2021-09-16 front | Hacker News

		Stories from September 16, 2021 (UTC)
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1.		A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design (marginalia.nu)
		1952 points by Funes- 13 hours ago \| hide \| 459 comments
2.		Sir Clive Sinclair has died (theguardian.com)
		1121 points by haasted 8 hours ago \| hide \| 267 comments
3.		Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord (kotaku.com)
		884 points by ClawsOnPaws 16 hours ago \| hide \| 479 comments
4.		Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater (cbc.ca)
		558 points by awnird 23 hours ago \| hide \| 493 comments
5.		Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer (shitlassian.com)
		945 points by mparnisari 7 hours ago \| hide \| 519 comments
6.		Home Assistant – open-source home automation (home-assistant.io)
		524 points by gjvc 1 day ago \| hide \| 167 comments
7.		The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history (theguardian.com)
		428 points by DamnInteresting 9 hours ago \| hide \| 229 comments
8.		iOS on QEMU (github.com/alephsecurity)
		322 points by logix 12 hours ago \| hide \| 87 comments
9.		Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic? (economist.com)
		238 points by pseudolus 23 hours ago \| hide \| 313 comments
10.		Every engineer should do a stint in consulting (cloudirregular.substack.com)
		300 points by forrestbrazeal 1 day ago \| hide \| 167 comments
11.		Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M (bloombergquint.com)
		242 points by cytosine 14 hours ago \| hide \| 213 comments
12.		The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
		477 points by JoachimS 11 hours ago \| hide \| 169 comments
13.		Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal (gizmodo.com)
		247 points by bryan0 1 day ago \| hide \| 152 comments
14.		Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification (umd.edu)
		171 points by dredmorbius 1 day ago \| hide \| 27 comments
15.		Windows 11: Just say no (computerworld.com)
		284 points by CrankyBear 7 hours ago \| hide \| 295 comments
16.		Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim (arstechnica.com)
		272 points by LinuxBender 1 day ago \| hide \| 123 comments
17.		Donate to the Internet Archive (archive.org)
		244 points by throw0101a 1 day ago \| hide \| 54 comments
18.		DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal (npr.org)
		251 points by randycupertino 8 hours ago \| hide \| 87 comments
19.		The Perils of an .xyz Domain (spotvirtual.com)
		333 points by ghempton 8 hours ago \| hide \| 194 comments
20.		Sheriff's Office Told Officer to Play Copyrighted Music to Shut Down Recordings (techdirt.com)
		237 points by dredmorbius 1 day ago \| hide \| 118 comments
21.		'Dieselgate' trial opens in Germany without ex-VW boss (rfi.fr)
		156 points by belter 16 hours ago \| hide \| 144 comments
22.		Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020) (iism.org)
		144 points by jasonbourne1901 19 hours ago \| hide \| 72 comments
23.		Ledger of Harms (humanetech.com)
		165 points by MrsPeaches 18 hours ago \| hide \| 80 comments
24.		Useful Spy Books (berthub.eu)
		197 points by throwoutway 23 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
25.		Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M (alternativeto.net)
		153 points by schleck8 10 hours ago \| hide \| 131 comments
26.		Use of eBPF in CPU Scheduler (linuxplumbersconf.org)
		127 points by marcodiego 12 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
27.		What's Wrong with Tech Hiring (neverworkintheory.org)
		143 points by luu 2 days ago \| hide \| 354 comments
28.		Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts (reuters.com)
		132 points by hobbesthompson 9 hours ago \| hide \| 138 comments
29.		Glass – Photo sharing app and community (glass.photo)
		137 points by hkc 11 hours ago \| hide \| 97 comments
30.		ChowJS: An AOT JavaScript engine for game consoles (mp2.dk)
		112 points by matpow2 13 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
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