top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-10

Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-ruling-injunction-judge-court-app-store

4 years ago

Windy.com

https://windy.com

4 years ago

Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

4 years ago

Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/10/google-underpaid-workers-illegal-pay-disparity-documents

4 years ago

A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl

https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui

4 years ago

Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

https://medusa-commerce.com

4 years ago

Problems with Oracle SQL

https://codingtofreedom.com/oracle-sql-is-the-devil/

4 years ago

Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-wide-ranging-solarwinds-probe-sparks-fear-corporate-america-2021-09-10/

4 years ago

Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1436027395115393024

4 years ago

Ask HN: How Do You Learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482726

4 years ago

Write More, but Shorter

https://blog.kewah.com/2021/write-more-but-shorter/

4 years ago

Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)

https://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-common-bad

4 years ago

We still believe in private offices (2015)

https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/01/16/why-we-still-believe-in-private-offices/

4 years ago

Libreboot: Freedom-Respecting Boot Firmware

https://libreboot.org/

4 years ago

A Summary of Electronics

https://electroagenda.com/en/a-summary-of-electronics/

4 years ago

Squats can boost brain activity [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09v8wyh/how-squats-can-boost-your-brain

4 years ago

Ask HN: Books that teach you programming languages via systems projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478751

4 years ago

Work on interesting problems. Not interesting tech

https://ruky.me/2021/09/10/work-on-interesting-problems-not-interesting-technologies/

4 years ago

Apple fires engineering manager for allegedly leaking information

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22666049/apple-fires-senior-engineering-program-manager-ashley-gjovik-for-allegedly-leaking-information

4 years ago

Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/index-bloat-reduced-in-postgresql-v14/

4 years ago

Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/how-one-tight-knit-circle-of-internet-troublemakers-convinced-professional-journalists-they-were-ac05459aa4c5

4 years ago

PalmOS on Raspberry Pi

https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2021/04/29/palmos-on-raspberry-pi/

4 years ago

A stranger secretly lived in my home

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/10/experience-a-stranger-secretly-lived-in-my-home

4 years ago

Coalton: How to Have Our (Typed) Cake and (Safely) Eat It Too, in Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/

4 years ago

A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then police raided his house

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-german-politician-police-raid/

4 years ago

Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)

https://www.oism.org/nwss/

4 years ago

Did AS8003 just disappear?

https://www.kentik.com/blog/wait-did-as8003-just-disappear/

4 years ago

The Future Shape of Ruby Objects

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/rubykaigi21/

4 years ago

TrackerControl

https://trackercontrol.org/

4 years ago

Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58510594

4 years ago

JSON Schema bundling formalised

https://json-schema.org/blog/posts/bundling-json-schema-compound-documents

4 years ago

Clearing up Myths about Ada

https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/clearing-the-air.html

4 years ago

The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (2015)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-alternate-universe-of-soviet-arcade-games

4 years ago

Using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering you like (2020)

https://www.michellelim.org/writing/stop-using-frontend-backend/

4 years ago

Why that Thunderbolt add-in card doesn't work properly in your unsupported PC

http://www.mattmillman.com/why-that-thunderbolt-add-in-card-doesnt-work-properly-in-your-unsupported-pc/

4 years ago

A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn

https://mesonstars.com/inteteresting/they-find-a-second-hexagon-in-the-stratosphere-of-saturn/

4 years ago

WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf]

https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp_Security_Encrypted_Backups_Whitepaper.pdf

4 years ago

YOLOv5 on CPUs: Sparsifying to Achieve GPU-Level Performance

https://neuralmagic.com/blog/benchmark-yolov5-on-cpus-with-deepsparse/

4 years ago

Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/why-dont-the-french-celebrate-lafayette

4 years ago

POW Captcha: a lightweight, self-hosted proof-of-work captcha

https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/pow-captcha

4 years ago

Eyeway's Retina-Tracking Foveated Display

https://kguttag.com/2021/09/07/eyeway-vision-part-3-analysis/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Who was the most competent person you worked or collaborated with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483242

4 years ago

I want a better shell (2019)

https://matklad.github.io/2019/11/16/a-better-shell.html

4 years ago

PC DOS 1.1 from Scratch

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-dos-1-1-from-scratch/

4 years ago

Postgres: Boundless `Text` and Back Again

https://brandur.org/text

4 years ago

Containers Don't Solve Everything

https://blog.deref.io/containers-dont-solve-everything/

4 years ago

User Retention

https://june.so/template/retention

4 years ago

Show HN: LunarVim – An opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim

https://www.lunarvim.org

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28484658

4 years ago

Andreessen Pulls a Bezos

https://www.drorpoleg.com/pulling-a-bezos/

4 years ago

KrebsOnSecurity hit by same IoT botnet that hit a record DDoS on Cloudflare

https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1436309299131789326

4 years ago

CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model

https://www.cisa.gov/publication/zero-trust-maturity-model

4 years ago

Why the world still loves Columbo

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210909-why-the-world-still-loves-1970s-detective-show-columbo

4 years ago

U.S. judge in 'Fortnite' case strikes down Apple's in-app payment restrictions

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-epic-suit-says-apple-restrictions-anti-competitive-2021-09-10/

4 years ago

Government audit of AI finds no AI

https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/05/government-audit-of-ai-with-ties-to-white-supremacy-finds-no-ai/

4 years ago

Using a laser pointer and a matrix LED as a two-dimensional input device (2010)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ehayashi/projects/lasercommand/

4 years ago

Atomic Gardening (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radioactive-atomic-gardening

4 years ago

A.I. can now write its own computer code – that’s good news for humans

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/technology/codex-artificial-intelligence-coding.html

4 years ago

Protein and Transpacific Power

https://fortisanalysis.substack.com/p/protein-and-transpacific-power

4 years ago

A friendly introduction to machine learning compilers and optimizers

https://huyenchip.com/2021/09/07/a-friendly-introduction-to-machine-learning-compilers-and-optimizers.html

4 years ago

Optical-Cavity-Induced Current

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/3/517/htm

4 years ago

The UK Government published their plans to water down GDPR. It is bad, bad

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1436307592666624010.html

4 years ago