top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-21

Column – a chartered bank for developers

https://column.com

4 years ago

A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/trevor-jacob-youtube-plane-crash.html

4 years ago

Web color is still broken

https://webcolorisstillbroken.com/

4 years ago

Apple Discontinues macOS Server

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

4 years ago

The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)

https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/smallest-png/

4 years ago

I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”

http://andersource.dev/2022/04/19/dk-autocorrelation.html

4 years ago

Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922048128/tm2213229d1_sc13da.htm

4 years ago

TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

https://teenage.engineering/products/tx-6

4 years ago

Go will use pdqsort in next release

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/72e77a7f41bbf45d466119444307fd3ae996e257

4 years ago

It is physically impossible to exceed the weight limit for a Small Flat Rate Box

https://twitter.com/PaulMSherman/status/1516936733769801734

4 years ago

ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/isps-cant-find-any-judges-who-will-block-california-net-neutrality-law/

4 years ago

Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2022-04-21/0/POSTING-en.html

4 years ago

What chords do you need?

https://www.jefftk.com/p/what-chords-do-you-need

4 years ago

Turning scrap copper into beautiful crystals

https://crystalverse.com/copper-acetate-crystals/

4 years ago

How Postgres chooses which index to use for a query

https://pganalyze.com/blog/how-postgres-chooses-index

4 years ago

CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching

https://www.wsj.com/articles/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-streaming-service-11650556680

4 years ago

The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”

https://www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-airships/uss-akron-macon/

4 years ago

Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/if-you-like-youtubes-copyright-takedown-process-youll-love-this-bill/

4 years ago

Melting KiCad

https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad

4 years ago

Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed

https://webreturn.co.uk/how-thatcher-killed-the-uks-superfast-broadband-before-it-even-existed/

4 years ago

I'm a security engineer and I still almost got scammed

https://robertheaton.com/almost-scammed/

4 years ago

Listerine Mouthwash Royalties

https://auctions.royaltyexchange.com/orderbook/asset-detail/4580

4 years ago

HUDS and GUIs: an inspiration resource site featuring Future User Interfaces

https://www.hudsandguis.com

4 years ago

Meta COO Sandberg reportedly tried to block story about Activision CEO Kotick

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/meta-coo-sandberg-reportedly-tried-to-block-news-story-about-activision-ceo-kotick.html

4 years ago

Managing mental health while running a startup

https://future.a16z.com/managing-your-mental-health-while-running-a-startup/

4 years ago

SpaceX avoided a Russian jamming attack in Ukraine

https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2022/04/20/spacex-shut-down-a-russian-electromagnetic-warfare-attack-in-ukraine-last-month-and-the-pentagon-is-taking-notes/

4 years ago

GitHub: Private Profiles beta

https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-21-private-profiles/

4 years ago

The Birth of Tcl

http://www.tcl.tk/about/history.html

4 years ago

K-9 Mail 6.000

https://k9mail.app/2022/04/18/K-9-Mail-6.000.html

4 years ago

Rust9x: Compile Rust code for Windows 95, NT and above

https://seri.tools/blog/announcing-rust9x/

4 years ago

OpenBSD 7.1

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

4 years ago

Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/former-intelligence-officials-citing

4 years ago

Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/891273/ea9c5e88260a64e9/

4 years ago

TSMC head says drive to onshore chip supply chain is 'unrealistic'

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-head-says-drive-to-onshore-chip-supply-chain-is-unrealistic

4 years ago

Neubrutalism is taking over the web?

https://hype4.academy/articles/design/neubrutalism-is-taking-over-web

4 years ago

Monetizing hobbies

https://tegowerk.eu/posts/monetizing-hobbies/

4 years ago

Cog: Containers for Machine Learning

https://github.com/replicate/cog

4 years ago

Apple must pay a man $1,000 for not including a power adapter with new iPhone

https://www.insider.com/iphone-charger-apple-pay-brazilian-man-1000-not-including-adapter-2022-4

4 years ago

What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like?

https://transitivebullsh.it/oss-twitter-algorithm-part-1

4 years ago

Art Bits from Hypercard

http://archives.somnolescent.net/web/hypercard/

4 years ago

Books Become Games

https://justinehsmith.substack.com/p/books-become-games

4 years ago

A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge

https://neverworkintheory.org/2022/04/21/decline-of-sourceforge.html

4 years ago

Google Play bans call-recording apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/googles-accessibility-crackdown-bans-call-recording-apps-from-the-play-store/

4 years ago

Open Source SQL Parsers

https://tokern.io/blog/open-source-sql-parsers/

4 years ago

Show HN: Stock research website with next-gen alternative data

https://strike.market/stocks/TSLA

4 years ago

Practising Programming

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/practising_programming.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: How are pull requests integrated in a repo with high commit frequency?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108828

4 years ago

Why is inflammation a dangerous necessity?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-inflammation-a-dangerous-necessity-20220420/

4 years ago

AppleCensorship

https://applecensorship.com/

4 years ago

New blog about my journey to develop a Common Lisp 3D software

https://kaveh808.medium.com

4 years ago

Daniel J. Bernstein's ptyget toolset

https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/djbwares/bernstein-ptyget.html

4 years ago

Announcing a16z crypto research

https://a16z.com/2022/04/21/announcing-a16z-crypto-research/

4 years ago

The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke

https://daily.jstor.org/the-dubious-art-of-the-dad-joke/

4 years ago

JavaScript Garbage Collection with WebAssembly Is Possible Today

https://jott.live/markdown/js_gc_in_wasm

4 years ago

SketchUp for iPad: 3D Visualization on iPad

https://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-for-ipad

4 years ago

An overview of version control in programming

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/04/21/an-overview-of-version-control-in-programming/

4 years ago

Restoring Vintage Computers

https://www.curiousmarc.com/

4 years ago

Companies are buying washing machines to take the chips out and repurpose them

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/chip-shortage-washing-machines

4 years ago

Placemark: Create, edit, and convert the data that powers maps

https://www.placemark.io/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Buying a domain previously owned by a now deceased person

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31107178

4 years ago

Using Asahi Linux as a developer workstation

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/asahi-linux/

4 years ago

Fig now supports JetBrains IDEs

https://fig.io/blog/post/jetbrains-support

4 years ago

How Polyester Bounced Back

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-polyester-bounced-back/

4 years ago

How much does fast thinking matter in Lichess games?

https://emiruz.com/post/2022-04-15-lichess1/

4 years ago

Utterly Unpersuasive: Formal Methods and Law (2019)

https://roundtablelaw.medium.com/utterly-unpersuasive-formal-methods-and-law-bb8ecf048374

4 years ago