top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-28

What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

https://blog.immersed.team/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d385

4 years ago

You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation

https://mux.com/blog/you-either-die-an-mvp-or-live-long-enough-to-build-content-moderation

4 years ago

Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/

4 years ago

My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/my-wife-was-dying-of-brain-cancer-my-boss-at-amazon-told-me-to-perform-or-quit/

4 years ago

Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

4 years ago

Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-breaks-ground-20-bln-arizona-plants-us-chip-factory-race-heats-up-2021-09-24/

4 years ago

Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/27/google_chrome_manifest_v2_extensions/

4 years ago

The code worked differently when the moon was full

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-code-worked-differently-when-the-moon-was-full

4 years ago

Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

https://warisboring.com/secret-military-aircraft-possibly-exposed-on-tiktok/

4 years ago

The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney

https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/news/2021/09/kidney-project-successfully-tests-prototype-bioartificial-kidney

4 years ago

Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password

https://www.fastmail.com/1password/

4 years ago

Spaces launch in Element

https://element.io/blog/spaces-blast-out-of-beta/

4 years ago

Dude, where’s my stuff

https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/institutional/insights/market-insights/eye-on-the-market/dude-where-is-my-stuff/

4 years ago

‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/br/app/amplosion-redirect-amp-links/id1585734696?l=en

4 years ago

Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.1/

4 years ago

Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-pandemic-as-unique-opportunity-to-test-propaganda-techniques-on-canadians-forces-report-says

4 years ago

Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck

https://local12.com/news/offbeat/squirrel-stores-thousands-of-nuts-inside-mans-parked-truck-north-dakota-storage-bill-fischer-engine-compartment-black-walnuts-cleanup-gallons-chevy-avalanche

4 years ago

Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682173

4 years ago

Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say

https://futurism.com/neoscope/half-american-kids-lead-blood-doctors-say

4 years ago

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/revenge-bedtime-procrastination

4 years ago

How to Visualize Decision Trees

https://explained.ai/decision-tree-viz/index.html

4 years ago

Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxPEz9x2fs

4 years ago

Vintage Byte Magazine Library

https://vintageapple.org/byte/

4 years ago

Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking

https://peguero.xyz/blog/google_and_facebook_i_am_facilitating_packet_filtering_to_block_your_tracking.html

4 years ago

False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK

https://bitterwinter.org/pro-ccp-false-pro-china-accounts-invade-twitter-in-the-uk/

4 years ago

Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale

https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relational-databases-scale/

4 years ago

FOIA requests show Apple’s emails pitching state agencies on IDs and Wallet app

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2021/aug/25/apple-wants-your-new-drivers-license-to-be-an-ipho/

4 years ago

OBS Studio 27.1.1

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.1.1

4 years ago

I don't think Elasticsearch is a good logging system

https://blog.sinkingpoint.com/posts/elasticsearch-logging/

4 years ago

Show HN: Extract Table from Image

https://extract-table.com/

4 years ago

Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CStackSizeInvisible

4 years ago

AngelList Stack

https://www.angellist.com/stack

4 years ago

Launch HN: RescueTime (YC W08) – Redesigned for wellness, balance, remote work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683597

4 years ago

Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02634-z

4 years ago

Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/portpass-privacy-breach-1.6191749

4 years ago

Tesla Sues for Defamation over Social Media Posts

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-sues-for-defamation-over-social-media-posts-1847750963

4 years ago

Show HN: Firezone, an open-source WireGuard-based alternative to OpenVPN AS

https://github.com/firezone/firezone

4 years ago

A monk’s guide to office life

https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/07/14/hell-is-other-people-a-monks-guide-to-office-life

4 years ago

Google’s dominance in ad tech supply chain harms businesses and consumers

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google%E2%80%99s-dominance-in-ad-tech-supply-chain-harms-businesses-and-consumers

4 years ago

Fail2ban – Remote Code Execution

https://research.securitum.com/fail2ban-remote-code-execution/

4 years ago

How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/-/blob/docs/sourcedive.snb.md

4 years ago

How malware gets into the App Store and why Apple can't stop that

https://habr.com/en/post/580272/

4 years ago

Flowistry helps you understand Rust programs with program analysis

https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry

4 years ago

Podman in Linux

http://diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2021/09/podmain-in-linux.html

4 years ago

Oculus will allow sideloading and rooting to avoid e-waste

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1441496418368294914

4 years ago

Australia has lost one-third of its koalas in the past three years

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-has-lost-one-third-its-koalas-past-three-years-2021-09-21/

4 years ago

Ford to invest in EV and battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky [pdf]

https://s23.q4cdn.com/799033206/files/doc_news/2021/09/27/Press-Release_Ford-Multi-State-Investment_9-27-21.pdf

4 years ago

A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within academia to conform

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/09/25/a-professors-resignation-highlights-pressures-within-academia-to-conform

4 years ago

Mobile LTE Coverage Map

https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/MobileMaps/mobile-map

4 years ago

Project IceStorm: open-source toolchain for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

4 years ago

Show HN: Self-Parking Car Evolution

https://trekhleb.dev/self-parking-car-evolution/

4 years ago

Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order

https://scholars-stage.org/xi-jinpings-war-on-spontaneous-order/

4 years ago

Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-cloud-packaging-in-the-terabyte-era-d6869b4b84ae

4 years ago

Cooling system leak led to Victorian Big Battery fire

https://esv.vic.gov.au/news/cooling-system-leak-led-to-victorian-big-battery-fire/

4 years ago

Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer

https://luiscruz.github.io/2021/07/20/measuring-energy.html

4 years ago

Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk

https://piszek.com/2021/09/28/humboldt-the-first-solarpunk/

4 years ago

Art of Assembly Language Programming and HLA by Randall Hyde

https://www.randallhyde.com/AssemblyLanguage/www.artofasm.com/index.html

4 years ago

The train that shrunk France and Western Europe

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/09/the-train-that-shrunk-france-and-europe/

4 years ago

What the GNU?

https://ariadnavigo.xyz/posts/what-the-gnu/

4 years ago

Apple’s browser engine ban is holding back web app innovation

https://thenewstack.io/apples-browser-engine-ban-is-holding-back-web-app-innovation/

4 years ago

Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden

https://www.airforcemag.com/hypersonic-hawc-missile-flies-details-kept-hidden/

4 years ago

The killer product of robotics could be a low-cost collaborative manipulator

https://lorenzopieri.com/cobot/

4 years ago

Generate Elixir/Phoenix Boilerplate

https://fullstackphoenix.com/boilerplates

4 years ago

Zen of Streaming: Building and Loading ‘Ghost of Tsushima’ [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur53sJdS8rQ

4 years ago

Ask HN: Have you ever spend days unable to do *any* work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682543

4 years ago

QR error correction helps and hinders scanning

https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/09/qr-error-correction/

4 years ago

Round rectangles are everywhere

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt

4 years ago

The Milken Way - “The scarce resource in our society is not money but people.”

https://neckar.substack.com/p/the-milken-way

4 years ago

Show HN: O's URL Lengthener

https://ooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo/

4 years ago

VS Code in the Browser for Everyone

https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch

4 years ago

The Legality of Web Scraping

https://www.crawlnow.com/blog/is-web-scraping-legal

4 years ago

Dropbox Capture

https://www.dropbox.com/capture

4 years ago

131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases with Financial Interest

https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421

4 years ago