top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-25

Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

https://github.com/marceloprates/prettymaps

5 years ago

982 upvotes – 74 comments

Burning out and quitting

https://mayakaczorowski.com/blogs/burnout

5 years ago

921 upvotes – 346 comments

OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/

5 years ago

690 upvotes – 1081 comments

OnlyFans suspends plan to ban sexually explicit content after outcry

https://www.axios.com/onlyfans-cancels-sexually-explicit-content-ban-172203d1-e505-4089-9b56-d2b225aef82e.html

5 years ago

559 upvotes – 1 comments

Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

https://www.theverge.com/22632213/joe-rogan-experience-spotify-exclusive-audience-reach

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 786 comments

An Introduction to JQ

https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 71 comments

We Hire Old People

https://relevantdb.com/careers.html

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 292 comments

U.S. drone pilot leaks footage reveals accidental killing of children and adults

https://eminetra.co.uk/u-s-drone-pilot-leaks-footage-reveals-accidental-killing-of-two-children-and-two-adults-in-afghanistan/663346/

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 243 comments

Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

https://thishashcollisionisnotporn.com

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 235 comments

A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical

https://github.com/roboflow-ai/neuralhash-collisions

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 294 comments

Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299053

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 320 comments

The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System

https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2021/08/23/floss-mobile-os-aug-2021/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 153 comments

Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

https://ubuntu.com/blog/happy-birthday-30-years-of-linux

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 91 comments

Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-08-25_hiring_waddlesplash/

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 105 comments

My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs

https://pqvst.com/2021/08/24/my-macbook-pro/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 477 comments

Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON

https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 66 comments

Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 91 comments

S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance

https://www.reuters.com/technology/skorea-parliament-committee-votes-curb-google-apple-commission-dominance-2021-08-25/

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 112 comments

Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

https://www.ft.com/content/7e878e72-38b2-427a-a325-6a419d9f1c88

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 455 comments

Turing Pi V2 is here

https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-v2-is-here/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 92 comments

Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhwA1vLEpU

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 103 comments

Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location

https://robertheaton.com/bumble-vulnerability/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 44 comments

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full.pdf

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 249 comments

Show HN: Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go

https://github.com/varbhat/exatorrent

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 108 comments

Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58327844

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 333 comments

Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository

https://www.jelmer.uk/fresh-builds.html

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 55 comments

Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy?

https://trevorklee.com/why-cant-we-just-give-steroids-to-people-with-muscular-dystrophy/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 121 comments

Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market

https://restofworld.org/2021/the-cryptocurrency-dons-of-beirut/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 87 comments

To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-22/editorial-sb9-sb10-california-housing

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 190 comments

Perceptual Illusions (2018)

https://nautil.us/blog/12-mind_bending-perceptual-illusions

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 34 comments

Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58315378

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 144 comments

The history of Google messaging apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 80 comments

I use Attrs instead of Pydantic

https://threeofwands.com/why-i-use-attrs-instead-of-pydantic/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 74 comments

Launch HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Teaching kids to read with the help of live actors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300640

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 92 comments

An analysis of Amazon Echo's network behavior

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13500

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

Data brokers sell access to the backbone of the internet

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 39 comments

Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf] (2013)

https://www.training.nih.gov/assets/Lab_Notebook_508_(new).pdf

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 47 comments

Kobol Team Is Pulling the Plug from “Helios64 Open Source NAS”

https://blog.kobol.io/2021/08/25/we-are-pulling-the-plug/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

Friendship ended with the garbage collector

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/friendship-ended-with-the-garbage-collector/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 137 comments

Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

https://webcrate.app

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 70 comments

Do vision transformers see like convolutional neural networks?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08810

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 42 comments

The Story of Playdate

https://panic.com/blog/the-story-of-playdate/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction

https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/sql-vs-nosql-is-the-wrong-distinction

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 62 comments

Jsc: My New Best Friend

https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/man-robbed-of-16-bitcoin-sues-young-thieves-parents/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 141 comments

A Cartrivision Player TV

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1423369057181454339

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

Sputnik V: fraudulent clinical trial data

https://forbetterscience.com/2021/08/24/sputnik-v-fraudulent-халтура/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 54 comments

Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86

https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/honeycomb-workstation/#overview

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: ReGit – A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation

https://github.com/WithGJR/regit-go

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Judge freezes UC Berkeley's student enrollment at 2020-21 levels

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/08/24/judge-freezes-uc-berkeleys-student-enrollment-at-2020-21-levels

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 104 comments

The wild pizzas of southern Italy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-15/the-wild-pizzas-of-southern-italy-have-to-be-seen-to-be-believed

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 79 comments

The leak that brought the H-bomb debate out of the cold

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2021/06/14/the-leak-that-brought-the-h-bomb-debate-out-of-the-cold/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming (2020)

https://www.2uo.de/deming/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awab316/6356504

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 80 comments

The Principles Underlying Radio Communication

https://archive.org/details/principlesunderl00unitrich

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

FCC proposes fining conspiracists $5.1M for voter suppression robocalls

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/fcc-jacob-wohl-voter-robocalls-506813

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 66 comments
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