top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-21

The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-different

4 years ago

I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed

https://blog.airplane.dev/i-started-a-saas-company-in-2013-and-2021-heres-how-its-changed/

4 years ago

A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3

4 years ago

Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/

4 years ago

TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do

https://text.npr.org/1039313011

4 years ago

That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job

https://keygen.sh/blog/that-time-i-told-my-wife-i-wanted-to-quit-my-job/

4 years ago

More Casio Watch Mods

https://n-o-d-e.net/watch_mods.html

4 years ago

Manyverse – A social network off the grid

https://www.manyver.se/

4 years ago

The Open Book Project: open-hardware e-ink eBook reader

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

4 years ago

While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440014690831126528

4 years ago

Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewriting our client in Rust

https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/taming-gos-memory-usage-or-how-we-avoided-rewriting-our-client-in-rust

4 years ago

I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco

https://doctorow.medium.com/i-quit-9ae7b6010c99

4 years ago

Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces

https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI

4 years ago

Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10

https://benhoyt.com/writings/python-pattern-matching/

4 years ago

When McDonalds Came to Denmark

https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-denmark/

4 years ago

The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-truly-epic-byte-magazine-covers

4 years ago

Amazon’s AI cameras are punishing drivers for mistakes they didn’t make

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88npjv/amazons-ai-cameras-are-punishing-drivers-for-mistakes-they-didnt-make

4 years ago

Confessions of a Michelin Star Inspector

https://www.luxeat.com/blog/confessions-of-a-michelin-inspector/

4 years ago

A function decorator that rewrites the bytecode to enable goto in Python

https://github.com/snoack/python-goto

4 years ago

Internet Freedom Around the World Declines for 11th Consecutive Year

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-drive-control-big-tech

4 years ago

Former NSA Hacker Describes Being Recruited for UAE Spy Program

https://zetter.substack.com/p/former-nsa-hacker-describes-being

4 years ago

GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-20-github-actions-ephemeral-self-hosted-runners-new-webhooks-for-auto-scaling/

4 years ago

Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosion (1966) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KJ6p4JVN4g

4 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-14-04-and-16-04-lifecycle-extended-to-ten-years

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28605777

4 years ago

Swift Regrets

https://belkadan.com/blog/2021/09/Swift-Regrets/

4 years ago

Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-buy-new-york-city-office-building-for-2-1-billion-11632225600

4 years ago

Mathematician answers chess problem about attacking queens

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-answers-chess-problem-about-attacking-queens-20210921/

4 years ago

Arm AArch64 Adds Memcpy() Instructions

https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/arm-a-profile-architecture-developments-2021

4 years ago

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Mind on Fire

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/09/ludwig-wittgenstein-a-mind-on-fire

4 years ago

Ruby Packer – Distribute Ruby code as a compiled binary

https://github.com/pmq20/ruby-packer

4 years ago

Software projects need heroes? lessons learned from 1100 projects

https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/10/why-software-projects-need-heroes.html

4 years ago

MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/20/mit-study-finds-tesla-drivers-become-inattentive-when-autopilot-is-activated/

4 years ago

Show HN: 7GUIs in Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript

https://7guis.bradwoods.io/

4 years ago

Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-project-amplify.html

4 years ago

Incident Response to September 20th 2021

https://www.zerotier.com/2021/09/21/incident-response-to-september-20th-2021/

4 years ago

Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22684801/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-features-price-release-date

4 years ago

Are you playing to play, or playing to win?

https://commoncog.com/blog/playing-to-play-playing-to-win/

4 years ago

Theatre.js: Animation motion design editor / library for high-fidelity graphics

https://github.com/AriaMinaei/theatre

4 years ago

Introducing Age Verification

https://blog.roblox.com/2021/09/introducing-age-verification/

4 years ago

Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08

4 years ago

Rome will be written in Rust

https://rome.tools/blog/2021/09/21/rome-will-be-rewritten-in-rust

4 years ago

Hmsklt – App to help friends form deeper relationships

https://www.hmsklt.app

4 years ago

FBI held back ransomware decryption key to run operation targeting hackers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ransomware-fbi-revil-decryption-key/2021/09/21/4a9417d0-f15f-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html

4 years ago

DOJ sues to block domestic alliance between American Airlines and JetBlue

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-unprecedented-domestic-alliance-between-american-airlines-and

4 years ago

Django 4.0 alpha 1 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/sep/21/django-40-alpha-1-released/

4 years ago

Introduction to Hippo: The WebAssembly PaaS

https://deislabs.io/posts/introducing-hippo/

4 years ago

Database containing personal info of 106M visitors to Thailand exposed online

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/thai-traveler-data-leak/

4 years ago

Trailerduck is a smart e-bike trailer

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/trailerduck-is-a-smart-e-bike-trailer-thats-bound-to-make-city-life-easier-168072.html

4 years ago

Robots Must Be Ephemeralized

https://blog.evjang.com/2021/09/ephemeralization.html

4 years ago

NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nyt-israel-robot-sniper

4 years ago

U.S. sanctions virtual currency exchange after spike in ransomware attacks

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cryptocurrency-exchange-sanctions-name-biden-administration/

4 years ago

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Kotlin

https://nathan-contino.github.io/site,/name,/colors,/web/2020/12/11/hitchhikersGuideToKotlin.html

4 years ago

Goats became an unconventional weapon against wildfires

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/business/wildfires-goats-prevention.html

4 years ago

BlackRock and HSBC funds boosted Evergrande holdings as crisis loomed

https://www.ft.com/content/87fddf09-ef69-49b3-87bc-1a2d84fffd91

4 years ago

Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses in cave bats in 2018

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/21/wuhan-scientists-planned-releaseskin-penetrating-nanoparticles/

4 years ago