top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-01

New in Git: switch and restore

https://www.banterly.net/2021/07/31/new-in-git-switch-and-restore/

5 years ago

My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry

https://mike.zwobble.org/2021/08/side-projects-vs-industry/

5 years ago

Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-31/employers-bow-down-to-tech-workers-in-hottest-job-market

5 years ago

U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/us-plastic-pollution

5 years ago

Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots

5 years ago

I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time

https://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop.html

5 years ago

Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B

https://squareup.com/us/en/press/square-announces-plans-to-acquire-afterpay

5 years ago

Todo apps are meant for robots

https://blog.frantic.im/all/todo-apps-are-meant-for-robots/

5 years ago

Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq

https://til.simonwillison.net/jq/extracting-objects-recursively

5 years ago

How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

https://hastyreader.com/how-to-summon-and-sell-your-soul-to-satan-and-other-devils/

5 years ago

Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus

https://arkadiyt.com/2021/07/25/scanning-your-iphone-for-nso-group-pegasus-malware/

5 years ago

I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43700153

5 years ago

Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09511

5 years ago

You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

https://medium.com/counterarts/you-are-not-lazy-or-undisciplined-you-are-experiencing-internal-resistance-755a02673aa9

5 years ago

Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure

https://github.com/Satsuoni/widevine-l3-guesser

5 years ago

Apple is now an antifragile company

https://tidbits.com/2021/07/30/apple-is-now-an-antifragile-company/

5 years ago

Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/vaccines-reopenings-and-worker-revolts-big-techs-contentious-return-to-the-office/

5 years ago

CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/new-co2-battery-will-make-wind-and-solar-dispatchable-at-an-unprecedented-low-price/2-1-1044755

5 years ago

Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime

https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-data-warrant

5 years ago

Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CUnionsForNamespaces

5 years ago

L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source

https://twitter.com/dildog/status/1421830165911556099

5 years ago

How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/sectors/2021/07/how-google-quietly-funds-europe-s-leading-tech-policy-institutes

5 years ago

MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows

https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype

5 years ago

On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words

https://lithub.com/kempt-couth-ruth-on-the-disappearing-antonyms-of-grumpy-words/

5 years ago

Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten

https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-ui

5 years ago

Ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars discovered off Sicily

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/28/ancient-roman-ship-discovered-off-coast-of-sicily

5 years ago

A wiper attack paralyzed the Iranian train system

https://labs.sentinelone.com/meteorexpress-mysterious-wiper-paralyzes-iranian-trains-with-epic-troll/

5 years ago

FBI Seized $900K from Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says

https://reason.com/2021/07/29/fbi-seized-900000-from-safe-deposit-box-on-pure-conjecture-federal-judge-says/

5 years ago

Google Cloud reported an operating loss of $5.6B in 2020

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/18/google_cloud_confirm_departure_of/

5 years ago

Show HN: Python Source Code Refactoring Toolkit via AST

https://github.com/isidentical/refactor

5 years ago

Jaipur’s Last Stand

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/jaipurs-last-stand

5 years ago

Sky News Australia has been suspended from YouTube after a review of old videos

https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/sky-news-australia-has-been-suspended-from-youtube-following-a-review-of-old-videos/news-story/ea8a1cb338fb2a7f236d4cf2a568baa2

5 years ago

Dysregulated oxalate metabolism is a therapeutic target in atherosclerosis

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(21)00833-0

5 years ago

Clusterboard A64 Insidious Reset Problem: Solved

https://ericdraken.com/a64-reset-problem/

5 years ago

Turkey has unveiled a stealth carrier-based unmanned aircraft program

https://eurasiantimes.com/killer-of-f-35-jets-us-dominance-of-5th-gen-fighter-aircraft-to-end-with-supersonic-stealthy-drones/

5 years ago

Creating a DOOM-inspired aesthetic with PlayCanvas

https://omarshehata.me/html/playcanvas-horror-aesthetic/

5 years ago

Kodak deletes Xinjiang photo from Instagram, vows to 'respect Chinese gov't'

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/21/kodak-deletes-xinjiang-photo-from-instagram-vows-to-respect-chinese-govt/

5 years ago

Blackjack Probabilities, Card Counting – Calculation and Simulation

https://easylang.online/apps/tut_blackj.html

5 years ago

U.S. Sees Ongoing Spike in Gun, Ammo Sales: 'I've Never Seen Anything Like It'

https://www.newsweek.com/us-sees-ongoing-spike-gun-ammo-sales-ive-never-seen-anything-like-it-1614952

5 years ago

Microsoft Office 2010: Can’t be activated anymore?

https://borncity.com/win/2021/07/29/microsoft-office-2010-keine-aktivierung-mehr/

5 years ago

Libraries can start processes too

https://mattmower.com/2021/08/01/libraries-can-start-processes-too/

5 years ago