top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-23

Zoomquilt (2004)

https://zoomquilt.org/

5 years ago

878 upvotes – 132 comments

WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

5 years ago

808 upvotes – 454 comments

Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

https://scotthelme.co.uk/introducing-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/

5 years ago

736 upvotes – 160 comments

Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case

https://morganhilltimes.com/apples-head-of-security-indicted-in-santa-clara-county-ccw-case/

5 years ago

672 upvotes – 955 comments

Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-23/solomon-islands-set-to-ban-facebook-for-sake-of-national-unity/12910786

5 years ago

653 upvotes – 246 comments

Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-breakthrough-global-covid-19-vaccine

5 years ago

595 upvotes – 545 comments

The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

https://twitter.com/feross/status/1330582600813924352

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 292 comments

The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS

https://panelbear.com/blog/tech-stack/

5 years ago

475 upvotes – 252 comments

DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev

https://www.clockworkpi.com/

5 years ago

466 upvotes – 162 comments

Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication

https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-convolution/

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 127 comments

Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices

https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-others-made-in-china-contain-backdoors-to-control-devices/

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 232 comments

I created an alternative to the YouTube algorithm to stop me wasting time

https://towardsdatascience.com/i-created-my-own-youtube-algorithm-to-stop-me-wasting-time-afd170f4ca3a

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 153 comments

On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics

http://wondermark.com/garfield-color/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 118 comments

Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1

https://github.com/mikelxc/Workarounds-for-ARM-mac

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 151 comments

Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/21/michael-j-fox-every-step-now-is-a-frigging-math-problem-so-i-take-it-slow

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 70 comments

Walmart Exclusive Wi-Fi Router Contains Backdoor to Control Devices

https://hfet.org/walmart-exclusive-wi-fi-router-contains-backdoor-to-control-devices/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 13 comments

“To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”

https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1330739037162782720

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 162 comments

A new jailbreak for a new era

https://theodyssey.dev/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 256 comments

IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant

https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 188 comments

How I Spend My Attention

https://mythirdbrain.substack.com/p/how-i-spend-my-attention

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 170 comments

What it’s like inside your plane’s hidden ‘crew rest’

https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/secret-crew-rest/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 150 comments

GNU Guix 1.2.0

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/gnu-guix-1.2.0-released/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 193 comments

Psilocybin and migraine: First of its kind trial reports promising results

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/psilocybin-migraine-psychedelic-clinical-trial-promising-results/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 130 comments

Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-m1-chip-platform-control-1178210/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 354 comments

Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 124 comments

“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16269/microsoft-pluton-hardware-security-coming-to-our-cpus-amd-intel-qualcomm

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 156 comments

On Small Games

https://lorenzo.itch.io/on-small-games

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 91 comments

Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/how-venture-capitalists-are-deforming-capitalism

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 195 comments

Iconic Star Wars Book Author Claims Disney Owes Him 4 Years of Overdue Royalties

https://movieweb.com/star-wars-books-alan-dean-foster-disney-royalties/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 41 comments

Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/police-mississippi-pilot-program-live-stream-amazon-ring-cameras/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 106 comments

Open-source paved the way for today’s remote software development processes

https://increment.com/remote/committing-to-collaboration-version-control/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 76 comments

Raspberry Pi Webcam

https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-webcam

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 74 comments

Ex Valve dev on CS:GO’s codebase

https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1330767132003606528

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 121 comments

Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model-x-hack-bluetooth/#:~:text=But%20one%20security%20researcher%20has,just%20a%20matter%20of%20minutes.

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 156 comments

Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive

https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-with-a-nvme-boot-drive-d9ab4e8aa3c2

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 97 comments

IHP – A Haskell web framework

https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 39 comments

First Responders Unprepared for Electric Vehicle Fires: Report

https://pittsburgh.legalexaminer.com/legal/first-responders-unprepared-for-electric-vehicle-fires-report/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: How to effectively communicate results of my work to non-engineers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25185619

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple M1 – a seriously fast x86 competitor

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/hands-on-with-the-apple-m1-a-seriously-fast-x86-competitor/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 113 comments

Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels? (2016)

https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 194 comments

Misfit Tractors a Money Saver for Arkansas Farmer

https://www.agweb.com/article/misfit-tractors-money-saver-arkansas-farmer

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 122 comments

Intel is spreading FUD about supposed Ryzen 4000 performance drops on battery

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/317657-intel-is-spreading-fud-about-supposedly-huge-ryzen-4000-performance-drops-on-battery

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

Cordless Project Closes Down

https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM

https://www.play-lang.dev

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Ad block and you don't stop

https://vicki.substack.com/p/ad-block-and-you-dont-stop

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 114 comments

Covid-19, duration of viral shedding, and infectiousness: meta-analysis

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30172-5/fulltext

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322108?via%3Dihub

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 177 comments

'Smart' doorbells for sale on Amazon came stocked with security vulnerabilities

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2020/11/the-smart-video-doorbells-letting-hackers-into-your-home/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

Google makes breaking change to publishing Sheets as data

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/173534863

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments
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