top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-16

Individuals Matter

https://danluu.com/people-matter/

4 years ago

774 upvotes – 398 comments

Security issue related to the NPM registry

https://github.blog/2021-11-15-githubs-commitment-to-npm-ecosystem-security/#security-issues-related-to-the-npm-registry

4 years ago

667 upvotes – 281 comments

There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

https://www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/news/news/Provincial/Vancouver_is_now_completely_cut_off_to_the_rest_of_Canada_by_road/

4 years ago

641 upvotes – 449 comments

I hate password rules

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/why-i-hate-password-rules.html

4 years ago

564 upvotes – 435 comments

Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox

https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2021/11/15/letting-users-tick-a-none-checkbox/

4 years ago

413 upvotes – 120 comments

Error 404 (Not Found)

https://spotify.com

4 years ago

400 upvotes – 183 comments

List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers

https://modemly.com/m1/pulse

4 years ago

359 upvotes – 127 comments

Hackerrank DMCA Notice

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/11/2021-11-12-hackerrank.md

4 years ago

341 upvotes – 171 comments

What elements does a plant need to grow?

https://github.com/hydromisc/hydromisc/blob/master/doc/nutrient-design.md

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 102 comments

What really happened at the Millennium Tower?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2021/11/10/what-really-happened-at-the-millennium-tower

4 years ago

336 upvotes – 210 comments

IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-11-16-IBM-Unveils-Breakthrough-127-Qubit-Quantum-Processor

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 313 comments

Appflowy – open-source Notion Alternative

https://www.appflowy.io

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 78 comments

Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films

https://top10.netflix.com/?

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 248 comments

Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29237308

4 years ago

281 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

https://budibase.com/

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 105 comments

Why Emacs: Redux

https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/16/why-emacs-redux/

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 206 comments

Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Python-stop-screwing-distros-over.html

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 383 comments

Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ChromePrivateNetBlocks

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 269 comments

Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 212 comments

Java Virtual Threads Preview

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8277131

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 264 comments

NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 260 comments

Some notes on using esbuild

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/11/15/esbuild-vue/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 199 comments

PlanetScale is now generally available

https://planetscale.com/blog/ga

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 132 comments

A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks

https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/risk-compensation-debunked-masks-rapid-tests-vaccines-safety.html

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 325 comments

Decentralized Woo Hoo

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/decentralized-woo.html

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 291 comments

Show HN: Outage Bingo

https://outage.bingo

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 55 comments

Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality?

https://www.lynalden.com/qe-and-inequality/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 269 comments

Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher (2016)

https://aaronrandall.com/blog/cracking-the-adventure-time-cipher/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Caffeine – Minimum viable back end for prototyping

https://github.com/rehacktive/caffeine

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 76 comments

Rust on MIPS64 Windows NT 4.0

https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2021/11/16/rust_on_nt_mips.html

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 26 comments

Video game play is positively correlated with well-being

https://psyarxiv.com/qrjza/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 113 comments

ZX Spectrum developer Bernie Drummond has died

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/obituary-zx-spectrum-developer-Bernie-Drummond-has-died

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 29 comments

Divorce does funny things

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11/09/divorce-does-funny-things/

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 359 comments

I will pay you cash to delete your NPM module

https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Cash-for-leftpad.html

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 58 comments

Firefox 94 has No Visible Border on unfocused tabs

https://octodon.social/@joeyh/107283148035893045

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 234 comments

Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript

https://codeascraft.com/2021/11/08/etsys-journey-to-typescript/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 152 comments

A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine

https://gizmodo.com/a-1980s-space-telescope-may-have-seen-planet-nine-1848066820

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 128 comments

Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (2011)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 143 comments

To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM

https://den.dev/blog/edge-blank-new-tab/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 73 comments

IoT Nixie Tubes

https://bert.org/2021/11/16/iot-nixie-tubes/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 46 comments

Sign in with Matrix

https://github.com/mishushakov/signin-with-matrix

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 78 comments

Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with new cable design

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2021/Q4/electric-vehicles-could-fully-recharge-in-under-5-minutes-with-new-charging-station-cable-design.html

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 269 comments

T-Wand: beating Lucene in less than 600 lines of code

https://yyhh.org/blog/2021/11/t-wand-beat-lucene-in-less-than-600-lines-of-code/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 88 comments

Renew your service or we’ll trash your credit score, Spectrum tells ex-customer

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-10-12/column-spectrum-billing-threat

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 46 comments

How to Write a Computer Emulator

https://fms.komkon.org/EMUL8/HOWTO.html

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 24 comments

The genius of John von Neumann

https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-genius-of-john-von-neumann/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 107 comments

Forth vs Lisp

https://wiki.c2.com/?ForthVsLisp

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 109 comments

Hopepunk, optimism, purity, and futures of hard work

https://beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-futures-of-hard-work-by-ada-palmer/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 52 comments

Combatting Mass Clear-Cutting in Congo

https://www.spiegel.de/international/rainforest-rebellion-mass-clear-cutting-in-congo-a-634618e3-2d65-4d99-b70b-9298302af6dd

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 80 comments

It's Not All In Your Head

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/12/its-not-all-in-your-head

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 92 comments

Multicore OCaml: October 2021

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-october-2021/8822

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

Skittish: A playful space for online events

https://skittish.com/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/low-code-and-the-democratization-of-programming/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 93 comments

Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

https://brave.com/wallet/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 136 comments

Why isn’t British ‘sleaze’ called what it is?

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/11/15/why-is-british-sleaze-not-called-what-it-really-is

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 125 comments

Cache of documents declassified by the NRO for its 60th anniversary

https://www.nro.gov/FOIA/Major-NRO-Programs-and-Projects/EOI-Documents/

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

Open Source Ticker Tape

https://blog.polygon.io/open-source-ticker-tape-29fce03d3f66?gi=64bac086efb3

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 15 comments

Shadow Palette Generator

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/introducing-shadow-palette-generator/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 17 comments

Types of Parser Combinators

https://sgt.hootr.club/molten-matter/types-of-parser-combinators/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

YouTube Dislikes Viewer

https://github.com/pgamerx/yt-dislikes-viewer

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 86 comments

Born to be cool: The life and music of Chet Baker

https://www.thesmartset.com/born-to-be-cool/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)

https://jasmcole.com/2017/09/20/the-moon-blew-up-without-warning-and-for-no-apparent-reason/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 49 comments

Embracing open data with Elixir

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/11/10/embracing-open-data-with-elixir-at-the-ministry-of-ecological-transition-in-france/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

Teapot: Type-Safe 3D Spreadsheet

https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8

https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 85 comments

How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk

https://psyche.co/ideas/how-12th-century-genoese-merchants-invented-the-idea-of-risk

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Alloy 6 First Impressions

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/alloy-6-first-impressions/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

Greenfield – The In-Browser Wayland Compositor

https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Vimium C – Extension to navigate website by keyboard shortcuts

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-c/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 48 comments

Weird English

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/11/29/weird-english/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 109 comments

How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wrong?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opinion/steele-dossier.html

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 82 comments

Harmonic Coloring: A method for assigning colors to musical pitches

http://www.musanim.com/HarmonicColoring/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

Bloom/Lambda School requires applying to 460 jobs before giving tuition refund

https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1460687578760318984

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

1632 by Eric Flint (2000)

http://www.baen.com/chapters/0671578499/0671578499.htm

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 76 comments
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