top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-29

YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/youtube-ban-joseph-mercola/

4 years ago

Making bracket pair colorization faster

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/09/29/bracket-pair-colorization

4 years ago

When users never use the features they asked for

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/featurestheywanted.html

4 years ago

Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run by Foreign Troll Farms

https://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech-gaming/almost-all-of-facebooks-top-christian-pages-are-run-by-foreign-troll-farms/

4 years ago

Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

https://simulavr.com/

4 years ago

Why is everything so hard in a large organization?

https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2021/09/why-is-everything-so-hard-in-large.html

4 years ago

Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28696641

4 years ago

I'm working on open source full time

https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/doing-open-source-full-time/

4 years ago

Offline First

https://rxdb.info/offline-first.html

4 years ago

YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

https://twitter.com/twotafkap/status/1442952265552187394

4 years ago

A World Without Sci-Hub

https://palladiummag.com/2021/09/24/a-world-without-sci-hub/

4 years ago

Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/apple-airtag-bug-enables-good-samaritan-attack/

4 years ago

iPhone remains findable after power off

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1442870352799879174

4 years ago

Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/private-censorship-not-best-way-fight-hate-or-defend-democracy-here-are-some

4 years ago

Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/elizabeth-holmes-urged-employees-to-hide-theranos-lab-equipment-from-inspectors/

4 years ago

Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker

https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto

4 years ago

AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/better-price-performance-aws-lambda-functions-aws-graviton2-processor/

4 years ago

Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543

4 years ago

Proposal to Merge YJIT into Ruby

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18229

4 years ago

Stripe launched 10 years ago today

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1443289393695911938

4 years ago

Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-science-cant-fix-politics/

4 years ago

The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-13-the-gil-and-its-effects-on-python-multithreading/

4 years ago

How to fit any dataset with a single parameter

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12320

4 years ago

The Value of In-House Expertise

https://danluu.com/in-house/

4 years ago

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Ampie – See HN or Twitter discussions mentioning the page you are on

https://ampie.app

4 years ago

In software, when an engineer exits the team

https://medium.com/@solidi/in-software-when-an-engineer-exits-the-team-1e550303cff8

4 years ago

New tool reveals ultimate owners of companies

https://www.skoltech.ru/en/2021/09/new-tool-reveals-ultimate-owners-of-companies/

4 years ago

When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync

http://blog.pnas.org/2021/09/journal-club-when-listeners-pay-close-attention-to-stories-their-heart-rates-synchronize/

4 years ago

Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-youtube-rec/khncfooichmfjbepaaaebmommgaepoid

4 years ago

Old video game advertisements

https://retrocgads.tumblr.com

4 years ago

What's New in React 18?

https://yagmurcetintas.com/journal/whats-new-in-react-18/

4 years ago

Scientists create their own GPS by spying on internet satellites

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-create-their-own-gps-spying-internet-satellites

4 years ago

The Reactive Monolith – How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing

https://www.wix.engineering/post/the-reactive-monolith-how-to-move-from-crud-to-event-sourcing

4 years ago

'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201208-cottagecore-and-the-rise-of-the-modern-rural-fantasy

4 years ago

Selecting and Hardening Remote Access VPN Solutions [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Sep/28/2002863184/-1/-1/0/CSI_SELECTING-HARDENING-REMOTE-ACCESS-VPNS-20210928.PDF

4 years ago

Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum 2 blank canvases

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/1041492941/jens-haaning-kunsten-take-the-money-and-run-art-denmark-blank

4 years ago

What Is a Nomogram?

http://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html

4 years ago

Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)

https://gratipay.news/your-company-should-probably-pay-2000-per-person-for-open-source-9205443e209d

4 years ago

Dithered images and websites (2020)

https://endtimes.dev/why-you-should-dither-images/

4 years ago

Kraken Security Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities in Commonly Used Bitcoin ATM

https://blog.kraken.com/post/11263/kraken-security-labs-identifies-vulnerabilities-in-commonly-used-bitcoin-atm/

4 years ago

Rivian R1T: First Drive in the Electric Pickup

https://www.businessinsider.com/rivian-r1t-ev-electric-pickup-first-drive-impressions-photos-2021-9

4 years ago

Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009)

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/

4 years ago

Hacker News RSS

https://hnrss.github.io/

4 years ago

πfs – A data-free filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

4 years ago

Workers who keep global supply chains moving warn of 'system collapse'

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/business/supply-chain-workers/index.html

4 years ago

NansAreNumbers – An esoteric data type built of NaNs

https://github.com/thoppe/NansAreNumbers

4 years ago

How to Make Writing a Lot Easier

https://forge.medium.com/how-to-write-10-000-words-a-week-a7c63d97ea79

4 years ago

Response to 'Call for Review: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0'

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2021Sep/0000.html

4 years ago

Programming in Forth on Commodore 64 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XdgUK1NbpI

4 years ago

Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface

https://louwrentius.com/raspberry-pi-as-a-router-using-a-single-network-interface.html

4 years ago

Three Hundred Walks

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202109/300_walks.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Sprout9 – a platform for students to find tutors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699718

4 years ago

GPUs open the potential to forecast urban weather for drones and air taxis

https://news.ucar.edu/132811/gpus-open-potential-forecast-urban-weather-drones-and-air-taxis

4 years ago

A Short Overview of Typed Template Haskell

https://serokell.io/blog/typed-template-haskell-overview

4 years ago

DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'

https://reason.com/2021/09/28/dea-still-insists-marijuana-has-no-accepted-medical-use/

4 years ago

How I debate

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/09/09/how-i-debate/

4 years ago

Can You See Me Now? A measurement study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13113

4 years ago

Remote-Anything.com (1999-2009)

http://remote-anything.com/

4 years ago

Mariana Trench: Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java

https://mariana-tren.ch/

4 years ago

People also suffer 'long flu', study shows

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58726775

4 years ago

Using 1Password 's `op` CLI tool exposes your secrets to other users

https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1443037314817695744

4 years ago

Artificial Intelligence completed Beethoven's unfinished Tenth Symphony

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-completed-beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-180978753/

4 years ago