top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-23

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/

4 years ago

1122 upvotes – 449 comments

Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs

https://reactionwheel.net/2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-is-probably-going-to-fire-you.html

4 years ago

718 upvotes – 326 comments

Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/plutooo/733318dbb57166d203c10d12f6c24e06/raw/15c5b2612ab62998243ce5e7877496466cabb77f/tsec.txt

4 years ago

633 upvotes – 168 comments

Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/cocaine-paraphernalia-ads-1970s/

4 years ago

574 upvotes – 491 comments

Things I learned from building a production database

https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2021/10/19/42Things.html

4 years ago

551 upvotes – 106 comments

Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional

https://www.saaspegasus.com/guides/modern-javascript-for-django-developers/htmx-alpine/

4 years ago

450 upvotes – 274 comments

The Joy of Cryptography

https://joyofcryptography.com/

4 years ago

431 upvotes – 99 comments

Flatpak Is Not the Future

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

4 years ago

384 upvotes – 400 comments

The Max Headroom Incident

https://allthatsinteresting.com/max-headroom-hack

4 years ago

377 upvotes – 197 comments

An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities

https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 310 comments

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/

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 686 comments

Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-space-colony-concepts/

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 239 comments

I test in prod

https://increment.com/testing/i-test-in-production/

4 years ago

301 upvotes – 123 comments

Bash patterns I use weekly

https://will-keleher.com/posts/5-Useful-Bash-Patterns.html

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29314560

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 311 comments

Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly

https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 96 comments

Vercel raises $150M Series D

https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-funding-series-d-and-valuation

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 183 comments

Blueboat, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers

https://github.com/losfair/blueboat

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 24 comments

Fun with Red Star OS

https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 170 comments

The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/where-the-humanities-arent-in-crisis

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 186 comments

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

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 324 comments

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/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 226 comments

Transformers from Scratch

https://e2eml.school/transformers.html?

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 17 comments

NES Tetris AI hits 102M points and level 237

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KY_EwZEVA

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 74 comments

Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/29/8168

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 82 comments

The Next ‘Lab Leak’

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/magazine/covid-lab-leak.html

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 428 comments

C64

https://replit.com/@mattiselin/C64?v=1

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 39 comments

Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday

https://twitter.com/wirecutterunion/status/1463175088325505035

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 138 comments

Winamp

https://www.winamp.com/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 318 comments

Nov 16 GCP Load Balancing Incident Report

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5REh

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 76 comments

GoDaddy Breach Widens

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/11/godaddy-tsohost-mediatemple-123reg-domain-factory-heart-internet-host-europe/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 65 comments

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/

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 140 comments

End of Support for Firefox Lockwise

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-lockwise

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 130 comments

Tilt-5 Was Magical

https://kguttag.com/2021/11/19/awe-2021-part-1-tilt-5-was-magical/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 40 comments

Go does not need a Java-style GC

https://erik-engheim.medium.com/go-does-not-need-a-java-style-gc-ac99b8d26c60

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 219 comments

German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/schlorwagen-photographs-1939/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 119 comments

How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL

https://www.osohq.com/post/logic-into-sql

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 69 comments

Named Pipes in .NET 6 with Tray Icon and Service

https://erikengberg.com/named-pipes-in-net-6-with-tray-icon-and-service/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 51 comments

I’m leaving London for NYC and taking my tech startup

https://sifted.eu/articles/brexit-london-new-york-leaving/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 245 comments

HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination

https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 105 comments

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/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 18 comments

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

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 378 comments

A Tale of Java Hash Tables

https://www.andreinc.net/2021/11/08/a-tale-of-java-hash-tables

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 87 comments

How death rates from Covid-19 differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 308 comments

Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam

https://blog.waleedkhan.name/detect-recruiter-spam/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 106 comments

RasPBX Installation for Beginners

https://github.com/MatejKovacic/RasPBX-install

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

Living with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures

https://medium.com/schibsted-engineering/living-with-single-tenant-and-multi-tenant-architectures-b2d7027db24e

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 40 comments

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

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 163 comments

Why IndexedDB is slow and what to use instead

https://rxdb.info/slow-indexeddb.html

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

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

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 46 comments

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

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web

https://tamagui.dev

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

Woman draws famous book scenes on their pages

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/book-foredge-paintings-tiktok

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Faster software through register based calling

https://menno.io/posts/golang-register-calling/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design

https://unsafeperform.io/retroclash/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Our fundraising learning post-YC

https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-learnings

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

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

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 63 comments

Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Googling for Software Development: What Developers Search for and What They Find

https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/11/18/googling-for-software-development.html

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: How best to prepare for Python interviews starting in 3 months?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29318263

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

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

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Exceptional off-cycle compensation adjustments for software engineers in 2021

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/off-cycle-compensation-adjustments-for-software-engineers-in-2021/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

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/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Why drive users away from the login button?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323502

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

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

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Pessimists Archive

https://pessimistsarchive.org

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

The black hole of software engineering research (2015)

https://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2015/10/05/the-black-hole-of-software-engineering-research/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments
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