top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-14

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

https://hackaday.com/2021/11/14/those-bullet-effects-in-terminator-2-werent-cgi/

4 years ago

U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/

4 years ago

Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)

https://blog.unity.com/technology/debugging-memory-corruption-who-the-hell-writes-2-into-my-stack-2

4 years ago

Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

https://github.com/hectorm/docker-qemu-win2000

4 years ago

Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than TVs themselves

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/14/still-the-product/#vizio

4 years ago

Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/14/1054942590/solar-energy-colorado-garden-farm-land

4 years ago

Apple buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/12/apple-quietly-buying-ads-via-google-for-high-value-subscription-apps-to-capture-app-publisher-revenue/

4 years ago

Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-are-more-willing-to-leave-exodus-recruiters-say-2021-11

4 years ago

Apple isn’t patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/psa-apple-isnt-actually-patching-all-the-security-holes-in-older-versions-of-macos/

4 years ago

My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack

https://abishekmuthian.com/my-hacker-news-knowledge-assimilation-stack/

4 years ago

YAML: It's Time to Move On

https://nestedtext.org/en/latest/alternatives.html#yaml

4 years ago

U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere

https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/us-sets-goal-drive-down-cost-removing-co2-atmosphere-2021-11-05/

4 years ago

Why disaster happens at the edges: An introduction to queue theory

https://thenewstack.io/an-introduction-to-queue-theory-why-disaster-happens-at-the-edges/

4 years ago

How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/us-airstrikes-civilian-deaths.html

4 years ago

Yann LeCun’s 2021 Deep Learning Course at CDS free and fully online

https://cds.nyu.edu/deep-learning/

4 years ago

Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

http://hintjens.com/blog:99

4 years ago

California plans to turn the screws on NIMBY cities

https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-california-plans-to-turn-the-screws-on-nimby-cities/

4 years ago

Will real estate ever be normal again?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/magazine/real-estate-pandemic.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217252

4 years ago

There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-09/column-trader-joes-parking-app

4 years ago

Wild bidding wars erupt at used-tractor auctions across the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-13/deere-strike-ignites-bidding-wars-for-used-tractors

4 years ago

Open-source automated insulin delivery system given approval by team of experts

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/do-it-yourself-artificial-pancreas-given-approval-by-team-of-experts

4 years ago

Journal of Functional Programming moving to open access

https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2021/11/11/journal-of-functional-programming-moving-to-open-access/

4 years ago

Monte Carlo Methods or Why It's a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino

https://easylang.online/apps/tutorial_monte_carlo_methods.html

4 years ago

I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-11-10-how-I-ended-liking-gnome.html

4 years ago

C# 10 new feature CallerArgumentExpression

https://weblogs.asp.net/dixin/csharp-10-new-feature-callerargumentexpression-argument-check-and-more

4 years ago

Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

https://puzzlepanda.com

4 years ago

Why and how COBOL is still used

https://medium.com/@jankammerath/why-and-how-cobol-is-still-used-1c0a0cc7ce74

4 years ago

Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)

https://www.chaseaucoin.com/posts/why-npm-has-made-the-web-worse/?=ver=8e60f8174786794b7efe72ef69ff9ac2

4 years ago

Togo made a digital government stimulus system in two weeks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-08/how-togo-made-all-digital-government-stimulus-system-in-two-weeks

4 years ago

Easylang – An easy online programming language and development environment

https://easylang.online/

4 years ago

Why you can't solve knowledge problems with information tools alone

http://www.nickmilton.com/2021/11/why-you-cant-solve-knowledge-problems.html

4 years ago

A redditor gets caught up in a triangulation scam and investigates

https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/qlyuwg/a_couple_recent_fraudulent_credit_card_charges/

4 years ago

From zero to hero: contributing to open source (2017)

https://miparnisariblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/contributing-to-open-source/

4 years ago

Flowchart: How should I run containers on AWS?

https://www.vladionescu.me/../../posts/flowchart-how-should-i-run-containers-on-aws-2021/

4 years ago

Netflix released a horror movie written by a bot and it's spectacular

https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-released-a-horror-movie-written-by-a-bot-and-its-spectacular/

4 years ago

0xA000 Font Family – A tile mastered font-family

https://pippin.gimp.org/0xA000/

4 years ago

OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware

https://hackaday.com/2021/11/13/opengl-machine-learning-runs-on-low-end-hardware/

4 years ago

Capturing and Archiving MiniDV Tapes on macOS

https://leolabs.org/blog/capture-minidv-on-macos/

4 years ago

How Python List Works

https://antonz.org/list-internals/

4 years ago

Indian Railways Works Manual (2000) [pdf]

https://www.iricen.gov.in/iricen/Works_Manuals/IRWM%20CS%20UPTO%2010.pdf

4 years ago