top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-01

Linux on the Framework Laptop

https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop

4 years ago

579 upvotes – 256 comments

Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

https://twitter.com/benkrasnow/status/1433096367992295427

4 years ago

570 upvotes – 306 comments

The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-red-warning-light-on-richard-bransons-space-flight

4 years ago

476 upvotes – 251 comments

Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/spacex-slams-amazons-obstructionist-ploy-to-block-starlink-upgrade-plan/

4 years ago

443 upvotes – 264 comments

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods

https://github.com/containers/podman

4 years ago

421 upvotes – 184 comments

Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-vpn-completes-independent-security-audit-by-cure53/

4 years ago

407 upvotes – 188 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28380661

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 958 comments

How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security

https://ben.balter.com/2021/09/01/how-i-re-over-engineered-my-home-network/

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 198 comments

How to Study Effectively

https://psyche.co/guides/how-research-from-psychology-can-help-you-study-effectively

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 137 comments

The Sackler Family Wins Immunity from Future Opioid Lawsuits

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1031053251/sackler-family-immunity-purdue-pharma-oxcyontin-opioid-epidemic

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 247 comments

Bare metal Apple M1 Debian at 4K 60

https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1432927311058194436

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 90 comments

AI movie posters

https://noahveltman.com/aimovies/

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 112 comments

65k fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-01/california-college-financial-aid-scam-fake-students

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 288 comments

The goal of standards is to improve our future actions

https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/35-standards

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 111 comments

William Gibson is a literary genius

https://thewalrus.ca/why-william-gibson-is-a-literary-genius/

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 220 comments

The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines

https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-want-to-know-what-the-mcfuck-is-going-on-with-1847601805

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 151 comments

Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10860

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 122 comments

C# for Systems Programming

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 153 comments

UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-extradition-british-national-participation-online-film

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 185 comments

Dutch entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening multiple bank accounts

https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/01/entrepreneurs-avoiding-negative-interest-opening-multiple-bank-accounts

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 497 comments

Nuitka: An extremely compatible Python compiler

https://nuitka.net/

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 84 comments

AAS Journals Will Switch to Open Access

https://aas.org/press/aas-journals-open-access

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 43 comments

Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009)

https://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/depression.html

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 123 comments

Conduit Beta – Matrix chat server

https://conduit.rs/release-0-2-0/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 69 comments

Man can change his pupil size on command

https://www.livescience.com/man-can-control-pupil-dilation.html

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 150 comments

Improving Git protocol security on GitHub

https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 90 comments

Tardigrades Walk

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-take-videos-of-tardigrades-lumbering-to-work-out-why-they-walk-funny

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 29 comments

Helio Project: libre music composition software

https://helio.fm/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 41 comments

CSS Nesting Module

https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9236

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 71 comments

Google's New AI Photo Upscaling Tech Is Jaw-Dropping

https://petapixel.com/2021/08/30/googles-new-ai-photo-upscaling-tech-is-jaw-dropping/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 135 comments

The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-seniority-roller-coaster/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 197 comments

Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first-states-to-adopt-drivers-licenses-and-state-ids-in-wallet/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 226 comments

Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid deaths

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02337-5

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 85 comments

Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest

https://www.science.org/content/article/israel-s-covid-19-boosters-are-preventing-infections-new-studies-suggest

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 329 comments

Air-Gap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Radios

https://threatpost.com/air-gap-attack-turns-memory-wifi/162358/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 44 comments

Tyler Cowen is a curator of talent

https://kulesa.substack.com/p/tyler-cowen-is-the-best-curator-of

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 109 comments

Deno Deploy Beta 2

https://deno.com/blog/deploy-beta2

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 99 comments

Twitter.com's HTML, which is produced by React Native for Web, explained

https://giuseppegurgone.com/twitter-html

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 155 comments

The Descent to C (2013)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/cdescent/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 91 comments

Disassembling Jak and Daxter (2017)

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/disassembling-jak/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 29 comments

Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks

https://theovershoot.co/p/inequality-interest-rates-aging-and

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 182 comments

M1 Icestorm cores can still perform well

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/09/01/m1-icestorm-cores-can-still-perform-very-well/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 133 comments

YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify the age in EU (2020)

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-consistently-apply-age-restrictions/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 165 comments

An Overview of Docker Desktop Alternatives

https://matt-rickard.com/docker-desktop-alternatives/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 190 comments

Writing, technically

https://signalsandthreads.com/writing-technically/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 16 comments

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 16

http://vcfmw.org/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 60 comments

Supply Chain Shortages Continue Around the World. Get Used to It

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/business/supply-chain-shortages.html

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 208 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28380659

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 208 comments

Forward and Reverse Proxies Explained

https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/09/forward-and-reverse-proxies-explained.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Drink less, exercise more – advice on pandemic living from an 18th-century poem

https://theconversation.com/drink-less-exercise-more-and-take-in-the-air-sage-advice-on-pandemic-living-from-a-long-forgotten-and-very-long-18th-century-poem-166085

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 153 comments

Cooperative Package Management for Python

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/867657/0efafb319ce20e3e/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 65 comments

Documents ≠ Programs

https://mckinley.cc/blog/20210831.html

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 71 comments

Building a serverless email delivery service on AWS

https://medium.com/schibsted-engineering/building-a-serverless-email-delivery-service-on-aws-9269f55533a0

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Time Card and PTP on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/time-card-and-ptp-on-raspberry-pi-compute-module-4

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Wild cockatoos make their own cutlery sets

https://www.science.org/content/article/wild-cockatoos-make-their-own-cutlery-sets

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Reddit bans anti-vaccine subreddit r/NoNewNormal after site-wide protest

https://www.theverge.com/22652705/reddit-covid-misinformation-ban-nonewnormal-health-policies

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 101 comments

How narcissists climb the career ladder quickly

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210830-how-narcissists-climb-the-career-ladder-quickly

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 64 comments

The 'Dead-Internet Theory'

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 38 comments

Collatz-like behavior of Busy Beavers

https://www.sligocki.com/2021/07/17/bb-collatz.html

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Open-Source multi-dashboarding platform for teams and client reporting

https://github.com/chartbrew/chartbrew

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

I Helped Destroy People: disillusioned FBI agent leaked documents

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/magazine/fbi-terrorism-terry-albury.html

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Meta Assembly Language

https://mass.handmade.network/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Super Follows

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/super-follows

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 81 comments

With This CAD for Genomes, You Can Design New Organisms

https://spectrum.ieee.org/with-this-cad-for-genomes-you-can-design-new-organisms

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-complex-truth-about-junk-dna-20210901/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 61 comments

Post-Brexit immigration: mission accomplished?

https://sifted.eu/articles/uk-tech-immigration/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 168 comments

OpenBSD: Hibernate Time Reduced

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210831050932

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 29 comments

Japan finds stainless steel particles in suspended doses of Moderna vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/japan-finds-stainless-steel-particles-suspended-doses-moderna-vaccine-2021-09-01/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments
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