top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-05

Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address

https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106

5 years ago

Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1434356217208623106

5 years ago

Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods

https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/02/dutch-cities-want-ban-property-investors-neighborhoods

5 years ago

Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/suzuki-kango-plock-wooden-automaton-time-writing-clock/

5 years ago

Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-02/juniper-mystery-attacks-traced-to-pentagon-role-and-chinese-hackers

5 years ago

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)

https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.352.6285.508

5 years ago

Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1433837480449613839

5 years ago

Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-94374-3

5 years ago

Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425379

5 years ago

BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

https://wedistribute.org/2021/08/bookwyrm-is-the-federated-goodreads-replacement-i-didnt-know-i-needed/

5 years ago

Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020)

https://avherald.com/h?article=4d97ca46&opt=0

5 years ago

Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends

https://plaintextaccounting.org/

5 years ago

Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia

https://therecord.media/malware-found-preinstalled-in-classic-push-button-phones-sold-in-russia/

5 years ago

It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/570441-its-not-a-labor-shortage-its-a-wage-and-worker-rights-shortage

5 years ago

Chekhov's Gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun

5 years ago

Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/6562466c32a8750d7a71a6cc6232e6b5a28fe13a

5 years ago

Fast Rust Builds

https://matklad.github.io/2021/09/04/fast-rust-builds.html

5 years ago

Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history

https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff

5 years ago

OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released

https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/notes-21.02.0

5 years ago

Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane

https://medium.com/@weizmangal/javascript-anti-debugging-some-next-level-sh-t-part-2-abusing-chromium-devtools-scope-pane-b2796c00331d

5 years ago

Follow boring advice

http://nywkap.com/other/follow-boring-advice.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Relativity: A Modern Primer

http://ramp-book.com/

5 years ago

Your Phone Is Your Private Space

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/spyware-your-iphone-step-too-far-privacy/619987/

5 years ago

New Evidence Against the Standard Model of Cosmology

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-evidence-against-standard-model-of.html

5 years ago

E-Ink Typewriter

https://github.com/olup/kobowriter

5 years ago

The Vinland Map is awash in 20th-century ink

https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/01/analysis-unlocks-secret-vinland-map-its-fake

5 years ago

A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (2019)

https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe

5 years ago

The number of legal chess positions estimated at 4.5x10^44 – proof games wanted

https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking

5 years ago

Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps?

https://ramblemaps.com/why-does-sunlight-come-from-north

5 years ago

Suture: A Ruby gem that helps you refactor your legacy code

https://github.com/testdouble/suture

5 years ago

The Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible

https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/

5 years ago

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC (2019)

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html

5 years ago

New Orleans levees passed their first major test

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/new-orleans-levees-passed-their-first-major-test

5 years ago

Arc – A P2P CDN that runs in the browser

https://arc.io

5 years ago

Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC117239/

5 years ago

Progress on C23

https://thephd.dev/c-the-improvements-june-september-virtual-c-meeting

5 years ago

Rolling Stone 'Horse Dewormer' Hit-Piece Debunked After Hospital Says No ODs

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/rolling-stone-horse-dewormer-hit-piece-debunked-after-hospital-says-no-ivermectin

5 years ago

Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker

https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker

5 years ago

Onivim 2 – A retro-futuristic modal editor

https://onivim.io/

5 years ago

Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera (2016)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html

5 years ago

Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/09/04/germany-wants-apple-to-offer-iphone-updates-and-parts-for-7-years

5 years ago

Borax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax

5 years ago

The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210217-the-moments-that-we-could-have-destroyed-humanity

5 years ago

Regular exercisers drink more but are less likely to be problem drinkers – study

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/exercise-alcohol-research/

5 years ago

Google introduces $50 4G smartphone

https://www.globalvillagespace.com/google-introduces-50-4g-smartphone-to-enable-billions-of-people/

5 years ago

ZeroTier – Global Area Networking

https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne

5 years ago