top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-22

Rust Moderation Team Resigns

https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671

4 years ago

914 upvotes – 838 comments

Fingerprints can be hacked

https://blog.kraken.com/post/11905/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how/

4 years ago

792 upvotes – 315 comments

Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

https://remix.run/

4 years ago

575 upvotes – 296 comments

The World's Deadliest Thing

https://www.the-angry-chef.com/blog/the-worlds-deadliest-thing

4 years ago

566 upvotes – 222 comments

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/k-November-21/Octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-welfare-protection

4 years ago

520 upvotes – 670 comments

‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/11/dancing-molecules-successfully-repair-severe-spinal-cord-injuries/

4 years ago

387 upvotes – 97 comments

The latest EU plan to outlaw encryption and introduce communication surveillance

https://mailbox.org/en/post/chat-control-the-latest-eu-plans-to-outlaw-encryption-and-introduce-telecommunications-surveillance?nl

4 years ago

365 upvotes – 251 comments

Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate

https://www.ft.com/content/99a3cf9b-0ab8-45b9-bbc5-7e88c08f9ea5

4 years ago

362 upvotes – 709 comments

Unmasking the most viral page on Facebook

https://www.garbageday.email/p/when-the-traffic-firehose-is-pointed

4 years ago

346 upvotes – 145 comments

Books I loved reading this year

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Holiday-Books-2021

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 151 comments

How to Learn Nix

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 154 comments

Emojimix

https://tikolu.net/emojimix/

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 70 comments

GoDaddy Security Breach

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971121000122/gddyblogpostnov222021.htm

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 113 comments

People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/43/e2105061118

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 189 comments

Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29305516

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 305 comments

Rust-CUDA: Fast GPU code fully in Rust

https://github.com/RDambrosio016/Rust-CUDA

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 85 comments

The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/no-notebook-is-perfect-but-the-remarkable-comes-really-close.html

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 271 comments

Amazon employees in 20 countries will strike on Black Friday

https://www.businessinsider.com/make-amazon-pay-campaign-staffers-will-strike-on-black-friday-2021-11

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 48 comments

Why V7 Unix matters so much

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/V7WhyItMattersSoMuch

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 93 comments

The Toit language is now open source

https://blog.toit.io/the-toit-language-is-now-open-source-14bdcb1604d9?gi=328077e6316

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 101 comments

Djinn Split Keyboard

https://github.com/tzarc/djinn

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 143 comments

Svelte Cubed

https://svelte-cubed.vercel.app/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29305389

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 152 comments

First stage POWER9 Firefox JIT passes tests

https://www.talospace.com/2021/11/51552-javascript-tests-cant-be-wrong.html

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 108 comments

Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

https://tlkh.dev/benchmarking-the-apple-m1-max

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 210 comments

Science upside for Starship

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/science-upside-for-starship/

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 224 comments

PureOS 10 is Released for all Librem Products

https://puri.sm/posts/true-convergence-is-here-pureos-10-is-released-for-all-librem-products/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 139 comments

Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/nov/22/django-40-rc1/

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 123 comments

U.S. lawmakers call for privacy legislation after Reuters report on Amazon

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-call-privacy-legislation-after-reuters-report-amazon-lobbying-2021-11-22/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 78 comments

SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web

https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/SugarCoat

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Run Python, Ruby, Node.js, C++, Lua in the Browser via x86 to WASM JIT

https://repl.leaningtech.com/?python3

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 31 comments

TIL the assumption that string length does not change when upper-cased is false

https://chaos.social/@movonw/107316601658567746

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 240 comments

Can mRNA Vaccines Defeat Herpes?

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/can-mrna-vaccines-defeat-herpes

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 167 comments

Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/682332

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 134 comments

Plunge in lithium-ion battery costs

https://news.mit.edu/2021/lithium-ion-battery-costs-0323

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 88 comments

YARP – Microsoft toolkit to build fast reverse proxy servers

https://microsoft.github.io/reverse-proxy/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 66 comments

What's the Future of IDEs?

https://giansegato.com/essays/what-future-ides/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 227 comments

Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)

https://ruurtjan.medium.com/understanding-kafka-with-factorio-74e8fc9bf181

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 72 comments

Back to basics: Writing an application using Go and PostgreSQL

https://henvic.dev/posts/go-postgres/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 78 comments

Cryptographers are not happy with how you’re using the word ‘crypto’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/18/crypto-cryptocurrency-cryptographers

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 133 comments

Intel Software Defined Silicon: additional CPU features after license activation

https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 216 comments

A different approach to note-taking and research

https://www.ummm.co/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 47 comments

The Scranton Iron Furnaces

https://abandonedonline.net/location/scranton-iron-furnaces/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi

https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/kubernetes-cluster-raspberry-pi/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 50 comments

What Makes Us Tick? (1952) [video]

https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01891370/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306651

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 100 comments

How Google designed its wildfire feature for Maps

https://about.google/stories/wildfire-safety-innovation/

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29311761

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 186 comments

The New Life of PHP – The PHP Foundation

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2021/11/the-php-foundation/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 4 comments

Why are cross-country train tickets in EU still so complex?

https://euobserver.com/investigations/153542

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

The 2 Sigma Problem (1984) [pdf]

https://web.mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-two-sigma.pdf

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 46 comments

Nim Community Survey

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/11/22/community-survey-2021.html

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Scaling Carbon Capture

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/scaling-carbon-capture/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Japan’s curiously quiescent inflation rate

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/11/20/the-case-of-the-curiously-quiescent-inflation-rate

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 136 comments

The Perfect System Doesn't Exist

https://alexkondov.com/the-perfect-system-doesnt-exist/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

AWKGo, an Awk-to-Go Compiler

https://benhoyt.com/writings/awkgo/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

The Microsoft .NET platform has been forked: Introducing Open.NET

https://github.com/open-dotnet

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

My 5-year getting paid for doing nothing is over. I'm heartbroken

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qstsdp/my_5year_getting_paid_for_doing_nothing_is_over/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments
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