top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-13

Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-silently-fixes-ios-zero-day-asks-bug-reporter-to-keep-quiet/

4 years ago

600 upvotes – 246 comments

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-rigging/

4 years ago

589 upvotes – 238 comments

How does apt render its fancy progress bar?

https://mdk.fr/blog/how-apt-does-its-fancy-progress-bar.html

4 years ago

516 upvotes – 158 comments

What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?

https://sparktoro.com/blog/what-if-performance-advertising-is-just-an-analytics-scam/

4 years ago

491 upvotes – 347 comments

The 100 MHz 6502

http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/

4 years ago

433 upvotes – 209 comments

The Frame.work Marketplace Opened

https://frame.work/marketplace

4 years ago

395 upvotes – 152 comments

Why HN is the way it is, and why we hope it will stay that way

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27161491

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 183 comments

GTFOBins

https://gtfobins.github.io/

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 54 comments

Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-intellectuals-urge-state-to-keep-nuclear-plants-online/

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 388 comments

Kape Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, PIA, Zenmate, and VPN “Review” Sites

https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 85 comments

Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 107 comments

The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space

https://cosmicperspective.com/william-shatner-overview-effect-ns18/

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 302 comments

Always Do Extra

http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2021/always-do-extra.php

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 121 comments

OVH is down along with its status page

https://status.ovh.com

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 156 comments

Sketch Machine

https://sketchmachine.net/

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 22 comments

Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/13/22723998/windows-11-update-amd-ryzen-cpu-performance-worse

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 269 comments

Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language

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

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 135 comments

Container security best practices: Ultimate guide

https://sysdig.com/blog/container-security-best-practices/

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 62 comments

U.S. inflation rate rises to 13-year high of 5.4%

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/us-inflation-1.6208981

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 410 comments

GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptible VMs

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/spot-vms

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 124 comments

Typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey (2014)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/01/31/2001-a-space-odyssey/

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 75 comments

Please stop calling dopamine an addictive rewarding neurochemical (2017)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 58 comments

Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots amid schedule meltdown

https://thepointsguy.com/news/southwest-airlines-new-ceo-pilots-cancellations/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 426 comments

AI predicts accident hot-spots from satellite imagery and GPS data

https://www.unite.ai/ai-predicts-accident-hot-spots-from-satellite-imagery-and-gps-data/

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 76 comments

Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat

https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2021/10/ricochet-anti-cheat-initiative-for-call-of-duty

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 321 comments

Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 415 comments

Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts

https://sixtyfps.io/blog/showing-guis-from-shell-scripts.html

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 55 comments

The great executive-employee disconnect

https://futureforum.com/2021/10/05/the-great-executive-employee-disconnect/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 158 comments

Adventuron – Text Adventure Authoring in the Browser

https://adventuron.io/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 22 comments

Back to EU

https://adambird.com/posts/back-to-eu/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 104 comments

Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing

https://pages.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/istc/istc.html

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 15 comments

Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021

https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

Strike Date Set for 60k Film and Television Workers

https://iatse.net/strike-date-set-for-60000-film-and-television-workers/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 77 comments

Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/13/a-moment-that-changed-me-patrick-stewart-on-the-teacher-who-spotted-his-talent-and-saved-him

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 31 comments

Wavelets allow researchers to transform and understand data

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-wavelets-allow-researchers-to-transform-and-understand-data-20211013/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

IBM Computing Cheese Cutter Restoration [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8VhNF_0I5c

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 27 comments

Bitcoin Addiction Hospital

https://castlecraig.co.uk/treatment/behavioral-addictions/bitcoin-addiction-treatment

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 183 comments

FreeBSD Audio

https://meka.rs/blog/2021/10/12/freebsd-audio/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 53 comments

Using ASCII waveforms to test real-time audio code

https://goq2q.net/blog/tech/using-ascii-waveforms-to-test-real-time-audio-code

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 70 comments

Lets talk about how NFTs are a giant scam

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1445795667826208770

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 124 comments

Software Sweatshop – Inside Billionaire Joe Liemandt's Empire

https://colinkeeley.com/blog/joe-liemandt-esw-capital-operating-manual

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown

https://qwerty.dev/calendar-generator/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Download videos, but only the parts you want

https://videodownloadtool.io

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 65

https://www.natecation.com/accredited-investor-investing-startups-series-65/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 80 comments

Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified

https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/pink-floyds-young-lust-explained-and-demystified/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 45 comments

Walgreens closing 5 San Francisco stores due to 'organized retail crime'

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Walgreens-closing-5-Sf-stores-crime-shoplifting-16527801.php

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 96 comments

How to Get over Fear of Disappointing Others (FODO)

https://nickwignall.com/fear-of-disappointing-others/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State

https://nurse.org/articles/texas-bans-nurses-from-in-state-crisis-contracts/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 82 comments

Disabling /all chat in matchmade queues

https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/disabling-all-chat/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments

Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features

https://remarkable.com/store/connect

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 85 comments

Use of GitHub Enterprise

https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/59

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-12/apple-poised-to-slash-iphone-production-goals-due-to-chip-crunch

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 99 comments

Vast majority think life in SF Bay Area getting worse, want to leave, poll finds

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/poll-silicon-valley-leaving-grass-is-greener-movin-16527214.php

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 55 comments

The Kingpin of Shanghai

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-kingpin-of-shanghai/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

Fast character case conversion (or how to compress sparse arrays)

https://github.com/apankrat/notes/tree/master/fast-case-conversion

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams

https://blog.devgenius.io/microsoft-is-finally-ditching-electron-9e081757f9db?gi=bd4952a2226a

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 129 comments

WebAuthn – The Passwordless Future

https://webauthn.io/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

Premortems will keep your code alive

https://www.cobaltrobotics.com/premortems-and-postmortems/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/mozilla-firefox/258006/is-mozilla-firefox-getting-sketchy

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

A threat analysis of sideloading [pdf]

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps_A_Threat_Analysis_of_Sideloading.pdf

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 71 comments

The Venus Project

https://www.thevenusproject.com/

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 114 comments

SUVs are offsetting EV car gains

https://the-ken.com/greenmargins/when-the-suv-craze-goes-up-what-comes-down/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 96 comments

Find images from movies based on what you draw

https://huggingface.co/spaces/osanseviero/draw_to_search

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Interface ergonomics: automation isn't just about time saved

https://macoy.me/blog/programming/InterfaceFriction

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Kyshtym Disaster

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

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

US attorney details illegal acts, sealing the fate of the “nuclear Renaissance”

https://thebulletin.org/2021/08/us-attorney-details-illegal-acts-at-construction-projects-sealing-the-fate-of-the-nuclear-renaissance/

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

Time Millionaires

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/12/time-millionaires-meet-the-people-pursuing-the-pleasure-of-leisure

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 75 comments

Nonconsenting prisoners are the source of many organ transplantations in China

https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S0022-5223(21)01375-1/fulltext?rss=yes

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

Depressed People See the World More Realistically

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8x9j3k/depressed-people-see-the-world-more-realistically

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

You Are Jeff Bezos

https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 91 comments

Photoshop blocks opening banknote images

https://twitter.com/eliseswain/status/1448026533000617988

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: How is the Great Resignation affecting your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846796

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 38 comments

State of Open Source: The UK in 2021

https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/

4 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Dead-End SF Street Plagued with Confused Waymo Cars Trying to Turn Around

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/10/13/dead-end-sf-street-plagued-with-confused-waymo-cars-trying-to-turn-around-every-5-minutes/

4 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

“Progress” by Aldous Huxley (1928)

https://atlasofplaces.com/essays/progress/

4 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments
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