top 50% 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

I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/12/1036356773/i-got-a-mild-breakthrough-case-heres-what-i-wish-id-known

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 505 comments

The Buffett Indicator

https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/buffett-indicator.php

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 104 comments

I got the J language working on OpenBSD

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210911.html

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 41 comments

AMule 2.3.3

https://github.com/amule-project/amule/releases/tag/2.3.3

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

The Forever Trial at Guantanamo

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/the-forever-trial-at-guantanamo

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 123 comments

How Many People Can Someone Lead?

https://www.patkua.com/blog/how-many-people-can-someone-lead/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 93 comments

The Future Is Big Graphs: A Community View on Graph Processing Systems

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/9/255040-the-future-is-big-graphs/fulltext

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 65 comments

Peermaps – distributed, offline-friendly alternative to commercial map providers

https://peermaps.org/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?

https://gist.github.com/rain-1/c4be54e6506116c7b99e8f474a3b1ca8

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 76 comments

How factories were made safe

https://rootsofprogress.org/history-of-factory-safety

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 111 comments

9/11 Material Released in Response to Executive Order 14040

https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 58 comments

Comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions

http://c-faq.com/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 54 comments

England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58535258

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 442 comments

We found a phone with pre-installed malware via the Lifeline Assistance program

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/android/2020/07/we-found-yet-another-phone-with-pre-installed-malware-via-the-lifeline-assistance-program/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 35 comments

OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project by Indie Developer

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/openai-chatbot-gpt-3-samantha-shut-down-dilute-jason-rohrer-possible-misuse-2537388

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: Graduating CS soon, how do I find a job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28498305

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 137 comments

Disable Google Drive drive letter

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/121013958/disable-google-drive-drive-letter

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 108 comments

2MW Electric Aircraft Engine

https://www.weflywright.com/technology#motors

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 118 comments

Much less than, Much greater than symbols

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/09/11/much-less-than-much-greater-than/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 93 comments

25% of students age 16-32 take Adderall 1-7 times per week, not prescribed

https://twitter.com/hubermanlab/status/1436822606116622336

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 116 comments

Transport noise linked to increased risk of dementia, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/09/transport-noise-linked-to-increased-risk-of-dementia-study-finds

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Any successful transitions from a tech/IT career to working in the arts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500457

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 80 comments

Is this proof of lab leak lies?

https://unherd.com/2021/09/is-this-proof-of-a-lab-leak-cover-up/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 142 comments

Xiaomi is disabling some of its devices when imported to certain regions

https://www.androidauthority.com/import-xiaomi-phone-problem-3019867/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 55 comments

macOS persistence – Beyond the good ol' LaunchAgents

https://theevilbit.github.io/beyond/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Host of [redacted] is not well. Can anyone in SF help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504276

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Books that teach you logic building skills

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500951

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Emulating AMD Approximate Arithmetic Instructions on Intel

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/09/emulating-amd-rsqrtss-etc-on-intel.html

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion law takes effect

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/11/salesforce-texas-abortion-law

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Why most gas stations don’t make money from selling gas

https://thehustle.co/why-most-gas-stations-dont-make-money-from-selling-gas/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 126 comments

Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

https://www.geospatialworld.net/news/australian-government-to-develop-a-smartphone-app-for-facial-recognition-and-gps-tracking-for-covid-19/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 194 comments

Adults with history of recreational cannabis use have altered speech production

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376871621004580

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 80 comments

Style2paints, an AI driven lineart colorization tool

https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Ergo IRC Server

https://ergo.chat

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

NASA has selected SpaceX for GOES-U mission

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-goes-u-mission/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

FBI releases newly declassified record on Sept. 11 attacks

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-jamal-khashoggi-terrorist-attacks-86eec32f1b5b2ad7c9ba6bfbb98a4adb

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments
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