top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-30

PostgreSQL 14

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-14-released-2318/

4 years ago

950 upvotes – 286 comments

Understanding Awk

https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/

4 years ago

616 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

https://haxplore.pabue.co

4 years ago

603 upvotes – 243 comments

Cloudflare's Disruption

https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/

4 years ago

578 upvotes – 239 comments

Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chip-shortage-leads-carmaker-opel-shut-german-plant-until-2022-2021-09-30/

4 years ago

495 upvotes – 480 comments

Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off

https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2021/09/always-on-processor-magic-how-find-my.html

4 years ago

477 upvotes – 253 comments

A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1443028078196711426

4 years ago

466 upvotes – 180 comments

DMV approves Cruise and Waymo for commercial service in parts of Bay Area

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/117199-2/

4 years ago

421 upvotes – 382 comments

U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches

https://www.axios.com/us-23-extinct-species-endangered-species-list-0555df01-b298-4df0-bc24-466d79530f2d.html

4 years ago

371 upvotes – 232 comments

The Art of Linear Algebra [pdf]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kenjihiranabe/The-Art-of-Linear-Algebra/main/The-Art-of-Linear-Algebra.pdf

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 42 comments

Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?

https://floverfelt.org/posts/software-best-practices.html

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 354 comments

I tried 30 mustards this summer

https://www.insidehook.com/article/food-and-drink/30-best-mustards-tried-summer

4 years ago

295 upvotes – 222 comments

Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-supported-in-markdown-fields/

4 years ago

261 upvotes – 75 comments

Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y

https://www.klimaticket.at/en/

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 286 comments

Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased and Spent 4 Months in Jail

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/1041562502/deaf-man-tased-police-colorado-lawsuit

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 197 comments

Slack is experiencing a service disruption

https://status.slack.com/2021-09/06c1e17de93e7dc2

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 100 comments

CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelcontactrelationyoungercousinmotherssiblingsdaughterorfatherssistersdaughter

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 132 comments

Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six years of updates

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/fairphone-4-has-an-incredible-5-year-warranty-aims-for-6-years-of-updates/

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 177 comments

Org Mode 9.5

https://orgmode.org/Changes.html

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 90 comments

Where do type systems come from? (2017)

http://blog.felipe.rs/2017/07/07/where-do-type-systems-come-from

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 185 comments

Boring SEO guide for the non-lazy

https://boringseo.org/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 57 comments

SpiceDB Is Open Source

https://authzed.com/blog/spicedb-is-open-source/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 43 comments

Things Unlearned

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/things-unlearned/

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 62 comments

Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-enabling-ipv6-support-for-github-pages/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 143 comments

AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-cloud-control-api/

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 75 comments

The biggest churches in the world: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals

https://stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2021/05/07/the-biggest-churches-in-the-world-anglo-norman-eleventh-century-cathedrals/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 108 comments

Discipline by King Crimson

https://www.loudersound.com/features/why-you-should-definitely-own-discipline-by-king-crimson

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 133 comments

The greatest resume I've ever seen

https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/the-greatest-resume-ive-ever-seen

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 146 comments

Sinch to acquire Mailgun

https://www.mailgun.com/blog/sinch-to-acquire-pathwire/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 60 comments

The Great AI Reckoning

https://spectrum.ieee.org/special-reports/the-great-ai-reckoning/

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 180 comments

Why Are Fast Food Workers Signing Noncompetes?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/noncompete-agreement-workers.html

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 83 comments

TaskJuggler – A Free and Open Source Project Management Software

https://taskjuggler.org/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 27 comments

The OpenBSD Webzine

https://webzine.puffy.cafe/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 10 comments

The Bulky Bears of Fat Bear Week 2021

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/get-to-known-the-bodacious-bulky-bears-of-fat-bear-week-2021-180978778/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 46 comments

Linux Achieves 5.1M IOPS Per-Core with AMD Zen 3 and Intel Optane

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.1M-IOPS-Per-Core

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 20 comments

First Human Case of Rabies in Illinois Since 1954

https://www.dph.illinois.gov/news/illinois-department-public-health-reporting-first-human-case-rabies-illinois-1954

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 169 comments

Sensei's Library

https://senseis.xmp.net/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

PwC Tells U.S. Employees They Need Never Return to the Office

https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-pwc-tells-us-employees-they-need-never-return-office-2021-09-30/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments

MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit computer

https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/en/TE0765-03-S001-MEGA65-highly-advanced-C64-and-C65-compatible-8-bit-computer

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 54 comments

Minecraft to add telemetry

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-21w38a

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 123 comments

Low-cost brain computer interface for everyday use

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354935534_Low-cost_brain_computer_interface_for_everyday_use

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer's Share: $951k

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/about/our_national_debt

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 161 comments

Silicon Lottery store closing

https://siliconlottery.com/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

Writing Python Extensions in Assembly

https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/extending-python-with-assembly.html

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 25 comments

Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)

https://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/bibliographic-data-part-2-dublin-cores-dirty-little-secret/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

JSXGraph: Dynamic Mathematics with JavaScript

https://jsxgraph.org/wp/index.html

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute

https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/1443628757676331012

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 70 comments

Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks

https://www.quantamagazine.org/major-quantum-computing-strategy-suffers-serious-setbacks-20210929/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

MovieLabs publishes common ontology for production

https://www.ibc.org/news/movielabs-publishes-common-ontology-for-production/7934.article

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 29 comments

Augmented Reality Ducks

https://tyler.io/augmented-reality-ducks/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks to Kids

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1041864356/instagram-kids-safety-congress-hearing

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

Masten Space Systems is using Ada and Spark to land on the Moon's south pole [pdf]

https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/Masten-case-study.pdf

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Cruise gets permit to give driverless rides to passengers in San Francisco

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/SOFTBANK-GROUP-CORP-6492452/news/GM-s-Cruise-gets-permit-to-give-driverless-rides-to-passengers-in-San-Francisco-36563635/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 1 comments

Sparta was more than an army of super warriors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sparta-much-more-army-warriors-180978583/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 126 comments

Scientists test medieval gunpowder recipes with 15th-century cannon replica

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/scientists-test-medieval-gunpowder-recipes-with-15th-century-cannon-replica/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 62 comments

Ampere Altra Max 128-Core CPU Is Priced Lower Than Flagship Xeon, EPYC CPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ampere-Altra-Max-Pricing&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Phoronix+%28Phoronix%29

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Tell HN: You can block YouTube ads on iOS 15 using Safari Extensions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28706863

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Blue Origin has a toxic culture, former and current employees say

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/former-blue-origin-employees-decry-safety-and-sexist-culture-at-the-company/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 73 comments

Let's Encrypt DST Root CA X3 has expired

https://twitter.com/letsencrypt/status/1443621997288767491

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Are SSDs More Reliable Than Hard Drives?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-ssds-really-more-reliable-than-hard-drives/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Developers, your manager is likely clueless

https://ewattwhere.substack.com/p/developers-your-manager-is-likely

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 96 comments

Fun with Glibc and the Ctype.h Functions

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/09/29/alnum/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

What a crossword AI reveals about humans' way with words

https://www.wired.com/story/crossword-ai-humans-way-with-words/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 49 comments

People are spending $3 for an app to get rid of Google AMP

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1442574243045253122

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Learning to Superoptimize real-world programs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13498

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments
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