top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-12

Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters

https://www.thedrive.com/news/41493/teslas-16000-quote-for-a-700-fix-is-why-right-to-repair-matters

5 years ago

This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

http://fxip.as203478.net/

5 years ago

Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

https://obsidian.md/mobile

5 years ago

Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies

https://montanafreepress.org/2021/07/06/regenerative-agriculture-evitalizing-rural-montana-economies/

5 years ago

My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oDjSoic9Zk

5 years ago

Dead Startup Toys

https://deadstartuptoys.com/

5 years ago

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

https://gist.github.com/0xabad1dea/be18e11beb2e12433d93475d72016902

5 years ago

The art of asking nicely

https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/the-art-of-asking-nicely/

5 years ago

The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies

https://www.adamseconomics.com/post/the-potential-orwellian-horror-of-central-bank-digital-currencies

5 years ago

TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board

https://www.tinypico.com/

5 years ago

Scenarios in which Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 fails

https://twitter.com/giacaglia/status/1414605317841702914

5 years ago

Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/07/12/firefox-90-supports-fetch-metadata-request-headers/

5 years ago

The vital art of talking to strangers

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/07/10/the-vital-art-of-talking-to-strangers

5 years ago

Updating the Go Memory Model

https://research.swtch.com/gomm

5 years ago

Handwriting is better than typing when learning a new language, study finds

https://www.sciencealert.com/handwriting-is-better-than-typing-when-learning-to-read-study-finds

5 years ago

Amazon.com product pages are down

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1784978515

5 years ago

Wayback Machine Downloader

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader/

5 years ago

Do nothing (2020)

https://paul.copplest.one/blog/do-nothing.html

5 years ago

Why Build Toys

https://blog.aaronkharris.com/why-build-toys

5 years ago

Temozolomide Is Explosive

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/07/12/temozolimide-is-explosive

5 years ago

Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation

https://dkzlv.medium.com/google-bans-privacy-first-services-b9452e281439

5 years ago

; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519

5 years ago

Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything

https://blog.robertelder.org/intro-to-tail-command/

5 years ago

Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.10.451761v1?rss=1

5 years ago

Positive Energy Warp Drive from Hidden Geometric Structures

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06488

5 years ago

Defender (1981) by Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker

https://github.com/mwenge/defender

5 years ago

Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57763382

5 years ago

Show HN: Streaming Raspberry Pi games to a Game Boy Advance

https://github.com/rodri042/gba-remote-play

5 years ago

Must-read psychology books

https://durmonski.com/reading-lists/must-read-psychology-books/

5 years ago

Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)

https://kokomins.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/anime-encoding-guide-for-x265-and-why-to-never-use-flac/

5 years ago

Teaching other teachers how to teach CS better

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/5/252164-teaching-other-teachers-how-to-teach-cs-better/fulltext

5 years ago

I wrote a 231-byte Brainfuck compiler by abusing everything

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210710.html

5 years ago

NodeMCU ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE IoT boards show up for about $4

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/07/12/nodemcu-esp32-c3-wifi-ble-iot-boards/

5 years ago

Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/07/09/nokia-e63-phone-converted-into-lora-messenger-for-secure-off-the-grid-communication/

5 years ago

U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wither-away-die-us-pacific-northwest-heat-wave-bakes-wheat-fruit-crops-2021-07-12/

5 years ago

Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”

https://nonzero.substack.com/p/ode-to-a-world-saving-idea-f4b

5 years ago

How to Review Code as a Junior Developer

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-to-review-code-as-a-junior-developer-10ffb7846958

5 years ago

Apple threatens UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/11/apple-attorneys-threaten-uk-market-exit-if-court-orders-unacceptable-patent-fees

5 years ago

Elm Compiler Written in Elm

https://github.com/elm-in-elm/compiler

5 years ago

Haskell for Beginners

https://blog.kalvad.com/haskell-series-part-1/

5 years ago

Tact Filters (1996)

https://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html

5 years ago

What Are Diffusion Models?

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2021/07/11/diffusion-models.html

5 years ago

Approved fracking compounds can form PFAS a.k.a. “forever chemicals”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/climate/epa-pfas-fracking-forever-chemicals.html

5 years ago

Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs

https://martin.baillie.id/wrote/emacs-tramp-over-aws-ssm-apis/

5 years ago

(Risp (In (Rust) (Lisp)))

https://stopachka.essay.dev/post/5/risp-in-rust-lisp

5 years ago

I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (2015)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/how-i-requested-my-photographs-from-the-department-of-homeland-security/

5 years ago

Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI

https://bookmarkos.com/why-google%27s-bookmark-manager-and-docs-are-purposely-bad/

5 years ago

Tool for Creating WebGL Animations

https://geppetto.js.org/

5 years ago

Contrastive Representation Learning

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2021/05/31/contrastive-representation-learning.html

5 years ago

Scalable but Wasteful, or why fast replication protocols are slow

http://charap.co/scalable-but-wasteful-or-why-fast-replication-protocols-are-actually-slow/

5 years ago

Jailer: A truly relational database client

https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer

5 years ago

Don’t submit to conformity

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/stop-submitting-to-social-conformity-and-use-your-brain-instead.html

5 years ago

Luxury Surveillance

https://reallifemag.com/luxury-surveillance/

5 years ago

JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption is a bad standard (2017)

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-bad-standard-that-everyone-should-avoid

5 years ago