top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-09-24

Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities

https://habr.com/en/post/579714/

4 years ago

Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/FAQ-Modern-Standby/td-p/7514448

4 years ago

Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/

4 years ago

Submarine cable map rendered onto a globe

https://globe.gl/example/submarine-cables/

4 years ago

Nginx Playground

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/09/24/new-tool--an-nginx-playground/

4 years ago

Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039565467/many-believe-its-time-to-do-away-with-lawmakers-making-stock-trades

4 years ago

A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow

https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A1144035+%5Bsql%5D+is%3Aanswer

4 years ago

Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer

https://defector.com/cryptocurrency-bad-and-weird/

4 years ago

Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn

https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2021&mm=09&dd=23&nav_id=111798

4 years ago

AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58668534

4 years ago

200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring

https://gizmodo.com/200-000-year-old-hand-art-found-near-a-tibetan-hot-spri-1847682046

4 years ago

A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/09/25/a-monk-in-14th-century-italy-wrote-about-the-americas

4 years ago

AMD’s Lisa Su

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amds-lisa-su-breaks-through-the-silicon-ceiling

4 years ago

Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2021/09/uc-reactor-converts-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel-to-address-climate-change.html

4 years ago

China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’

https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2021/09/bitcoin-falls-as-china-declares-crypto-illegal/

4 years ago

Asynchronous Programming in C#

https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios/blob/master/AsyncGuidance.md

4 years ago

Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1441496416463904768

4 years ago

ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company

https://www.reuters.com/technology/expressvpn-employees-complain-about-ex-spys-top-role-company-2021-09-23/

4 years ago

We killed our end-to-end test suite

https://building.nubank.com.br/why-we-killed-our-end-to-end-test-suite/

4 years ago

Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/negotiating-comp

4 years ago

EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/why-eff-flew-plane-over-apples-headquarters

4 years ago

L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-23/sheriff-alex-villanueva-secret-police

4 years ago

Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness

https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/24/coverage-is-not-strongly-correlated-with-test-suite-effectiveness.html

4 years ago

Using RSS to replace social media

https://lukesmith.xyz/blog/a-guide-to-using-rss-to-replace-social-media

4 years ago

An ultimate guide to memory palaces

https://metacognitive.me/memory-palace/

4 years ago

Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (2001)

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/bar-code.html

4 years ago

Facebook is other people

https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/facebook-is-other-people

4 years ago

John Stossel sues Facebook for allegedly defaming him with fact-check

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/john-stossel-sues-facebook-1235019248/

4 years ago

Understanding Startup Offers

https://withcompound.com/manual-company-equity/understanding-startup-offers

4 years ago

Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/developers-fix-multitude-of-vulnerabilities-in-apache-http-server

4 years ago

iPhone 13 Pro camera review: Tanzania

https://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-13-pro-camera-review-tanzania

4 years ago

The world's worst Linux kernel module

https://github.com/davidmalcolm/antipatterns.ko

4 years ago

Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: detectives untangling the global supply chain

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/16/food-fraud-counterfeit-cotton-detectives-untangling-global-supply-chain

4 years ago

If AT&T Had Managed the Phone Business Like Google

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/if-at-and-t-had-managed-the-phone

4 years ago

China Bans Crypto Mining: Chinese Crypto Traders at Loss

https://startuptoenterprise.com/china-bans-crypto-mining-chinese-crypto-traders-at-loss/

4 years ago

RBoy: A Gameboy Emulator in Rust

https://github.com/mvdnes/rboy

4 years ago

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns

https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-learning-computational-cost

4 years ago

America is substantially reducing poverty among children

https://www.economist.com/united-states/america-is-substantially-reducing-poverty-among-children/21804765

4 years ago

Tether is under undisclosed SEC investigation, FOIA blocked

https://twitter.com/silvermanjacob/status/1441391317578289153

4 years ago

Breaking the 100bps barrier with Matrix, meshsim and coap-proxy (2019)

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/03/12/breaking-the-100-bps-barrier-with-matrix-meshsim-coap-proxy/

4 years ago

Alternative materials could shrink concrete’s giant carbon footprint

https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Alternative-materials-shrink-concretes-giant/98/i45

4 years ago

A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean

4 years ago

Miniflare – Simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers

https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare

4 years ago

GNU coreutils 9 is released

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644525

4 years ago

File picker meme

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme

4 years ago

Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/upshot/murder-rise-2020.html

4 years ago

Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1252624

4 years ago

Examining Btrfs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/

4 years ago

Show HN: Bomberland – An AI competition to build the best Bomberman bot

https://www.gocoder.one/bomberland

4 years ago

Fossil footprints reveal humans in North America earlier than previously thought

https://www.usgs.gov/news/fossilized-footprints-reveal-human-habitation-north-america-thousands-years-earlier-previously

4 years ago

Disappearing Bicyclist – Sam Loyd (1906)

https://www.geogebra.org/m/hypuahfc

4 years ago

House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/house-committee-will-vote-on-federal-marijuana-legalization-bill-next-week-days-after-banking-reform-advances/

4 years ago

My Janet Story

https://junglecoder.com/blog/my-janet-story

4 years ago

Tesla Model S locks up in the middle of a highway

https://twitter.com/repkord/status/1440908464625106946

4 years ago

Summarizing Books with Human Feedback

https://openai.com/blog/summarizing-books/

4 years ago

New evidence of fabrications behind the Trump-Russia theory

https://mate.substack.com/p/with-clinton-lawyer-charged-the-russiagate

4 years ago

Discontinue Sourcetrail

https://sourcetrail.com/blog/discontinue_sourcetrail/

4 years ago

Show HN: Machine Learning for Google Sheets

https://www.magicsheets.io/

4 years ago

How Lotus is going to build lightweight electric sports cars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/09/heres-how-lotus-is-going-to-build-lightweight-electric-sports-cars/

4 years ago