top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-30

China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rolls-out-new-rules-minors-online-gaming-xinhua-2021-08-30/

5 years ago

The open calendar, task and note space is a mess

https://stevenvanbael.com/open-calendar-task-space-is-a-mess

5 years ago

Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-classical-music-streaming-service-primephonic/

5 years ago

Stop Waiting for Godot

https://itch.io/jam/stop-waiting-for-godot

5 years ago

If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?

https://betterprogramming.pub/if-software-engineering-is-in-demand-why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-a-software-engineering-job-c043a964e463

5 years ago

Facebook Is the AOL of 2021

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-is-the-aol-of-2021/

5 years ago

Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware

https://yingtongli.me/blog/2021/08/29/drm5-1.html

5 years ago

French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid

https://thehftguy.com/2021/08/30/french-appeal-court-affirms-decision-that-copyright-claims-on-gpl-are-invalid-must-be-enforced-via-contractual-dispute/

5 years ago

A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions

https://crontab.guru/

5 years ago

Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

https://github.com/rohit-px2/nvui

5 years ago

Writing Programs with Ncurses

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html

5 years ago

Walking increases spontaneous fluctuations in the brain

https://www.salon.com/2021/08/28/walking-and-spontaneous-fluctuations-brain/

5 years ago

Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content

https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/tree/main/model

5 years ago

European Union recommends halting non-essential travel from the U.S.

https://www.axios.com/eu-travel-restrictions-us-6f8f73f7-af1e-4614-a73e-46404ee0b085.html

5 years ago

Replay-based attack on Honda and Acura vehicles

https://github.com/HackingIntoYourHeart/Unoriginal-Rice-Patty

5 years ago

Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

https://www.thechiefmeat.com/guides/containers.html

5 years ago

Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/console/playdate-pulp-zero-to-video-game-in-60-seconds

5 years ago

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/

5 years ago

Software Development Waste

https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/08/29/software-development-waste.html

5 years ago

How do I turn off the “Try the new Safari” notification?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252412228

5 years ago

Photography technology has influenced what people consider a good picture

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/bad-photography-and-good-pictures/

5 years ago

FCC Temporary Waiver Permits Higher Symbol Rate Data for Hurricane Ida Traffic

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-grants-temporary-waiver-to-permit-higher-symbol-rate-data-transmissions-for-hurricane-ida-traffi

5 years ago

A Compass for the Politics of Collapse

https://write.as/conjure-utopia/a-compass-for-the-politics-of-collapse-a-short-straightforward-introduction

5 years ago

Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux

https://github.com/jashandeep-sohi/webcam-filters

5 years ago

How you play Spades is how you play life

https://pudding.cool/2021/08/spades

5 years ago

When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019)

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/

5 years ago

Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer

https://javahippie.net/software/business/2021/08/30/enterprise-software-killed-the-developer.html

5 years ago

The Fatiguing Effects of Camera Use in Virtual Meetings [pdf]

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2021-77825-003.pdf

5 years ago

Fibonacci Sphere

http://extremelearning.com.au/how-to-evenly-distribute-points-on-a-sphere-more-effectively-than-the-canonical-fibonacci-lattice/

5 years ago

NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html

5 years ago

Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007)

https://msfn.org/board/topic/109018-windows-98-in-dr-dos/?tab=comments#comment-721209

5 years ago

What Is the Most Free TLD?

https://slc.is/#The%20Best%20TLD%20is%20Not%20.com

5 years ago

How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210825-how-to-fight-microplastic-pollution-with-magnets

5 years ago

A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself

https://therecord.media/a-new-wave-of-hacktivists-is-turning-the-surveillance-state-against-itself/

5 years ago

Music Composition with Deep Learning: A Review

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12290

5 years ago

A Screeching Voice of the Minority

https://meta.ath0.com/2021/08/apple-csam-scanning/

5 years ago

Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/08/421316/struggling-learn-new-language-blame-it-your-stable-brain

5 years ago

Wild boars are able to open traps to free their fellows

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95682-4

5 years ago

8 Bits of history: My first game is still available on the internet

https://smackeyacky.blogspot.com/2021/08/8-bits-of-history-my-first-game-is.html

5 years ago

Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=44438

5 years ago

Show HN: A strongly-typed document DB that runs on any transactional KV store

https://github.com/losfair/RefineDB

5 years ago

The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux

https://tuxphones.com/pinenote-eink-linux-tablet-remarkable-alternative/

5 years ago

Building a Desktop Application for Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Aug/30/datasette-app/

5 years ago

How to Paint 50k Miles of Lines

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/26/arts/design/road-lines.html

5 years ago

New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd)

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2108.3/05470.html

5 years ago

Stanford researchers make rechargeable batteries that store 6x more charge

https://news.stanford.edu/2021/08/25/researchers-make-alkali-metal-chlorine-batteries-rechargeable/

5 years ago

Freeing Your Goats

https://hyperthings.garden/posts/2021-08-30/freeing-your-goats.html

5 years ago

Alternative Milks

https://blog.bramp.net/post/2021/04/03/alternative-milks/

5 years ago

Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers

https://github.com/liamg/darktile

5 years ago

In 2009, Two Nuclear Submarines Collided Under the Sea (2016)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/2009-two-nuclear-submarines-collided-under-the-sea-they-were-18690

5 years ago

Chaikin’s Algorithm: Drawing Curves

https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/08/chaikins-algorithm-drawing-curves/

5 years ago

Connection Strings Reference

https://www.connectionstrings.com/

5 years ago

EU states looking for MS Teams/O365 alternatives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353718

5 years ago

“I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve0TXM0VBiE

5 years ago

Gap acquires 3D fitting room startup Drapr

https://www.retaildive.com/news/gap-inc-acquires-3d-fitting-room-startup-drapr/605691/

5 years ago

The Unsolved Mystery of the D-Day Puzzles

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-d-day-puzzles

5 years ago

Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017)

https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/pen-plotter-1

5 years ago

Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)

http://www.herseyhiroshima.com/hiro.php

5 years ago

Burning Out and Finding Stability (2019)

https://destroytoday.com/blog/burning-out-and-finding-stability

5 years ago

Music streaming payouts comparison

https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream

5 years ago

Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard

https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-nanos-wireguard-vpn-gateway

5 years ago

The Oasis of Palmyra

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/home/oasis-palmyra

5 years ago

Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he doesn't own

https://github.com/krisives/elementary-os-extras/issues/1

5 years ago

Ask HN: Suspended by Google Domains

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28352704

5 years ago

Three Clocks Are Better Than One

https://www.tigerbeetle.com/post/three-clocks-are-better-than-one

5 years ago

Implementing a class with void*

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/classes/cs140/Notes/Running_Times/voidstar.html

5 years ago

Grokking Fenwick Trees

https://jornhub.dev/articles/fenwick-trees/

5 years ago

We Can’t Trust the Market with Scientific Knowledge

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/08/we-cant-trust-the-market-with-scientific-knowledge

5 years ago

Ask HN: Why does validating a user require 14000 files?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353387

5 years ago

What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'

https://warzel.substack.com/p/what-if-people-dont-want-a-career

5 years ago

China cuts children's online gaming to one hour

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58384457

5 years ago

Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28356047

5 years ago

Async Overloading

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/async-overloading/

5 years ago

eBPF: A curated list of projects related to eBPF

https://github.com/zoidbergwill/awesome-ebpf

5 years ago