1122
449
Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-group-to-curb-the-abuse-of-state-sponsored-spyware/
3 years ago
718
326
Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
https://reactionwheel.net/2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-is-probably-going-to-fire-you.html
633
168
Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/plutooo/733318dbb57166d203c10d12f6c24e06/raw/15c5b2612ab62998243ce5e7877496466cabb77f/tsec.txt
574
491
Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/cocaine-paraphernalia-ads-1970s/
551
106
Things I learned from building a production database
https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2021/10/19/42Things.html
450
274
Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
https://www.saaspegasus.com/guides/modern-javascript-for-django-developers/htmx-alpine/
431
98
The Joy of Cryptography
https://joyofcryptography.com/
384
400
Flatpak Is Not the Future
https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future
377
197
The Max Headroom Incident
https://allthatsinteresting.com/max-headroom-hack
324
310
An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities
https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take
317
686
California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
https://sfstandard.com/controversy-rages-as-california-follows-sfs-lead-with-new-approach-to-teaching-math/
311
239
Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-space-colony-concepts/
301
123
I test in prod
https://increment.com/testing/i-test-in-production/
278
112
Bash patterns I use weekly
https://will-keleher.com/posts/5-Useful-Bash-Patterns.html
249
Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29314560
247
96
Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly
https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP
228
183
Vercel raises $150M Series D
https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-funding-series-d-and-valuation
226
24
Blueboat, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers
https://github.com/losfair/blueboat
218
170
Fun with Red Star OS
https://sizeofcat.ru/post/fun-with-redstar-os/
204
186
The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/where-the-humanities-arent-in-crisis
202
Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/dollar-tree-says-1-25-price-point-to-become-new-standard-1.1686022
201
India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/new-indian-law-will-allow-only-few-cryptocurrencies-government-says-2021-11-23/
199
17
Transformers from Scratch
https://e2eml.school/transformers.html
74
NES Tetris AI hits 102M points and level 237
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KY_EwZEVA
194
82
Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics
https://www.pnas.org/content/113/29/8168
189
428
The Next ‘Lab Leak’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/magazine/covid-lab-leak.html
182
39
C64
https://replit.com/@mattiselin/C64?v=1
181
138
Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday
https://twitter.com/wirecutterunion/status/1463175088325505035
176
318
Winamp
https://www.winamp.com/
172
76
Nov 16 GCP Load Balancing Incident Report
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5REh
167
64
GoDaddy Breach Widens
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/11/godaddy-tsohost-mediatemple-123reg-domain-factory-heart-internet-host-europe/
164
140
An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/an-incident-with-the-james-webb-space-telescope-has-occurred/
156
130
End of Support for Firefox Lockwise
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-lockwise
153
219
Go does not need a Java-style GC
https://erik-engheim.medium.com/go-does-not-need-a-java-style-gc-ac99b8d26c60
40
Tilt-5 Was Magical
https://kguttag.com/2021/11/19/awe-2021-part-1-tilt-5-was-magical/
119
German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/schlorwagen-photographs-1939/
147
69
How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL
https://www.osohq.com/post/logic-into-sql
146
51
Named Pipes in .NET 6 with Tray Icon and Service
https://erikengberg.com/named-pipes-in-net-6-with-tray-icon-and-service/
143
245
I’m leaving London for NYC and taking my tech startup
https://sifted.eu/articles/brexit-london-new-york-leaving/
105
HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination
https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/
136
18
Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court
https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-can-pursue-malware-lawsuit-against-israels-nso-group-us-appeals-court-2021-11-08/
135
378
U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with other countries
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/biden-says-us-will-tap-strategic-petroleum-reserve-as-gas-prices-hover-around-7-hear-high.html
128
87
A Tale of Java Hash Tables
https://www.andreinc.net/2021/11/08/a-tale-of-java-hash-tables
308
How death rates from Covid-19 differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination
121
Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
https://blog.waleedkhan.name/detect-recruiter-spam/
26
RasPBX Installation for Beginners
https://github.com/MatejKovacic/RasPBX-install
109
Living with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures
https://medium.com/schibsted-engineering/living-with-single-tenant-and-multi-tenant-architectures-b2d7027db24e
45
Why IndexedDB is slow and what to use instead
https://rxdb.info/slow-indexeddb.html
163
Tech investors can’t get enough of Europe’s fizzing startup scene
https://www.economist.com/business/tech-investors-cant-get-enough-of-europes-fizzing-startup-scene/21806435
101
46
Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris climate goal, says Sweden
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/11/12/europe-must-ban-bitcoin-mining-to-hit-the-1-5c-paris-climate-goal-say-swedish-regulators
78
EU lawmakers pass strict new rules affecting big U.S. tech
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-23/eu-lawmakers-pass-strict-new-rules-affecting-big-u-s-tech
88
16
Show HN: Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web
https://tamagui.dev
47
Faster software through register based calling
https://menno.io/posts/golang-register-calling/
Woman draws famous book scenes on their pages
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/book-foredge-paintings-tiktok
80
31
Show HN: Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design
https://unsafeperform.io/retroclash/
79
Our fundraising learning post-YC
https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-learnings
77
63
IMF warns El Salvador: “Bitcoin should not be used as a legal tender”
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2021/11/22/mcs-el-salvador-staff-concluding-statement-of-the-2021-article-iv-mission
7
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
71
48
Googling for Software Development: What Developers Search for and What They Find
https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/11/18/googling-for-software-development.html
70
37
Ask HN: How best to prepare for Python interviews starting in 3 months?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29318263
68
13
First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on enigmatic hominids
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/11/first-partial-skull-of-homo-naledi.html
65
20
Exceptional off-cycle compensation adjustments for software engineers in 2021
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/off-cycle-compensation-adjustments-for-software-engineers-in-2021/
14
Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-based development tools
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/11/22/renesas-50-cents-fpga-forgefpga-yosys-development-tools/
Ask HN: Why drive users away from the login button?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323502
36
Pessimists Archive
https://pessimistsarchive.org
22
I Live in Arkansas. Why Is My State Telling Me Not to Boycott Israel?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/opinion/israel-arkansas-bds-pledge.html
62
25
The black hole of software engineering research (2015)
https://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2015/10/05/the-black-hole-of-software-engineering-research/
58
12
Sheldon: The Erlang Spell Checker
https://medium.com/erlang-battleground/sheldon-the-erlang-spell-checker-b5223d5f7b70
53
4
Circular Programming in Clojure
https://cuddly-octo-palm-tree.com/posts/2021-11-21-circular-clojure/
6
The Microwave Radio and Coaxial Cable Networks of the Bell System
http://www.long-lines.net/
28
The High Cost of Men's Loneliness
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fear-intimacy/202111/the-high-cost-mens-loneliness
52
Slow Money Movement
https://beetcoin.org/movement
Facebook Execs Nixed Employees' Plan to Quell Hate Speech: Report
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-employees-hate-speech-dismissed-2021-11
5
Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/12/256933-software-defined-cooking-using-a-microwave-oven/fulltext
50
Earthquakes with Exaggerated Depth
https://glowy-earthquakes.glitch.me/
49
Instrument a Rust Application with OpenTelemetry
https://21-lessons.com/how-to-instrument-a-rust-application-with-opentelemetry/
Cuba’s bet on home-grown Covid vaccines is paying off
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03470-x
Albrecht Dürer: Self-publicist, tourist, entrepreneur, Renaissance artist
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/albrecht-d-rer-was-a-16th-century-andy-warhol
1
Major Errors and Corrections
https://danluu.com/corrections/
11
Show HN: Tuned - Build advanced crypto trading bots
https://www.tuned.com
44
32
Winamp: A fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows (1998)
https://web.archive.org/web/19981205015145/http://winamp.com/
3
Show HN: An Interactive Voicebot Hivemind
https://www.twitch.tv/ktynski
43
How does the wind generate waves?
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.4880
KML: A machine learning framework for operating systems and storage systems
https://github.com/sbu-fsl/kernel-ml
Lush quits Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat over safety concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/23/lush-quits-facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-social-media
42
Mystery NetBurst (2016)
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mystery-netburst/
Challenges of Resolving Merge Conflicts: A Mining and Survey Study [pdf]
https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications/docs/VHF+22.pdf
2
UN crowns nuclear as lowest carbon electricity source
https://www.cityam.com/un-crowns-nuclear-as-lowest-carbon-electricity-source/
EndBASIC [video]
https://media.handmade-seattle.com/endbasic/
38
Csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting and working with CSV
https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Java and Scala’s type systems are unsound (2016)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2983990.2984004
Show HN: Visual GraphQL Editor OSS
https://github.com/graphql-editor/graphql-editor
Everyday robots are slowly leaving the lab
https://x.company/blog/posts/everyday-robots
33
Agility ≠ Speed
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/agility-speed-96057078fe40
The Temporal TypeScript SDK
https://docs.temporal.io/blog/typescript-beta/
10
UK visa scheme for prize-winning scientists receives no applications
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298455-uk-visa-scheme-for-prize-winning-scientists-receives-no-applications/
Chrome OS overtakes Macs for second place OS market share for the first time
https://www.techspot.com/news/88677-chrome-os-overtakes-macos-second-place-annual-market.html
Lush says it's shutting down its social media accounts because of whistleblower
https://www.businessinsider.com/lush-quitting-social-media-facebook-whistleblower-2021-11
29
Why Netflix Never Goes Down
https://www.theverge.com/22787426/netflix-cdn-open-connect
Japan allocates $5.2bn to fund chip plants by TSMC and others
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Japan-allocates-5.2bn-to-fund-chip-plants-by-TSMC-and-others
27
Tiny Emulators
https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/
67
Telegram requires third-party clients to show ads
https://corefork.telegram.org/api/sponsored-messages#sponsored-messages-in-third-party-apps
0
A Practical Guide to Applying Data-Oriented Design
https://media.handmade-seattle.com/practical-data-oriented-design/
There are only ~330 right whales left
https://act.oceana.org/page/47981/-/1?locale=en-US
A Tale of Three Codebases
https://blog.convex.dev/a-tale-of-three-codebases/
23
8
Nvidia GauGAN2 AI Turns Sentences into Realistic ‘Photos’
https://petapixel.com/2021/11/22/nvidias-ai-creates-realistic-photos-based-only-on-text-descriptions/
SIRC Guide to Flirting [pdf]
http://www.sirc.org/publik/flirt.pdf
When Will the FDA Approve Paxlovid?
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/when-will-the-fda-approve-paxlovid