top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-04-30

Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/25/whistleblowers-are-the-conscience-of-society-yet-suffer-gravely-for-trying-to-hold-the-rich-and-powerful-accountable-for-their-sins/

2 years ago

913 upvotes – 467 comments

Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices

https://grist.org/technology/microsoft-right-to-repair-quietly-supported-legislation-to-make-it-easier-to-fix-devices-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/

2 years ago

555 upvotes – 311 comments

Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you

https://ratethelandlord.org

2 years ago

529 upvotes – 454 comments

Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”

https://news.ubc.ca/2023/03/22/new-ubc-water-treatment-zaps-forever-chemicals-for-good/

2 years ago

483 upvotes – 226 comments

Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs

https://justsimply.dev/

2 years ago

464 upvotes – 288 comments

Minetest: An open source voxel game engine

https://www.minetest.net/

2 years ago

428 upvotes – 206 comments

Pure Sh Bible

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible

2 years ago

406 upvotes – 133 comments

40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi

https://www.thecurb.com.au/40-years-of-koyaanisqatsi/

2 years ago

347 upvotes – 118 comments

FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying

https://apnews.com/article/boeing-max-crashes-faa-ea8fac0ad2758b08c58d2d64756fbf37

2 years ago

347 upvotes – 167 comments

My favorite C compiler flags during development

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/04/29/

2 years ago

306 upvotes – 167 comments

MLC-LLM: GPT/Llama on consumer-class GPUs and phones

https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 106 comments

Chess is booming among teens

https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/23679440/teens-love-chess-memes-boom-2023

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 216 comments

FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/nepo-ding-world-chess-championship-2023/2/1/4

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: Frogmouth – A Markdown browser for the terminal

https://github.com/Textualize/frogmouth

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: EVA – AI-Relational Database System

https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 36 comments

Why are lithium prices collapsing?

https://internationalbanker.com/brokerage/why-are-lithium-prices-collapsing/

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 502 comments

Orbital Mechanics

http://www.braeunig.us/space/orbmech.htm

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 59 comments

Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/business/mercedes-horsepower-upgrade/index.html

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 536 comments

Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news

https://ishadeed.com/article/rebuild-featured-news-modern-css/

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 84 comments

Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext

https://www.qword.net/2023/04/30/maybe-you-should-store-passwords-in-plaintext

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 141 comments
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