top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-29

I resigned from Twitter

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720

4 years ago

1692 upvotes – 1061 comments

Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-alternative/

4 years ago

1360 upvotes – 651 comments

Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/11/29/welcome-to-fleet/

4 years ago

718 upvotes – 414 comments

Tiny

https://www.tinycapital.com/

4 years ago

588 upvotes – 152 comments

Winamp source code leak

https://web.archive.org/web/20210515031018/https://github.com/CONIGUERO/winamp

4 years ago

476 upvotes – 325 comments

Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29382643

4 years ago

436 upvotes – 497 comments

JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains

https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

4 years ago

400 upvotes – 165 comments

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 306 comments

Free public domain audiobooks

https://librivox.org/

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 59 comments

WebGL Water

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

4 years ago

369 upvotes – 111 comments

The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-origins-of-horn-ok-please-indias-most-ubiquitous-phrase

4 years ago

353 upvotes – 365 comments

Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

https://www.kavitareader.com/

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 86 comments

Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL

https://schemaverse.com/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 24 comments

Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059821677/google-dont-be-evil-lawsuit

4 years ago

285 upvotes – 204 comments

CPython's main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly

https://twitter.com/ethanhs/status/1464308141105967104

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 95 comments

Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language

https://github.com/tenderlove/asmrepl

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 101 comments

A $5B hoard of aluminum

https://www.mining.com/web/the-5-billion-hoard-of-metal-the-world-wants-but-cant-have/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 86 comments

Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

https://andadinosaur.com/launch-vinegar

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 148 comments

Ph.D student demonstrates a single, working laser on silicon

https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/laser-on-silicon-khadijeh-miarabbas-kiani/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 59 comments

Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29382127

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Security Camera Lens Calculator

https://www.jvsg.com/calculators/cctv-lens-calculator/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 49 comments

Adversarial image attacks are no joke

https://www.unite.ai/why-adversarial-image-attacks-are-no-joke/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 186 comments

Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/your-herbs-and-spices-might-contain-arsenic-cadmium-and-lead/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 127 comments

Disney’s Influence on U.S. Copyright Law

https://online.yu.edu/cardozo/blog/disney-influence-copyright-law

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 130 comments

Overdue library book returned more than 110 years later

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/overdue-book-returned-anonymously-idaho-library-111-years-later-rcna6856

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 104 comments

Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics (1984) [video]

https://archive.org/details/Computer1984_3?start=926

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 91 comments

Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS

https://caddyserver.com/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 129 comments

AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion

https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 21 comments

Some thoughts on microservices

https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/thoughts-on-microservices/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 134 comments

8880 Super Car (2010)

http://www.technicopedia.com/8880.html

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

T-Mobile CDMA network shutting down soon

https://www.tmonews.com/2021/10/t-mobile-postpones-cdma-shutdown-date-another-three-months/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 104 comments

The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout

https://slack.engineering/what-happened-during-slacks-dnssec-rollout/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 47 comments

Free SVG images and icons, released under Creative Commons CC0

https://svgsilh.com/

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 22 comments

I resigned from Twitter

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 25 comments

The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

https://media.handmade-seattle.com/essence/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 39 comments

Why I Have Settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 for AEAD

https://mccarty.io/cryptography/2021/11/29/chacha20-blake3.html

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 85 comments

UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 118 comments

“It's not peaches and cream either for men”

https://avikdas.com/2021/11/29/its-not-peaches-and-cream-either-for-men.html

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 167 comments

The Whole Earth Catalog, Where Counterculture Met Cyberculture

https://daily.jstor.org/the-whole-earth-catalog-where-counterculture-met-cyberculture/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 19 comments

Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/crises-of-elite-competition-in-the-east-and-west/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 157 comments

Vitalik Buterin Proposes New EIP to Tackle Ethereum’s Sky-High Gas Fees

https://cryptonews.com/news/vitalik-buterin-proposes-new-eip-to-tackle-ethereums-sky-high-gas-fees.htm

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 132 comments

YC Rookie Mistakes: Fundraising [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6606a2ka-jQ

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Dam the Bering Strait, use nuclear-powered propellers to melt poles (2020)

https://weathermodificationhistory.com/1958-dam-bering-strait-use-nuclear-powered-propellers-melt-poles/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 116 comments

Costly Airbus paint flaw goes wider than the Gulf

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/costly-airbus-paint-flaw-goes-wider-than-gulf-2021-11-29/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 400 for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29377783

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

https://github.com/piebro/factorio-blueprint-visualizer

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3

https://lastweekin.ai/p/the-inherent-limitations-of-gpt-3

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 123 comments

Flow-field.js – A library for generating flow fields

https://github.com/romellogoodman/flow-field.js

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

A father comforts his son on deathbed. The photo that changed the face of AIDS

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-son-deathbed-david-kirby-1989/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)

https://whatismusic.info/blog/MusicIsNotAPositiveSuperstimulusItsANegativeSuperstimulus.html

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 89 comments

Anthocyanins

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2021/11/28/anthocyanins/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi

https://erdaltoprak.com/setting-up-cloudflare-argo-and-access-on-a-raspberry-pi/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Introduction to Algorithms, Fourth Edition – The MIT Press

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms-fourth-edition

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma

https://www.lynalden.com/proof-of-stake/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 146 comments

The Secret Life of Seconds: The Minds Behind the World Chess Championship

https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-chess-championship-magnus-carlsen-ian-nepomniachtchi-seconds-11638167905

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Bring Back Web1

https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/bring-back-web1-905071

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/29/paul-singer-elliott-management-twitter-jack-dorsey

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments
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