top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-23

My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1146135405793669121

5 years ago

How I Experience Web Today

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

5 years ago

The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/

5 years ago

A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

https://www.theverge.com/22618306/pacific-northwest-components-bike-company-quit-amazon-support-indie-shops

5 years ago

FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine

5 years ago

Deno on MDN

https://deno.com/blog/deno-on-mdn

5 years ago

Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/utilities-governed-empires

5 years ago

How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/kpeuj2/how_to_bypass_sprinttmobile_2fa_in_under_5_minutes/

5 years ago

Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/razer-bug-lets-you-become-a-windows-10-admin-by-plugging-in-a-mouse/

5 years ago

Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/

5 years ago

Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28278515

5 years ago

Tech Interview Handbook

https://techinterviewhandbook.org/

5 years ago

America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot

https://orangebeanindiana.com/2021/04/09/once-upon-a-time-america-had-an-atomic-mecha-warrior-robot/

5 years ago

Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering

5 years ago

Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool

https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

5 years ago

Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)

https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006439

5 years ago

Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox

https://www.quantamagazine.org/this-physicist-discovered-an-escape-from-hawkings-black-hole-paradox-20210823/

5 years ago

Conditionally setting your gitconfig

https://utf9k.net/blog/conditional-gitconfig/

5 years ago

The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

https://labmuffin.com/the-only-skincare-that-works-according-to-science-asap-science-video-response/

5 years ago

Fighting Like Taliban

https://scholars-stage.org/fighting-like-taliban/

5 years ago

John Carmack visits Starbase

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1429907886159941638

5 years ago

Home Lab Hardware Guide

https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners

5 years ago

Ten Years of Bootstrap

https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2021/08/19/ten/

5 years ago

Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia

http://simia.net/wiki/Wikidata_or_scraping_Wikipedia

5 years ago

OCaml at Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/adolfont/status/1429759258942377999

5 years ago

Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/23/apple-scans-icloud-mail-for-csam/

5 years ago

LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser

https://ludotune.com/

5 years ago

Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am not a maid, I am a reporter’

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-58259503

5 years ago

Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/plane-damaged-after-being-hit-by-york-police-drone-at-buttonville-airport-1.5554617

5 years ago

World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale

https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-biggest-wind-turbine-mingyang/

5 years ago

Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment

https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliban-seizes-us-surveillance-equipment_3958444.html

5 years ago

Competitive programming is useless

https://kislayverma.com/organizations/competitive-programming-is-useless/

5 years ago

Modern XMPP

https://docs.modernxmpp.org/

5 years ago

Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/23/solar-power-in-australia-outstrips-coal-fired-electricity-for-first-time

5 years ago

Book Exploring Async Basics

https://cfsamson.github.io/book-exploring-async-basics/

5 years ago

An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09293

5 years ago

Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610

https://twitter.com/VisaNews/status/1429745230023208969

5 years ago

RustPython: A Python interpreter written in Rust

https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython

5 years ago

Why Is SQLite Coded in C (2017)

https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html

5 years ago

Lambdas as values in Excel

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-lambda-helper-functions-lambdas-as-arguments-and-more/ba-p/2576648

5 years ago

Tesla Project Dojo Overview

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/08/tesla-project-dojo-overview/

5 years ago

The role of high-skilled foreign labor in startup performance

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459001

5 years ago

A study on dishonesty was based on fraudulent data

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/20/a-study-on-dishonesty-was-based-on-fraudulent-data

5 years ago

Apple workers collecting stories of abuse, injustice in workplace

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gn4b/apple-workers-collecting-stories-of-abuse-injustice-in-workplace

5 years ago

FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid shot

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/23/fda-pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-wins-full-approval-clearing-path-to-mandates.html

5 years ago

Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06307

5 years ago

Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things (2019)

https://www.wilderutopia.com/international/earth/ecological-amnesia-life-without-wild-things/

5 years ago

Interview with Jim Anderson, CEO of Lattice Semiconductor

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16879/an-anandtech-interview-with-jim-anderson-ceo-of-lattice-semiconductor

5 years ago

How we paid for the War on Terror

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-34-how-we-paid-for-the

5 years ago

Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror

https://brandur.org/fragments/go-xerror

5 years ago

The Btrfs inode-number epic (part 1: the problem)

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/866582/26cfffcd133815e3/

5 years ago

I turned on CSP and all I got was this crappy lawsuit

https://scotthelme.co.uk/i-turned-on-csp-and-all-i-got-was-this-crappy-lawsuit/

5 years ago

Image2Lego: Customized Lego Set Generation from Images

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08477

5 years ago

Darktable: An open source photography workflow application

https://darktable.org

5 years ago

Picking Co-Founders the Army Officer Way

https://sorryspeakup.substack.com/p/the-army-officers-guide-to-picking

5 years ago

Ask HN: Has web development become insane or am I stuck in my ways?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28275873

5 years ago

Phones containing magnets inhibit implantable cardioverter defibrillators

https://bhrs.com/important-life-saving-therapy-inhibition-by-phones-containing-magnets/

5 years ago

Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents

https://www.phonearena.com/news/sonos-lawsuit-against-google-winning-could-get-google-home-smart-speakers-banned_id134397

5 years ago

3D printable cat feeder (2020)

https://piotr.westfalewicz.com/blog/2020/04/the-ultimate-cloud-cat-feeder-overview/

5 years ago

Modern IRC Client Protocol

https://modern.ircdocs.horse/

5 years ago

Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication (2015)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27675-monkeys-cosy-alliance-with-wolves-looks-like-domestication/

5 years ago

One man's immunity to ticks (2015)

https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/media-coverage/how-one-local-mans-immunity-ticks-could-save-us-all

5 years ago

Nvidia's takeover of Arm raises serious concerns, says watchdog

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58284204.html

5 years ago

Cloudflare: Warp for Linux and Proxy Mode

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-for-linux-and-proxy-mode/

5 years ago

Please, stop forcing a dark theme on a web-site visitors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28276614

5 years ago