top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-01

This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/this-shouldnt-have-happened.html

4 years ago

938 upvotes – 481 comments

Advent of Code 2021

https://adventofcode.com/

4 years ago

725 upvotes – 264 comments

Townscaper Running in the Browser

http://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/

4 years ago

701 upvotes – 97 comments

Supersonic Trebuchet

https://hackaday.com/2021/12/01/supersonic-projectile-exceeds-engineers-dreams-the-supersonic-trebuchet/

4 years ago

650 upvotes – 236 comments

Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403947

4 years ago

594 upvotes – 316 comments

Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers

https://www.protocol.com/workplace/stripe-hiring-issues-rescinded-jobs

4 years ago

552 upvotes – 342 comments

Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth

https://www.fisher-price.com/en-us/product/chatter-telephone-hgj69

4 years ago

457 upvotes – 231 comments

Instagram Is Facebook Now

https://embedded.substack.com/p/instagram-is-facebook-now

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 378 comments

Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online

https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/r632w5/sent_my_phone_to_google_for_replacement_they/

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 365 comments

Supabase open sourced their dashboard

https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/studio

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405056

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 817 comments

Excel-Virtual-Machine: C Compiler which targets Excel

https://github.com/mrthefakeperson/Excel-Virtual-Machine

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 65 comments

Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

https://www.gandi.net/en-US/domain/tld/io

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 294 comments

Darebee – A database of workouts

https://darebee.com/workouts.html

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 79 comments

Firefox's Optimized Zip Format

https://taras.glek.net/post/optimized-zip-format/

4 years ago

281 upvotes – 81 comments

Making Websites Small

https://santurcesoftware.com/making-web-sites-small

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 145 comments

Lazydocker: The lazier way to manage everything Docker

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 17 comments

Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/business/dealbook/four-day-workweek.html

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 351 comments

Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in

https://www.mothminds.com

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 125 comments

Square is now called Block

https://twitter.com/Square/status/1466158910067388423

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 358 comments

BetrFS: an in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage

https://www.betrfs.org/

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 133 comments

Julia 1.7 Highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2021/11/julia-1.7-highlights/

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC

https://github.com/m1k1o/neko

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 57 comments

Turing Pi 2: 4 Raspberry Pi nodes on a mini ITX board

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/turing-pi-2-4-raspberry-pi-nodes-on-mini-itx-board

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 108 comments

Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home

https://ij.org/press-release/texas-woman-wins-round-one-in-lawsuit-challenging-swat-teams-destruction-of-her-home/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 124 comments

U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43328/u-s-satellites-are-being-attacked-everyday-according-to-space-force-general

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 264 comments

Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-vaccine-mandate-contractors-three-states-2021-11-30/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 350 comments

Apple Music is the last library focused music service

https://erdaltoprak.com/apple-music-is-the-last-library-focused-music-service/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 238 comments

Realtime Postgres Row Level Security

https://supabase.com/blog/2021/12/01/realtime-row-level-security-in-postgresql

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 33 comments

Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’, earn top scores for big payday

https://theprint.in/india/how-father-son-duo-helped-techies-hack-exams-earn-top-scores-for-big-payday/774001/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 162 comments

My worst tech interview experience

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/12/01/my-worst-tech-interview-experience/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 261 comments

GitHub Copilot Labs

https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8308

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 70 comments

ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing

https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 98 comments

Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2021/11/29/researchers-shrink-camera-size-salt-grain

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 99 comments

Wikipedia is loaded, so why’s it asking for donations?

https://thenextweb.com/news/why-is-wikipedia-asking-for-donations-when-it-has-vast-cash-reserves

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 251 comments

Scamp CPU: A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system

https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 50 comments

How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in Rural Indiana

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/how-the-fbi-discovered-a-real-life-indiana-jones-in-indiana

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 103 comments

WebGPU computations performance in comparison to WebGL

https://pixelscommander.com/javascript/webgpu-computations-performance-in-comparison-to-webgl/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 97 comments

Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to plastics

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/11/30/study-links-high-cholesterol-cardiovascular-disease-plastics

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 66 comments

Block (aka Square, Tidal, CashApp etc)

https://block.xyz/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 31 comments

GeoWorks: The Other “Windows”

https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: I made a free, ad-free and open source tool for sharing private notes

https://burnernote.com/?ref=hackernews

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 76 comments

Amateur archaeologist in Switzerland unearths 2k-year-old Roman dagger

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discovery-of-roman-dagger-leads-to-hundreds-more-artifacts-in-switzerland-180979122/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 47 comments

The Universal Structure of Storytelling

https://quillette.com/2021/11/29/the-universal-structure-of-storytelling/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405054

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 197 comments

Lessons from seven years of remote work

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2021/12/01/lessons-from-seven-years-of-remote-work/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 117 comments

Pne-more-re-nightmare – A fast regex compiler in Common Lisp

https://applied-langua.ge/posts/omrn-compiler.html

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 1 comments

Exploring the beauty of pure mathematics in novel ways

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/exploring-the-beauty-of-pure-mathematics-in-novel-ways

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 4 comments

Dumping the NEC PC Engine YUV Table

http://furrtek.free.fr/?a=pceyuv

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 3 comments

HyperStyle: StyleGAN Inversion with HyperNetworks for Real Image Editing

https://yuval-alaluf.github.io/hyperstyle/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 13 comments

SQLite in a PWA (Anita) with FileSystemAccessAPI

https://anita-app.com/blog/articles/sqlite-in-a-pwa-with-file-system-access-api.html

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Microcode Research Team

https://github.com/chip-red-pill

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

React: The Perils of Rehydration

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/the-perils-of-rehydration/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments
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