top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-18

Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485730.3485941

4 years ago

SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

https://media.handmade-seattle.com/serenityos/

4 years ago

Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages

https://searchengineland.com/twitter-rolls-back-amp-support-no-longer-sends-users-to-amp-pages-376168

4 years ago

10 years of whatever this has been

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211117

4 years ago

Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

https://www.tldraw.com/

4 years ago

German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-state-planning-to-switch-25000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

4 years ago

Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit

https://kerkour.com/rust-crate-backdoor/

4 years ago

Notes on Web3

https://society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-on-web3/

4 years ago

OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist

https://openai.com/blog/api-no-waitlist/

4 years ago

I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro

https://boilingsteam.com/i-love-arch-but-gnu-guix-is-my-new-distro/

4 years ago

How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers

https://monzo.com/blog/2021/11/18/protecting-our-most-sensitive-secrets/

4 years ago

Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)

https://www.megaprocessor.com/

4 years ago

Learning containers from the bottom up

https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-learning-path/

4 years ago

Solar-driven water splitting at 13.8% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c03565

4 years ago

Open-Source Plastic Scanner

https://plasticscanner.com/

4 years ago

TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)

https://thenftbay.org/description.html

4 years ago

How I got wealthy without working too hard

https://amaca.substack.com/p/how-i-got-wealthy-without-working

4 years ago

Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero

https://en.chessbase.com/post/acquisition-of-chess-knowledge-in-alphazero

4 years ago

Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family

https://www.renesas.com/us/en/about/press-room/renesas-enters-fpga-market-first-ultra-low-power-low-cost-family-addressing-low-density-high-volume

4 years ago

Joy.js – make happy little programs (2017)

https://ncase.me/joy/#examples

4 years ago

Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/us/smallpox-vials-pennsylvania.html

4 years ago

Consider LibreSSL as default OpenSSL provider again

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/28

4 years ago

Power Fx: open-source now available

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-fx-open-source-now-available/

4 years ago

IRCv3 Spec round-up

https://ircv3.net/2021/11/17/spec-round-up

4 years ago

Mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/five-mysteries-the-standard-model-cant-explain

4 years ago

Biomarker predicts severity of Covid-19 infection early on

https://www.mpg.de/17722615/1021-pfor-biomarker-predicts-severity-of-covid-19-infection-early-on-149770-x

4 years ago

Nona – A German Search Engine

https://www.nona.de/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29264374

4 years ago

The Greedy Doctor Problem

https://universalprior.substack.com/p/the-greedy-doctor-problem

4 years ago

What does microblogging give you that forums didn't?

https://cybre.space/@tindall/107276933803596360

4 years ago

TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/11/introducing-tensorflow-gnn.html

4 years ago

Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0

https://klarasystems.com/articles/demystifying-openzfs-2-0/

4 years ago

Things you are allowed to do, academic edition

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2021/things/

4 years ago

How to identify that light in the sky

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211114.html

4 years ago

Show HN: I made a drag and drop website builder that works on mobile

https://straw.page

4 years ago

Palm oil favors tumor expansion

https://www.irbbarcelona.org/en/news/scientific/palmitic-acid-promotes-cancer-metastasis-and-leaves-more-aggressive-memory-tumour

4 years ago

How I Got My Brain Back

https://every.to/superorganizers/how-i-got-my-brain-back

4 years ago

Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed security features

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/dangerous-xss-bug-in-google-chromes-new-tab-page-bypassed-security-features

4 years ago

I would like closure, but I'll take honesty

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-would-like-closure-but-ill-take

4 years ago

Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma

https://lemmy.ml/post/89740

4 years ago

Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster

https://restofworld.org/2021/facebook-is-bad-at-moderating-in-english-in-arabic-its-a-disaster/

4 years ago

Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2017)

https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

4 years ago

Lessons learned after 5 years of climate tech entrepreneurship

https://oliviercorradi.com/blog/lessons-learned-climate-tech/

4 years ago

Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)

https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/

4 years ago

Elicit

https://elicit.org

4 years ago

Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink

https://www.wsj.com/articles/woke-is-a-bad-word-for-a-real-threat-to-american-democracy-cancel-culture-freedom-11637184284

4 years ago

A physicist studied Ben Franklin’s clever tricks to foil currency counterfeiters

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/history-detective-using-physics-to-track-currency-fraud-forgery-through-history/

4 years ago

The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!

https://thenftbay.org/

4 years ago

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy

https://www.cmu.edu/roboticsacademy/index.html

4 years ago

ECB sees rising risk that housing bubble will burst

https://www.reuters.com/article/ecb-economy-stability-idUSKBN2I20Q3

4 years ago

Ask HN: Career progression vs. meaningful/appealing products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266094

4 years ago

Save the planet Program in C, avoid Python, Perl

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/11/18/save-the-planet-program-in-c-avoid-python-perl/

4 years ago

Seattle residents launch Approval Voting initiative for representative elections [pdf]

https://seattleapproves.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211117-Seattle-residents-launch-Approval-Voting-initiative.pdf

4 years ago

Learning Rust for Embedded Systems

https://www.EmbeddedRelated.com/showarticle/1432.php

4 years ago

FDA asks federal judge to wait until 2076 to fully release Covid vaccine data

https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/fda-asks-federal-judge-to-grant-it

4 years ago

The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-covid-lab-leak-theory-just-got-even-stronger

4 years ago

Free Apple Support

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/11/18/free-apple-support/

4 years ago

Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

https://owaahh.com/former-us-president-teddy-roosevelts-drunken-rampage-in-nairobi/

4 years ago

Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth (2020)

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4094/1

4 years ago

Understanding why our build got 15x slower with Webpack 5 – Tines Engineering

https://engineering.tines.com/blog/understanding-why-our-build-got-15x-slower-with-webpack

4 years ago

Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: What's the Difference?

https://blog.starburst.io/data-fabric-vs.-data-mesh-whats-the-difference

4 years ago

Launch HN: Accord (YC W20) – Repeatable sales and onboarding for B2B startups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29265591

4 years ago

The DOI System

https://www.doi.org/

4 years ago

Why does a = a[0] = [0] create a self-referential list in Python?

https://susam.in/blog/peculiar-self-references.html

4 years ago

Think Different – Think Users

https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/think-different-think-users

4 years ago

How I Made $10k Predicting Which Studies Will Replicate

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/11/18/how-i-made-10k-predicting-which-papers-will-replicate/

4 years ago

Can beavers make our cities better?

https://www.rewildingmag.com/can-beavers-make-our-cities-better/

4 years ago

Cloudflare Workers Now Even More Unbound: 15 Minutes, 100 Scripts, and No Egress

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-now-even-more-unbound/

4 years ago

Friend Groups

https://nayafia.substack.com/p/27-friend-groups

4 years ago