top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-26

M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability

https://m1racles.com/

5 years ago

Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

https://oxide.computer

5 years ago

Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-snaps-up-james-bond-owner-mgm-845-bln-streaming-war-heats-up-2021-05-26/

5 years ago

Neovim 0.5 is overpowering

https://crispgm.com/page/neovim-is-overpowering.html

5 years ago

Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/6/252840-collusion-rings-threaten-the-integrity-of-computer-science-research/fulltext

5 years ago

Upheaval at freenode

https://lwn.net/Articles/857252/

5 years ago

Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

https://blog.nikitas.link/have-you-ever-hurt-yourself-from-your-own-code

5 years ago

Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.html

5 years ago

Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kline/106299403921451814

5 years ago

Life after an internet mob attack

https://pasquale.cool/internet-mob

5 years ago

The Expanse UI Design

https://www.hudsandguis.com/home/2021/theexpanse

5 years ago

One week of Libera Chat

https://libera.chat/news/one-week-of-libera-chat

5 years ago

USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2021/5/25/22453936/usb-c-power-delivery-extended-power-range-epr

5 years ago

Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/nkztyv

5 years ago

Benzene detected in many sunscreen products

https://www.valisure.com/blog/valisure-news/valisure-detects-benzene-in-sunscreen/

5 years ago

Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

https://www.findareddit.com/

5 years ago

Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry

https://github.blog/2021-05-26-why-and-how-github-is-adopting-opentelemetry/

5 years ago

Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser

https://therecord.media/google-says-rowhammer-attacks-are-gaining-range-as-ram-is-getting-smaller/

5 years ago

Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/05/26/shell-ordered-to-cut-co2-emissions-by-45-in-landmark-climate-case

5 years ago

Analysis of blood markers predicts human lifespan limit

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23014-1

5 years ago

Different browsers see different colors

https://mux.com/blog/your-browser-and-my-browser-see-different-colors/

5 years ago

An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video

https://www.inquiremore.com/p/an-asian-uber-driver-was-attacked

5 years ago

OpenAI Announces Funding for Startups

https://openai.com/fund/

5 years ago

Privacy – A curated list of services and alternatives that respect privacy

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy

5 years ago

The end of the pandemic is near

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/the-end-is-near-no-seriously-142683fb085e

5 years ago

Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/exclusive-valve-is-making-a-switch-like-portable-gaming-pc/

5 years ago

First Tasmanian Devils born in the wild of Australia mainland in 3k years

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/first-tasmanian-devils-born-wild-australia-mainland-3000-years-2021-05-26/

5 years ago

Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/unreal-engine-5

5 years ago

Gio – write immediate-mode GUI programs in Go

https://gioui.org/

5 years ago

The only Buddhist region in Europe

https://www.dw.com/en/the-only-buddhist-region-in-europe/a-57572543

5 years ago

Edward Snowden Hails Court Ruling Acknowledging Devastation of Mass Surveillance

https://www.newsweek.com/edward-snowden-hails-eu-court-ruling-progress-acknowledging-devastation-mass-surveillance-1594811

5 years ago

I still like C and strongly dislike C++

https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2021/05/why-i-still-like-c-and-strongly-dislike-cpp/

5 years ago

Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278370-greenlands-ice-sheet-is-releasing-huge-amounts-of-mercury-into-rivers/

5 years ago

RPG-CLI – your filesystem as a dungeon

https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli

5 years ago

A new algorithm for graph crossings, hiding in plain sight (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-algorithm-for-graph-crossings-hiding-in-plain-sight-20200915/?s=feedly

5 years ago

Let's Build a Regex Engine (2019)

https://kean.blog/post/lets-build-regex

5 years ago

Build a RISC-V CPU from scratch

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-a-riscv-cpu-from-scratch

5 years ago

Unfork: The Inverse of Fork(2)

https://github.com/whitequark/unfork

5 years ago

Beads: Computer language and toolchain

https://beadslang.org/the-beads-project

5 years ago

Official Elixir IRC channel moves to Libera

https://twitter.com/AmNicd/status/1397448111291879424

5 years ago

Persian legends and their Western counterparts (2020)

https://www.tor.com/2020/07/06/5-persian-legends-and-their-western-counterparts/

5 years ago

Stripe isn’t a platform, it’s a mouse

https://numair.medium.com/stripe-isnt-a-platform-it-s-a-mouse-913b2352fb5

5 years ago

Voice Assistant for VSCode

https://github.com/b4rtaz/voice-assistant

5 years ago

Finally Understanding PNG (2017)

https://compress-or-die.com/Understanding-PNG

5 years ago

Strong Towns Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/23/lawsuit

5 years ago

Should we rebrand REST?

https://kieranpotts.com/rebranding-rest/

5 years ago

When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-scientific-orthodoxy-resembles-religious-dogma/

5 years ago

Our memory is better than experts thought

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-memory-is-even-better-than-experts-thought/

5 years ago

Master List of Logical Fallacies (2018)

http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm

5 years ago

An open letter from Atheme's developers and community

https://atheme.github.io/atheme-open-letter/

5 years ago

You can't have too many angels

https://waseem.substack.com/p/you-cant-have-too-many-angels

5 years ago

E-Prime – English without the verb “to be”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

5 years ago

Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/good-news-mild-covid-19-induces-lasting-antibody-protection/

5 years ago

An In-Depth Look at What/How/Why Books Sell (2016)

https://electricliterature.com/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-book-sales-but-were-afraid-to-ask/

5 years ago

Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata

https://slackermanz.com/understanding-multiple-neighborhood-cellular-automata/

5 years ago

Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice for Downloading Ubuntu

https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-subscriber-receives-dmca-notice-for-downloading-ubuntu-210526/

5 years ago

Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can

https://rubenerd.com/using-netbsds-pkgsrc-everywhere-i-can/

5 years ago

Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/call-it-a-comeback-turntable-fm-raises-7-5m/

5 years ago

Ghost subway station in Paris where films come to life

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-subway-station-movie-location

5 years ago

Modern C for C++ Peeps (2019)

https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.html

5 years ago

Freenode now forcibly removing channel ownership from users after policy change

https://pastebin.com/S2sDiiPE

5 years ago

Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/renewable-energy-is-suddenly-startlingly-cheap

5 years ago

Enigmatic designs found in India may be the largest images made by human hands

https://www.sciencealert.com/enigmatic-designs-found-in-india-may-be-the-largest-images-ever-made-by-human-hands

5 years ago

80M I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U System

https://spdk.io/news/2021/05/06/nvme-80m-iops/

5 years ago