top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-09-14

Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739

4 years ago

1069 upvotes – 638 comments

Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/apple-founder-wozniak-space-debris-company-b1919747.html

4 years ago

804 upvotes – 250 comments

Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer

http://www.bespokesynth.com/

4 years ago

745 upvotes – 242 comments

Norm Macdonald has died

https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/

4 years ago

701 upvotes – 165 comments

Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute

https://justuseapp.com/page/stripe-ban

4 years ago

693 upvotes – 285 comments

How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-percentile-approximation-works-and-why-its-more-useful-than-averages/

4 years ago

687 upvotes – 163 comments

Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships

https://www.allkpop.com/article/2021/09/social-media-influencer-model-created-from-artificial-intelligence-lands-100-sponsorships

4 years ago

471 upvotes – 305 comments

Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101

4 years ago

463 upvotes – 1568 comments

Anonymous Hacks Epik

https://4chan.partyvan.epikfail.win:55899/

4 years ago

413 upvotes – 249 comments

Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-reduces-server-pricing-to-fight-amd

4 years ago

400 upvotes – 330 comments

Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect

https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 204 comments

Effect size is significantly more important than statistical significance

http://www.argmin.net/2021/09/13/effect-size/

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 159 comments

Turing Oversold?

https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/turing-oversold.html

4 years ago

354 upvotes – 303 comments

Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-September/006037.html

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 246 comments

14kb WASM game written in D

https://skoppe.github.io/spasm/examples/underrun/

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 107 comments

Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript

https://js13kgames.com/entries/q1k3

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 77 comments

"Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution

https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution

4 years ago

296 upvotes – 107 comments

Rainbow Six Vegas, SWAT 4 unplayable due to disabled ad server

https://twitter.com/_eezstreet_/status/1437652748179234819

4 years ago

293 upvotes – 117 comments

S.Korea fines Google $177M for blocking Android customisation

https://www.reuters.com/technology/skorean-antitrust-agency-fines-google-177-mln-abusing-market-dominance-2021-09-14/

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 91 comments

Scikit-Learn Version 1.0

https://scikit-learn.org/dev/whats_new/v1.0.html

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 102 comments
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