top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-04-18

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

3 years ago

1040 upvotes – 237 comments

TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing

https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/turbotax-free-file-online-ftc.html

3 years ago

804 upvotes – 394 comments

Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]

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

3 years ago

699 upvotes – 259 comments

UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus

https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/uk-government-officials-targeted-pegasus/

3 years ago

691 upvotes – 354 comments

James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-james-webb-telescope-coldest-instrument.html

3 years ago

555 upvotes – 247 comments

Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear

https://rebeccastrong.substack.com/p/big-media-big-conflicts-of-interest

3 years ago

490 upvotes – 252 comments

BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking

https://birdnetpi.com/

3 years ago

468 upvotes – 88 comments

Mental speed is high until age sixty

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01282-7

3 years ago

466 upvotes – 283 comments

‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania

https://pahouse.com/InTheNews/NewsRelease/?id=124404

3 years ago

448 upvotes – 248 comments

The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want

https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-your-fancy-algorithm

3 years ago

384 upvotes – 214 comments

CatalanGate: Spyware operation against Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru

https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/

3 years ago

367 upvotes – 239 comments

Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off

https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/europes-lost-world-and-the-megaflood

3 years ago

316 upvotes – 162 comments

Americans are drowning in spam

https://www.axios.com/spam-texts-calls-email-social-media-2af7cd73-6d7a-4f80-8026-1e5706cf3854.html

3 years ago

309 upvotes – 396 comments

Cytopia: Open-source city simulator with pixel-art graphics

https://github.com/CytopiaTeam/Cytopia

3 years ago

303 upvotes – 97 comments

Exponentially Better Rotations

https://thenumbat.github.io/Exponential-Rotations/

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 60 comments

M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/04/18/m1-thunderbolt-ports-dont-fully-support-usb-3-1-gen-2/

3 years ago

272 upvotes – 318 comments

Introducing a16z START

https://a16z.com/2022/04/18/introducing-a6z-start/

3 years ago

260 upvotes – 102 comments

No one knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system works

https://twitter.com/lougrims/status/1516013489722216450

3 years ago

247 upvotes – 113 comments

Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/04/17/twitter-takeover-musk-dorsey-board-tweets/

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 398 comments

1x Programming

https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/667318290442600448/1x-programming

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 202 comments
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