662
309
Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/blacksmith/
4 years ago
554
608
YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
https://twitter.com/ReturnOfTheFleX/status/1460295030187438088
507
430
Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
https://www.space.com/space-debris-astronauts-shelter-november-2021
486
184
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning
468
95
macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
https://danpetrov.xyz/macos/2021/11/14/analysing-network-quality-macos.html
464
203
Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop
https://www.audubon.org/news/these-mighty-shorebirds-keep-breaking-flight-records-and-you-can-follow-along
398
75
How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend
https://mzrn.sh/2021/11/14/how-i-helped-build-a-profitable-mvp-over-a-weekend
358
515
If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
https://www.macworld.com/article/551393/apple-software-problems-regions-memories-bugs.html
344
247
Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-is-air-cargo-suddenly-more-affordable-compared-to-ocean-shipping
321
81
OKRs masquerade as strategy
https://rogermartin.medium.com/stop-letting-okrs-masquerade-as-strategy-a57fc2cea915
317
116
Blender 3.0 takes support for AMD GPUs to the next level
https://gpuopen.com/blender-cycles-amd-gpu/
35
An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib
https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book
266
542
Without parental leave I might be dead
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/opinion/paid-family-leave-biden.html
265
463
Is there such a thing as good taste?
http://paulgraham.com/goodtaste.html
250
101
Shirley Cards
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/shirley-cards/
246
65
Show HN: I made a no-code tool to create animated technical papers
https://textframe.app/examples/bitcoin
239
124
Show HN: Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C
https://github.com/chjj/mako
225
180
When did computer science theory get so hard?
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2021/11/when-did-computer-science-theory-get-so.html
228
Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/11/13/taproot-bitcoins-long-anticipated-upgrade-activates-this-weekend/
217
156
Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
https://databricks.com/blog/2021/11/15/snowflake-claims-similar-price-performance-to-databricks-but-not-so-fast.html
216
129
Websites should not use dithered images
https://www.simplethread.com/why-your-website-should-not-use-dithered-images/
110
Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
https://briarproject.org/news/2021-briar-1.4-released/
207
160
Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness
https://psyche.co/ideas/depression-is-more-than-low-mood-its-a-change-of-consciousness
153
Sorry Safari Team
https://paul.kinlan.me/sorry-safari-team/
200
104
Processing billions of events in real time
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2021/processing-billions-of-events-in-real-time-at-twitter-
186
89
Assume everyone is stupid, lazy and possibly insane, including you
https://lifehacker.com/why-you-should-assume-everyone-is-stupid-lazy-and-pos-1847997212
57
Porting Doom to a USB Bluetooth Dongle
https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/11/13/porting-doom-to-an-nrf52840-based-usb-bluetooth-le-dongle/
183
69
OAuth with Cloudflare workers on a statically generated site
https://abyteofcoding.com/blog/oauth-with-cloudflare-workers-on-a-statically-generated-site/
181
50
Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up
https://spectrum.ieee.org/foldable-monocopter-drone
179
479
Corded headphones are making an unexpected return
https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-airpods-out-why-cool-kids-are-wearing-wired-headphones-11636753407
177
132
Direct file transfer via browser with no server involvement
http://cend.me/
176
85
Underdog no more, a deaf football team takes California by storm
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/riverside-california-deaf-football-team.html
163
67
Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29226864
Highlights from Git 2.34
https://github.blog/2021-11-15-highlights-from-git-2-34/
130
Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout
https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr
149
20
Portugal proposed law tries to sneak in biometric mass surveillance
https://reclaimyourface.eu/portugal-proposed-law-tries-to-sneak-in-biometric-mass-surveillance/
148
115
The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (2020)
http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
147
119
Why not to whitelist operating system user agents
https://www.neelc.org/posts/chase-how-not-to-design-a-website/
92
Return YouTube dislike count
https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com
139
My letter to Medicaid, appealing my child's Medicaid denial
https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/sterlings-medicaid-hearing-response
127
60
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU that won exascale
https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/11/09/the-aldebaran-amd-gpu-that-won-exascale/
123
38
Sourcehut’s Third Year
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-11-15-sourcehuts-third-year/
122
146
Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/11/15/chile-wants-to-export-solar-energy-to-asia-via-15000km-submarine-cable/
120
52
The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chip-that-changed-the-world-microprocessor-computing-transistor-breakthrough-intel-11636903999
15
Durable Objects now Generally Available
https://blog.cloudflare.com/durable-objects-ga/
154
Office 2000 is good to go
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/055-office-2000-is-good-to-go
118
Why salt was so important throughout history (2018)
https://bookworm.club/blog/salt/
106
231
Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem
https://liamsymonds.com/we-need-to-have-a-talk-about-making-life-easier-for-newcomers-to-the-net-ecosystem/
105
78
Monterey’s memory leak and how to avoid it
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/15/montereys-memory-leak-and-how-to-avoid-it/
102
23
How to Create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel
https://simplexct.com/how-to-create-a-hex-tile-grid-map-in-excel
71
A rough proposal for sum types in Go (2018)
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2018/02/01/a-rough-proposal-for-sum-types-in-go/
100
133
The benefits of not belonging
https://hardfork.substack.com/p/the-perpetual-outsider-the-big-benefits
97
24
Show HN: Grapic – Real whiteboards online using AR
https://www.grapic.co/
10
GitHub’s commitment to NPM ecosystem security
https://github.blog/2021-11-15-githubs-commitment-to-npm-ecosystem-security/
94
Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2014)
http://lispm.de/symbolics-lisp-machine-ergonomics
90
Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization
https://snarky.ca/programming-language-selection-is-a-form-of-premature-optimization/
87
73
Why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/14/try-try-and-try-again-why-did-modern-humans-take-so-long-to-settle-in-europe
76
I write a parenting advice column (or how I became famous in my neighborhood)
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/i-write-a-parenting-advice-column
Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/children-poisoned-by-flint-water-will-receive-majority-of-626-million-settlement/
22
Show HN: OpenAPI fuzzer – fuzzing APIs based on OpenAPI specification
https://github.com/matusf/openapi-fuzzer
9
Interactive Gradient Descent Demo
https://blog.skz.dev/gradient-descent
74
Ask HN: Messed up my education, now 30 and regretting it. What to do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29232213
43
Dubious $56,000 Alzheimer’s drug spurs largest Medicare price hike ever
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/dubious-56000-alzheimers-drug-spurs-largest-medicare-price-hike-ever/
70
27
A hash function using only add, sub, ror, and xor
https://github.com/Keith-Cancel/k-hash
66
“Let's Run The Experiment”: about DAOs and the future of organizations online
https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/lets-run-the-experiment-a-conversation