top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-02

O.mg Cable

https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable-usb-a

5 years ago

Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1872

5 years ago

GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware

https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy

5 years ago

Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)

https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box-fan-air-purifier/

5 years ago

Opendesktop.org – Libre Cloud Services

https://www.opendesktop.org/

5 years ago

UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm

https://torrentfreak.com/sky-subscribers-piracy-habits-directly-help-premier-league-block-illegal-streams-210828/

5 years ago

Old photos of Bedouin nomads, 1898

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/old-spectacular-photos-of-bedouin-nomads-1898/

5 years ago

Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/gift-card-gang-extracts-cash-from-100k-inboxes-daily/

5 years ago

Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches

http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0902/1244293-whatsapp-gdpr-ruling/

5 years ago

The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet

https://twitter.com/Alpha_Mind7/status/1433385841179643910

5 years ago

Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58421796

5 years ago

Z3 approach to discover that “q_rsqrt” is in Copilot's slur list

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433261377125326851

5 years ago

An optimal algorithm for bounded random integers

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/39143

5 years ago

Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile

https://hnbadges.netlify.app/

5 years ago

How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and still call itself free?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-australia-still-liberal-democracy/619940/

5 years ago

I interviewed Brian J. Fox, the creator of Bash

https://podcast.curiefense.io/22

5 years ago

A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks

https://distill.pub/2021/gnn-intro/

5 years ago

Pong Circuit-Level Simulation

https://www.falstad.com/pong/vonly.html

5 years ago

How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-is-a-single-neuron-20210902/

5 years ago

An app called Libby and the big business of library e-books

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/an-app-called-libby-and-the-surprisingly-big-business-of-library-e-books

5 years ago

Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go

https://joker-lang.org/

5 years ago

Gab.com’s Response to Congress

https://news.gab.com/2021/09/01/gab-coms-response-to-congress/

5 years ago

How I Write Code: Pen and Paper

https://noteflakes.com/articles/2021-09-02-how-i-write-code-pen-paper

5 years ago

MadeWithML – A practical approach to learning production machine learning

https://github.com/GokuMohandas/MadeWithML

5 years ago

Chicken Scheme

https://call-cc.org/

5 years ago

Tomu – An ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port

https://tomu.im/tomu.html

5 years ago

Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

https://github.com/akon47/ScreenRecorder

5 years ago

The Future Needs Files

https://jenson.org/files/

5 years ago

Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/xiaomi_camera_censoring_german_postal_voting/

5 years ago

The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make

https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-universe-already-made-almost-all-the-stars-it-will-ever-make

5 years ago

Spring tears down math t-shirt listing because it dared to mention 'zeta'

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/data_scientists_riemann_zeta_function/

5 years ago

Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/billionaire-sacklers-granted-lifetime-legal-immunity-in-opioid-settlement/

5 years ago

Ruby Is Still a Diamond

https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond-b789d2661266

5 years ago

Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO – sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/reddit-ipo/exclusive-reddit-seeks-to-hire-advisers-for-u-s-ipo-sources-idUSL4N2Q434Y

5 years ago

Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal

https://blog.ui.com/2021/08/19/wifiman-introduces-enhanced-signal-tracking-features/

5 years ago

ListMonk – High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

5 years ago

Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions

https://www.biteinteractive.com/picturing-git-conceptions-and-misconceptions/

5 years ago

Apple Watch production delayed as engineers wrestle with quality issues

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Apple-Watch-production-delayed-as-engineers-wrestle-with-quality-issues

5 years ago

Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist

https://dawndrain.github.io/braindrain/two_years.html

5 years ago

NitroPhone – Pixel 4a phone with GrapheneOS

https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nitrophone-most-secure-android-planet

5 years ago

The World After Capital (2018)

https://worldaftercapital.org/

5 years ago

NEC’s Forgotten FPUs

https://www.cpushack.com/2021/09/01/necs-forgotten-fpus/

5 years ago

Japan forces Apple to slightly loosen restrictions on ‘reader’ apps

https://www.macworld.com/article/354963/japan-fair-trade-commission-forces-apple-to-slightly-loosen-restrictions-on-reader-apps.html

5 years ago

Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/mayor-suggests-helsinki-declare-english-language-city-finnish

5 years ago

Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/business/tesla-autopilot-investigation.html

5 years ago

Amazon to remove more content that violates rules from cloud service – sources

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-amazon-proactively-remove-more-content-that-violates-rules-cloud-2021-09-02/

5 years ago

Game Engines on Steam: The Definitive Breakdown

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/game-engines-on-steam-the-definitive-breakdown

5 years ago

Improving the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm

https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm.html

5 years ago

How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America?

https://longreads.com/2019/07/18/american-green/

5 years ago

Product Quantization: Compressing high-dimensional vectors

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/product-quantization/

5 years ago

Hoover (Seal)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_(seal)

5 years ago

New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/09/02/new-pylint-checks.html

5 years ago

Tesla Model Y became the best-selling vehicle in Norway within a week

https://electrek.co/2021/09/02/tesla-model-y-takes-over-norway-electric-car-sales-market-share/

5 years ago

European Payments Initiative (EPI)

https://www.epicompany.eu/

5 years ago

Guide to Tracing in Erlang

https://stratus3d.com/blog/2021/08/24/guide-to-tracing-in-erlang

5 years ago

The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform

https://allenpike.com/2021/gravity-of-cross-platform-apps

5 years ago

The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-science-of-clocks-prompts-questions-about-the-nature-of-time-20210831/

5 years ago

Apple to Allow Media Apps to Link to Own Websites for Payment Options

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-allow-spotify-other-media-apps-to-link-to-websites-for-payment-options-11630544101

5 years ago

A critique of project management software

https://erock.io/2021/08/27/a-critique-on-project-management-software.html

5 years ago

Why the U.S. once set off a nuclear bomb in space

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2021/07/why-the-us-once-set-off-a-nuclear-bomb-in-space

5 years ago

The Complete GraphQL Security Guide

https://wundergraph.com/blog/the_complete_graphql_security_guide_fixing_the_13_most_common_graphql_vulnerabilities_to_make_your_api_production_ready

5 years ago

RISC-V Scalar Cryptography Extension reaches public review

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-crypto/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc2-scalar

5 years ago

RFC 791: Internet Protocol (1981)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc791

5 years ago

M1 MacBook Screen Crack Investigation

https://classlawdc.com/2021/08/04/m1-macbook-screen-crack-investigation/

5 years ago

Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ProgramsVsPortability

5 years ago

Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/09/02/business/japan-tech-workers-women/

5 years ago

How ksqlDB Works: Internal Architecture and Advanced Features

https://www.confluent.io/blog/ksqldb-architecture-and-advanced-features/

5 years ago

Fuzzing open source projects with OSS-Fuzz

https://adalogics.com/blog/fuzzing-100-open-source-projects-with-oss-fuzz

5 years ago

Walmart and McDonalds have most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, study shows

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/food-stamps-medicaid-mcdonalds-walmart-bernie-sanders/

5 years ago

Someone could be tracking you through your headphones

https://nrkbeta.no/2021/09/02/someone-could-be-tracking-you-through-your-headphones/

5 years ago

Locast’s free TV service shuts down after losing copyright ruling

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/locasts-free-tv-service-is-in-peril-as-big-4-networks-win-copyright-ruling/

5 years ago

Ask HN: Best books on modern distributed systems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391738

5 years ago