top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-09

EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=247056&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=6413406

4 years ago

It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812281

4 years ago

HN 15 Years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09

4 years ago

The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/american-bumblebee-has-vanished-from-eight-us-states-180978817/

4 years ago

Pandora Papers: is the world’s biggest leak the world’s biggest cover-up?

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/pandora-papers-is-the-worlds-biggest-leak-the-worlds-biggest-cover-up/

4 years ago

O&O ShutUp10++ – Free anti-spy tool for Windows 10, 11

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

4 years ago

Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree

https://stundin.is/grein/14117/

4 years ago

VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812486

4 years ago

Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/55577729/gmail-password-first-character-is-case-insensitive-on-mobile-device?hl=en

4 years ago

Neural Networks from Scratch

https://aegeorge42.github.io/

4 years ago

Blue light from monitors no danger to eyes or sleep

https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/127272/Blaues-Licht-von-Monitoren-laut-Fachgesellschaft-keine-Gefahr-fuer-Augen-oder-Schlaf

4 years ago

Graph of Keybase commits pre and post Zoom acquisition

https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/contributors

4 years ago

ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20211009/

4 years ago

The Ć Programming Language

https://github.com/pfusik/cito/blob/master/ci.md

4 years ago

Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS

https://sixcolors.com/link/2021/10/googles-apps-to-embrace-ios-on-ios/

4 years ago

Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q3smfr/unfollow_everything_developer_banned_for_life/

4 years ago

My Emotions as a CEO

https://ryancaldbeck.co/2021/10/08/my-emotions-as-a-ceo/

4 years ago

Real-world data show that filters clean Covid-causing virus from air

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02669-2

4 years ago

Self-parking Car in 500 Lines of Code

https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/self-parking-car-evolution/

4 years ago

The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America

https://www.primalsurvivor.net/living-off-grid-legal/

4 years ago

AT&T’s Abandoned Microwave Tower Network (2017)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vintage-skynet-atts-abandoned-long-lines-microwave-tower-network/

4 years ago

MIT 18.404J – Theory of Computation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWY

4 years ago

How to Evaluate Startup Offers

https://faingezicht.com/articles/2021/09/20/evaluating-startup-offers/

4 years ago

A new biography of John von Neumann

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/a-new-biography-explains-the-genius-of-john-von-neumann/21805346

4 years ago

Show HN: OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard

https://www.ourboard.io/

4 years ago

China proposes prohibiting private investment in news service sector

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/china-s-negative-list-adds-entry-limits-to-news-service-sector

4 years ago

After Dark (90's screensavers) in CSS

https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/#

4 years ago

The Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet (2017)

https://awilkinson.medium.com/the-berkshire-hathaway-of-the-internet-391a8ee83db

4 years ago

Free resources to promote your next startup

https://github.com/trekhleb/promote-your-next-startup

4 years ago

Pioneering work that has changed our understanding of migraines

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/09/can-migraines-be-untangled-by-new-medical-thinking

4 years ago

Why Did Satoshi Decide to Use Secp256k1 Instead of Secp256r1?

https://dappworks.com/why-did-satoshi-decide-to-use-secp256k1-instead-of-secp256r1/

4 years ago

Your Money and Your Life (Edward Snowden)

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs

4 years ago

Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and mental health

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043138622/facebook-instagram-teens-mental-health

4 years ago

Nuclear waste is a solved problem

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/from-the-comments-on-nuclear-waste-storage.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is your story of immigrating to another country?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28808468

4 years ago

Closing The Portal App

https://blog.pushbullet.com/2021/10/04/closing-the-portal-app

4 years ago

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist

https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist

4 years ago

Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

https://www.imore.com/apple-rejects-developers-horoscope-app-says-app-store-has-enough

4 years ago

For Teen Girls, Instagram Is a Cesspool

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/instagram-teen-girls-mental-health.html

4 years ago

DPRK Textbooks

https://archive.org/details/DPRKTexts

4 years ago

The Mind Has No Firewall (1998) [pdf]

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1871&context=parameters

4 years ago

Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Software

https://www.fdl-lef.org/

4 years ago

Facebook shouldn’t be in charge of how you use Facebook

https://doctorow.medium.com/facebook-shouldnt-be-in-charge-of-how-you-use-facebook-bda6de5dcc58

4 years ago

Soupault is a tool that helps you create and manage static websites

https://soupault.app/

4 years ago

The Xterm Window Manager Homepage

https://xtermwm.sourceforge.io/

4 years ago

Modern Crocodiles Are Evolving at a Rapid Rate

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/modern-crocodiles-are-evolving-rapid-rate-180978432/

4 years ago

Python and Lua (2019)

https://brmmm3.github.io/posts/2019/07/28/python_and_lua/

4 years ago

Phillip Cross: A Mystery Wikipedia Editor Targeting Anti-War Sites

https://www.mintpressnews.com/phillip-cross-the-mystery-wikipedia-editor-targeting-anti-war-sites/250824/

4 years ago

“If You Are Not Drowning in Demand, You Don’t Have Product-Market Fit” (2017)

https://capitalandgrowth.org/michael-seibel/

4 years ago

Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/mozilla-firefox/258006/is-mozilla-firefox-getting-sketchy#

4 years ago

30 days ago I was an Apple employee

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1446882093305319424

4 years ago

Reddit uses “reddit.com” itself as the endpoint for logging usage data

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1446556836497264641

4 years ago