top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-19

Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

https://www.ponymessenger.com

4 years ago

Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries

https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker

4 years ago

Crypto Wash Trading

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10984

4 years ago

Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29281468

4 years ago

Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)

https://iism.org/article/is-tasking-developers-with-creating-detailed-estimates-a-waste-of-company-money-42

4 years ago

Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-privacy-lobbying/

4 years ago

Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations

https://www.psypost.org/2021/05/swedish-study-suggests-hiring-discrimination-is-primarily-a-problem-for-men-in-female-dominated-occupations-60699

4 years ago

Marriott refused to host Uyghur conference, citing “political neutrality”

https://www.axios.com/marriott-uyghur-conference-d6deb429-9b5e-4759-ba10-98d59e81be12.html

4 years ago

80386DX ISA single board microcomputer

https://alexandrugroza.ro/microelectronics/system-design/isa-80386dx-sbmc/index.html

4 years ago

Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?

https://bignerdranch.com/blog/where-is-ruby-headed-in-2021/

4 years ago

Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01811-4.pdf

4 years ago

The ‘Zelle fraud’ scam: how it works, how to fight back

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/the-zelle-fraud-scam-how-it-works-how-to-fight-back/

4 years ago

It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing

https://apitman.com/27/#losing-the-streaming-wars

4 years ago

Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)

https://oonwoye.com/2020/07/31/tech-journalism-is-less-diverse-than-tech/

4 years ago

Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a1531/4213770/

4 years ago

Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?

https://switchandclick.com/why-are-topre-keyboards-so-expensive/

4 years ago

Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first MethaLox aerospike engine

https://www.satellite-evolution.com/post/pangea-aerospace-successfully-hot-fire-tests-the-first-methalox-aerospike-engine-in-the-world

4 years ago

Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for users in South Korea

https://developers-kr.googleblog.com/2021/11/enabling-alternative-billing-in-korea-en.html

4 years ago

The Spiral Staircase Myth (2020)

https://triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-mythbusting-blog-2-the-man-who-invented-the-spiral-staircase-myth/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Best cars without too much digitalization?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29281034

4 years ago

The Tinkerbell Griftopia

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/tinkerbell.html

4 years ago

FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/

4 years ago

Insurers run from ransomware cover as losses mount

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/insurers-run-ransomware-cover-losses-mount-2021-11-19/

4 years ago

China's Foreign Ministry 'not aware' of situation of tennis player Peng Shuai

https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/32665214/china-foreign-ministry-not-aware-situation-surrounding-tennis-player-peng-shuai

4 years ago

Modern mainboard for traditional T60 ThinkPad

https://www.xyte.ch/t700-crowdfunding/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275470

4 years ago

A Xiaomi phone might’ve shipped with a censorship list in Europe

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/a-xiaomi-phone-mightve-shipped-with

4 years ago

Ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

https://news.mit.edu/2021/atoms-ultracold-scatter-light-1118

4 years ago

The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-serverless/

4 years ago

In-orbit demonstration of an iodine electric propulsion system

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04015-y

4 years ago

One of these JPEGs is not like the other

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/not-all-jpegs-are-the-same

4 years ago

UC slams the door on standardized admissions tests, nixing any SAT alternative

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-18/uc-slams-door-on-sat-and-all-standardized-admissions-tests

4 years ago

The WeeCee – Tiny Vortex86-Based DOS Gaming PC

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=80651

4 years ago

Notes on Software Development Waste

https://hcarvalhoalves.github.io/software-development-waste/

4 years ago

HomeBrew Computers Web-Ring

https://www.homebrewcpuring.org/

4 years ago

The price of individualism has proved to be the loss of privacy

https://www.noemamag.com/surveillance-capitalism-vs-the-surveillance-state/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29281732

4 years ago

Ask HN: What extensions/packs of VS Code are must for web/developers to install?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29278370

4 years ago

ChaosDB Explained: Azure's Cosmos DB Vulnerability Walkthrough

https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-vulnerability-walkthrough

4 years ago

Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliability list

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Tesla-ranks-almost-dead-last-Consumer-Reports-16632996.php

4 years ago

Ask HN: Advice on Colocating Servers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29276734

4 years ago

Zstandard RFC 8878

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8878

4 years ago

Why NFTs are bad: the long version

https://antsstyle.medium.com/why-nfts-are-bad-the-long-version-2c16dae145e2

4 years ago

MacPaint and MacWrite First Public Demo (1984) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQJ-VnJ2uc

4 years ago

Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/18/fragment-of-lost-12th-century-epic-poem-found-in-another-books-binding

4 years ago

RetroBrew Computers

https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php

4 years ago

The history of Flash games in China

https://chaoyang.substack.com/p/gold-miner-swf

4 years ago

Clean Streets: People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands

https://missionlocal.org/2021/09/the-people-taking-san-franciscos-trash-into-their-own-hands/

4 years ago

Scientific American Goes Woke

https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-american-goes-woke

4 years ago

Dick Smith (Entrepreneur)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Smith_(entrepreneur)

4 years ago

Austria makes Covid19 vaccination mandatory as of Feb 2022

https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/articoli/2021/11/tag-Oesterreich-Lockdown-Salzburg-Oberoesterreich-Pandemie-Coronavirus-fcd1b77f-d64d-4e52-8dae-23301a7c2790.html

4 years ago

App is getting 500 server error. Cant connect

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/app-is-getting-500-server-error-cant-connect.247264/

4 years ago

Duff’s Device in 2021

https://belaycpp.com/2021/11/18/duffs-device-in-2021/

4 years ago

The IPv4 Cleanup Project

https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions

4 years ago

He Created the Oregon Trail

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/oregon-trail-game-history-inventor-don-rawitsch.html

4 years ago

Google SAPI: Generate sandboxes for C/C++ libraries automatically

https://github.com/google/sandboxed-api

4 years ago

Effekt – A research language with effect handlers and lightweight polymorphism

https://effekt-lang.org/

4 years ago

New Ransomware Reporting Rules for US Financial Institutions

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/new-ransomware-reporting-rules-for-us-financial-institutions-proposed-bill-would-require-government-permission-for-payments-over-100000/

4 years ago

Bubbleos, a Self-Contained OS

https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos

4 years ago

How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-08/how-77-metro-agencies-design-the-letter-m-for-their-transit-logo

4 years ago

Woman discovers AirTag on her vehicle after receiving iPhone alert

https://www.kait8.com/2021/11/18/jonesboro-woman-finds-something-unexpected-her-car/

4 years ago

Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29281532

4 years ago

SpaceX will ‘hopefully’ launch first orbital Starship flight in January

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/elon-musk-spacex-will-hopefully-launch-starship-flight-in-january.html

4 years ago

Crypto group loses bid to buy US Constitution copy

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/124872/crypto-group-loses-bid-to-buy-rare-us-constitution-copy-in-record-breaking-sothebys-auction

4 years ago

Transformers from Scratch (2019)

http://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers

4 years ago

Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations

https://www.steveruiz.me/posts/rotating-shapes

4 years ago

HTTP Message Signatures

https://httpwg.org/http-extensions/draft-ietf-httpbis-message-signatures.html

4 years ago

GTA Modders to Court: Our Game Fixes and Enhancements Are Fair Use, Not Piracy

https://torrentfreak.com/gta-modders-to-court-our-game-fixes-enhancements-are-fair-use-211116/

4 years ago