top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-20

Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

https://www.vertiwalk.com/

4 years ago

886 upvotes – 180 comments

Advent of Code 2021

https://adventofcode.com/2021

4 years ago

745 upvotes – 197 comments

Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-buy-now-pay-later/

4 years ago

560 upvotes – 371 comments

Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format

https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/

4 years ago

414 upvotes – 229 comments

How to programmatically find out if computer is on

https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheKernelKit_SystemInfo.html#is_computer_on

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 187 comments

Experts from a world that no longer exists

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/experts/

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 251 comments

LLVM relicensing update and call for help

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2021-11-18-relicensing-update/

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 188 comments

JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor

http://www.jedit.org/

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 99 comments

The Deep Sea

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing

https://cleanvoice.ai

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 117 comments

Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

https://gist.github.com/motorailgun/cc2c573f253d0893f429a165b5f851ee

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 146 comments

The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that led his wife to avoid ER

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/19/1056866145/expensive-er-stitches-skip-care-bill-of-the-month

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 315 comments

Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/is-microsoft-stealing-peoples-bookmarks.html

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 81 comments

Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?

https://mymisanthropicmusings.org.uk/is-it-stealing-to-read-by-the-light-of-your-neighbours-lamp/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 315 comments

An intro to finding things in Linux

https://www.madebygps.com/an-intro-to-finding-things-in-linux/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 82 comments

Box64 lets you run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 21 comments

After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA

https://reason.com/2021/11/19/after-20-years-of-failure-kill-the-tsa/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 59 comments

Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API

https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 150 comments

Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini

https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 90 comments

What it's like to ride 900 km in a day

https://cyclingtips.com/2021/11/what-its-like-to-ride-900-km-in-a-day/

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 158 comments

Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application to Fight ISP Blocking

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-researchers-file-intervention-application-to-fight-isp-blocking-211119/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 20 comments

Pablo is a small, open-source JavaScript library for SVG

http://pablojs.com/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 53 comments

Surely you're joking, Comrade Beria

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2021/11/19/surely-youre-joking-comrade-beria/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 133 comments

The history of Berkeley DB

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3501713

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 25 comments

Tools I use: PyCharm / Idea plugins

https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programming/Tools_I_use/Tools_I_use_PyCharm_-_Idea_plugins.html

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 62 comments

Yara birkeland, the first autonomous and emission-free containership

https://gcaptain.com/yara-birkeland-worlds-first-autonomous-zero-emission-ship/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 74 comments

Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record

https://carbuzz.com/news/kia-ev6-smashes-teslas-world-record

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 216 comments

Kristall – Visual cross-platform browser for gemini, http, https, gopher, finger

https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 39 comments

“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

https://torrentfreak.com/the-nft-bay-shares-multi-terabyte-archive-of-pirated-nfts-211118/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 181 comments

Ask HN: Why there are no Android mini phones?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29287158

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 176 comments

Maxima (Software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_(software)

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 55 comments

What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter

https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/11/openbsd-part-3-that-packet-filter/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

Hiking America’s three longest trails in less than a year. What could go wrong?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-19/how-2-stanford-students-conquered-the-triple-crown-of-hiking

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 84 comments

An Introduction to Lagrange Multipliers

http://www.slimy.com/~steuard/teaching/tutorials/Lagrange.html

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

Beartype: Fast runtime type checking in Python

https://github.com/beartype/beartype

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 60 comments

Gay men earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at the highest rate in the US

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-gay-men-undergraduate-degrees-highest.html

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 119 comments

Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/decentralised-finance-is-booming-but-it-has-yet-to-find-its-purpose

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 184 comments

Intel Core i7-12700K Review

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-core-i7-12700k-review

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 157 comments

An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07765

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 116 comments

Customizing the Cocoa Text System (2006)

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System.html

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

Analog Devices AD1139

https://www.richis-lab.de/DAC07.htm

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: WildCard, a retro Hypercard/HyperTalk simulator

https://hypervariety.com/WildCard/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

The million-dollar drug (2018)

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/glybera

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 92 comments

Oil 0.9.4 – User Feedback

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/11/release-0.9.4.html

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

Foundations of Dawn: The Untyped Concatenative Calculus

https://www.dawn-lang.org/posts/foundations-ucc/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/autism-affects-the-microbiome-not-the-other-way-around/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 77 comments

Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss)

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/faiss-tutorial/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 95 comments

How to Ask for Feedback (2020)

https://www.samjulien.com/how-to-ask-for-feedback/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

3MF file format and why it’s great (2019)

https://blog.prusaprinters.org/3mf-file-format-and-why-its-great_30986/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 85 comments

Overview of new features in Apache HTTP Server 2.6

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/fr/new_features_2_6.html

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 83 comments

Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59357306

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity

https://wyclif.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-clothes

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 61 comments

A German State Is Saying Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux

https://fossforce.com/2021/11/a-german-state-is-saying-goodbye-windows-hello-linux/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/11/20/henry-kissinger-and-eric-schmidt-take-on-ai

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 119 comments

Proof of steak: a scalable, efficient, protein-rich algorithm

https://meatver.se

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

Will World Government Rot?

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/11/will-world-government-rot.html

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 109 comments

Return YouTube Dislike

https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Facebook tells LA police to stop spying on users with fake accounts

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59341750

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Taichi: Python based parallel programming for everyone

https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 2 comments

Data Oriented Design – first chapter (2018)

https://dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/node2.html

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation

https://github.com/BuzonIO/zipfly

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb.html

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Ex Sequoia VC in court for multiple sexual assaults and ordering to kill

https://nypost.com/2021/11/20/billionaire-michael-goguen-allegedly-kept-spreadsheet-of-5000-sex-partners/

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments
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