top 50% 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

Nikon's 2021 Photomicrography Competition Winners

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2021-photomicrography-competition

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 33 comments

I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

https://habr.com/en/post/440736/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 180 comments

Pay Transparency Is Coming

https://www.businessinsider.com/pay-transparency-salary-range-disclosure-laws-colorado-employers-terrified

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 319 comments

FreeBSD SSH Hardening

https://gist.github.com/koobs/e01cf8869484a095605404cd0051eb11

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 116 comments

Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 75 comments

A Tour of the Oil Language

https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/oil-language-tour.html

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 42 comments

Google Pixel 3 (XL) bricking out of nothing

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/192008282

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Paper to HTML Converter

https://papertohtml.org

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/futarchy-robin-hanson-on-how-prediction

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 193 comments

OpenBSD's Pledge and Unveil from Python

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/09/15/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 40 comments

Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 120 comments

Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infinity-category-theory-offers-a-birds-eye-view-of-mathematics/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 52 comments

OpenSea product chief accused of flipping NFTs with insider information

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/15/22676075/opensea-insider-information-nft-trading-nate-chastain

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 73 comments

Founder of $90M cryptocurrency hedge fund sentenced to seven years in prison

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founder-90-million-cryptocurrency-hedge-fund-sentenced-more-seven-years-prison

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 106 comments

Golang: How to Update APIs for Generics

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/48287

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

Why satellites are manufactured in clean rooms

https://www.ohb.de/en/magazine/sparkling-clean

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 44 comments

H3: Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system

https://h3geo.org/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 62 comments

Automatic cipher suite ordering in Go’s crypto/tls

https://go.dev/blog/tls-cipher-suites

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 47 comments

AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions

https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/15/aws-federation-comes-to-github-actions.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 26 comments

PostgreSQL 15: default permissions for everyone is now restricted to db owner

https://www.depesz.com/2021/09/10/waiting-for-postgresql-15-revoke-public-create-from-public-schema-now-owned-by-pg_database_owner/

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 18 comments

North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/09/15/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-apparent-ballistic-missile-days-testing-new-weapon/

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 145 comments

Seq – A programming language for computational genomics and bioinformatics

https://github.com/seq-lang/seq

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Display a bell emoji on HN comments you haven't read yet

https://gist.github.com/linkdd/76fd57d02480c3e36a4e3f8ce39322b1

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 92 comments

Dynamic Queries in Ecto (Elixir Lang)

https://bartoszgorka.com/dynamic-queries-in-ecto

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19byvaccinationstatusengland/deathsoccurringbetween2januaryand2july2021

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 157 comments

Tesla FSD Beta 10 veers into pedestrians with illegal right turn

https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1438141148816609285

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 119 comments

What's cooking on Sourcehut? September 2021

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-09-15-whats-cooking-september-2021/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/apple-cpu-gains-grind-to-a-halt-and

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

Will Xi Move on Taiwan?

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/20-years-after-9-11/Will-Xi-move-on-Taiwan-History-warns-he-might-Niall-Ferguson

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 137 comments

Wyng-backup: Fast Time Machine-like backups for logical volumes

https://github.com/tasket/wyng-backup

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/young-men-college-decline-gender-gap-higher-education/620066/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 248 comments

A dive into the world of MS-DOS viruses (2019)

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dive-into-the-world-of-dos-viruses

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Escape Loneliness

https://whatsonyourmind.substack.com/p/that-familiar-feeling-loneliness

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Faroe Islands: Anger over killing of 1,400 dolphins in one day

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58555694

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita

https://twitter.com/chinmayshah899/status/1436077836155056134

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

COBOL – Still standing the test of time

https://blog.microfocus.com/cobol-still-standing-the-test-of-time/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 102 comments

Linux Sucks 2021 – The End of Linux Is Nigh [video]

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/437549/linux-sucks-2021-the-end-of-linux-is-nigh

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 190 comments

Vex – open-source visual editor for XML

https://www.eclipse.org/vex/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments
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