top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-09-15

Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/apple-blocked-the-flicktype-watch-keyboard-then-announced-a-clone-of-it

4 years ago

1003 upvotes – 291 comments

Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-former-us-intelligence-community-and-military-personnel-agree-pay-more-168-million

4 years ago

743 upvotes – 237 comments

Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development

https://www.replay.io/

4 years ago

681 upvotes – 216 comments

Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/the-american-style-of-quotation-mark-punctuation-makes-no-sense/

4 years ago

612 upvotes – 386 comments

Home Assistant – open-source home automation

https://www.home-assistant.io/

4 years ago

561 upvotes – 177 comments

Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/designing-shadows/

4 years ago

398 upvotes – 63 comments

Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/335278

4 years ago

396 upvotes – 277 comments

Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1438188756738191362/photo/1

4 years ago

395 upvotes – 255 comments

The Crime of Curiosity

https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-crime-of-curiosity

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 207 comments

How much faster is Java 17?

https://www.optaplanner.org/blog/2021/09/15/HowMuchFasterIsJava17.html

4 years ago

340 upvotes – 247 comments

Why Authorization Is Hard

https://www.osohq.com/post/why-authorization-is-hard

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 49 comments

Microsoft Azure silently install management agents with vulns on your Linux VMs

https://twitter.com/gossithedog/status/1437896101756030982

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 69 comments

GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/gm-tells-some-bolt-owners-park-50-feet-away-other-cars

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 415 comments

The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot

https://www.openculture.com/2021/09/the-very-first-webcam-was-invented-to-keep-an-eye-on-a-coffee-pot-at-cambridge-university.html

4 years ago

295 upvotes – 119 comments

Facebook under fire over secret teen research

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58570353

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 217 comments

EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web

https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/developer-tools-decentralized-web/

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 106 comments

Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024

https://interestingengineering.com/michelin-airless-tires-hit-public-streets-for-first-time?_source=newsletter&_campaign=4yVo2pDYZvnrN&_uid=LDdwmgxga1&_h=ea90de89f1bceca46d02cad80716fb4006725c29&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-14-09-2021

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 189 comments

Facebook tried to make its platform a healthier place, but it got angrier

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zuckerberg-11631654215

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 180 comments

HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 107 comments

Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

https://text.npr.org/1037023551

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 348 comments
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