top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-13

I refuse to let Amazon define Rust

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437441118745071617

4 years ago

Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353

4 years ago

NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild

https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

4 years ago

Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671182/mozilla-default-browser-windows-protections-firefox

4 years ago

OpenRA: Red Alert, Command and Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era

https://www.openra.net

4 years ago

Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B

https://www.investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2021/Intuit-to-Acquire-Mailchimp/default.aspx

4 years ago

YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording

https://www.improbable.com/2021/09/13/youtube-the-ig-nobel-prizes-and-the-year-1914/

4 years ago

Epiousios

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

4 years ago

Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules

https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/13/uber-must-employ-its-drivers-dutch-court-rules

4 years ago

Firefox Browser: best for a free web

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/

4 years ago

France grants citizenship to 12,000 Covid frontline workers

https://www.axios.com/covid-france-frontline-workers-citizenship-df86d46d-d488-4009-b2f7-e166be464cd4.html

4 years ago

Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/09/13/vulnerability-disclosure-key-sharing

4 years ago

Why Monero

https://benkaiser.dev/why-monero/

4 years ago

Resource efficient Thread Pools with Zig

https://zig.news/kprotty/resource-efficient-thread-pools-with-zig-3291

4 years ago

Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/trademark-actions-against-the-postgresql-community-2302/

4 years ago

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

https://www.technology.org/2021/09/10/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-reverses-hallmarks-of-alzheimers-disease-and-dementia/

4 years ago

Fortran Web Framework

https://fortran.io/

4 years ago

Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-new-mexico-nambe-pueblo-tribal-land-direct-sales-ban-2021-9

4 years ago

Record number of environmental activists murdered

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58508001

4 years ago

Researchers successfully potty-train cows

https://www.science.org/content/article/barnyard-breakthrough-researchers-successfully-potty-train-cows

4 years ago

Software should convey a sense of calm

https://patrickjuchli.com/en/posts/learning-experience/

4 years ago

High Performance Organizations Reading List

https://github.com/pdfernhout/High-Performance-Organizations-Reading-List

4 years ago

Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)

https://probablydance.com/2016/02/27/functional-programming-is-not-popular-because-it-is-weird/

4 years ago

How to Raise Investment

https://tomblomfield.com/post/662033487432466432/how-to-raise-investment

4 years ago

Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y

4 years ago

Engineers grow pancreatic organoids that mimic the real thing

https://news.mit.edu/2021/pancreatic-organoids-cancer-0913

4 years ago

Has AI found a new foundation?

https://thegradient.pub/has-ai-found-a-new-foundation/

4 years ago

My life after quitting social media

https://durmonski.com/life-advice/life-after-quitting-social-media/

4 years ago

Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020)

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/lunar_crater_radio_telescope/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28517447

4 years ago

How to Crawl the Web with Scrapy

https://www.babbling.fish/scraping-for-a-job/

4 years ago

Kite: An interactive visualization tool for graph theory

https://erkal.github.io/kite/

4 years ago

Laion-400M: open-source dataset of 400M image-text pairs

https://laion.ai/laion-400-open-dataset/

4 years ago

The KDL Document Language

https://kdl.dev/

4 years ago

Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy

https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html

4 years ago

Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/minimal-apis-at-a-glance-in-net-6

4 years ago

Linux-Router

https://github.com/garywill/linux-router

4 years ago

X Window System on a Floppy

http://pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/xwoaf_rebuild.html

4 years ago

Apple Won a Battle to Lose the War

https://500ish.com/apple-won-a-battle-to-lose-the-war-3ce6c3701918

4 years ago

Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

https://thoughts.page/

4 years ago

RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

https://www.bridgetownrb.com/future/rip-jekyll/

4 years ago

Smart kids should skip high school (2015)

https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2015/09/why-skip-high-school.html

4 years ago

Don't build a general-purpose API to power your own front end

https://max.engineer/server-informed-ui

4 years ago

Eleven proofs of the Gaussian integral [pdf]

https://kconrad.math.uconn.edu/blurbs/analysis/gaussianintegral.pdf

4 years ago

Tesla Wanted $22,500 to Replace a Battery. An Independent Shop Fixed It for $5k

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx535y/tesla-wanted-dollar22500-to-replace-a-battery-an-independent-repair-shop-fixed-it-for-dollar5000

4 years ago

Speaking Latin

https://psyche.co/ideas/speaking-latin-brings-an-unmediated-thrill-to-the-classics

4 years ago

Intel issues end-of-life notice for RealSense Lidar

https://www.therobotreport.com/intel-issues-end-of-life-notice-realsense-lidar/

4 years ago

The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01196-4#MOESM1

4 years ago

Confessions of a Ransomware Negotiator

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/03/how_to_be_a_ransomware/

4 years ago

Adam Curtis’ “Bitter Lake”: A Review

https://im1776.com/2021/09/10/graveyard-empire/

4 years ago

Census Bureau’s Survey Shows Significant Increase in Homeschooling Rates

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/homeschooling-on-the-rise-during-covid-19-pandemic.html

4 years ago

RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

https://rave.dj/

4 years ago

Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software-update-spyware-nso-group.html

4 years ago

A new book looks behind Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign

https://www.economist.com/china/2021/09/11/a-new-book-looks-behind-xi-jinpings-anti-corruption-campaign

4 years ago

HashiCorp Terraform and Community Contributions

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-community-contributions

4 years ago

Britain's Age Appropriate Design Code has made inroads into big tech's dominance

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/age-appropriate-design-code-big-tech

4 years ago

Racket GUI Screenshots

https://alex-hhh.github.io/2021/09/screenshots.html

4 years ago