top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-20

Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-time/page/0/0

4 years ago

If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

http://tttthis.com/blog/if-i-could-bring-one-thing-back-to-the-internet-it-would-be-blogs

4 years ago

Home Price to Income Ratio

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/

4 years ago

ClickHouse, Inc.

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/website/blog/en/2021/clickhouse-inc.md

4 years ago

Google Docs in a clean-room browser

https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/google-docs-in-a-clean-room-browser/

4 years ago

There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives

https://ghuntley.com/internet/

4 years ago

As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (2017)

http://plumshell.com/2017/11/30/as-a-solo-app-developer-i-decided-to-offer-phone-support-and-this-is-what-happened/

4 years ago

FBI says seized fortune was criminals’ loot—owners say: Where’s the proof?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-19/fbi-seizure-cash-beverly-hills-vault-spawns-epic-court-battle

4 years ago

Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)

https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.html

4 years ago

When McDonalds Came to Denmark

https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-denmark/

4 years ago

iOS 15

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/

4 years ago

Watch an election being stolen in realtime

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1439545705765408771

4 years ago

Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry

https://twitter.com/netresec/status/1440036446291693574

4 years ago

How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first legal defense team

https://news.careers360.com/sci-hub-scihub-libgen-alexandra-elbakyan-lawsuit-india-delhi-high-court-du-sol-delhi-university-iiser-jnu-mit-iit-science-research-elsevier

4 years ago

Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future

https://puri.sm/posts/microsoft-ruined-passwords-now-aims-for-a-passwordless-future/

4 years ago

What is this Gemini thing, and why am I excited about it? (2020)

https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/01/What-is-Gemini-anyway.html

4 years ago

Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Canberra, Australia

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robertsforwriting_i-am-in-the-wing-delivery-area-in-canberra-activity-6845498818092498944-A8sh

4 years ago

The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (1964)

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-truth-by-stanislaw-lem/

4 years ago

Something big just hit Jupiter

https://www.universetoday.com/152583/something-big-just-hit-jupiter/

4 years ago

Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080306134751/http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8gus/nano98/

4 years ago

Revolt of the Delivery Workers

https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-delivery-workers.html

4 years ago

The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker

4 years ago

Let's Encrypt's old root certificate is expiring

https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/

4 years ago

VPN users unmasked by zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media routers

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/vpn-users-unmasked-by-zero-day-vulnerability-in-virgin-media-routers

4 years ago

A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematicians-guided-tour-through-high-dimensions-20210913/

4 years ago

Why has the price of electricity in Europe reached record highs?

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/09/15/why-has-the-price-of-electricity-in-europe-reached-record-highs

4 years ago

Mozilla HTTP Observatory

https://observatory.mozilla.org/

4 years ago

Xata – Database service for serverless apps

https://www.xata.io/

4 years ago

Quran API

https://m3o.com/quran

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597895

4 years ago

Practical Front-End Architecture

https://jaredgorski.org/writing/14-practical-frontend-architecture/

4 years ago

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/

4 years ago

Excel as Code

https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/excel_as_code

4 years ago

So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/09/19/so-what-is-the-deal-with-a-ux-anyways/

4 years ago

OpenSSL 3.0 released; relicensed to Apache-2.0

https://lwn.net/Articles/868536/

4 years ago

Reading code is a skill (2020)

https://trishagee.com/2020/09/07/reading-code-is-a-skill/

4 years ago

Ruby for eBook Publishing

https://nts.strzibny.name/ruby-for-ebook-publishing/

4 years ago

Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-election-2021-rational-voting-wahl-o-mat-survey/

4 years ago

Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/imaging-mounted-disk-volumes-live

4 years ago

Zerotier – multiple vulnerabilities lead to private network access

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/Zerotier-Private-Network-Access.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Errorpush – Minimalist Sentry alternative using PostgreSQL

https://github.com/hauxir/errorpush

4 years ago

Inspecting coredumps like it's 2021

https://nixos.mayflower.consulting/blog/2021/09/06/coredumpctl/

4 years ago

Linux Networking: MAC VLANs and Virtual Ethernets

http://www.pocketnix.org/posts/Linux%20Networking:%20MAC%20VLANs%20and%20Virtual%20Ethernets

4 years ago

Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube

https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md

4 years ago

Defending human civilization from supervolcanic eruptions (2015) [pdf]

https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/DefendingCivilizationFromSupervolcanos20151015.pdf

4 years ago

Pen: A programming language for scalable development

https://github.com/pen-lang/pen

4 years ago

Decision Making Under Uncertainty with POMDPs.jl

https://juliaacademy.com/p/decision-making-under-uncertainty-with-pomdps-jl

4 years ago

Fuzzing Zig Code Using AFL++

https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/fuzzing-zig-code/

4 years ago

China’s Evergrande veers toward collapse, unpaid debts spark protests

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-09-18/china-evergrande-property-debt-crisis

4 years ago

Big tech’s pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by policy action, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/20/big-tech-climate-change

4 years ago

Adguard Letter of Support to Quad9

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-quad9-statement.html

4 years ago

An End-to-End Guide to Photogrammetry with Mobile Devices

https://rd.nytimes.com/projects/an-end-to-end-guide-to-photogrammetry-with-mobile-devices

4 years ago

China Evergrande contagion concerns rile global markets

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-evergrande-shares-plummet-default-risks-2021-09-20/

4 years ago

Repairing the U.S. Medical Residency Pipeline

https://www.niskanencenter.org/unmatched-repairing-the-u-s-medical-residency-pipeline/

4 years ago

“A calorie is a calorie” violates the second law of thermodynamics (2004)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/

4 years ago

High genetic barrier to SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal neutralizing antibody escape

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04005-0?error=cookies_not_supported&code=fea21ae7-088a-4c14-ae48-45adad4ef0e9

4 years ago