top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-15

Introducing the PineNote

https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/

5 years ago

586 upvotes – 111 comments

T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach

https://www.reuters.com/article/t-mobile-us-data/update-1-t-mobile-investigating-claims-of-customer-data-breach-idUSL1N2PM0K7

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 192 comments

How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards

https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmarc

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 125 comments

OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aneK0TUUAfA

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 105 comments

The rise of the one-person unicorn

https://www.nothingventured.com/the-rise-of-the-one-person-unicorn/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 168 comments

MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine

https://tech.marksblogg.com/meilisearch-full-text-search.html

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 100 comments

SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec

http://ai.googleblog.com/2021/08/soundstream-end-to-end-neural-audio.html

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 103 comments

Programming Idioms

https://programming-idioms.org/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 98 comments

India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption

https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 281 comments

The Bullshit

https://walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 195 comments

San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/firebuffing/posts/715890382181744/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 164 comments

Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops?sort=sortBy&currentResultsLayoutType=grid

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 148 comments

Welcome to Nestflix

https://nestflix.fun/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 51 comments

What domain name to use for your home network

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/homenet-domain-name.html

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 168 comments

Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)

https://cscalfani.medium.com/why-is-learning-functional-programming-so-damned-hard-bfd00202a7d1

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 383 comments

React Renderer for Three.js

https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 131 comments

Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/08/05/bottled-water-is-3-500-times-worse-for-the-environment-than-tap-water-say-scientists

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 206 comments

The time Pepsi got sued for a $33M fighter jet

https://thehustle.co/leonard-v-pepsi-harrier-jet-lawsuit

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 168 comments

Porn Spam on Google Maps

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/08/porn-spam-on-google-maps/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 122 comments

You can list a directory containing 8M files, but not with ls

http://be-n.com/spw/you-can-list-a-million-files-in-a-directory-but-not-with-ls.html

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 128 comments

Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup

https://nauman.medium.com/my-rails-project-default-setup-a577677703d2

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 97 comments

Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-58192468

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off

https://burstable.ai

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 51 comments

Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django

https://blog.clubhouse.com/reining-in-the-thundering-herd-with-django-and-gunicorn/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 135 comments

What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?

https://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/08/01/what-can-be-learned-from-studying-long-gone-development-practices/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 138 comments

Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse

https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/taliban-approach-kabuls-outskirts-attack-north-afghan-city-20210814-p58isx.html

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 214 comments

Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style

https://superuser.com/a/1669549/9067

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 61 comments

How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68034271/how-can-i-get-this-8-year-old-vba-64-bit-compiler-bug-fixed

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 36 comments

Cap'n Proto 0.9

https://capnproto.org/news/2021-08-14-capnproto-0.9.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 36 comments

Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-58192468

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 28 comments

Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes

https://www.traveller.com.au/rearengine-jets-why-airlines-no-longer-use-rearengine-planes-h1uyli

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 70 comments

California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-california-season-permanent-state.html

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 184 comments

Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/12/22621957/facebook-giphy-deal-blocked-uk-regulator

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 38 comments

JAMMA Video Standard

http://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2021/08/14/exploring-jvs/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 23 comments

Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2021-08-15/veterans-push-medical-marijuana-us-south-2563514.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 78 comments

‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/14/weedkilling-robots-farming-pesticide-use-sustainable

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 39 comments

The Case for Optimism

https://www.warpnews.org/premium-content/kevin-kelly-the-case-for-optimism/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 94 comments

Afghan President Ghani relinquishes power, Taliban form interim gov't

https://www.dailysabah.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-president-ghani-relinquishes-power-taliban-form-interim-govt

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 164 comments

Why query planning for streaming systems is hard

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/why-query-planning-for-streaming-systems-is-hard

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 10 comments

Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/14/case-of-the-mystery-sea-snakes-why-are-reptiles-washing-up-on-new-zealands-shores

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Debian 11 “Bullseye” Released

https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

Linux Kernel Defence Map

https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/linux-kernel-defence-map

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/books/review/fernando-pessoa-biography-richard-zenith.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

The best books on assassinations

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/assassination-michael-burleigh/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-10th-birthday-aws-identity-and-access-management/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

The Duke Mansion Mystery

https://heatinghelp.com/dead-men-tales/the-duke-mansion-mystery/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

Vieb – Vim Inspired Electron Browser

https://vieb.dev

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

Progress Quest

http://progressquest.com

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-bagram-e1ed33fe0c665ee67ba132c51b8e32a5

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 120 comments

Loom: Project Loom Early-Access Builds

https://jdk.java.net/loom/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 76 comments

Edward de Bono Obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/10/edward-de-bono-obituary

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years

https://laurajedeed.medium.com/afghanistan-meant-nothing-9e3f099b00e5

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 93 comments

A man growing lettuce for space station salads

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210810-the-man-growing-lettuce-for-space-station-salads

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

LinuxPhoneApps

https://alpha.linuxphoneapps.org/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

MacKenzie Scott’s Money Bombs Are Single Handedly Reshaping America

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-mackenzie-scott-donations/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 105 comments

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky decides to allow employees to work remotely for good

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/08/02/linked-in-permanent-remote-work.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Boeing to ground Starliner indefinitely until valve issue solved

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/boeing-to-ground-starliner-indefinitely-until-valve-issue-solved/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

South Park creators say they’ve reached agreement to buy Casa Bonita

https://krdo.com/news/2021/08/13/south-park-creators-say-theyve-reached-agreement-to-buy-casa-bonita/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

As cargo shipments boom, ship strikes imperil whales worldwide

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-08-05/how-cargo-cruise-ships-contribute-to-whale-deaths

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

Today I made one of the most important discoveries of my PhD

https://twitter.com/astro_katross/status/1425794227988877322

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

The Rooms Where It Happened

https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/conflict-resolution/the-rooms-where-it-happened/

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments
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