top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-17

Gitlab S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828021018818/gitlab-sx1.htm

4 years ago

942 upvotes – 285 comments

Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/google-apple-remove-navalny-app-stores-russian-elections-begin-2021-09-17/

4 years ago

911 upvotes – 641 comments

Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9

4 years ago

506 upvotes – 455 comments

Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown

https://twitter.com/russ1mitchell/status/1438609715026530326

4 years ago

491 upvotes – 443 comments

Building apps in minutes, not months

https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/001/

4 years ago

460 upvotes – 284 comments

Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/life-size-camel-sculptures-in-saudi-arabia-are-older-than-stonehenge-pyramids-of-giza-180978693/

4 years ago

428 upvotes – 127 comments

Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections

https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/tech/map/geometry/index.html

4 years ago

417 upvotes – 33 comments

Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

4 years ago

363 upvotes – 66 comments

Seed – A Rust front-end framework for creating fast and reliable web apps

https://github.com/seed-rs/seed

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 155 comments

Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-13/car-rental-problems-persist-until-at-least-2022

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 462 comments

Apple shareholder resolution calls for company to support right to repair

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/16/aapl-shareholder-resolution-repair/

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 41 comments

On YouTube’s recommendation system

https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/on-youtubes-recommendation-system/

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 325 comments

Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/09/16/shenandoah-openjdk-17-sub-millisecond-gc-pauses

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 294 comments

Reversing Sinclair's 1974 calculator hack (2013)

http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 54 comments

China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02459-w

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 213 comments

Treasury Dept. Seeks to Track Transactions of Personal Bank Accounts over $600

https://fee.org/articles/treasury-department-seeks-to-track-financial-transactions-of-personal-bank-accounts-over-600/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 51 comments

Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-images/

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 88 comments

Goodhart's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 83 comments

World on 'catastrophic' path to 2.7C warming, warns UN chief

https://www.france24.com/en/science/20210917-world-on-catastrophic-path-to-2-7c-warming-warns-un-chief

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 267 comments

Tailscale free for open source projects

https://tailscale.com/blog/community-github-pricing/

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 59 comments

Ditch your version manager

https://juliu.is/ditch-your-version-manager

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 153 comments

AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561132

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 116 comments

Taking part in Y Combinator from Europe: is it worth it?

https://sifted.eu/articles/yc-combinator-alum-tips/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 85 comments

A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World's Giant Sequoias, Study Says

https://text.npr.org/1002894521

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 111 comments

Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) is going public today

https://blog.ycombinator.com/ginkgo-bioworks-s14-is-going-public-today/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 66 comments

I Failed to Transform the Enterprise

https://anonyfox.com/blog/i-failed-to-transform-the-enterprise/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 119 comments

Playable Quotes for Game Boy

https://tenmile.quote.games/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 18 comments

Ambient Chaos

https://neal.fun/ambient-chaos/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 30 comments

Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co

https://www.typography.com/blog/monotype-acquires-hoeflerco

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921344921005103?dgcid

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 167 comments

France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038395237/france-recalls-ambassadors-us-australia-nuclear-submarine-deal

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 280 comments

A Go Package for Building Progressive Web Apps

https://go-app.dev/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561238

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 208 comments

Django 4.0 will include a built-in Redis cache back end

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14437

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Black Lotus Labs uncovers Linux executables deployed as stealth Windows loaders

https://blog.lumen.com/no-longer-just-theory-black-lotus-labs-uncovers-linux-executables-deployed-as-stealth-windows-loaders/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 43 comments

Chery QQ Ice Cream goes on sale in China – a modern electric car for $4,600

https://gadgettendency.com/a-modern-electric-car-for-4600-chery-qq-ice-cream-goes-on-sale-in-china/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 235 comments

Pieces of Shit

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/23/pieces-of-shit.html

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 77 comments

Walkman Archive

http://walkman-archive.com/gadgets/index.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 76 comments

“The infringer is my alt account”

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/09/2021-09-02-zmessenger.md

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 50 comments

Newsom signs legislation to boost California’s housing supply

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/16/governor-newsom-signs-historic-legislation-to-boost-californias-housing-supply-and-fight-the-housing-crisis/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 139 comments

A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems”

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

EuroBSDCon 2021

https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/about/program/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 10 comments

Musical components important for the Mozart K448 effect in epilepsy

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95922-7

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names

https://ish.im/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 98 comments

How ‘Trainable’ Is VO2 Max Really? – A Case Study (2019)

https://simplifaster.com/articles/how-trainable-is-vo2-max/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Forlater.email – an email-based bookmarking service

https://forlater.email

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

FDA panel recommends Pfizer's Covid booster doses for people 65 and older

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/fda-panel-begins-voting-on-pfizers-covid-booster-doses-rejecting-shots-for-general-public.html

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 101 comments

Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email

https://rssby.email/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

My FOSS Story (2020)

https://blog.burntsushi.net/foss/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook forced troll farm content on over 40% of all Americans each month

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/facebook-forced-troll-farm-content-on-over-40-of-all-americans-each-month/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Surveillance capitalism will transform the domain name system

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-surveillance-capitalism-will-totally-transform-the-domain-name-system/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Flowbite – Tailwind CSS Components Library

https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/introduction/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 59 comments

Jam 80 Cores, 768GB of RAM into E-ATX Case with This Tiny Board

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adlink-launches-miniature-80-core-platform

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 84 comments

How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger (2019)

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger?t=1578497750132

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

An old programmer loses his job

https://medium.com/writers-blokke/an-old-programmer-loses-his-job-caa4670f34dc

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 75 comments

Moderna's Financials

https://littlebitofeverything.substack.com/p/moderna-financials

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

Crev is a code review system

https://github.com/crev-dev/crev/wiki/Proof-Repository

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]

https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/The%20Big%20Escape%20Report%20Sept%202021%20-%20Final.pdf

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 130 comments

A $795M analogy: Locast, broadcast copyright, and the fall of big antenna

https://ravik.substack.com/p/a-795m-analogy

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

The Bagel Language

https://www.brandons.me/blog/the-bagel-language

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

Calculator Forensics (2002)

http://www.rskey.org/~mwsebastian/miscprj/forensics.htm

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

A Short History of Objective-C (2017)

https://medium.com/chmcore/a-short-history-of-objective-c-aff9d2bde8dd

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

The never-ending product requirements of user authorization

https://alexolivier.me/posts/the-never-ending-product-requirements-of-user-authorization

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Gnome to prevent theming, wider community not happy

https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming-wider-community-not-happy/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to SpeedTest Global Index

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 113 comments

Multiple Games Are Now Working with RADV's Ray-Tracing Code

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Ray-Tracing-Multi-Games

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 3 comments
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