top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-07

Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest

4 years ago

748 upvotes – 690 comments

Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/10/09/facebook-is-nearing-a-reputational-point-of-no-return

4 years ago

685 upvotes – 578 comments

Moths in slow motion [video]

https://aeon.co/videos/witness-the-majesty-of-moths-taking-flight-at-6000-frames-per-second

4 years ago

661 upvotes – 120 comments

Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

4 years ago

620 upvotes – 264 comments

Bitcoin is a Ponzi

https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html

4 years ago

504 upvotes – 650 comments

Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether

4 years ago

500 upvotes – 475 comments

Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-project.html

4 years ago

451 upvotes – 160 comments

Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin

https://www.kxan.com/news/business/elon-musk-announces-teslas-headquarters-will-move-to-austin/

4 years ago

435 upvotes – 643 comments

Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h

https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2021/Drone-in-the-wild.html

4 years ago

430 upvotes – 232 comments

AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next

https://object-storage-name-generator.com/

4 years ago

420 upvotes – 147 comments

Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/cloudflare-doesnt-have-to-cut-off-copyright-infringing-websites-judge-rules/

4 years ago

407 upvotes – 176 comments

Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-dutch-watchdog-finds-apple-app-store-payment-rules-anti-competitive-2021-10-07/

4 years ago

371 upvotes – 236 comments

Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months

https://mbuffett.com/posts/chess_improvement_thoughts/

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 192 comments

Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests

https://github.com/Ildaron/Laser_control

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 161 comments

How to train large deep learning models as a startup

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-train-large-deep-learning-models-as-a-startup/

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 81 comments

How Facebook is trying to recover the money it lost during the outage

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-facebook-is-trying-to-recover-the-money-it-lost-during-the-outage-03a6ec6218

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 66 comments

Eidos-Montréal Offices shifting to the 4 day work week

https://www.eidosmontreal.com/news/eidos-montreal-and-eidos-sherbrooke-shifting-to-the-4-day-work-week/

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 123 comments

Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disadvantaged aspiring devs

https://www.underdogdevs.org

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 107 comments

Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users

https://metebalci.com/blog/hello-ipv6/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 92 comments

Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-pauses-use-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-young-men-2021-10-07/

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 376 comments

Faster Python with Guido van Rossum

https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-34-faster-python

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 245 comments

Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28788540

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 207 comments

Paddle announces iOS IAP alternative that avoids Apple's 30% fees

https://paddle.com/platform/in-app-purchase/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 148 comments

Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy

https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/how-android-wallpaper-images-threaten-privacy/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 76 comments

A lesser known mechanism for alcohol tolerance

https://trevorklee.com/a-lesser-known-mechanism-for-alcohol-tolerance/

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 144 comments

“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”

https://twitter.com/ladyaeva/status/1445834339917320194

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 160 comments

Help Us Find the Apps That Sell Your Location

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/10/07/help-us-find-the-apps-that-sell-your-location

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 37 comments

Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 297 comments

Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer

https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/protein-complex-prediction-with-alphafold-multimer

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 21 comments

Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/07/1044010141/diet-soda-may-prompt-food-cravings-especially-in-women-and-people-with-obesity

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 239 comments

Samsung Foundry Forum announcements

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 124 comments

USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on Oct. 2

https://www.cpf.navy.mil/News/Article/2797630/statement-regarding-uss-connecticut-ssn-22/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 173 comments

The road to OCaml 5.0

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/the-road-to-ocaml-5-0/8584

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 115 comments

It feels like America is running out of everything

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 312 comments

The Structure of a Stand-Up Comedy (2018)

https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 39 comments

M1 Inside a G4 Sunflower iMac

https://twitter.com/ColbySheets/status/1445513559580893200

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 66 comments

Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists

https://shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/gentle-introduction-to-fluid-simulation-for-programmers-and-technical-artists-7c0045c40bac

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 22 comments

Constitution Grove – the Navy’s White Oak Forest on a High Tech Base (2020)

http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2020/11/constitution-grove-the-navys-white-oak-forest-on-a-high-tech-base/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 61 comments

Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content

https://www.axios.com/google-youtube-climate-change-734f2b05-40e2-4e05-9100-39de589b3b0a.html

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 160 comments

Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record

https://news.gallup.com/poll/355526/americans-trust-media-dips-second-lowest-record.aspx

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 216 comments

Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill

https://www.advantaira.com/blog/urgent-action-needed-to-protect-your-self-directed-ira/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 299 comments

Facebook Political Problems

https://stratechery.com/2021/facebook-political-problems/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 150 comments

Employees given three months to return to Facebook office

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/facebook-ends-wfh-forever-rule-after-mega-outage

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 117 comments

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Alzheimer's

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293997/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 61 comments

RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/10/renderingng.html

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 157 comments

California is shutting down its last nuclear plant

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/02/why-is-california-closing-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant.html

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 140 comments

A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers

https://biotinker.dev/posts/cider.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 40 comments

Retired Husband Syndrome

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

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 133 comments

An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 80 comments

Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-first-ever-atomic-resolution-video-salt.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

El Salvador's Bitcoin use grows but headaches persist

https://www.reuters.com/technology/one-month-el-salvadors-bitcoin-use-grows-headaches-persist-2021-10-07/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 166 comments

Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga (2018)

https://blog.nil.im/?76

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

Effective Code Browsing

https://aknooh.github.io/posts/effective-code-browsing-part1/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

Understanding Shannon's Entropy metric for Information [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2061

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

GitHub Advisory Database now powers NPM audit

https://github.blog/2021-10-07-github-advisory-database-now-powers-npm-audit/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 63 comments

Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes?

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-10-07/why-arent-automatic-braking-systems-stopping-deadly-tesla-crashes

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 138 comments

Intel CEO Cites Brexit as Reason for Chip Fab Plans in UK Not an Option

https://www.techpowerup.com/287574/intel-ceo-cites-brexit-as-reason-for-chip-fab-plans-in-uk-not-an-option

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 114 comments

The History of OS/2 (2001)

http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 50 comments

The Ampere Altra Max Review: Pushing It to 128 Cores per Socket

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-review-pushing-it-to-128-cores-per-socket

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer”

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/o3k5rt/safari_15_on_mac_os_a_user_interface_mess/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 140 comments

Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793637

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Remembering Huxley's “Brave New World”

https://psydef.substack.com/p/brave-new-world

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 82 comments

Stgi: A visual STG implementation to understand GHC/Haskell's execution model

https://github.com/quchen/stgi

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 5 comments

Instanced Line Rendering Part II: Alpha Blending

https://wwwtyro.net/2021/10/01/instanced-lines-part-2.html

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

C++ is faster and safer than Rust (2020)

https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/0733/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

A blank wall can show how many people are in a room and what they’re doing

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-blank-wall-can-show-how-many-people-are-in-a-room-and-what-theyre-doing/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging vaccine mandate

https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/legal-update-10521

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 110 comments

Is Ford about to reinvent the bicycle derailleur?

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/products/are-ford-about-to-reinvent-the-bicycle-derailleur

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 114 comments

“Put on the Diamonds”: Notes on Humiliation

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/put-on-the-diamonds-notes-on-humiliation-vivian-gornick/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 59 comments
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