top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-24

Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053940024057857

4 years ago

1417 upvotes – 405 comments

Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38_of_bug/

4 years ago

1292 upvotes – 255 comments

NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts

https://citizenlab.ca/2021/10/breaking-news-new-york-times-journalist-ben-hubbard-pegasus/

4 years ago

1062 upvotes – 310 comments

Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf

4 years ago

718 upvotes – 258 comments

Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053941504684036

4 years ago

653 upvotes – 318 comments

Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

https://borncity.com/win/2021/10/23/microsoft-signiert-windows-treiber-fr-process-hacker-nicht-mehr/

4 years ago

650 upvotes – 518 comments

The Financial Times’ 404 page

https://www.ft.com/3lJQa6w

4 years ago

609 upvotes – 90 comments

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601

https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

4 years ago

514 upvotes – 172 comments

5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

https://kwcodes.com/how-i-failed-5-side-projects-in-6-years-earning-0/

4 years ago

472 upvotes – 198 comments

Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/proton-wins-appeal-in-swiss-court-over-surveillance-laws/47052196

4 years ago

420 upvotes – 69 comments

To learn a new language, read its standard library

http://patshaughnessy.net/2021/10/23/to-learn-a-new-language-read-its-standard-library

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 236 comments

New language features since Java 8 to 17

https://advancedweb.hu/new-language-features-since-java-8-to-17/

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 351 comments

Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28973942

4 years ago

325 upvotes – 259 comments

Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28976069

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 268 comments

Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart

https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/22/melioidosis-outbreak-georgia-walmart/

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 214 comments

Barcelona’s Bicibús: hundreds of families biking to school together

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1047341052/barcelona-bicibus-kids-parents-bike-ride-to-school

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 179 comments

Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

https://www.jetsonaero.com/

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 237 comments

We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

https://buildtheearth.net/

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 92 comments

Self studying the MIT applied math curriculum (2019)

https://www.smallstepcap.com/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 44 comments

Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/oct-23-vikings-in-newfoundland-new-rocks-from-the-moon-making-wood-better-and-more-1.6219865/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-harden-wood-to-make-a-knife-that-rivals-steel-1.6219874

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 162 comments

Signal for Help

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

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 98 comments

Gunship “Tech Noir” Breakdown

https://synthctrl.com/blogs/blog/gunship-tech-noir-breakdown

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 76 comments

A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/10/23/a-cautionary-tale-from-the-streets-of-san-francisco

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 354 comments

230 people living communally on 175 acre eco village [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-uH36w9xg8

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 215 comments

Goodnight Dune (2011)

https://goodnightdune.com/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 23 comments

EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20211022-eu-research-reveals-long-term-brain-damage-caused-by-covid

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 189 comments

Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka

https://blog.michielborkent.nl/migrating-octopress-to-babashka.html

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 27 comments

New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease

https://thewalrus.ca/new-brunswicks-medical-mystery/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 90 comments

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 49 comments

Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021

https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2021/percentage-of-hacker-news-job-postings-that-mention-a-remote-option.html

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

OK Lenovo, we need to talk

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2021-10-04_ok_lenovo_we_need_to_talk/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: Made a web app to read a book carefully, paragraph by paragraph

https://readwok.com

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 33 comments

Signed integers are asymmetrical

https://borretti.me/article/signed-integers-asymmetrical

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 148 comments

Polyhedra Viewer: Visualize relationships between convex regular-faced polyhedra

https://polyhedra.tessera.li/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 13 comments

Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, grep and ripgrep

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 48 comments

Why did Dostoyevsky write Crime and Punishment?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/dostoyevsky-crime-punishment-birmingham-sinner-saint/620175/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 95 comments

Two conspiracy theories about cola

https://dynomight.net/cola/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 141 comments

Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018)

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/13/let-s-put-an-end-to-prosecutorial-immunity

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28979602

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 125 comments

NSA's Key Role in Major Developments in Computer Science [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/01/2002754533/-1/-1/0/6586785-NSA-KEY-ROLE-IN-MAJOR-DEVELOPMENTS-IN-COMPUTER-SCIENCE.PDF

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

https://londondaily.com/cnn-goes-first-two-weeks-of-october-without-any-program-reaching-1-million-viewers

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 102 comments

A few of the best math explainers from this summer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Qixy-r_rQ

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 8 comments

Habits I've developed for fast and efficient programming

https://cprimozic.net/blog/programming-speed-strategies/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 102 comments

Message from cycling heaven: it’s not that fantastic here

https://bikecity.amsterdam.nl/en/trending/bericht-uit-de-fietshemel-het-hier-niet-fantastisch-en/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 203 comments

Supercharge Your Node.js with Rust

https://yieldcode.blog/supercharge-nodejs-with-rust/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Pimp My Readme

https://pimp-my-readme.webapp.io/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

The most brilliant bookshops in the world

https://www.ft.com/content/42bb3a0f-ba18-4dc7-ae8a-570fd989cbfc

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments
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