Hacker News on Friday, 30 June 2023

Twitter now requires an account to view tweets(techcrunch.com)

1123 points by celsoazevedo 3 years ago | 867 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Twitter now requires users to log in to an account to view tweets.

Terrible real estate agent photographs(terriblerealestateagentphotos.com)

703 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 326 comments

A humor website collecting inexplicably bad photographs taken by real estate agents for property listings, with an archive, book, and photo submissions.

Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

669 points by bears-n-beets 3 years ago | 261 comments

Hacker News discussion thread marking the shutdown of the Apollo Reddit client app, with commenters noting Sync for Reddit also shut down.

Hurl 4.0.0(hurl.dev)

547 points by jicea 3 years ago | 90 comments

Blog post announcing the 4.0.0 release of Hurl, a curl-powered command line tool that runs and tests HTTP requests defined in plain text.

Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library(annas-archive.org)

485 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 88 comments

Homepage of Anna's Archive, a non-profit open-source, open-data search engine aggregating shadow libraries like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library.

Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go(polygon.io)

394 points by WestCoastJustin 3 years ago | 252 comments

A Polygon.io blog case study, dated June 30, 2023, about building algorithmic trading systems with the Go programming language.

How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf](gfw.report)

302 points by mngnt 3 years ago | 200 comments

Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake(technicallychallenged.substack.com)

266 points by koinedad 3 years ago | 446 comments

A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans(scanofthemonth.com)

260 points by taylorbuley 3 years ago | 119 comments

File for divorce from LLVM(github.com)

255 points by detaro 3 years ago | 98 comments

CSS-Only Chat(github.com)

251 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 77 comments

Atom feed format was born 20 years ago(rssboard.org)

246 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 83 comments

Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food(pubs.acs.org)

235 points by celticninja 3 years ago | 212 comments

The FBI has formed a national database to track swatting incidents(arstechnica.com)

234 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 255 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp(sbcl.org)

231 points by swatson741 3 years ago | 116 comments

NJ Supreme Court says cops need a wiretap to eavesdrop on your Facebook posts(newjerseymonitor.com)

229 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 25 comments

Goodreads has no incentive to be good(countercraft.substack.com)

226 points by lawgimenez 3 years ago | 197 comments

BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem(bgp.tools)

219 points by luu 3 years ago | 13 comments

The Rise of the AI Engineer(latent.space)

181 points by swyx 3 years ago | 126 comments

To unlock drink verification can(gamefaqs.gamespot.com)

179 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 69 comments

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf](cia.gov)

179 points by Synaesthesia 3 years ago | 91 comments

Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2020) [pdf](public.econ.duke.edu)

167 points by rbrown 3 years ago | 144 comments

FTC announces proposed rule banning fake reviews and testimonials(ftc.gov)

164 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 62 comments

TSMC faces $70M ransom demand following lockbit cyberattack(thefinalhop.com)

162 points by iphone14pro 3 years ago | 115 comments

RIP Nitter(github.com)

158 points by nabilhat 3 years ago | 74 comments

Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?

157 points by miki_tyler 3 years ago | 257 comments

AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values(almalinux.org)

152 points by mroche 3 years ago | 86 comments

UK competition regulator finds Adobe’s purchase of Figma could reduce innovation(gov.uk)

143 points by saulr 3 years ago | 56 comments

Systems Programming with Racket(docs.racket-lang.org)

142 points by r_sz 3 years ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC(github.com)

135 points by culinary-robot 3 years ago | 85 comments

The man who broke bowling(gq.com)

129 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 89 comments

The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI(time.com)

127 points by da39a3ee 3 years ago | 363 comments

How does Linux handle writes?(cyberdemon.org)

127 points by dmazin 3 years ago | 74 comments

Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s cartels, killed in ambush(theguardian.com)

126 points by Michelangelo11 3 years ago | 71 comments

Publishing free software video games(writefreesoftware.org)

118 points by wicket 3 years ago | 74 comments

Fastmail Is Down(fastmailstatus.com)

115 points by pluijzer 3 years ago | 90 comments

LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

110 points by zyl1n 3 years ago | 21 comments

Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord(techcrunch.com)

107 points by jmsflknr 3 years ago | 78 comments

The Condiment Packet Gallery(condimentpacket.com)

102 points by animal_spirits 3 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Tabserve.dev. HTTPS proxy using Web Workers and a Cloudflare Worker(tabserve.dev)

97 points by emadda 3 years ago | 17 comments

Niantic lays off 230 employees, cancels NBA and Marvel games(techcrunch.com)

96 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 80 comments

CommonJS is hurting JavaScript(deno.com)

91 points by srwhittaker 3 years ago | 71 comments

Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller(github.com)

90 points by fheisler 3 years ago | 23 comments

Rocky Linux shares how they may continue to obtain the RHEL source code(phoronix.com)

89 points by pathompong 3 years ago | 68 comments

SEC notifies SolarWinds CISO and CFO of possible action in cyber investigation(cybersecuritydive.com)

88 points by miguelazo 3 years ago | 36 comments

Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News(goorapid.com)

88 points by gagejustins 3 years ago | 77 comments

Should you use Jest as a testing library? (2022)(backend.cafe)

88 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 43 comments

The downfall of National Geographic(jjpryor.substack.com)

87 points by 4monthsaway 3 years ago | 86 comments

Dynamic bit shuffle using AVX-512(lemire.me)

87 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 49 comments

MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information(github.com)

85 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 32 comments

Lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data'(businessinsider.com)

82 points by pseudosim 3 years ago | 67 comments

Racket Frustrates Me(blog.winny.tech)

78 points by lycopodiopsida 3 years ago | 66 comments

Dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves(pnas.org)

74 points by gumby 3 years ago | 75 comments

Linux's Slab Allocator Is Officially Deprecated(phoronix.com)

74 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 12 comments

French Gov Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly into Web Browsers(torrentfreak.com)

71 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 52 comments

Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health(bbc.co.uk)

71 points by mjfisher 3 years ago | 33 comments

Nineteen new Wolf-Rayet stars discovered in the Andromeda galaxy(phys.org)

70 points by wglb 3 years ago | 10 comments

McMansion Hell(mcmansionhell.com)

66 points by fzeindl 3 years ago | 27 comments

The Liberty Phone(puri.sm)

65 points by Hackbraten 3 years ago | 70 comments

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030(washingtonpost.com)

64 points by matheusmoreira 3 years ago | 36 comments