top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-11

Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/earn-it-threatens-encryption-and-therefore-user-freedom

4 years ago

990 upvotes – 201 comments

uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?sort=users&type=extension

4 years ago

858 upvotes – 398 comments

Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-knesset-passes-law-barring-palestinian-spouses-2022-03-10/

4 years ago

628 upvotes – 668 comments

Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?

https://smaller.fish/posts/language

4 years ago

421 upvotes – 333 comments

How To Do Less

https://alexturek.com/2022-03-07-How-to-do-less/

4 years ago

413 upvotes – 71 comments

HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

https://www.heywhatsthat.com/

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 52 comments

Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/22971307/twitter-home-timeline-algorithmic-reverse-chronological-feed

4 years ago

357 upvotes – 224 comments

Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

https://lukechampine.com/goldilocks/

4 years ago

338 upvotes – 195 comments

Roland 50 Studio

https://roland50.studio/

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 77 comments

You don't ever own an electric vehicle

https://www.reviewgeek.com/111381/you-dont-really-ever-own-an-ev/

4 years ago

316 upvotes – 404 comments

U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-eliminates-human-controls-requirement-fully-automated-vehicles-2022-03-11/

4 years ago

296 upvotes – 367 comments

Convert curl commands to code in several languages

https://curlconverter.com/

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 86 comments

No hello – please don't just say hello in chat

https://nohello.net/en/

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 77 comments

Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)

https://dontasktoask.com/

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 366 comments

Barrier: Share mouse and keyboard between computers

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 119 comments

Scripting with Go

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/scripting

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 66 comments

Minimal Viable Product is old and busted

https://michaeldehaan.substack.com/p/minimal-viable-product-is-old-and

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 129 comments

Inside Putin's Circle

https://www.ft.com/content/503fb110-f91e-4bed-b6dc-0d09582dd007

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 225 comments

Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year's comp review cycle?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635501

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 277 comments

What Google search isn’t showing you

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/what-google-search-isnt-showing-you

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 181 comments

Shopify's Data Science and Engineering Foundations (2020)

https://shopify.engineering/shopifys-data-science-engineering-foundations

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 25 comments

Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook

https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-meta-would-have-cease-work-russia-if-reuters-report-is-true-2022-03-11/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 348 comments

FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2022/03/foundationdb-distributed-unbundled.html

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 84 comments

Why Single Sign on Sucks

https://goteleport.com/blog/why-sso-sucks/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 119 comments

The magic of the Japanese convenience store sandwich

https://japlanease.com/japanese-convenience-store-sandwich/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 275 comments

MarketRank: Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm

https://dkb.io/post/market-rank

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 104 comments

A volumetric display using an acoustically trapped particle (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCC1C5KIeUA

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 17 comments

NY energy grid: Real-time dashboard

https://www.nyiso.com/real-time-dashboard

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 121 comments

CD sales grow for first time since 2004

https://www.axios.com/cd-sales-grow-for-first-time-since-2004-0745a5ce-a2f3-4ed3-8b1e-14b20f0b218e.html

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 267 comments

Cron best practices

https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/cron-best-practices/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 52 comments

Lessons Learnt Moving a GTK Application from Go to Ada

https://github.com/SMerrony/dashera/blob/10ab6e4ece8ea1c16ad055c063c5e743d89cd6bc/Docs/LessonsLearnt.md

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 50 comments

JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 32 comments

RISC-V J extension – Instructions for JITs

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642577

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 96 comments

Ws4sqlite: Query SQLite via HTTP

https://github.com/proofrock/ws4sqlite

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Arch Linux turned 20 years old today. It was released on 11/March/2002

https://archlinux.org/retro/2002/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 18 comments

Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/linux-laptop-experience/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 181 comments

Climate change won’t wait for future innovation – we need action now

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00560-2

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 97 comments

Adding HLSL and DirectX Support to Clang and LLVM

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-adding-hlsl-and-directx-support-to-clang-llvm/60783

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

Attackers exploit flaw in web’s security to steal $2M in cryptocurrency

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2022/03/09/attackers-exploit-fundamental-flaw-in-the-webs-security-to-steal-2-million-in-cryptocurrency/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 79 comments

Investigating Influencer VPN Ads on YouTube [pdf]

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/vpn-ads-oakland22.pdf

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 74 comments

Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/03/incident-report-spotify-outage-on-march-8/

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Google Maps Shadow Calculator

http://shadowcalculator.eu/

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH

https://www.thedrive.com/news/44642/imported-1000-hp-hennessey-ram-trx-limited-to-55-mph-over-tax-loophole

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 414 comments

Face-to-face interaction enhances learning, innovation

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/03/face-face-interaction-enhances-learning-innovation

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 23 comments

Nukemap

https://nukemap.org/nukemap/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 114 comments

The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1980s-media-panic-over-dungeons-dragons

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 156 comments

StyleNeRF: A Style-Based 3D-Aware Generator for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

http://jiataogu.me/style_nerf/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2022-March/000571.html

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Smartknob – an open-source input device

https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

Pull Request File Tree Feedback

https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12341

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 73 comments

Would senior engineers be interested in working reduced hours or part time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30643331

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 123 comments

Launch HN: Stock Unlock (YC W22) – Investment Education for Everyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30640295

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 123 comments

Launch HN: Tensil (YC S19) – Open-Source ML Accelerators

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30643520

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 87 comments

Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and tracking people's location

https://github.com/jkctech/Telegram-Trilateration

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

80s Usenet first cultural references

http://www.eightyeightynine.com/culture/80susenet.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house

https://fullstackeconomics.com/why-the-2020-census-has-9-fake-people-in-a-single-house/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes in area

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-11/amazon-shuts-small-seattle-office-after-spate-of-crimes-in-area

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 119 comments

DNS resolution issue in Alpine Linux (2021)

https://christoph.luppri.ch/fixing-dns-resolution-for-ruby-on-alpine-linux

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 58 comments

Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/making_rockpro64_a_netbsd_server

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

UK tells operators to shut down crypto ATMs or face action

https://www.neowin.net/news/uk-tells-crypto-atm-operators-to-shut-down-or-face-action/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 74 comments

Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (2007)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517043731/https://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q261/1/86.ASP

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 27 comments

Researchers train an algorithm to interpret pig grunts as emotions

https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/researchers-figure-out-how-to-interpret-pig-grunts-as-pig-emotions/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 96 comments

Tech talks don’t have to be boring

https://billwadge.com/2022/03/10/tech-talks-dont-have-to-be-boring-follow-these-simple-rules/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Which search engine is the least censored?

https://michaelsuede.substack.com/p/search-engine-censorship-test-results

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

China censors online Ukraine debate, bars calls for peace

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/china-censors-online-ukraine-debate-bars-calls-peace-2022-03-10/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Accounting for violent conflict risk in planetary defense decisions (2020)

https://gcrinstitute.org/accounting-for-violent-conflict-risk-in-planetary-defense-decisions/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Italy’s main University in Milan just banned teaching Dostoevsky

https://twitter.com/alessabocchi/status/1498811089676558337

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 112 comments

India says it accidentally fired missile into Pakistan

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-seeks-answers-india-after-crash-mystery-flying-object-2022-03-10/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Ukraine says Russia fired at Belarus from Ukrainian airspace to drag it into war

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-says-russian-aircraft-fired-belarus-ukrainian-air-space-2022-03-11/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo and Firefox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635011

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 55 comments

How to record data for reinforcement learning agent from any Linux game (2020)

https://medium.com/asap-report/how-to-record-data-for-reinforcement-learning-agent-from-any-game-on-linux-5660733a5ee8

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

The brutal art of early Soviet antireligious propaganda posters, 1920-1940

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/soviet-antireligious-propaganda-posters/

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments
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