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

Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472350

4 years ago

Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58506598

4 years ago

Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules

https://www.reuters.com/technology/paid-influencers-must-label-posts-ads-german-court-rules-2021-09-09/

4 years ago

California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/climate/arrows-recycling-symbol-california.html

4 years ago

60x speed-up of Linux “perf”

https://eighty-twenty.org/2021/09/09/perf-addr2line-speed-improvement

4 years ago

A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room

https://gizmodo.com/a-single-laser-fired-through-a-keyhole-can-expose-every-1847638281

4 years ago

mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2289334-mrna-cancer-therapy-now-in-human-trials-after-shrinking-mouse-tumours/

4 years ago

New math book rescues landmark topology proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-book-rescues-landmark-topology-proof-20210909/

4 years ago

OWASP Top 10 2021

https://owasp.org/Top10/

4 years ago

New details on silicon, subatomic particles and possible ‘fifth force’

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2021/09/groundbreaking-technique-yields-important-new-details-silicon-subatomic

4 years ago

Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/those-who-witnessed-castle-bravo-looked-into-armageddon-fa7610578413

4 years ago

OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce

https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/

4 years ago

Thoughts on Clojure UI framework

https://tonsky.me/blog/clojure-ui/

4 years ago

What if I were 1% charged? (2013)

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/what-if-i-were-1-charged/

4 years ago

Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-rust-sdk/

4 years ago

Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/amazon-to-pay-full-college-tuition-for-front-line-employees

4 years ago

MDMA reopens child-like “critical periods” in the brain

https://www.analyticalcannabis.com/articles/mdma-reopens-child-like-critical-periods-in-the-brain-to-promote-mental-healing-313357

4 years ago

California bill passes, giving Amazon workers power to fight speed quotas

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1034776936/amazon-warehouse-workers-speed-quotas-california-bill

4 years ago

Ministry of Freedom – GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled

https://minifree.org

4 years ago

Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/webcam-test/

4 years ago

2021 Ig Nobels

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/feline-acoustics-the-smell-of-fear-and-more-receive-2021-ig-nobel-prizes/

4 years ago

Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-taking smart glasses

https://www.axios.com/facebook-ray-ban-wayfarer-stories-5f113bfa-797f-4e2d-b99c-7d65a8726607.html

4 years ago

PaddleOCR: Lightweight, 80 Langauge OCR

https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/PaddleOCR

4 years ago

No One Ever Saw the Snow Cruiser Again (2019)

https://orangebeanindiana.com/2019/12/06/no-one-saw-the-snow-cruiser-again/

4 years ago

Jay Leiderman has died

https://gizmodo.com/hacker-lawyer-jay-leiderman-is-dead-at-50-1847646284

4 years ago

Rust 1.55.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/09/09/Rust-1.55.0.html

4 years ago

An Introduction to Type Level Programming in Haskell

https://rebeccaskinner.net/posts/2021-08-25-introduction-to-type-level-programming.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps

https://appliku.com/

4 years ago

El Salvador’s new Bitcoin wallets could cost Western Union $400M a year

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/el-salvador-bitcoin-move-could-cost-western-union-400-million-a-year.html

4 years ago

Sayings of Spartan women

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/moralia/sayings_of_spartan_women*.html

4 years ago

What they don’t tell you when you translate your app

https://ericwbailey.design/writing/what-they-dont-tell-you-when-you-translate-your-app/

4 years ago

US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/us-wealthiest-responsible-yearly-160bn-lost-tax-revenue

4 years ago

Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors

https://sambernheim.com/#/blog/monads-are-monoids-in-the-category-of-endofunctors

4 years ago

Amazon EKS Anywhere

https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere

4 years ago

New horizons for SPJ

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/new-horizons-for-spj/3099

4 years ago

Too much free time may be almost as bad as too little

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/09/too-much-free-time

4 years ago

Dog coat colour genetics

http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/

4 years ago

Pumpkin OS: x64 port/re-implementation of PalmOS

https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/pumpkin-os/

4 years ago

Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks

https://blog.clubhouse.com/shipping-clubhouse-on-android-in-10-weeks/

4 years ago

MasterCard Acquires CipherTrace

https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2021/september/mastercard-acquires-ciphertrace-to-enhance-crypto-capabilities/

4 years ago

Andrew Yang to launch a third party

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/andrew-yang-third-party-511033

4 years ago

Apple’s effort to court ‘ethical’ hackers draws poor reviews

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/09/apple-bug-bounty/

4 years ago

Twenty percent of a picture of a dog

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-09/twenty-percent-of-a-picture-of-a-dog

4 years ago

GitHub Actions checkspelling community workflow GitHub_TOKEN leakage via symlink

https://github.com/justinsteven/advisories/blob/master/2021_github_actions_checkspelling_token_leak_via_advice_symlink.md

4 years ago

Show HN: FractalCrypt 2.0 – free deniable encryption cryptoarchiver

http://github.com/zorggish/FractalCryptGUI

4 years ago

Mad Max Fury Road vehicle auction

https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?lid=3091593

4 years ago

HAProxy vulnerability enables HTTP request smuggling attacks

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/haproxy-vulnerability-enables-http-request-smuggling-attacks

4 years ago

A Compiler for Standard ML in Rust

https://github.com/SomewhatML/sml-compiler

4 years ago

The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)

https://char.gd/blog/2017/the-web-is-swallowing-the-desktop-whole-and-nobody-noticed

4 years ago

Vermeer Restoration Reveals a Painting Within a Painting

https://hyperallergic.com/672345/vermeer-restoration-finally-complete-reveals-a-painting-within-a-painting/

4 years ago

Undercover at a Troll Farm (2019)

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2019/undercover-at-a-troll-farm/

4 years ago

Epic tests Apple with new request: let us relaunch Fortnite in Korea

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22665826/epic-games-apple-reinstate-fortnite-ios-korea-app-store-payment

4 years ago

HiFive Unmatched – A RISC-V Linux development platform

https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched

4 years ago

Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/09/1035149651/biden-will-require-vaccines-for-federal-workers-as-part-of-a-new-covid-strategy

4 years ago

AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions

https://www.asyncapi.com/blog/openapi-vs-asyncapi-burning-questions

4 years ago

Mēris botnet, climbing to the record

https://blog.qrator.net/en/meris-botnet-climbing-to-the-record_142/

4 years ago

Canada aims to block Chelsea Manning from entering country

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-aims-to-block-chelsea-manning-from-entering-country/

4 years ago

Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)

https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2018/05/28/exploring-the-amiga-1/

4 years ago

Using Saliency in progressive JPEG XL images

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/09/using-saliency-in-progressive-jpeg-xl-images.html

4 years ago

Suez Canal blocked briefly as container ship runs aground

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/egypt/2021/09/09/breaking-news-suez-canal-blocked-as-container-ship-runs-aground/

4 years ago

Understanding ZFS Channel Programs

https://klarasystems.com/articles/understanding-zfs-channel-programs/

4 years ago

Event Horizon Telescope Traces Magnetic Fields Around a Black Hole

https://aasnova.org/2021/03/24/event-horizon-telescope-traces-magnetic-fields-around-a-black-hole/

4 years ago

Absorption of 5G Radiation in Brain Tissue

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9115853

4 years ago

Artificial Cells That Mimic Living Cells’ Ability to Capture, Process and Expel

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2021/september/artificial-cells.html

4 years ago

Not so great experience interviewing at Twitter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28466586

4 years ago

Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf

4 years ago

Sustainable Infrastructure

https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/p/sustainable-infrastructure

4 years ago

Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power

https://ewattwhere.substack.com/p/bad-managers-think-leadership-is

4 years ago

Three Stanford professors on the sensible regulation of Big Tech

https://thebrowser.com/notes/system-error-rob-reich-jeremy-weinstein-mehran-sahami/

4 years ago

The Matrix Resurrections – Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ix7TUGVYIo&ab_channel=WarnerBros.Pictures

4 years ago

Dürer's Rhinoceros

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrer%27s_Rhinoceros

4 years ago

Ozzillate – Transfer Files via Sound

https://www.ozzillate.com/

4 years ago