top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-07

Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

https://bonsaibrowser.com

5 years ago

1070 upvotes – 226 comments

Htmlq: like jq, but for html

https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq

5 years ago

961 upvotes – 166 comments

My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/My%20%C2%A34%20a%20month%20server%20can%20handle%204.2%20million%20requests%20a%20day

5 years ago

781 upvotes – 452 comments

Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2021/09/02/australias-new-mass-surveillance-mandate/

5 years ago

763 upvotes – 861 comments

ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/

5 years ago

681 upvotes – 343 comments

Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1034556269/red-roulette-reveals-the-inside-of-chinas-wealth-making-machine

5 years ago

590 upvotes – 291 comments

MangaDex infrastructure overview

https://mangadex.dev/mangadex-v5-infrastructure-overview/

5 years ago

567 upvotes – 230 comments

The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

https://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP/status/1434952628337795072

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 430 comments

Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/three-near-identical-boris-vishnevskys-on-st-petersburg-election-ballot

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 164 comments

Unity patents ECS

https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=10599560

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 160 comments

Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/misbehaving-microsoft-teams-ad-brings-down-the-entire-windows-11-desktop

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 192 comments

Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 83 comments

Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster

https://theprint.in/world/how-sri-lankas-overnight-flip-to-total-organic-farming-has-led-to-an-economic-disaster/728414/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 221 comments

Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library

https://libwebsockets.org/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 64 comments

Netflix is not a tech company (2019)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/7/31/Netflix

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 304 comments

Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language

https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 118 comments

Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarre floating point bug

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/09/07/dolphin-progress-report-august-2021/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

https://www.xirva.org

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 73 comments

John Carmack on Hiring

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1435307747470454787

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 172 comments

Firefox 92

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/92.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 121 comments

El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-official-currency-first-country-rcna1910

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 369 comments

Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 190 comments

Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

https://www.fastcompany.com/90670635/ex-googlers-raise-40-million-to-democratize-natural-language-ai

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 122 comments

James Webb Space Telescope launch media kit [pdf]

https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/science/Webb-LaunchKit_EN.pdf

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 127 comments

Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/iap-desktop

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 88 comments

Legend

https://legendapp.com/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 77 comments

Crafting “Crafting Interpreters” (2020)

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafting-interpreters/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 17 comments

Companies that are avoiding hiring in Colorado

https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 189 comments

Looking into Odin and Zig

https://ayende.com/blog/194466-A/looking-into-odin-and-zig-my-notes

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58462511

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 252 comments

The operating system: should there be one? (2013) [pdf]

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.715.9197&rep=rep1&type=pdf

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 202 comments

DeepFaceLive: Live Deep Fake

https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 40 comments

Spice.ai – Open-source, time series AI for developers

https://blog.spiceai.org/posts/2021/09/07/introducing-spice.ai-open-source-time-series-ai-for-developers/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 39 comments

Rust programs written entirely in Rust

https://blog.sunfishcode.online/rust-programs-entirely-in-rust/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 56 comments

Low Cost Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Router Board

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/08/30/banana-pi-bpi-r2-pro-5-port-gigabit-ethernet-router-board-rockchip-rk3568/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 94 comments

OpenSSL 3.0

https://www.openssl.org/news/cl30.txt

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 54 comments

A soft, wearable brain–machine interface

https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-soft-wearable-brain-machine-interface

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 59 comments

“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.”

https://miles.land/posts/corporate-open-source/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 49 comments

Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking

https://www.economist.com/business/intels-turnaround-and-the-future-of-chipmaking/21804288

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 147 comments

Raspberry Pi Nixie Atomic Clock

https://github.com/will127534/RaspberryPiAtomicNixieClock/wiki

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 31 comments

Commodore 64 Ads from the 1980s

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/commodore-64-ads-from-the-1980s-still

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 79 comments

SBCL: Assembly code breadboard (2014)

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 4 comments

“You don't need this overengineered goo for your project.”

https://twitter.com/FransBouma/status/1434903696048070659

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 101 comments

Ford Hires Away Executive Leading Apple’s Car Project

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-07/ford-is-said-to-hire-away-executive-leading-apple-s-car-project

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 214 comments

Cannabis use and myocardial infarction in young adults: a cross-sectional study

https://www.cmaj.ca/content/193/35/E1377

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 153 comments

Linux implementation of Homa, a protocol to replace TCP for low-latency RPC

https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/08/29/a-linux-kernel-implementation-of-the-homa-transport-protocol.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard

https://theair.substack.com/p/why-covid-is-airborne-history

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 83 comments

WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them

https://gizmodo.com/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages-1847629241

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments

Very Weird Solicitation Alert

https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2021/09/very-weird-solicitation-alert-monica.html

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Big Brothers Has Privatized

https://javani.substack.com/p/big-brothers-has-privatized

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 79 comments

ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

A VGA monitor may be easier to repair than you think

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/09/06/how-to-repair-vga-monitor-flatron-w1934s/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 119 comments

Fantasy Cartography: Just Add Something Blotchy

https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2018/10/fantasy-cartography-just-add-something.html

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 13 comments

Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (1997)

https://www.nationalboard.org/Index.aspx?pageID=164&ID=226

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 47 comments

Swap on HDD: Does placement matter?

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1110

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 92 comments

Nuclear Weapon Archive (1994-2020)

https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

JUXT Clojure Radar 2021

https://www.juxt.pro/radar

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Intel CEO: Clients Want Custom x86-Based SoCs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-pat-gelsinger-clients-want-custom-x86-socs

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 86 comments

The Basics of Apache Kafka

https://www.pankajtanwar.in/blog/the-basics-you-need-to-know-about-kafka-graphic-explanation-ahead

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2B WhatsApp Users

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Art Gallery Datasets

https://www.artnome.com/art-data

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments
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