top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-10-27

New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012

https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown

4 years ago

GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

https://github.com/github/copilot-docs/tree/main/docs

4 years ago

Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching

https://theswaddle.com/female-african-elephants-are-evolving-without-tusks-due-to-ivory-poaching/

4 years ago

Giant, free index to world's research papers released online

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8

4 years ago

How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS

https://medium.com/@johan.isaksson/how-i-made-googles-data-grid-scroll-10x-faster-with-one-line-of-css-78cb1e8d9cb1

4 years ago

Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners

https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controlled-small-group-investors-miners-study.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

https://www.codingfont.com/

4 years ago

DIY Acoustic Camera

https://navat.substack.com/p/diy-acoustic-camera-using-uma-16

4 years ago

2021 MacBook Pro has a replaceable battery

https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown

4 years ago

Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=11900k-windows11-clear&num=1

4 years ago

Tim Sweeney: Tax bill would likely end founder control of independent companies

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1453484672827240457

4 years ago

Show HN: “HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots

https://bradgessler.com/articles/419-never-gonna-give-you-up/

4 years ago

Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool

https://techexplorations.com/blog/kicad/kicad-6-review-new-and-improved-features/

4 years ago

“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated

https://maxread.substack.com/p/dune-annotated

4 years ago

Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations

http://blog.pnas.org/2021/10/is-scientific-progress-waning-too-many-new-papers-may-mean-novel-ideas-rarely-rack-up-citations/

4 years ago

Comparing SQLite, DuckDB and Arrow with UN trade data

https://pacha.dev/blog/2021/08/27/comparing-sqlite-duckdb-and-arrow-with-un-trade-data/

4 years ago

I made my own garum

https://twitter.com/lostsupper/status/1453003368725717000

4 years ago

$1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it poses a legal challenge

https://www.themainemonitor.org/staggering-1-5-billion-lithium-deposit-discovered-near-newry-excavating-it-poses-a-challenge/

4 years ago

Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoVersionOfYourSource

4 years ago

Private keys used to sign EU Digital Covid Certificate might have been leaked

https://nitter.net/reversebrain/status/1453095038284615682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1453095038284615682%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1.html

4 years ago

Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp

https://cgamesplay.com/post/2021/10/27/creating-my-personal-cloud-with-hashicorp/

4 years ago

Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)

https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html

4 years ago

Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/10/25/nobelium-targeting-delegated-administrative-privileges-to-facilitate-broader-attacks/

4 years ago

Indian Supreme Court orders inquiry into state’s use of Pegasus spyware

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/27/indian-supreme-court-orders-inquiry-into-states-use-of-pegasus-spyware

4 years ago

I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger

https://machinehum.medium.com/im-putting-a-wifi-router-into-a-wall-charger-part-0-2c1e1a80ccde

4 years ago

Paxos automatically determined safe and secure

https://news.umich.edu/distributed-protocol-underpinning-cloud-computing-automatically-determined-safe-and-secure/

4 years ago

Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/facebook-removed-the-news-feed-algorithm

4 years ago

Xorg-Server 21.1.0

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2021-October/060799.html

4 years ago

No YAML

https://noyaml.com/

4 years ago

My 10 Year Side Project Story

https://dateful.com/2021/10/27/my-side-project-story.html

4 years ago

Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/499/1/L111/5931805

4 years ago

My ideal Rust workflow

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/my-ideal-rust-workflow

4 years ago

Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/

4 years ago

Exa: An alternative to Ls

https://the.exa.website/introduction

4 years ago

It appears that private keys for generating EU Covid Certificates have leaked

https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-spec/issues/103

4 years ago

Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29015130

4 years ago

In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/10/26/in-c-is-empty-faster-than-comparing-the-size-with-zero/

4 years ago

SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript

https://squeak.js.org/

4 years ago

Epistemic Minor Leagues

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/epistemic-minor-leagues

4 years ago

Welcome to the brand new Erlang Forums

https://erlangforums.com/t/welcome-to-the-brand-new-erlang-forums/214

4 years ago

How spies are caught (2001)

https://www.wrc.noaa.gov/wrso/security_guide/caught.htm

4 years ago

Programmer Moneyball (2016)

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

4 years ago

Byrne Hobart on the financialisation of everything

https://thebrowser.com/notes/byrne-hobart/

4 years ago

Riding the Writing Wave

https://perell.com/essay/writing/

4 years ago

The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/origin-word-robot-rur/

4 years ago

Wikimedia Enterprise: paid commercial product for reusing Wikipedia content

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/10/25/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikimedia-enterprise-the-new-opt-in-product-for-companies-and-organizations-to-easily-reuse-content-from-wikipedia-and-wikimedia-projects/

4 years ago

There is no bottom when it comes to Section 230 reform proposals

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/10/there-is-no-bottom-when-it-comes-to-section-230-reform-proposals-comments-on-the-justice-against-malicious-algorithms-act.htm

4 years ago

Sci-Fi Icon Neal Stephenson Finally Takes on Global Warming

https://www.wired.com/story/sci-fi-icon-neal-stephenson-global-warming/

4 years ago

Decades of disinformation by fossil fuels halted US climate policy

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1047583610/once-again-the-u-s-has-failed-to-take-sweeping-climate-action-heres-why

4 years ago

Little Big Adventure series source code released

https://blog.2point21.com/p/devlog-releasing-lba-open-source

4 years ago

Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/technology/facebook-sec-complaints.html

4 years ago

Sequoia Productive Capital

https://stratechery.com/2021/sequoia-productive-capital/

4 years ago

Many white students lied about their race to improve chances of admission

https://www.intelligent.com/34-of-white-college-students-lied-about-their-race-to-improve-chances-of-admission-financial-aid-benefits/

4 years ago

The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018)

https://qz.com/1275194/the-amish-understand-a-life-changing-truth-about-technology-the-rest-of-us-dont/

4 years ago

One Typed Page

https://onetypedpage.com/

4 years ago

How Debian cron handles DST transitions

https://blog.healthchecks.io/2021/10/how-debian-cron-handles-dst-transitions/

4 years ago

Online GIF Tools – Simple, free and easy to use GIF utilities

https://onlinegiftools.com

4 years ago

Why Turtl switched from Common Lisp to JavaScript (2019)

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-turtl-switched-from-lisp-to-js/

4 years ago

Where transcendental numbers hide in everyday math

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-transcendental-numbers-hide-in-everyday-math-20211027/

4 years ago

Essential calculus ideas [video]

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

4 years ago

Ask HN: I'm 10 years into CS career, but rarely code anymore. Is this normal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017701

4 years ago

A return to the general-purpose database

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/10/26/general-purpose-database/

4 years ago

Intro to cassette recorder operation, maintenance, and repair

https://www.instructables.com/Intro-to-Cassette-Recorder-Operation-Maintenance-a/

4 years ago

Ballerina: An open-source programming language for the cloud

https://ballerina.io/

4 years ago

Remembering Intel 740

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/remembering-intel-740-custom-pc-218/

4 years ago

Law firm sues Kellogg for not enough strawberries in Pop-Tarts

https://www.foodprocessing.com/industrynews/2021/law-firm-sues-kellogg-for-not-enough-strawberries-in-pop-tarts/

4 years ago

Virtual 3D Fly Brain

https://v2.virtualflybrain.org/org.geppetto.frontend/geppetto?id=VFB_00101567&i=VFB_00101567

4 years ago

Incorrect Lift Theory

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/wrong1.html

4 years ago

Dirty data science: Machine learning on non-curated data

https://www.slideshare.net/GaelVaroquaux/dirty-data-science-machine-learning-on-noncurated-data

4 years ago

In-demand tech skills are the last thing to look for in IT hires

https://www.netsuite.com/portal/business-benchmark-brainyard/industries/articles/cfo-central/in-demand-tech-skills.shtml

4 years ago

After a year of ‘rampant’ cheating, elite bridge tries to clean up

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/arts/contract-bridge-cheating.html

4 years ago

Affordable 70 MPH electric motorcycle is already here and no one noticed

https://electrek.co/2021/10/26/north-americas-most-affordable-70-mph-electric-motorcycle-is-already-here-and-no-one-noticed/

4 years ago

Radio Station WWV

https://www.nist.gov/time-distribution/radio-station-wwv

4 years ago

The Codeless CTO (2019)

https://medium.com/swlh/the-codeless-cto-471ee6069288

4 years ago

We Built a Cross-Platform Library with Rust

https://www.osohq.com/post/cross-platform-rust-libraries

4 years ago

GCHQ award spy agencies cloud contract to AWS

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/26/amazon-web-services-aws-contract-data-mi5-mi6-gchq

4 years ago

Launch HN: Eduflow (YC S17) – Async Social Learning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011896

4 years ago

URI-Based Integration

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/10/26/URI-based-Integration

4 years ago