top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-31

Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22643800/apple-google-south-korea-app-store-payment-legislation-passes

4 years ago

1354 upvotes – 599 comments

Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-adblockers-missing-data

4 years ago

1214 upvotes – 681 comments

Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/docker_desktop_no_longer_free/

4 years ago

725 upvotes – 571 comments

My House

https://carltheperson.com/posts/my-house

4 years ago

633 upvotes – 230 comments

System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

4 years ago

553 upvotes – 437 comments

Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/

4 years ago

508 upvotes – 361 comments

The art of not taking things personally

https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-art-of-not-taking-things-personally-b7a8395ce172

4 years ago

451 upvotes – 166 comments

Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)

https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/tor-is-a-great-sysadmin-tool/

4 years ago

420 upvotes – 118 comments

Extreme Ironing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing

4 years ago

411 upvotes – 172 comments

Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22650751/apple-bans-pay-equity-slack-channel

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 325 comments

Why Erlang?

https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/why-erlang/

4 years ago

341 upvotes – 166 comments

A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos

https://samenright.com/2021/08/31/a-laymans-guide-to-recreational-mathematics-videos/

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 55 comments

South Korea will require Apple, Google to allow competing payment systems

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-apple-hit-in-south-korea-by-worlds-first-law-ending-their-dominance-over-app-store-payments-11630403335

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 2 comments

Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/

4 years ago

277 upvotes – 273 comments

Rugby: Head impact study shows cognitive decline after just one season

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/58369271

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 213 comments

Brooks, Wirth and Go

https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/brooks-wirth-go/

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 167 comments

You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones

https://css-tricks.com/you-want-enabling-css-selectors-not-disabling-ones/

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 112 comments

At the world's oldest social housing, rent hasn't changed since 1521

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/hazaras-at-risk-in-afghanistan-the-meaning-of-comirnaty-a-brief-history-of-poppers-nancy-drew-at-91-more-1.6155032/at-the-world-s-oldest-social-housing-rent-hasn-t-changed-since-1521-1.6155041

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 194 comments

Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

https://www.sturgisjournal.com/story/news/crime/2021/03/05/court-hearing-postponed-after-accused-found-same-house-witness/4587600001/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 167 comments

Judge in Nokia and Apple lawsuit owned Apple stock during proceedings

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/31/judge-in-nokia-and-apple-lawsuit-owned-apple-stock-during-proceedings

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 63 comments

Voila – From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards

https://voila.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 89 comments

Glean – System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code

https://glean.software/?open

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 81 comments

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate indoor air at worrying levels

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/31/pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-air-breathing

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 144 comments

Forest Service officials close all California national forests

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-30/officials-to-close-all-california-national-forests-a

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 219 comments

It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-keynote

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 94 comments

A visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation

https://gaussianbp.github.io/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack

https://stickerdoodle.app

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 39 comments

Journal of Controversial Ideas

https://www.journalofcontroversialideas.org/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 94 comments

So You Want to Study Philosophy

https://www.susanrigetti.com/philosophy

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 162 comments

The Winners of Remote Work

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/upshot/the-winners-of-remote-work.html

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 271 comments

The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

https://www.wired.com/story/asml-extreme-ultraviolet-lithography-chips-moores-law/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 101 comments

Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi

https://kevinboone.me/pi_minimal.html

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 60 comments

White House Launches US Digital Corps

https://www.fedscoop.com/white-house-launches-us-digital-corps/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 208 comments

Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/33-clinging-desperately-to-a-metaphor

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 108 comments

Startup Bootstrapping Plan

https://twitter.com/adam_keesling/status/1430219020419026945

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 32 comments

Reasonable Person Principle (2009)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~weigand/staff/

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 109 comments

Apollo 68080 – Motorola 680x0 High Performance Processor in FPGA

http://www.apollo-core.com/features.html

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 89 comments

More wind energy was installed in 2020 than any other energy source

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/land-based-wind-market-report-2021-edition-released

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 159 comments

Australian Police get online account takeover, data disruption powers

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/police-get-online-account-takeover-data-disruption-powers-569062

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 83 comments

Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions

https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 1 comments

Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-most-well-preserved-human-remains-pompeii-date-180978455/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 44 comments

Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors?

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/why-cant-we-identify-music-notes-well-colors-perfect-pitch-study-offers-clues

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 221 comments

Windows 11 available on October 5

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 307 comments

Remind HN: .com prices increase Sep 1, 2021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28362488

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 59 comments

A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015)

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/july-august-2015/one-remote-islands-battle-against-acid

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 34 comments

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 58 comments

Wild claims about K performance

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/kclaims.html

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

Collection of artwork made with the integer circle algorithm (Minsky circle)

https://www.onirom.fr/ica.html

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 7 comments

Adapting the OCaml Ecosystem for Multicore OCaml

https://watch.ocaml.org/videos/watch/playlist/7a4ad26a-b8c5-4588-bf2a-4b981fed87f2?playlistPosition=2

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 21 comments

The U.S. Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/camp-century-portable-nuclear-reactor

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 151 comments

PostgreSQL Subtransactions Considered Harmful

https://postgres.ai/blog/20210831-postgresql-subtransactions-considered-harmful

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 41 comments

GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021

https://thephilbert.io/2021/08/30/gcc-rust-monthly-report-9-august-2021/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 124 comments

Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses

https://susam.in/cafe/non-commercial-licenses-are-non-free-licenses.html

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 158 comments

Allbirds S-1 IPO

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653909/000162828021017824/0001628280-21-017824-index.htm

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366644

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 296 comments

Predictors of Nonseroconversion after SARS-CoV-2 Infection

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042_article

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 77 comments

A Classic RPG Made of Handcrafted Dioramas

https://www.theverge.com/games/2021/3/2/22309074/fantasian-diorama-rpg-apple-arcade-hironobu-sakaguchi

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Getting the maximum of your C compiler, for security

https://airbus-seclab.github.io/c-compiler-security/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/rfcs/0082_starnix?hl=en

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 134 comments

Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/81798.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 178 comments

Building solutions to problems that no one knows exist yet

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/solvingunknownproblems.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Amplitude (YC W12) IPO S1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1866692/000119312521260696/d143868ds1.htm

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

Intel's Lidar, face recognition, and tracking cameras will be discontinued

https://spectrum.ieee.org/intel-realsense

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

Notes Regarding Dupuis’ 1910 Elements of Astronomy [pdf]

https://gron.ca/math/dupuis_1910/dupuis.pdf

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

The Tesla Dojo Chip Is Impressive, but There Are Some Major Technical Issues

https://semianalysis.com/the-tesla-dojo-chip-is-impressive-but-there-are-some-major-technical-issues/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 107 comments

The Worst Businessman of the 18th Century BC (2018)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/05/11/meet-the-worst-businessman-of-the-18th-century/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments
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