top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-29

Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

5 years ago

1180 upvotes – 405 comments

MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking

https://ian.sh/markmonitor

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 99 comments

Train Wheels Are Cones

http://awesci.com/train-wheels-are-amazing/

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 174 comments

The complicated reality of doing what you love

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22620178/hobby-job-leisure-labor

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 183 comments

An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux

https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 64 comments

Hell Is Other REPLs

https://hyperthings.garden/posts/2021-06-20/hell-is-other-repls.html

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 234 comments

Summary After Four Months with Ada

https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/four-months-summary.html

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 175 comments

“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/worst-cloud-vulnerability-you-can-imagine-discovered-in-microsoft-azure/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28344952

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 472 comments

The Orbit of Planet Nine

https://findplanetnine.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-orbit-of-planet-nine.html

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 82 comments

Receiving FLEXlm Error -88,309: System Clock Has Been Set Back (2020)

https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Publisher-Knowledge-Base/Receiving-FLEXlm-Error-88-309-System-Clock-Has-Been-Set-Back/ta-p/5825

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 101 comments

Personal finance experts don’t get wealthy by following their own advice

https://larryludwig.com/all-personal-finance-experts-are-liars/

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 257 comments

I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos

https://ptrchm.com/blog/how-i-nearly-lost-all-my-photos/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 252 comments

iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/29/kuo-iphone-13-to-support-leo-satellite-communication-allowing-users-to-make-phone-calls-and-send-texts-without-cell-signal/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 272 comments

Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

https://thehelm.com/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 215 comments

Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/926613

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 170 comments

NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)

https://leosstemhacks.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/np-complete-3rd-grade-math-problems/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 182 comments

A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI

https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 124 comments

Programming, Math, Science: A list with links to useful resources

https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 16 comments

Open Source Illustrations Kit

https://illlustrations.co

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 25 comments

Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them

https://www.propublica.org/article/boys-in-custody-and-the-women-who-abuse-them

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 88 comments

Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-fake-animal-rescue-videos-have-become-a-new-frontier-for-animal-abuse

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 83 comments

Empty Epsilon: a fully open-source spaceship bridge simulator game

https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 46 comments

Big company tale: six months for a list and a button

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/28/big/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 85 comments

Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home

https://www.whio.com/news/trending/police-find-electronic-signal-jamming-device-inside-california-home/EUFEFSKWNZGDPJFWUBL7PD3V6Y/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 204 comments

Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1749437

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 94 comments

Colorado county's voting machines banned after security breach

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/12/1027225157/after-data-is-posted-on-conspiracy-website-colo-countys-voting-machines-are-bann

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 157 comments

Esperanto Champions the Efficiency of Its 1,092-Core RISC-V Chip

https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/08/27/esperanto-silicon-in-hand-champions-the-efficiency-of-its-1092-core-risc-v-chip/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 78 comments

How the pandemic has affected people’s perspective on travelling to work

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/28/seven-uk-workers-talk-about-travelling-work-commute-covid-pandemic

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 168 comments

In Go, pointers (mostly) don't go with slices in practice

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

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 95 comments

Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL

https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1145%25252F3446871.3469759/reader

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 126 comments

Why Facebook Is Suddenly Afraid of the FTC

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-facebook-is-suddenly-afraid-of-the-ftc

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 31 comments

Linux Kernel 5.14

https://lwn.net/Articles/867706/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

When Police Lie, the Innocent Pay. Some Are Fighting Back

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/us/false-police-statements.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 57 comments

Ruby on Rails: View Components, Storybook and Tailwind - a match made in heaven?

https://finnian.io/blog/view-components-storybook-tailwind-the-holy-trinity/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 43 comments

To China's chagrin, Japan-Taiwan talks could pave the way for closer ties

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/08/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-taiwan-relations-ldp/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

Racer Trash

https://racertrash.com/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

Arctic Adventure: A lost 1981 TRS-80 adventure game by Harry McCracken

https://www.arctic81.com/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Is Zoom Illegal in the EU? Unpacking the Hamburg DPA’s Decision

https://www.grcworldforums.com/gdpr/is-zoom-illegal-in-the-eu-unpacking-the-hamburg-dpas-decision/2384.article

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

A newfound biomolecule, consisting of RNA modified by sugars

https://news.stanford.edu/2021/05/17/stanford-study-reveals-new-biomolecule/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

Almost 600 Louisiana sites with toxic chemicals lie in Hurricane Ida's path

https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_85d4a426-0835-11ec-80b5-0b11ebddb24b.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Traintrackr – Live LED transit maps

https://www.traintrackr.co.uk

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Bhagavad Gita Android App for searching verses by topics like anxiety

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grewon.searchgita

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 65 comments

High blood pressure cases double in 30 years

https://taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2021/08/26/2003763267

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 116 comments

Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplicate files

https://github.com/m-manu/go-find-duplicates

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 53 comments

Code-First vs. Product-First

https://thezbook.com/code-first-vs-product-first/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany

https://www.reuters.com/world/afghan-minister-who-became-bicycle-courier-germany-2021-08-26/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 96 comments

Toyota halts all self-driving e-Palette vehicles after Olympic village accident

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota-halts-all-self-driving-e-pallete-vehicles-after-olympic-village-accident-2021-08-27/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015)

https://danluu.com/boring-languages/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 96 comments

8Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (2017)

https://goughlui.com/2017/05/30/experiment-8gb-usb-flash-drive-endurance-test/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: It seems like everyone is getting rich?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350228

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

https://www.voicera.co

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

The new chief chaplain at Harvard is an atheist

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/us/harvard-chaplain-greg-epstein.html

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 68 comments

5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09156

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

End to end text to speech system using gruut and onnx, 50 voices, 9 languages

https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple’s deal with Google is lucrative, but it's hard to square with its values

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/apple-just-traded-your-privacy-for-15-billion.html

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Book Recommendations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28345952

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments
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