top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-14

Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021

https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/

5 years ago

596 upvotes – 183 comments

Debian 11

https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/

5 years ago

579 upvotes – 285 comments

Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors

https://startuppitch.substack.com/p/nail-your-startup-pitch-use-pixars

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 188 comments

Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/08/14/10x10/

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 174 comments

Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads

https://ticotimes.net/2021/08/11/costa-rica-signs-law-to-attract-digital-nomads

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 252 comments

Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead

https://hackernoon.com/nerds-dont-respond-to-marketing-try-technical-documentation-instead

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 238 comments

Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body problem

http://phys.technion.ac.il/en/about/research-bits/on-chaos-drunks-and-a-solution-to-the-chaotic-three-body-problem-the-research-of-yonadav-barry-ginat-and-hagai-perets

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 246 comments

macOS in Svelte

https://macos.vercel.app/

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 143 comments

AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses

https://github.com/seligman/aws-ip-ranges

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 271 comments

I hate almost all software (2011)

https://tinyclouds.org/rant.html

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 247 comments

Amazon will monitor workers' keystrokes to 'combat data theft'

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/amazon-will-monitor-workers-keystrokes-to-combat-data-theft-privacy-spying-surveillance

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 205 comments

Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042911/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 298 comments

Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/14/facebook-research-disinformation-politics

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 90 comments

Where does the plastic in oceans come from?

https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 180 comments

Tapedeck.org

http://tapedeck.org/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 70 comments

Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal

https://thehosk.medium.com/software-development-cannot-be-automated-because-its-a-creative-process-with-an-unknown-end-goal-2d4776866808

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 195 comments

Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA

https://www.uu.se/en/news/article/?id=17306&typ=artikel&lang=en

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 112 comments

Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623354/facebook-instagram-algorithm-watch-research-legal-threat

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 33 comments

Amiga Music Preservation

http://amp.dascene.net/home.php

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 74 comments

Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210814.html

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 59 comments

Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVtA-ue-x0

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 43 comments

Black Hat USA 2021 Review

https://l3ouu4n9.github.io/post/learningnotes/2021-08-13-black-hat-usa-2021-english/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 28 comments

Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018)

https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000f65h/executive

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 79 comments

home.netscape.com in 1997

https://web.archive.org/web/19970220012313/http://home.netscape.com:80/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: My friend made it big. How to handle?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28179542

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 227 comments

The uncanny absence of nihilism

https://meaningness.com/nihilism-is-not-an-ism

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 120 comments

The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t

https://www.howtogeek.com/748444/the-eu-wants-a-universal-mobile-charger-but-apple-doesnt/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 151 comments

Canada to require vaccinations for air and train passengers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-mandatory-vaccinations-1.6140131

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 157 comments

GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/354

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 52 comments

Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)

https://www.macadie.net/2019/08/11/thoughts-on-lisp-and-racket/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 123 comments

25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0

https://twitter.com/hadip/status/1426587396343099397

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 83 comments

Unifying iPadOS and macOS

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/unifying-ipados-and-macos/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 215 comments

The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone

https://www.thelightphone.com/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 157 comments

Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)

https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Progress Beats Perfect

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/08/progress-beats-perfect.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

Canada's awful new proposals on “harmful” content

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#no-canada

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

Making 100 transistors silicon integrated circuit chips in your garage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 8 comments

D2X-XL – an OpenGL modification of the classic video game Descent 2

https://www.descent2.de/index.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 52 comments

AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective

https://www.singlestore.com/blog/a-programmers-perspective/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 55 comments

Jury awards Optis $300M in second patent trial against Apple

https://www.reuters.com/technology/jury-awards-optis-300-million-second-patent-trial-against-apple-2021-08-13/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 80 comments

What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition

https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2021/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 62 comments

Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app

https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/08/not-important-enough-1password-abandons-its-native-mac-app/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

How to compare two PDF documents

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/08/14/how-to-compare-two-pdf-documents/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60867-w

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

Avoiding Founder Burnout

https://waseem.substack.com/p/avoiding-founder-burnout

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

Large-Scale Automated Source Code Refactoring with OpenRewrite

https://docs.openrewrite.org/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28183901

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 61 comments

Compiling C Programs Into “Mov” Instructions (And Only “Mov” Instructions)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/the-perl-foundation-is-fragmenting-over-code-of-conduct-enforcement/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 88 comments

Root cause of failure, root cause of success

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/08/13/root-cause-of-failure-root-cause-of-success/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 49 comments

BPF Isn't Just About Speed (2020)

https://pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2020/09/29/bpf-isnt-just-about-speed.html

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 0 comments

Solving the double (quintuple) declaration Problem in GraphQL Applications

https://wundergraph.com/blog/solving_the_double_quintuple_declaration_problem_in_graphql_applications_how_to_not_repeat_yourself

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me

https://believermag.com/ghosts/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 108 comments

YAML and Configuration Files

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

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 93 comments

A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Alf 2: Collision Detection Is Hard, Blog Posts Are Harder

https://nicole.express/2021/alf-2-alf-harder.html

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments
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