top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-14

Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-vows-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-who-found-flaw-in-state-website/

4 years ago

1300 upvotes – 678 comments

Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-development-fund/

4 years ago

826 upvotes – 280 comments

Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices

https://github.com/basti564/Oculess

4 years ago

816 upvotes – 382 comments

Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler

https://esbuild.github.io/

4 years ago

679 upvotes – 281 comments

Gitlab from YC to IPO

https://blog.ycombinator.com/gitlab-from-yc-to-ipo/

4 years ago

632 upvotes – 250 comments

Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

https://syncthing.net/

4 years ago

545 upvotes – 230 comments

Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

https://web.archive.org/web/20211014200658/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1773420/software-development-engineer

4 years ago

511 upvotes – 114 comments

Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/missouri-governor-vows-to-prosecute-st-louis-post-dispatch-for-reporting-security-vulnerability/

4 years ago

458 upvotes – 131 comments

Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/former-boeing-737-max-chief-technical-pilot-indicted-fraud

4 years ago

446 upvotes – 344 comments

Tech compensation in 2021

https://jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/tech-salaries-2021/

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 606 comments

How to win at CORS

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/cors/

4 years ago

389 upvotes – 122 comments

FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-puts-hundreds-businesses-notice-about-fake-reviews-other

4 years ago

382 upvotes – 270 comments

Michelin Airless

https://www.michelin.com/en/innovation/vision-concept/airless/

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 308 comments

The Serde Rust Framework

https://serde.rs/

4 years ago

360 upvotes – 152 comments

Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/every-search-bar-looks-like-a-url-bar-to-users/

4 years ago

360 upvotes – 408 comments

OpenBSD 7.0

https://www.openbsd.org/70.html

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28861949

4 years ago

300 upvotes – 719 comments

Hands-On Rust: Effective Learning Through 2D Game Development and Play

https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 75 comments

SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows

https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 147 comments

FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-whistleblower-leaks-restricts-staff-access-message-boards-elections-safety-2021-10

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 159 comments

Ubuntu 21.10

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-21-10-has-landed

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 291 comments

An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Britain

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/welcome-britain-bank-scam-capital-world-2021-10-14/

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 216 comments

What I wish I knew when learning F#

https://danielbachler.de/2020/12/23/what-i-wish-i-knew-when-learning-fsharp.html

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 147 comments

Child suicides in Japan hit record high

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20211013_19/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 237 comments

Parcel v2

https://parceljs.org/blog/v2/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 100 comments

Y Combinator company “skip the interview” reaches top ten of r/recruitinghell

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/q80h7h/tech_bro_invents_a_skip_the_interview_tool_where/

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 206 comments

Doom Rendered via Checkboxes

https://healeycodes.com/doom-rendered-via-checkboxes

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 33 comments

Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/136/4/2615/6281042

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 401 comments

Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/climate/un-biodiversity-conference-climate-change.html

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 161 comments

Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/spinozas-religion-clare-carlisle-god-einstein-philosophy-religion-review

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 355 comments

We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star

https://theconversation.com/weve-spotted-a-planet-surviving-its-dying-star-heres-what-it-tells-us-about-end-of-our-solar-system-169514

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-handset-market-operating-profit-q2-2021/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 256 comments

On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality

https://rachelsruminations.com/certificate-loss-nationality/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 248 comments

Global Climate Report – September 2021

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202109

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 144 comments

Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/phthalates-deaths-older-americans-study-chemicals

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 68 comments

UK MP speech about freedoms censored by YouTube

https://twitter.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1448544035799552004

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: OtterTune – Automated Database Tuning Service for RDS MySQL/Postgres

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28868382

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 63 comments

First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star (2020)

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 41 comments

Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/alden-global-capital-killing-americas-newspapers/620171/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 81 comments

Sunset Geometry (2016)

https://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 30 comments

Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (1996) [pdf]

https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/PDF/SevenDeadlySins.pdf

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 110 comments

The Framework Laptop Could Revolutionize Repairability. We Hope It Does

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/framework-laptop/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 49 comments

After two hours zinc oxide sunscreen loses effectiveness, becomes toxic: study

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hours-sunscreen-zinc-oxide-effectiveness.html

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05960

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 21 comments

The Decline of Django

https://www.david-dahan.com/blog/the-decline-of-django

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 163 comments

Emacs Lisp Readable Closures (2013)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/12/30/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Boeing says certain 787 parts improperly manufactured

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-deals-with-new-defect-787-dreamliner-wsj-2021-10-14/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 70 comments

‘Nanotargeting’ Facebook users based on their perceived interests

https://www.unite.ai/facebook-nanotargeting-users-based-solely-on-their-perceived-interests/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

Steal This Comic

https://xkcd.com/488/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

Practice Problems for Hardware Engineers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06526

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

You Already Know Formal Methods

https://galois.com/blog/2021/10/you-already-know-formal-methods/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

How to Ship the World’s Largest Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/how-to-ship-the-world-s-largest-space-telescope-5800-miles-across-the-ocean/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 53 comments

Kyoto – Build Front End with Golang

https://kyoto.codes

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Instagram took down post with figure from paper showing male advantage in sports

https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1448064426670583814

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

WEIR-A System for Making Generative Systems

https://github.com/inconvergent/weir

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

By 2500 earth could be alien to humans

https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/news/2500-earth-could-be-alien-humans-334080

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 99 comments
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