top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-09-16

A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

https://search.marginalia.nu/

4 years ago

3441 upvotes – 717 comments

Sir Clive Sinclair has died

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81

4 years ago

1746 upvotes – 438 comments

Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer

https://shitlassian.com/

4 years ago

1426 upvotes – 733 comments

Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

https://kotaku.com/please-stop-closing-forums-and-moving-people-to-discord-1847684851

4 years ago

996 upvotes – 538 comments

The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-warrants-reverse-search-warrants-police-google

4 years ago

650 upvotes – 310 comments

Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lumber-prices-1.6177016

4 years ago

604 upvotes – 527 comments

The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/9/16/ownership-and-future-mullvad-vpn/

4 years ago

536 upvotes – 184 comments

The Perils of an .xyz Domain

https://www.spotvirtual.com/blog/the-perils-of-an-xyz-domain/

4 years ago

492 upvotes – 275 comments

Windows 11: Just say no

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3633630/windows-11-just-say-no.html

4 years ago

472 upvotes – 528 comments

iOS on QEMU

https://github.com/alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 98 comments

Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds

https://www.wsj.com/articles/women-are-nearly-half-of-new-gun-buyers-study-finds-11631792761

4 years ago

348 upvotes – 1163 comments

Every engineer should do a stint in consulting

https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/every-engineer-should-do-a-stint

4 years ago

321 upvotes – 172 comments

WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation

https://twitter.com/EdgeSecurity/status/1437402720135270403

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 94 comments

Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/backpage-founders-get-mistrial-because-us-overplayed-child-sex-trafficking-claims/

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 124 comments

DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/16/1037806819/opioids-purdue-pharma-sackler-settlement-bankruptcy-deal

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 91 comments

Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M

https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/former-startup-darling-genius-sells-assets-for-80-million

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 232 comments

Donate to the Internet Archive

https://archive.org/donate

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 57 comments

Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal

https://gizmodo.com/lawmakers-ask-zuckerberg-to-drop-instagram-for-kids-aft-1847683217

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 154 comments

Deno 1.14

https://deno.com/blog/v1.14

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 108 comments

Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?

https://www.economist.com/business/is-america-inc-getting-less-dynamic-less-global-and-more-monopolistic/21804757

4 years ago

250 upvotes – 334 comments
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