top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-09-12

Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree

https://twitter.com/pixelscript/status/1436664488913215490

4 years ago

668 upvotes – 206 comments

Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-invented-180961368/

4 years ago

611 upvotes – 399 comments

Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use

https://open-meteo.com/en/docs

4 years ago

443 upvotes – 147 comments

Transmission torrent client ported to C++

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/1787

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 212 comments

New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorpicker/

4 years ago

398 upvotes – 79 comments

Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations

http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/index.html

4 years ago

355 upvotes – 65 comments

17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/fossil-fuel-capitalism-is-cutting-our-lives-short

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 276 comments

Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)

https://fmentzer.github.io/posts/2020/dictionary/

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 59 comments

The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon

https://torrentfreak.com/the-worlds-oldest-active-torrent-turns-18-210912/

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 98 comments

Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/why-cant-i-go-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-hints-from-electrodynamics/

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 215 comments

Pinky and the Brain

https://fantheories.fandom.com/wiki/Pinky_and_the_Brain

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 80 comments

FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-911-document-declassified/2021/09/12/fa37b584-13c9-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 189 comments

Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/adam-smith-and-inequality/

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 270 comments

Jupyter Book

https://jupyterbook.org/intro.html

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 54 comments

Man wins $65K after being fired for refusing to be fingerprinted

https://www.startribune.com/mound-man-wins-65k-after-being-fired-for-refusing-to-be-fingerprinted-due-to-christian-faith/600095353/

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 234 comments

Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim

https://github.com/treeform/pixie

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 75 comments

Physics-Based Deep Learning Book

https://physicsbaseddeeplearning.org/intro.html

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 24 comments

Germany's federal police agency purchased and used 'Pegasus' spyware

https://www.techspot.com/news/91174-germany-federal-police-agency-secretly-purchased-used-controversial.html

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 54 comments

Open source applications for macOS

https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 65 comments

Experts vs elites

https://overcomingbias.com/2021/02/experts-versus-elites.html/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 122 comments
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