top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-16

Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

https://github.com/jpochyla/psst

4 years ago

1138 upvotes – 422 comments

Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game

https://www.widelands.org/

4 years ago

713 upvotes – 177 comments

Economic costs of war

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic

4 years ago

666 upvotes – 573 comments

Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

https://twitter.com/FlickType/status/1427292830523744257

4 years ago

503 upvotes – 164 comments

Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition

https://alda.io/tutorial/

4 years ago

490 upvotes – 120 comments

Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, Dmarc, and SPF

https://www.alexblackie.com/articles/email-authenticity-dkim-spf-dmarc/

4 years ago

480 upvotes – 119 comments

Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secret-terrorist-watchlist-with-2-million-records-exposed-online/

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 252 comments

T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d4dw/t-mobile-confirms-it-was-hacked

4 years ago

432 upvotes – 251 comments

U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-opens-formal-safety-probe-into-tesla-autopilot-crashes-2021-08-16/

4 years ago

391 upvotes – 486 comments

Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping

https://www.techradar.com/news/many-americans-arent-aware-theyre-being-tracked-with-facial-recognition-while-shopping

4 years ago

374 upvotes – 359 comments

The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2011/09/the_inconsistency_of_arithmeti.html

4 years ago

368 upvotes – 164 comments

A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics

https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/08/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/

4 years ago

365 upvotes – 105 comments

LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

https://leafletjs.com/

4 years ago

361 upvotes – 87 comments

Why is it so hard to be rational?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/why-is-it-so-hard-to-be-rational

4 years ago

354 upvotes – 295 comments

TikTok requests access to devices on local network

https://twitter.com/crobertsbmw/status/1427102606753550337

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 152 comments

Google Groups kills RSS support without notice

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/google_groups_rss/

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 128 comments

Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/16/guantanamo-detainee-mansoor-adayfi

4 years ago

309 upvotes – 341 comments

How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDZzyi-EaLQ

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 91 comments

Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/intels-arc-gpus-will-compete-with-geforce-and-radeon-in-early-2022/

4 years ago

261 upvotes – 208 comments

Plaid settled $58M lawsuit over alleged consumer data sharing

https://finledger.com/2021/08/09/plaid-settled-58-million-lawsuit-over-alleged-consumer-data-sharing/

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 147 comments

Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes (2018)

https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu//2018/01/11/index-baselines/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 39 comments

Endless Sky: an open source space trading and combat game

https://endless-sky.github.io/

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 74 comments

Beyond All Reason: Open-source RTS reimagining Total Annihilation

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 101 comments

Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?

https://austinvernon.eth.link/blog/softwareisprocess.html

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 207 comments

Something is killing gray whales

https://www.latimes.com/projects/gray-whale-deaths-how-humans-climate-change-hurt-oceans/

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 136 comments

To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)

https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 110 comments

Go 1.17 Release Notes

https://golang.org/doc/go1.17

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 218 comments

Zx 3.0

https://github.com/google/zx/releases/tag/3.0.0

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 163 comments

Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago

https://www.dw.com/en/nokias-smartphone-25-years-since-it-changed-the-world/a-58841329

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200727

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 256 comments

Indian inventor dies in homemade helicopter accident

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/asia/2021/08/12/indian-inventor-dies-in-homemade-helicopter-accident/

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 170 comments

Swiping left on magnetic stripes

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-stripe/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 310 comments

NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functional as an IDE

https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 82 comments

Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/business/media/red-ventures-digital-media.html

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 134 comments

Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28197537

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 325 comments

Computer simulation helps test land management techniques to help bumblebees

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_872443_en.html

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 28 comments

Inflation wiped out America's pay raises

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/10/business/raises-inflation-wages/index.html

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 167 comments

Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210816.html

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 50 comments

0 A.D. A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

https://play0ad.com/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 15 comments

Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design

https://voxely.net/blog/object-oriented-entity-component-system-design/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 112 comments

Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters

https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 20 comments

Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2021/07/12/moving-avoids-california-tax-not-so-fast

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 193 comments

Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 56 comments

Rustdoc résumé

https://yozhgoor.github.io/yohan_boogaert_1995/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 128 comments

Historian suspended by Facebook after sharing document by Goebbels

https://labas.livejournal.com/1238249.html

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 53 comments

Antigravity.py (2020)

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/antigravity.py

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 43 comments

Carolyn Shoemaker has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_S._Shoemaker

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 7 comments

Video Game Pricing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 95 comments

Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28199089

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 57 comments

TSMC’s Speciality Technologies

https://techtaiwan.com/20210816/tsmc-speciality-technology/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-12-EC2-boot-time-benchmarking.html

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 57 comments

Ford Mustang Mach-E Was Norway’s Best-Seller in May – Report

https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a36608683/ford-mustang-mach-e-norway-may-best-seller/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 152 comments

Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

https://prestonbyrne.com/2021/08/15/did-america-just-lose-afghanistan-because-of-whatsapp/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-inflatable-robotic-amputees-real-time-tactile.html

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 7 comments

Go 1.17 Is Released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.17

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 1 comments

Warzone 2100: A Free and Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game

https://wz2100.net/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 6 comments

Lab-made dairy products are now a reality

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133470-900-real-milk-no-cows-needed-lab-made-dairy-products-are-now-a-reality/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 81 comments
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