217.524881?

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4207222/why-does-turn-turn-turn-equal-241217-524881

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 19 comments

GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer

https://goaccess.io/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 19 comments

AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-diagnosis-pandemic/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 116 comments

Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvz59w/tech-ceo-says-engineers-get-too-much-pay-and-benefits

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 219 comments

strcpy: A niche function you don't need

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/07/30/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 150 comments

I Am Parting with My Crypto Library

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/i-am-parting-with-my-crypto-library.html

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I learned to stop worrying and love book piles

https://lithub.com/the-pleasures-of-tsundoku-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-book-piles/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 60 comments

A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02096-3

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 146 comments

Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly

https://lunatic.solutions/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 40 comments

Common UI/UX mistakes devs make

https://twitter.com/vponamariov/status/1421014957110579203

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

Descriptorless Files for Io_uring

https://lwn.net/Articles/863071/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28005638

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/07/29/gini.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/top-german-court-strikes-down-facebook-rules-on-hate-speech/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 100 comments

CDC Internal Delta Variant Presentation

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/54f57708-a529-4a33-9a44-b66d719070d9/note/753667d6-8c61-495f-b669-5308f2827155.

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 123 comments

Algorithmic bias bounty challenge

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2021/algorithmic-bias-bounty-challenge.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 120 comments

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-time-crystal-built-using-googles-quantum-computer-20210730/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project (2018)

https://patentpandas.org/stories/crowdfunding-backer-patented-my-project

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

The Future of PrivacyTools

https://blog.privacytools.io/the-future-of-privacytools/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-os-now-has-sata-support-built

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics for infectious diseases

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28009972

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Getting over Gold: Athletes and Mental Health

https://davidepstein.com/getting-over-gold-athletes-and-mental-health-2/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

What animals see in the stars, and what they stand to lose

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/science/animals-starlight-navigation-dacke.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

How Beavis, Butt-Head and Daria disrupted cable

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/30/1022642071/mtv-beavis-butthead-daria-aeon-flux-liquid-television

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 103 comments

Documenting our migration to Docker

https://www.artifakt.com/blog/cloud/documenting-our-migration-to-docker/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employees debate remote work

https://www.cultofmac.com/748775/apple-closing-down-internal-slack-channels-where-employees-debate-remote-work/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 122 comments

300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire

https://www.drive.com.au/news/geelongs-300-megawatt-tesla-battery-catches-fire-authorities-working-to-contain-blaze/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 119 comments

England's Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/07/27/englands-upper-classes-a-dangerous-cult/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 93 comments

Investors overseeing $14T call for vote on company climate plans

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/investors-overseeing-14-trln-call-vote-company-climate-plans-2021-07-30/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

Mapbox Employees Have Unionized

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/mapbox-employees-have-unionized-cwa-organizing-push

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Fire breaks out at Tesla Big Battery

https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/fire-breaks-out-during-testing-of-victorian-big-battery-near-geelong-20210730-p58eh4.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 59 comments

Multics MR12.7 released

https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Most People Don't Understand How Bad Climate Change Already Is

https://www.chrbutler.com/we-only-have-eight-years-left

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 96 comments

Positions, Profit and Loss

https://www.machow.ski/posts/2021-07-24-positions-profit-and-loss/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 53 comments
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