top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-04-21

The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos

2 years ago

1264 upvotes – 463 comments

CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg

https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/

2 years ago

1099 upvotes – 853 comments

Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35650200

2 years ago

815 upvotes – 328 comments

GitHub Copilot emits GPL code

https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-not

2 years ago

586 upvotes – 370 comments

Windows on Btrfs

https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/

2 years ago

503 upvotes – 241 comments

Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-tech-bosses-are-letting-dictators-censor-what-americans-see

2 years ago

464 upvotes – 359 comments

The weird world of Windows file paths

https://www.fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_windows-file-paths/

2 years ago

435 upvotes – 285 comments

Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/nuclear-power-answer-global-and-environmental-energy-woes-206418

2 years ago

396 upvotes – 556 comments

Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration

https://inkscape.org/news/2023/04/17/inkscape-hiring-accelerating-gtk4-migration/

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 194 comments

Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web

https://president.mn/mng/

2 years ago

348 upvotes – 208 comments

Four-Byte Burger [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

2 years ago

337 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/881533

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 124 comments

Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf]

https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kccnceu2023/3d/KubeCon-2023-Scaling-Databases-Activision.pdf

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed

https://github.com/lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser/blob/master/README.md

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 73 comments

Will boiling water ruin green tea?

https://www.myjapanesegreentea.com/will-boiling-water-ruin-green-tea

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 212 comments

Atari 800XL Remake

https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 168 comments

AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010)

https://aolserver.github.io/

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 100 comments

Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2023/04/faster-lz-is-not-answer-to-150-250-gb.html

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 263 comments

Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed

https://lxe.co/wasmgpt/

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 50 comments

Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01391-5

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 112 comments
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