top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-25

The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vqkv/how-fbi-gets-phone-data-att-tmobile-verizon

4 years ago

Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10063665/Government-orders-Google-track-searching-certain-names-addresses-phone-numbers.html

4 years ago

Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office

https://cric-code.pankajtanwar.in/

4 years ago

WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers

https://www.quastor.org/p/how-whatsapp-scaled-to-1-billion

4 years ago

Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility

https://github.com/nuta/kerla

4 years ago

macOS Monterey

https://www.apple.com/macos/monterey/

4 years ago

Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-promised-lucrative-tech-coding-career-low-job-placement-2021-10

4 years ago

Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip

https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2021/10/takua-on-m1-max.html

4 years ago

PiBox Mini – Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server

https://pibox.io

4 years ago

Jury hands victory to Facebook and Oculus VR founder in Rift ownership trial

https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/tech/jury-hands-victory-to-facebook-and-oculus-vr-founder-in-rift-ownership-trial/

4 years ago

My experience of losing a friend to heroin (2020)

https://mattlakeman.org/2020/01/22/the-new-epidemic-my-experience-of-losing-a-friend-to-heroin/

4 years ago

I don’t know how to count that low

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t-know-how-to-count-that-low

4 years ago

Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot

https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

4 years ago

Hertz orders 100k Teslas

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/hertz-orders-100-000-teslas-tsla-stock-soars

4 years ago

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/

4 years ago

Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performance-review

4 years ago

Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications

https://nodered.org/

4 years ago

Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)

https://www.monterail.com/blog/2016/smart-office-raspberry-pi

4 years ago

Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation

https://www.flightglobal.com/flight-international/why-aviations-compass-is-shifting-towards-true-navigation/145663.article

4 years ago

Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/25/facebook-market-dominance-whistleblower-516918

4 years ago

EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/25/john_gilmore_removed_from_eff_board/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Which NoCode platforms are fine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28984955

4 years ago

14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack

https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/10/review-14-inch-macbook-pro-2021/

4 years ago

50 years ago, The Electric Company used comedy to boost kids' reading skills

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048365940/50-years-ago-the-electric-company-used-comedy-to-boost-kids-reading-skills

4 years ago

Banning anonymous social media accounts would only stifle free speech, democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/25/banning-anonymous-social-media-accounts-stifle-free-speech-abuse

4 years ago

The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings

https://doi.apa.org/fulltext/2021-77825-003.html

4 years ago

An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-atomic-clock-promises-link-between-quantum-world-and-gravity-20211025/

4 years ago

The Facebook Papers: dozens of stories based on whistleblower docs dropped

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-papers-mark-zuckerberg-frances-haugen-leaked-docs-2021-10

4 years ago

Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem

https://gilesbowkett.com/blog/2021/08/15/fork-freshness-project-lifespans-in-the-ruby-ecosystem/

4 years ago

Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100/

4 years ago

Show HN: Flatmap – a new tool to make vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data fast

https://github.com/onthegomap/flatmap

4 years ago

Project SPHINX – When the USSR tried to change the computer (2019)

https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/project-sphinx-when-the-ussr-tried-to-change-the-computer/

4 years ago

History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

4 years ago

Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership

https://pastebin.com/RF6015kv

4 years ago

Ephemeralization

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

4 years ago

Grand mosaic of the Milky Way is now larger than ever

https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2021/10/grand-mosaic-of-milky-way-is-now-large.html

4 years ago

Nim receives $100k in Bitcoin donations

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/10/25/nim-receives-100k-usd-bitcoin.html

4 years ago

WWII ships from Battle of Iwo Jima raised by volcanic activity, seismic shifts

https://taiwanenglishnews.com/volcanic-activity-seismic-shifts-wwii-ships-from-battle-of-iwo-jima-raised-from-watery-graves/

4 years ago

Car accidents cause death, injury and trauma. Why do we shrug them off?

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/car-accidents-cause-death-injury-trauma-why-do-we-shrug-ncna1282193

4 years ago

Prince of Persia has been released for the Atari XL/XE

https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/prince-of-persia-for-the-atari-xl-xe-a-deserved-port-hits-the-atari-8-bit-computers

4 years ago

I’ve been reading a whole lot about tomatoes

https://buttondown.email/hardwarethings/archive/hardware-things-im-betting-that-you-need-a-break/

4 years ago

Luxe: Cross platform, rapid development game engine

https://luxeengine.com/about/

4 years ago

We memo all the things (2020)

https://attardi.org/why-we-memo-all-the-things/

4 years ago

Viewing website HTML code is not illegal or “hacking,” prof. tells Missouri gov.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-html-code-is-not-illegal-or-hacking-prof-tells-missouri-gov/

4 years ago

Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sierra Space, Boeing

https://www.orbitalreef.com

4 years ago

MTA tests new subway map that evokes jettisoned 1972 version

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mta-tests-new-subway-map-that-evokes-jettisoned-1972-version-11634119201

4 years ago

Fun with Nano Server

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/10/17/fun-with-nano-server/

4 years ago

Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt

https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-sudan-amid-reports-of-coup-attempt-Q8ov93yn

4 years ago

Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2021/Facebook-Reports-Third-Quarter-2021-Results/

4 years ago

The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text

https://blog.battlefy.com/the-strangely-difficult-problem-of-drawing-a-box-around-text-e6a70bdf6bb9?gi=79a10e112449

4 years ago

Venture Fund Model

https://my.causal.app/models/7140

4 years ago

The Jonathan Computer

http://www.storiesofapple.net/the-jonathan-computer.html

4 years ago

Microservices and the layers to watch for when architecting your system

https://www.infoq.com/articles/consistency-coupling-complexity/

4 years ago

Google intentionally slowed down non-AMP ads to give AMP a boost?

https://twitter.com/tmcw/status/1451938637982142467

4 years ago

Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting politicians bend rules

https://www.ft.com/content/67ad6eda-eb1c-4c97-bb3e-464c65bd63e7

4 years ago

Ask HN: Can you please add transcription to vocal messages in messaging apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992195

4 years ago

Rewriting Reddit (2005)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

4 years ago

Huawei paid Tony Podesta $500k to lobby the White House

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/huawei-paid-tony-podesta-500000-to-lobby-white-house.html

4 years ago

Photos are too flattering now

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/10/internet-lost-bad-photos/620463/

4 years ago

Exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON

https://notes.eatonphil.com/exploring-plpgsql.html

4 years ago

Art Vote

https://artvote.net/

4 years ago

Toxoplasmosis associated with entrepreneurial initiation and performance (2020)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336798958_Nothing_Ventured_Nothing_Gained_Parasite_Infection_is_Associated_with_Entrepreneurial_Initiation_Engagement_and_Performance

4 years ago

Show HN: Online editor to create animated SVG

https://bestsnip.com/svg_animation/

4 years ago

System sniffs out hardware trojans in electromagnetic emissions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hardware-trojan

4 years ago

Resonate: A music streaming service structured as a cooperative

https://resonate.is/about/

4 years ago

Servicing and repairing electric cars requires new skills

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/servicing-and-repairing-electric-cars-requires-new-skills/21805752

4 years ago

Blamer.el: A Git blame plugin for Emacs inspired by VS Code’s GitLens plugin

https://github.com/Artawower/blamer.el

4 years ago

Tesla shares surpass $1T in value

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/business/tesla-trillion-stock-price.html

4 years ago