Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name

FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/13/fcc_robocalls_action/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26802011

The most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years

Link: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/what-are-the-most-important-statistical-ideas-of-the-past-50-years
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799702

What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t

Link: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/What-the-Dunning-Kruger-effect-Is-and-Isnt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796371

Effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities

Link: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/justice-department-announces-court-authorized-effort-disrupt-exploitation-microsoft
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800481

WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

Link: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/13/whatsapps-new-privacy-policy-is-so-bad-it-might-be-illegal/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26798982

Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices

Link: https://ieftimov.com/post/deep-dive-cors-history-how-it-works-best-practices/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26798412

Pass: The standard Unix password manager

Link: https://www.passwordstore.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799021

Is content moderation a dead end?

Link: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/4/13/is-content-moderation-a-dead-end
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796579

FreeBSD 13.0

Link: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26797257

Update on beta testing payments in Signal

Link: https://signal.org/blog/update-on-beta-testing-payments/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26797169

Marbles (2016)

Link: http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/life-in-general/marbles.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26794110

System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

Link: https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26798080

Deno 1.9

Link: https://deno.com/blog/v1.9
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26797557

Surface Laptop 4

Link: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2021/04/13/introducing-surface-laptop-4-and-new-accessories-for-enhanced-meeting-experiences/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796533

‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite

Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvgej/counter-strike-bug-allows-hackers-to-take-over-a-pc-with-a-steam-invite
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796203

Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power

Link: https://theintercept.com/2021/04/13/iran-nuclear-natanz-israel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796838

Figma: Changes to free plan after April 21, 2021

Link: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061769534
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26795074

The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC

Link: https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26795505

The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)

Link: https://arcan-fe.com/2017/07/12/the-dawn-of-a-new-command-line-interface/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790380

1Password Secrets Automation

Link: https://blog.1password.com/introducing-secrets-automation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26794040