top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-16

Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/canon-sued-for-disabling-scanner-when-printers-run-out-of-ink/

4 years ago

Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/09/dislike-button-would-improve-spotifys-recommendations

4 years ago

Wearable Microphone Jamming

http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/jammer/

4 years ago

Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change?

https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/samuel-miller-mcdonald-nuclear-power-our-best-bet-against-climate-change

4 years ago

Git Command Explorer

https://gitexplorer.com/

4 years ago

Implementing Hash Tables in C

https://www.andreinc.net/2021/10/02/implementing-hash-tables-in-c-part-1

4 years ago

The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)

https://allthatsinteresting.com/fugate-family-blue-people-of-kentucky

4 years ago

Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/16/vienna-museums-open-adult-only-onlyfans-account-to-display-nudes

4 years ago

Roguelike Celebration 2021

https://roguelike.club/event2021.html

4 years ago

Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant

https://esghound.substack.com/p/spacex-16-elon-musk-is-still-building

4 years ago

1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-28-8-network-programming-in-age-of-empires-and-beyond

4 years ago

What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes

https://www.bonappetit.com/trends/article/what-the-irish-ate-before-potatoes

4 years ago

Pursue High-Quality Leisure

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/pursue-high-quality-leisure

4 years ago

How to Safely Think in Systems

https://lethain.com/how-to-safely-think-in-systems/

4 years ago

A New Bootable USB Solution

https://ventoy.net/en/index.html

4 years ago

Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform

https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm

4 years ago

Simon Roper: the 23-year-old reconstructing the past for millions of viewers

https://www.newstatesman.com/the-culture-interview/2021/10/simon-roper-the-23-year-old-reconstructing-the-past-for-millions-of-online-viewers

4 years ago

UK to put nuclear power at heart of net zero emissions strategy

https://www.ft.com/content/e6426194-21e6-49c4-9520-97c337b350fd

4 years ago

How I learned to program

https://danluu.com/learning-to-program/

4 years ago

California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures

https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-scrambles-to-find-electricity-to-offset-plant-closures-11634376600

4 years ago

Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning

https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/10/15/cracking-random-number-generators-using-machine-learning-part-1-xorshift128/

4 years ago

NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)

https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/nixos-and-the-art-of-os-configuration/

4 years ago

Open Simulator

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

4 years ago

Privacy activists oppose EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/15/eu_nis_directive_article_23_death_lists/

4 years ago

Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/15/apple-fires-leader-of-appletoo-movement

4 years ago

Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next

https://www.notonlycode.org/nobody-hires-juniors/

4 years ago

Amazon Corretto JDK

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/

4 years ago

Bonhoeffer on Stupidity

http://southsidemessenger.com/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity-entire-quote/

4 years ago

What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (2020)

https://www.openculture.com/2020/04/this-is-what-richard-feynmans-phd-thesis-looks-like-a-video-introduction.html

4 years ago

Gotify/server: A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time

https://github.com/gotify/server

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is Anyone Here a Professional Baker?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28886933

4 years ago

Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/14/leave-no-trace-how-a-teenage-hacker-lost-himself-online

4 years ago

Some tech founders are getting huge pay packages

https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-tech-startup-founder-pay-compensation-stock-packages-11634321296

4 years ago

Theory of Computation

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-404j-theory-of-computation-fall-2020/

4 years ago

Study Warns Android Phones from Samsung, Xiaomi and Others Are Spying on Users

https://hothardware.com/news/samsung-xiaomi-other-android-phones-spying-on-users

4 years ago

Researchers show Facebook’s ad tools can target a single user

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/researchers-show-facebooks-ad-tools-can-target-a-single-user/

4 years ago

Show HN: Add a command-line interface to any C++ program

https://github.com/empirical-soft/command-interface

4 years ago

Tether Discussion featuring Bennett Tomlin and George Noble

https://www.grant-williams.com/podcast/the-grant-williams-podcast-bennett-tomlin-george-noble/

4 years ago

Ghost CEO lectures locked out customer about empathy

https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1449093879546843137

4 years ago

Circle: C++ Automation Language

https://www.circle-lang.org/

4 years ago

Status Page for monitoring your websites and applications with beautiful graphs

https://github.com/statping/statping

4 years ago

Redis Cluster Re-Implemented in Rust: Scaling Redis Easily in Kubernetes

https://github.com/doyoubi/undermoon

4 years ago

Minias – A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning

https://github.com/andrewchambers/minias

4 years ago

Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor

https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-doctors-say-tiktok-could-be-a-factor-11634389201

4 years ago

Genode – Sculpt Operating System 21.10

https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-21-10

4 years ago

Show HN: Onetun – Access your WireGuard network from anywhere

https://github.com/aramperes/onetun

4 years ago

Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust

https://pkolaczk.github.io/overhead-of-optional/

4 years ago

Speech and Language Processing

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

4 years ago

The Reemergence of Style in Software

https://future.a16z.com/software-style-over-branding/

4 years ago

How to Calculate the Trappiest Openings in Chess Using Stats

https://medium.com/applied-data-science/how-to-calculate-the-trappiest-openings-in-chess-2bc24a6345f7

4 years ago

Show HN: Stormah, cloud notes stored in your own Git repo

https://stormah.com/

4 years ago

Intel Shows Off Multi-Chiplet Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sapphire-rapids-with-hbm-pictured

4 years ago

Things my dog taught me about software development

https://philbooth.me/blog/things-my-dog-taught-me-about-software-development

4 years ago

A generic VHDL touch controller – add capacitive buttons to any FPGA

https://github.com/stnolting/captouch

4 years ago

The Toynbee Convector

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

4 years ago

More Americans are considering retirement

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-30/more-americans-are-considering-retirement-because-of-covid

4 years ago

Louisville sawmill challenges perception about wages

https://cdispatch.com/opinions/2021-10-13/slimantics-louisville-sawmill-challenges-perception-about-wages/

4 years ago

In Gavin Newsom's California, Covid Rules Are for Those Without Political Power

https://reason.com/2021/10/15/in-gavin-newsoms-california-covid-19-rules-are-for-those-without-political-power/

4 years ago

Declassified docs reveal truth about FBI’s contribution to Hemingway’s demise

https://www.history101.com/hemingway-fbi-declassified/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Best way to organize 100-200 emails/day in Outlook?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28887234

4 years ago

Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games

https://longreads.com/2021/10/07/deeper-than-pixels-a-reading-list-on-video-games/

4 years ago