top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-25

The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen

https://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/1441497498573545478

4 years ago

415 upvotes – 167 comments

Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/24/comcom-acm/

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 160 comments

Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app

https://telegra.ph/Why-Telegram-had-to-follow-Apple-and-Google-when-they-suspended-a-voting-app-09-25

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 168 comments

When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/25/tech-subpoena-secrecy-fight/

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 133 comments

OpenTTD 12.0-RC1

https://www.openttd.org/news/2021/09/25/openttd-12-0-rc1.html

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 62 comments

Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ceo-sought-keep-incognito-mode-issues-out-spotlight-lawsuit-alleges-2021-09-24/

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 124 comments

Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life

https://madned.substack.com/p/the-dead-code-diaries

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 72 comments

The Case for ‘Developer Experience’

https://future.a16z.com/the-case-for-developer-experience/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 73 comments

Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/can-anyone-release-extensions-right-now-to-me-it-looks-like-addons-mozilla-org-is-critically-broken/84830

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 107 comments

Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes

https://huyenchip.com/2021/09/13/data-science-infrastructure.html

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 114 comments

Code Review from the Command Line

https://blog.jez.io/cli-code-review/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 24 comments

AS13335 doing SSH scanning

https://encryp.ch/blog/cloudflare-abuses-22-tcp/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09/i-am-not-satoshi-nakamoto.html

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 167 comments

Did a Chinese hack kill Nortel? (2020)

http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/did-a-chinese-hack-kill-canada-s-greatest-tech-company-1.1459269

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 84 comments

In search of the perfect URL validation regex (2010)

https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 64 comments

Speech Synthesis on Linux (2020)

https://darkshadow.io/2020/08/01/speech-synthesis-on-linux.html

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 73 comments

What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4655

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 146 comments

The Science of the Benefits of Religion

https://www.wired.com/story/psychologists-religion-how-god-works/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 335 comments

Paint.NET 4.3 is now available

https://blog.getpaint.net/2021/09/22/paint-net-4-3-is-now-available/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

The Perfect Voxel Engine

https://voxely.net/blog/the-perfect-voxel-engine/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

EU Is Warned Green Label for Gas Would Be ‘Disastrous’ Mistake

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-22/eu-is-warned-green-label-for-gas-would-be-disastrous-mistake

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 139 comments

How I built forlater.email, my first big side project

https://icyphox.sh/blog/building-forlater/

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

TheseToonsDoNotExist: StyleGAN2-ADA trained on CG cartoon faces

http://www.thesetoonsdonotexist.com/

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 71 comments

All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005)

http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2005/02/all-16777216-rgb-colours/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 76 comments

Pope Francis and Other Christian Leaders Are Calling for Bold Climate Action

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035653392/pope-francis-and-other-christian-leaders-are-calling-for-bold-climate-action

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 96 comments

Apple is working on iPhone features to help detect depression, cognitive decline

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-detect-depression-cognitive-decline-sources-say-11632216601

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 148 comments

Maybe the spaghetti code conjecture is false

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/09/25/spaghetti-code-conjecture-false.html

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 47 comments

Italy wants an exception to Europe's gas-engine ban for Ferrari, Lamborghini

https://driving.ca/auto-news/industry/italy-wants-an-exception-to-europes-combustion-engine-ban-for-ferrari-lamborghini

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 227 comments

Grommunio an open source Exchange replacement

https://grommunio.com/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

Big problems at the timezone database

https://blog.joda.org/2021/09/big-problems-at-timezone-database.html

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Writing the Roadmap from Engineer to Manager

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/09/17/podcast-376-writing-the-roadmap-from-engineer-to-manager/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

Thermal Grill Illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grill_illusion

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Create, train and run Scikit-learn and TensorFlow models in Excel

https://predictionlaboratory.com

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652736

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 48 comments

Closest known relatives of virus behind Covid-19 found in Laos

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 88 comments

Visualize 3D hyperbolic honeycombs and sphere packings

https://github.com/neozhaoliang/Hyperbolic-Honeycombs

4 years ago

★ 270 GLSL GPL-3.0
83 upvotes – 22 comments

How to Deal with Complexity Like a Pilot (Part 1)

https://www.franklinfaraday.com/how-to-deal-with-complexity-like-a-pilot-part-1/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What is going wrong at Amazon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28655917

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/millions-still-months-behind-on-rent-after-eviction-moratorium-ends

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 159 comments

Arctic World Archive Adds Latest Data Deposit in Svalbard Facility

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/arctic-world-archive-adds-latest-data-deposit-in-svalbard-facility/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Geographic Spice Index

http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl/spice_geo.html

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Modern Communication: Sockets (2014)

https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/sockets.html

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/09/24/fedora-workstation-our-vision-for-linux-desktop/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 87 comments

A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/hamster-trading-cryptocurrencies-rigged-cage-goxx-bitcoin-price-ether-doge-2021-9

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Fast PCIe 5.0 SSD prototype hits sequential read speeds of 14,000 MB/s

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Blazing-fast-PCIe-5-0-SSD-prototype-hits-sequential-read-speeds-of-14-000-MB-s.564595.0.html

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: ML enabled creative tools for artists and designers

https://www.vizcom.co/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Copyright claims on YouTube Bach videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfF4D5x_UTE

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Limits on Toilet Paper and Cleaning Supplies Are Back at Costco

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/24/1040471872/limits-toilet-paper-cleaning-supplies-costco-delta-covid

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 86 comments

All businesses will eventually turn into subscriptions

https://blog.viveksrinivasan.com/p/subscriptions-learning-by-proxy

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 74 comments

Lessons learned from running GraphQL

https://blog.dream11engineering.com/lessons-learned-from-running-graphql-at-scale-2ad60b3cefeb

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: LIV is a webmail front-end for your personal email server

https://github.com/derek-zhou/liv

4 years ago

★ 123 Elixir AGPL-3.0
62 upvotes – 66 comments

Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng Admits to Misleading Global Financial Institution

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/huawei-cfo-wanzhou-meng-admits-misleading-global-financial-institution

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

The implications of low cholesterol in depression and suicide (2015)

https://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/articles-1/2015/11/13/the-implications-of-low-cholesterol-in-depression-and-suicide

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 79 comments

Oregon’s distinctive bridge style is Conde McCullough’s legacy (2011)

http://offbeatoregon.com/o1111b-legendary-bridge-designer-conde-mccullough.html

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

New Zealand council's Zoom meeting goes viral as people pretend they're in it

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/452241/new-zealand-council-s-zoom-meeting-goes-viral-as-people-pretend-they-re-in-it

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

The World’s Greatest Freediver

https://www.gq.com/story/freediver-alexey-molchanov-profile

4 years ago

52 upvotes – 39 comments
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