top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-06

Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates

https://www.xda-developers.com/germany-smartphone-makers-7-years-software-updates/

5 years ago

US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cybercom-says-mass-exploitation-of-atlassian-confluence-vulnerability-ongoing-and-expected-to-accelerate/

5 years ago

Minus

https://minus.social/

5 years ago

Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

https://revolt.chat/

5 years ago

Deploy a website on imgur.com

https://github.com/etherdream/web2img

5 years ago

Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines

https://github.com/simnalamburt/homebrew-x/blob/main/Formula/podman-apple-silicon.rb

5 years ago

Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/releases/tag/v1.0.0

5 years ago

Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist

https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/

5 years ago

A generation of American men give up on college

https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233

5 years ago

TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58464745

5 years ago

Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life savings

https://ij.org/press-release/highway-robbery-in-reno-nevada-cops-use-civil-forfeiture-to-steal-a-veterans-life-savings/

5 years ago

After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-months-mars-nasa-tiny-copter.html

5 years ago

Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters

5 years ago

ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-06/zfs-is-mysteriously-eating-my-cpu.html

5 years ago

ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/

5 years ago

Sci-Hub new published papers are now available

https://sci-hub.ru/release

5 years ago

A $10k poker win changed how I think

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210517-how-a-10k-poker-win-changed-how-i-think

5 years ago

Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-imessage-zero-click-hacks/

5 years ago

Chia Coin Miners Are Reselling Used SSDs as New

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/used-chia-ssds-resold

5 years ago

Todo-or-die – Provides procedural macros that act as checked reminders

https://github.com/davidpdrsn/todo-or-die

5 years ago

Media trust hits new low

https://axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-9069-e26b21c283a9.html

5 years ago

Led by Tesla, EVs drive chip industry's shift beyond silicon

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Led-by-Tesla-EVs-drive-chip-industry-s-shift-beyond-silicon

5 years ago

Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges”

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjbtip559HcMG9VQLGPmkurh5Kc50y5BceL8Q8=aL0H3Q@mail.gmail.com/

5 years ago

Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best

https://www.getparthenon.com/blog/how-to-avoid-hiring-the-best-developers/

5 years ago

Researchers studying Facebook misinformation say they were deplatformed

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/media/reliable-sources-facebook-researchers-deplatform/index.html

5 years ago

PaperTerm Concept, An e-paper remote terminal device

http://www.paperterm.org/notes.html

5 years ago

SystemE – A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp

https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE

5 years ago

Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse

5 years ago

How to properly load a dishwasher (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/dec/25/how-to-properly-load-a-dishwasher-if-you-pre-rinse-it-might-actually-come-out-dirtier

5 years ago

SpaceX cleared for historic civilian launch next week

https://nypost.com/2021/09/05/spacex-cleared-for-historic-civilian-launch-next-week/

5 years ago

Who Owns the US National Debt?

https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-3306124

5 years ago

Rumble, an open source, offline, censorship resistant microblog (2017)

https://github.com/Marlinski/Rumble

5 years ago

Intermediate Algebra

https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_intermediate-algebra/index.html

5 years ago

Plans for a new city in the American desert

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/telosa-marc-lore-blake-ingels-new-city/index.html

5 years ago

Notcurses 2.4

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v2.4.0

5 years ago

Russia asks Google to clamp down on Navalny′s ‘Smart Voting′

https://m.dw.com/en/russia-google-told-to-clamp-down-on-navalnys-smart-voting/a-59092740

5 years ago

Silence Is a Commons (1983)

https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/5962/Silence%252520is%252520a%252520Commons.html?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

5 years ago

Show HN: Auto-generate vanilla JavaScript alternatives for jQuery methods

https://github.com/sachinchoolur/replace-jquery

5 years ago

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (2005)

https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/planning-process-indispensable-software-projects-7487

5 years ago

Interview with TJ DeVries, Neovim core maintainer

https://changelog.com/podcast/457

5 years ago

Show HN: Postgres Docker image with common extensions

https://github.com/supabase/postgres

5 years ago

Jean-Paul Belmondo has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/movies/jean-paul-belmondo-dead.html

5 years ago

Fallacies I have encountered when disccusing 100% renewable energy

https://danieldwilliam.dreamwidth.org/216421.html

5 years ago

A big hurdle to fixing the chip shortage: substrates

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-big-hurdle-to-fixing-the-chip-shortage-substrates-11630771200

5 years ago

Switching to the i3 window manager

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2021-i3-window-manager

5 years ago

Quad9 Files Official Objection Opposing Sony Music’s German Court Ruling

https://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-files-official-objection-opposing-sony-music-s-german-court-ruling/

5 years ago

People are realizing that degrowth is bad

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/people-are-realizing-that-degrowth

5 years ago

No, your cryptocurrency cannot work

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/daa93b9686f554ac7097158383b97838

5 years ago

Data detectives spotted fake numbers in a widely cited paper

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/28/how-data-detectives-spotted-fake-numbers-in-a-widely-cited-paper

5 years ago

Bit Patterns of Float

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/09/05/float-format/

5 years ago

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2021_finalists.php

5 years ago

Roadrunner Blocked by U.S. Border Wall Wins Best Bird Photo of 2021

https://petapixel.com/2021/09/01/roadrunner-blocked-by-u-s-border-wall-wins-best-bird-photo-of-2021/

5 years ago

Micro-GPS: High-Precision Localization Using Ground Texture (2018)

https://microgps.cs.princeton.edu/

5 years ago

Greedy AI agents learn to cooperate

https://spectrum.ieee.org/reinforcement-learning

5 years ago

A curated list of actions to use on GitHub

https://github.com/sdras/awesome-actions

5 years ago

IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180k Sting

https://decrypt.co/80040/irs-poses-bitcoin-trader-mr-coins-180000-sting

5 years ago

Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170629-the-hidden-signs-that-can-reveal-if-a-photo-is-fake

5 years ago

The Applecare Hustle

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/the-applecare-hustle

5 years ago

Ode to the Clamshell iBook G3 – a.k.a. “The Toiletseat”

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ode-to-the-clamshell-ibook-g3-aka

5 years ago