top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-03

Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/

4 years ago

1401 upvotes – 838 comments

Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-cookie.html

4 years ago

962 upvotes – 345 comments

Web-based editor

https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-codespaces/web-based-editor

4 years ago

564 upvotes – 301 comments

Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows11-empty-taskbar.html

4 years ago

447 upvotes – 425 comments

Rejected internal job applicants are twice as likely to quit

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/08/rejected-internal-applicants-twice-likely-quit

4 years ago

446 upvotes – 223 comments

The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just make more?

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-chip-production-why-hard-to-make-semiconductors/

4 years ago

409 upvotes – 443 comments

How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players

https://www.worldql.com/posts/2021-08-worldql-scalable-minecraft/

4 years ago

401 upvotes – 142 comments

Software Piracy and IP Management: Strategic Responses to Imitation

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3912074

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 122 comments

OpenMoji: Open-source emojis

https://openmoji.org

4 years ago

356 upvotes – 67 comments

Operations is not Developer IT

https://matduggan.com/operations-is-not-developer-it/

4 years ago

354 upvotes – 329 comments

The NSA's Backdoor in Dual EC

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1433470109742518273

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 90 comments

MIT Mathlets

https://mathlets.org/mathlets/

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one

https://notegarden.web.app/

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 123 comments

GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment

https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2021/09/github-copilot-generated-40-percent-insecure-code.html

4 years ago

261 upvotes – 155 comments

Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout

https://technical.ly/2021/08/30/vacation-employee-burnout/

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 232 comments

Did IBM Just Preview the Future of Caches?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16924/did-ibm-just-preview-the-future-of-caches

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 89 comments

Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces

https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 84 comments

RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent more potatoes, rice

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210722112953.htm

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 168 comments

The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-fungal-mind-on-the-evidence-for-mushroom-intelligence

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 158 comments

Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft from stores

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-home-depot-theft-organized-crime-11630505851

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 325 comments

RSA chief believed cryptographers’ warnings on Dual EC DRBG lacked merit (2014)

http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.com/2014/02/six-cryptographers-whose-work-on-dual.html

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 41 comments

SQLite-TUI: A TUI for viewing SQLite databases, written in Go

https://github.com/mathaou/sqlite-tui

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 42 comments

US Air Force chief software officer quits

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/03/usaf_chief_software_officer_quits_angry_post/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 107 comments

Keyboard Latency (2017)

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 114 comments

Apple Exploring RISC-V, Hiring RISC-V ‘High Performance’ Programmers

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-looking-for-risc-v-programmers

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 118 comments

Tmpfs inode corruption: introducing inode64

https://chrisdown.name/2021/07/02/tmpfs-inode-corruption-introducing-inode64.html

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 27 comments

Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3 and ReVC

https://torrentfreak.com/take-two-sues-enthusiasts-behind-gta-fan-projects-re3-revc-210903/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 90 comments

Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanford study shows

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-masks-covid-19.html

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 228 comments

Font licensing is ill, please help heal it

https://fontsarena.com/blog/font-licensing-is-ill-please-help-heal-it/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 123 comments

U.S. labor agency investigating two complaints from Apple workers

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-national-labor-relations-board-investigating-two-complaints-apple-workers-2021-09-02/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 150 comments

I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine

https://rachsmith.com/i-completely-ignored-the-front-end-development-scene-for-6-months-it-was-fine/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 154 comments

A new way to detect ‘deepfake’ picture editing

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/06/07/a-new-way-to-detect-deepfake-picture-editing/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 88 comments

Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-09-01/amazons-answer-to-delivery-driver-shortage-recruit-pot-smokers

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 271 comments

Renaissance executives agree to pay around $7B to settle dispute with IRS

https://www.reuters.com/article/renaissance-technologies-llc-irs/update-3-renaissance-executives-agree-to-pay-around-7-bln-to-settle-tax-dispute-with-irs-source-idUSL4N2Q43IN

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 86 comments

Windows 11: a survey of text boxes

https://sjmulder.nl/2021/textboxes/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 144 comments

Pavel Durov: Most studies show humanity is now less free than several years ago

https://t.me/durov/165

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask HN: How to negotiate stock options?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28401655

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 85 comments

Stanford researchers develop an engineered 'mini' CRISPR genome editing system

https://news.stanford.edu/2021/09/03/researchers-develop-hypercompact-crispr/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 16 comments

Mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence CVE-2021-26084

https://twitter.com/CNMF_CyberAlert/status/1433787671785185283

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

What the Heck Happened to Rollerblading? (2017)

https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/what-the-heck-happened-rollerblading.htm

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 201 comments

PC-86-DOS

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-86-dos/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 14 comments

Mushroom Cultivation Automation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41Wy5ZF4O8

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: What type of personal NAS would you recommend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405695

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 111 comments

Hardest amorphous material can scratch even diamond

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/hardest-amorphous-material-can-scratch-even-diamond/4014257.article

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

Using PostgreSQL’s JSONB for NoSQL (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4zp-XrZ2s

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 42 comments

You’ve Never Seen the Opioid Crisis Like This Before: A Review of Empire of Pain

https://nursingclio.org/2021/08/12/youve-never-seen-the-opioid-crisis-like-this-before-a-review-of-empire-of-pain/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 117 comments

What Is an OLAP Cube? An Exhaustive Explainer

https://www.holistics.io/blog/what-is-an-olap-cube-an-exhaustive-explainer/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

DARPA grant to work on sensing and stimulating the brain noninvasively [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXuOuXZEeo

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

India’s DNA Covid vaccine is a world first – more are coming

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02385-x

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 64 comments

A brief overview of IBM’s new 7 nm Telum mainframe CPU

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/ibms-telum-mainframe-processor-introduces-new-cache-architecture/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

http://webtypography.net/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

UK scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58438669

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 97 comments

Traceroute(8) Gets Speed Boost

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903094704

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Please don’t theme our apps

https://stopthemingmy.app/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 80 comments

McDonald’s unreliable ice cream machines reportedly under FTC investigation

https://www.ktvu.com/news/mcdonalds-unreliable-ice-cream-machines-reportedly-under-ftc-investigation

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

Linux block devices: hints for debugging and new developments

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/linux-block-devices-hints-debugging-and-new-developments

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

Finger counting gives away your nationality

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210902-how-finger-counting-gives-away-your-nationality

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 152 comments
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