top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-12

Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/

4 years ago

ISO should make all standards Publicly Available

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Gmy2s4Nmkw6VDv2B6b5K1DLYhPrTUqSntrlmYzJpNw/edit

4 years ago

Useful sed scripts and patterns

https://github.com/adrianscheff/useful-sed

4 years ago

M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1458473546225577987

4 years ago

Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59263300

4 years ago

Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2021/11/12/ruby-vs-python-for-loop.html

4 years ago

How not to sort by average rating (2009)

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

4 years ago

Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

https://sagrista.info/../../../blog/2021/searx-or-duckduckgo/

4 years ago

Bayesian Optimization Book

https://bayesoptbook.com//

4 years ago

Why Lisp?

https://atlas.engineer/technical-article/why-lisp.org

4 years ago

Google Outage in Europe

https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/

4 years ago

Running a Law Firm on Linux

https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/11/running-a-law-firm-on-linux

4 years ago

SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flinging launch system

https://www.space.com/spinlaunch-first-test-flight-success

4 years ago

Why Zulip will not get on the blockchain bandwagon

https://blog.zulip.com/2021/11/12/why-not-blockchain/

4 years ago

London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming back to life

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1054645619/state-of-the-river-thames-report-london

4 years ago

Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler

https://github.com/yandex/odyssey

4 years ago

Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021

https://skerritt.blog/make-popular-open-source-projects/

4 years ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29200687

4 years ago

macOS Zero-Day Used Against Hong-Kong Activists

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/macos-zero-day-used-against-hong-kong-activists.html

4 years ago

How I Use Notion

https://reasonabledeviations.com/2021/09/18/how-i-use-notion/

4 years ago

Fantasy Map Generator (2018)

https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

4 years ago

Try charging on the right and not on the left

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find-cause-of-high-kernel-task-cpu-usage

4 years ago

Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/nuclear-radiation-used-to-transmit-digital-data-wirelessly

4 years ago

The Rust compiler has gotten faster again

https://nnethercote.github.io/2021/11/12/the-rust-compiler-has-gotten-faster-again.html

4 years ago

I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SMTSecurityUncertainty

4 years ago

Beware of fast-math

https://simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath/

4 years ago

SDL gets an Epic MegaGrant to work on next-gen Vulkan API

https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-project-top-58563886

4 years ago

How many people have Q Clearance?

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2021/11/12/how-many-people-have-q-clearance/

4 years ago

EU interior ministers welcome mandatory chat control for all smartphones

https://european-pirateparty.eu/eu-minister-welcome-chatcontrol/

4 years ago

Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP

https://docs.statetrace.com/blog/redis-server/

4 years ago

Packages dumped in wrong lobby, resident tried harder to correct it than Amazon

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2021/11/11/with-30-packages-dumped-in-the-wrong-lobby-resident-tried-harder-to-correct-it-than-amazon/

4 years ago

Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

https://restofworld.org/2021/facebook-didnt-know-why-half-of-messengers-voice-traffic-comes-from-cambodia-heres-why/

4 years ago

Know how the Beatles ended? Peter Jackson may change your mind

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/arts/music/beatles-get-back-peter-jackson.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Plain Org – A new org mode app for iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plain-org/id1578965002

4 years ago

Tech-driven approach to neighbourhood watch is cementing community divisions

https://thewalrus.ca/porch-cameras-and-facebook-groups-are-turning-streets-into-surveillance-states/

4 years ago

Spotify Codes – Part 2

https://boonepeter.github.io/posts/spotify-codes-part-2/

4 years ago

Webamp IPFS media player

https://webamp-ipfs.netlify.app/Qmevni3vjqGiSAd7DE7kDhPXAqLNED2zUwJ5XaLyhc7rwK

4 years ago

How to invest without knowing the future

https://compoundadvisors.com/2021/how-to-invest-without-knowing-the-future

4 years ago

It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code

https://qntm.org/clean

4 years ago

Container Logistics

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PHmYhE4sKnwzYgvkh/a-brief-introduction-to-container-logistics

4 years ago

Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement

https://iterative-refinement.github.io/

4 years ago

Gin, television, and social surplus, or, “looking for the mouse” (2008)

https://gist.github.com/jm3/6724931

4 years ago

Async Cancellation

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/async-cancellation-1/

4 years ago

Nuclear energy is long-term sustainable

https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-longterm-sustainable.html

4 years ago

Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/259208/windows-11-to-block-windows-11-browser-workarounds

4 years ago

Show HN: Stringmark – Chrome extension that makes online research easier

https://www.stringmark.com

4 years ago

The Design of the Connection Machine (1994)

https://tamikothiel.com/theory/cm_txts/

4 years ago

A 100LOC C impl of memset, that is faster than glibc's

https://github.com/nadavrot/memset_benchmark

4 years ago

A guide to organizing settings in Django

https://apibakery.com/blog/django-settings-howto/

4 years ago

New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-g5-with-nvidia-a10g-tensor-core-gpus/

4 years ago

Boeing admits full responsibility for 737 Max plane crash in Ethiopia

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/11/boeing-full-responsibility-737-max-plane-crash-ethiopia-compensation

4 years ago

Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II

https://twitter.com/markrussinovich/status/1458485897683353601

4 years ago

How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage?

https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/11/12/how-badly-is-cryptocurrency-worsening-the-chip-shortage/

4 years ago

You Shouldn’t Use GraphQL

https://blog.logrocket.com/why-you-shouldnt-use-graphql/

4 years ago

Ways to improve mental health for software developers

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/11/5-ways-to-improve-mental-health-for-software-developers/

4 years ago

Show HN: Lifeee – Conway’s Game of Life with an infinite zoomable grid

https://lifeee.netlify.app/

4 years ago

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The life of Kurt Gödel

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/journey-to-the-edge-of-reason-kurt-godel-stephen-budianksy-book-review-cheryl-misak/

4 years ago

Open Source Vibrotactile Haptics Platform for On-Body Applications

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/11/an-open-source-vibrotactile-haptics.html

4 years ago

I Got Fired from Amazon as a Software Development Engineer

https://primitivehacker.medium.com/i-got-fired-from-amazon-as-a-software-development-engineer-1986b72c9d3

4 years ago

Chocolate from Bean to Bar

https://www.flavorlab.xyz/recipes/chocolate

4 years ago

America Online Exploits Bug in Own Software (1999)

https://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/security/aim/index.htm

4 years ago

The Greatest Unsolved Heist in Irish History

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irish-crown-jewels-theft

4 years ago

tex.web – Version 3.141592653

https://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/knuth/dist/tex/tex.web

4 years ago

Why Zillow Couldn’t Make Algorithmic House Pricing Work

https://www.wired.com/story/zillow-ibuyer-real-estate/

4 years ago

Incident Affecting Google Cloud Infrastructure Components

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/1xkAB1KmLrh5g3v9ZEZ7

4 years ago

Google service outages in Europe

https://outage.report/google

4 years ago

When there seems to be no way out – customer discovery for your head

https://steveblank.com/2021/11/11/when-there-seems-to-be-no-way-out-customer-discovery-for-your-head/

4 years ago

Programming with Something

https://tomstu.art/programming-with-something

4 years ago