top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-02

Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account

https://medium.com/@sixacegames/how-google-destroyed-our-startup-by-terminating-our-google-play-developer-account-6a8cca09ea88

4 years ago

499 upvotes – 303 comments

Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings

https://vksegfault.github.io//posts/gentle-intro-gpu-inner-workings/

4 years ago

447 upvotes – 55 comments

Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Google-developing-own-CPUs-for-Chromebook-laptops

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 383 comments

Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/apple-amazon-microsoft-disney-lobby-groups-climate-bill-analysis

4 years ago

371 upvotes – 292 comments

Farmer born in 1842 talks about life and change (1929) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9ctCudvlw

4 years ago

346 upvotes – 207 comments

Insider trading by executives is pervasive – research

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-29/is-stock-market-rigged-insider-trading-by-executives-is-pervasive-critics-say

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 180 comments

The Martians of Budapest

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-martians-of-budapest-03b

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 157 comments

The Wayforward Machine

https://wayforward.archive.org/

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 153 comments

Ransomware gangs are complaining that other crooks are stealing their ransoms

https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-ransomware-crooks-are-complaining-they-are-getting-ripped-off-by-other-ransomware-crooks/

4 years ago

297 upvotes – 108 comments

The new dot com bubble is online advertising (2019)

https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-here-its-called-online-advertising

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 167 comments

Gollum – A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 39 comments

Facebook Struggles to Quell Uproar over Instagram’s Effect on Teens

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/technology/facebook-instagram-teenagers.html

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 208 comments

A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 80 comments

Ligne Claire

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

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 63 comments

The human tendency to over-water plants

https://dirtwise.substack.com/p/are-you-hydro-phobic

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 106 comments

This career feels like a few key hours with year-long cool-down periods

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/pzofk7/this_career_feels_like_a_few_key_hours_every_year/

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 144 comments

PICO-8 – Fantasy Console

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 91 comments

Coinbase Cloud

https://www.coinbase.com/cloud

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 162 comments

Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips

https://jalopnik.com/i-asked-experts-why-carmakers-cant-just-transition-to-n-1847739665

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 325 comments

Factorio's Belt Bug

http://pubby.games/factorio.html

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 63 comments

Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/09/29/why-we-spent-the-last-month-eliminating-postgresql-subtransactions/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 14 comments

Common Lisp

https://lisp-lang.org/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 61 comments

Dune: A Shell by the Beach

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/dune

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 34 comments

International Mail Service Suspensions

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 156 comments

Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10

https://www.pcworld.com/article/539183/windows-11-review-an-unnecessary-replacement-for-windows-10.html

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 183 comments

Mac SE/30 Odyssey

http://axio.ms//blog/2021/10/02/MacSE30.html

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 52 comments

What Happened to Treehouse?

https://medium.com/@treehouse.insider/what-happened-to-treehouse-9af5c4901518

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 108 comments

BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer

https://www.carscoops.com/2021/10/bmws-new-overspray-free-paint-works-like-an-inkjet-printer-and-allows-limitless-customizations/

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 89 comments

Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging

https://www.annalsofian.org/article.asp?issn=0972-2327;year=2016;volume=19;issue=4;spage=448;epage=450;aulast=Bhattacharyya

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 33 comments

Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system

https://www.archivematica.org/en/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Dependently typed language for proofs that you can implement in one day

https://github.com/caotic123/PomPom-Language

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 96 comments

PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/10/01/pipewire-and-fixing-the-linux-video-capture-stack/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 37 comments

Downsides to planting trillions of trees

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22679378/tree-planting-forest-restoration-climate-solutions

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 130 comments

Traces of 122 different pesticides in 12 most polluted fruit and veg products

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/29/cocktail-pesticides-almost-all-oranges-grapes-uk-study

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 91 comments

The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’

https://daringfireball.net/2021/10/the_tragedy_of_safari_15_quote_unquote_tabs

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 16 comments

X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/x-rays-reveal-censored-portions-of-marie-antoinettes-letters-to-swedish-count/

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 69 comments

The curious DNA circles that make treating cancer so hard

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/oncology/curious-DNA-circles-make-treating/98/i40

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 61 comments

WebGoat is a deliberately insecure application

https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

DroneSploit – A pentesting console framework dedicated to drones

https://github.com/dhondta/dronesploit

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 13 comments

Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding

https://newatlas.com/science/brain-cleaning-skullcap-sleep-glymphatic-system-us-army/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

Tanaka Hisashige, builder of the Myriad Year Clock (2016)

https://watchesbysjx.com/2016/09/how-japans-thomas-edison-built-the-nations-most-complicated-clock.html

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

Mt32-pi: A baremetal Roland MT-32 emulator

https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 21 comments

As a whistleblower prepares to speak out, what can be done to rein in Facebook?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/02/facebook-whistleblower-tech-firms-social-media-instagram-children-mental-health-us-senators

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 119 comments

In-ears headphones fit matters a lot

https://www.soundguys.com/how-your-in-ears-fit-matters-a-lot-21686/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 103 comments

Details of some 100M visitors to Thailand exposed online

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3149475/details-some-100-million-visitors-thailand-exposed-online

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s7NmMl_-yg

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 160 comments

Tesla Q3 2021 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q3-2021-vehicle-production-deliveries

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 88 comments

Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (2012)

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-19812064

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 86 comments

End of the line for Japan's only all-double-decker 'Max' E4 series bullet train

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210930/p2a/00m/0bu/024000c

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

So you want to go to grad school (in the academic humanities)?

https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

Mysterious Stone Orbs Stashed All over Neolithic Britain

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mysterious-neolithic-stone-balls

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 62 comments

Building with Nix on Replit

https://docs.replit.com/tutorials/30-build-with-nix

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 48 comments

The Making of Donkey Kong 64 (2019)

https://www.gamesradar.com/making-of-donkey-kong-64/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

Riesz Proves the Riesz Representation Theorem

http://nonagon.org/ExLibris/riesz-proves-riesz-representation-theorem

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Hunter S. Thompson Interview on Gonzo Journalism (1975) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRqLcD-1sE

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/alexa-ring-and-astro-wheres-my-privacy-amazon/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 38 comments

Six more zeros are to be removed from Venezuelan currency

https://en.mercopress.com/2021/10/01/fear-reigns-among-venezuelans-as-six-more-zeros-are-to-be-removed-from-local-currency

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 124 comments

Google Is Scrapping Its Plan to Offer Bank Accounts to Users

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-is-scrapping-its-plan-to-offer-bank-accounts-to-users-11633104001

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – European authorities

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/02/europol_atm_bombing/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 84 comments
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