top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-27

Arm China Has Gone Rogue

https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century

5 years ago

995 upvotes – 639 comments

Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers

https://www.axios.com/apple-settles-developer-class-action-c13bb308-daf3-4231-a399-ffd48b6b2c52.html

5 years ago

695 upvotes – 244 comments

Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

https://github.com/hecrj/iced/

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 179 comments

I hacked an office telephone to play Doom

https://neilbostian.github.io/#/doomphone

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

https://metameme.app/

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 217 comments

Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-authorities-say-overtime-996-policy-is-illegal-2021-08-27/

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 299 comments

Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier

https://zwischenzugs.com/2021/08/27/five-ansible-techniques-i-wish-id-known-earlier/

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 94 comments

Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28327660

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 152 comments

App store payments will have increased competition

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2021/08/27/app-store-payment-competition/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 282 comments

Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/08/28/why-san-franciscos-city-government-is-so-dysfunctional

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 401 comments

How does Google Authenticator work?

https://prezu.ca/post/2021-07-30-totp-1/

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 158 comments

My love-hate affair with technology

https://nolanlawson.com/2021/08/26/my-love-hate-affair-with-technology/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 141 comments

Mental health impacts of a big tech job

https://oilyraincloud.com/2021/08/16/mental-health-impacts-of-a-big-tech-job/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 182 comments

Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/26/apple-app-store-payment-settlement/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 61 comments

The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video]

https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.17.html

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 63 comments

Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-no-infection-parties

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 351 comments

Facebook “transparency report” turns out to be anything but

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/facebook-transparency-report-turns-out-to-be-anything-but.php

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 81 comments

IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ

https://tailscale.com/kb/1134/ipv6-faq/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 219 comments

Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/western-digital-confirms-speed-crippling-sn550-ssd-flash-change/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 92 comments

Some Reasons to Measure

https://danluu.com/why-benchmark/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 17 comments

Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 48 comments

For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades

https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/research/public-opinion-survey/first-time-half-americans-favor-defending-taiwan-if-china-invades

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 276 comments

What I'm Up to Now

https://martinfowler.com/articles/202107-what-doing-now.html

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 133 comments

Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim

https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 106 comments

Illustrated Redirection Tutorial

https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/redirection_tutorial

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 17 comments

The Semiconductor Heist of the Century

https://semianalysis.com/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century-arm-china-has-gone-completely-rogue-operating-as-an-independent-company-with-their-own-ip/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 2 comments

Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/08/26/delta-air-lines-delta-variant-covid/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 143 comments

Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense

https://interconnected.org/home/2021/08/27/data_sense

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 103 comments

SnakeOS: Bootable x86 snake game in Rust

https://github.com/trusch/snakeos

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 35 comments

Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company

https://theintercept.com/2021/08/27/enbridge-line-3-pipeline-police-training-intelligence/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 57 comments

Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/27/brussels-battles-old-prejudices-as-it-frees-unloved-river-senne-from-its-vault

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

Turning satellite imagery into wall art

https://ramblemaps.com/turning-satellite-imagery-into-wall-art

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 32 comments

Latency Sneaks Up on You

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/05/utilization.html

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 25 comments

An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object

https://searchvoidstar.tumblr.com/post/659634228574715904/an-amazing-error-message-if-you-put-more-than-2-24

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 89 comments

Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use

https://fedoramagazine.org/automatically-light-up-a-sign-when-your-webcam-is-in-use/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 29 comments

Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort

https://duckdb.org/2021/08/27/external-sorting.html

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 27 comments

Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58352098

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 342 comments

Hurricane Ida could be close to Cat 4, dump up to 20“ of rain in S.E. Louisiana

https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_a708d202-073b-11ec-9caa-0f909fa26fd7.html

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 153 comments

Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993)

https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 23 comments

Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326377-samsung-is-the-latest-ssd-manufacturer-cheating-its-customers?source=flipboard

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

The QSBS Tax Exemption: A Valuable Benefit for Startup Founders and Builders

https://www.brownadvisory.com/us/theadvisory/qsbs-tax-exemption-valuable-benefit-startup-founders-and-builders

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 52 comments

Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.6-released

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 60 comments

Adult Obesity Facts

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 220 comments

The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/the-74000-numbers-of-barclays-bank/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 108 comments

UK loses 83% of department stores since BHS collapsed

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58331168

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 156 comments

Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 38 comments

Launch HN: Lemonade Finance (YC S21) – Digital Bank for the African Diaspora

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329211

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 66 comments

First image of a black hole: a CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/first-ever-image-black-hole-cnrs-researcher-had-simulated-it-early-1979

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 35 comments

Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/science/ocean-bioluminescent-satellite.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards

https://charity.wtf/2021/08/09/notes-on-the-perfidy-of-dashboards/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 61 comments

Why observability requires a distributed column store

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-observability-requires-distributed-column-store/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

The problem of effects in Rust (2020)

https://without.boats/blog/the-problem-of-effects/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

One Week of Bugs (2014)

https://danluu.com/everything-is-broken/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming

https://survivingtomorrow.org/an-open-letter-to-airbnb-8b1b58b4ad33

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 90 comments

OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects

https://www.openshot.org/blog/2021/08/25/new_openshot_release_260/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code

https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys

https://jesseduffield.com/Type-Keys/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 74 comments

Being on-call is working. FULL STOP

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/pc02sc/being_oncall_is_working_full_stop/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Fundamental physics sees worlds in grains of sand and infinities in hours

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/28/fundamental-physics-is-humanitys-most-extraordinary-achievement

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 126 comments

Proxmox VE 7.0 Released

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-ve-7-0-released.92006/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/how-sf-tech-giants-are-navigating-a-successful-return-to-the-office/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

America’s response to 9/11 contributed to our national decline

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/08/27/how-americas-response-to-9-11-contributed-to-our-national-decline/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 48 comments

IEEE 754 round-off errors

https://yurichev.com/news/20210131_IEEE_754/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 58 comments

Some Vermonters turn to ayahuasca as a 'last resort' to heal

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/some-vermonters-turn-to-ayahuasca-as-a-last-resort-to-heal-their-bodies-and-minds/Content?oid=32812290

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 76 comments

The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets

https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-electromagnetic-force-of-fridge-magnets

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

The Dresden Job

https://www.gq.com/story/the-dresden-job

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

The radical power of the book index

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-radical-power-of-the-book-index-history-review

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Slack's Secret STDERR Messages

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-08-27/slack-crashes-secret-stderr.html

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

When correlation is better than causation

https://www.narrator.ai/blog/when-correlation-is-better-than-causation/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Database internals are becoming less important than developer experience

https://planetscale.com/blog/nonesql-all-the-devex

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 71 comments

Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/27/yc-grad-buoyant-wants-to-solve-middle-mile-delivery-with-cargo-airships/

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 70 comments

Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

https://mixpanel.com/blog/upsides-to-unshipping-the-art-of-removing-features-and-products/

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/26/windows_11_user_feedback/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 84 comments

The Battle of Blair Mountain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/battle-blair-mountain-largest-labor-uprising-american-history-180978520/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.16.21251535v3

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

ChaosDB: Unauthorized Privileged Access to Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

https://chaosdb.wiz.io/

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

EPA is falsifying risk assessments for dangerous chemicals, say whistleblowers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/27/epa-whistleblowers-falsifying-risk-assessments-dangerous-chemicals

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58343062

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 83 comments

Who Would Kidnap a Space Telescope?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-pirates/618268/

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

New evidence shows this uranium cube is likely relic of Nazi A-bomb program

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/forensic-tracking-could-verify-uranium-cube-came-from-nazi-nuclear-effort/

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 39 comments

When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]

https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=271115095026087012004098001108106006017000060055059029121029112023088077096031119125100029055040112124009075016079123071120103119082082087053120022023118001080067018048118087123006081016028097113126006080089092084009084124127019000127065111081086&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE

5 years ago

61 upvotes – 71 comments
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