top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-02

100 years of whatever this will be

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211201

3 years ago

1475 upvotes – 896 comments

Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/

3 years ago

860 upvotes – 419 comments

FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/12/ftc-sues-block-40-billion-semiconductor-chip-merger

3 years ago

722 upvotes – 398 comments

Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-bay-domains-from-search-results-citing-dutch-court-order-211130/

3 years ago

493 upvotes – 316 comments

Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/europe/germany-lockdown-covid-restrictions-intl/index.html

3 years ago

435 upvotes – 1623 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417061

3 years ago

398 upvotes – 478 comments

Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-its-own-edge-browser-is-more-trustworthy-than-so-2008-google-chrome/

3 years ago

386 upvotes – 422 comments

Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-technology-company-charged-stealing-confidential-data-and-extorting

3 years ago

383 upvotes – 238 comments

Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

3 years ago

368 upvotes – 201 comments

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/

3 years ago

340 upvotes – 258 comments

How to rest well

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-rest-well-and-enjoy-a-more-creative-sustainable-life

3 years ago

326 upvotes – 114 comments

Understanding Zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples

https://blog.goodaudience.com/understanding-zero-knowledge-proofs-through-simple-examples-df673f796d99?gi=d8d16717c242

3 years ago

314 upvotes – 82 comments

“Risc V greatly underperforms”

https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2021-September/006013.html

3 years ago

310 upvotes – 348 comments

What will enter the public domain in 2022

https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2022/

3 years ago

309 upvotes – 230 comments

Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand

https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/

3 years ago

293 upvotes – 330 comments

Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not

https://github.com/haampie/libtree

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 57 comments

The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation

https://tech.marksblogg.com/fastest-fizz-buzz.html

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 159 comments

Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips

https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/longer-range-as-standard-bosch-gives-go-ahead-for-volume-production-of-silicon-carbide-chips-235722.html

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 240 comments

Gigablast Search Engine

https://gigablast.com/about.html

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 47 comments

Missouri found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/coronavirus/2021-12-01/missouri-health-department-found-mask-mandates-work-but-didnt-make-findings-public

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 339 comments

The 40th anniversary edition of Codex Seraphinianus

https://www.insider.com/codex-seraphinianus-luigi-serafini-interview-40th-anniversary-edition-2021-11

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 64 comments

Glitch effect on text in pure CSS

https://dustri.org/b/glitch-effect-on-text-in-pure-css.html

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 52 comments

The Impending Cloud Reshuffle

https://erikbern.com/2021/11/30/storm-in-the-stratosphere-how-the-cloud-will-be-reshuffled.html

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 127 comments

Anthem Blue Cross breach notification [pdf]

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/CA%20HITECH%20DTN%201020172.pdf

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 92 comments

New SiFive RISC-V core P650 with 40% IPC increase

https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-raises-risc-v-performance-bar-with-new-best-in-class

3 years ago

176 upvotes – 87 comments

Vivaldi Browser 5.0

https://vivaldi.com/changelog-vivaldi-browser-5-0/

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 149 comments

Who is the most accurate world chess champion?

https://lichess.org/blog/YafSBxEAACIAr0ZA/exact-exacting-who-is-the-most-accurate-world-champion

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 58 comments

Avy Can Do Anything

https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 52 comments

Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59486397

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 395 comments

Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control

https://www.synack.com/blog/this-microsoft-windows-rce-vulnerability-gives-an-attacker-complete-control/

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 82 comments

Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China

https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2384758/steve-simon-announces-wta-s-decision-to-suspend-tournaments-in-china

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 101 comments

I Rewrote WinUI to WPF

https://github.com/lepoco/wpfui

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 86 comments

Pybaobab – Python implementation of visualization technique for decision trees

https://gitlab.tue.nl/20040367/pybaobab

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 17 comments

RISC-V Int. Ratifies 15 New Specs, Opening Up New RISC-V Design Possibilities

https://riscv.org/announcements/2021/12/riscv-ratifies-15-new-specifications/

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29414763

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 117 comments

Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/disclosing-state-linked-information-operations-we-ve-removed

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 88 comments

Facing housing crisis, L.A. voters back duplexes in single-family neighborhoods

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-12-02/facing-housing-crisis-l-a-voters-back-duplexes-in-single-family-neighborhoods

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 393 comments

Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix

https://tvl.fyi/blog/rewriting-nix

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 62 comments

Notes on Writing Web Scrapers

https://cushychicken.github.io/rules-for-web-scrapers/

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 67 comments

US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increasing Ocean Plastic Waste

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/12/u-s-should-create-national-strategy-by-end-of-2022-to-reduce-its-increasing-contribution-to-global-ocean-plastic-waste-says-new-report

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 116 comments

DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120M in front-end attack

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/126072/defi-protocol-badgerdao-exploited-for-120-million-in-front-end-attack

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 143 comments

50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021

https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Earthly v0.6

https://earthly.dev/blog/earthly-v0-6/

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 37 comments

NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV and 48 on WWVH

https://wwvarc.org/wwvmodannouncement

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 87 comments

Interview with Hansen Hsu, engineer at Apple during transition from OS 9 to OS X

https://corecursive.com/cocoa-culture-with-hansen-hsu/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 60 comments

An Inconsistent Truth: Next.js and Typesafety

https://t3.gg/blog/posts/types-and-nextjs

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 48 comments

Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?

https://theconversation.com/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/sacrifice

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1

https://freddiev4.xyz/solving-advent-of-code-puzzles-with-github-copilot/

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 65 comments

Consider the Lobster (2004) [pdf]

http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: MathLingua – A Structured Language of Mathematics

https://www.mathlingua.org

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It?

https://seattledataguy.substack.com/p/what-is-dbt-and-why-are-companies

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 70 comments

MacKenzie Scott is giving away more money, faster, than anyone has before

https://www.economist.com/united-states/mackenzie-scott-is-shaking-up-the-world-of-giving/21806331

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 97 comments

YouTube had censored North Korean defector Yeonmi Park

https://twitter.com/YeonmiParkNK/status/1465815038296481793

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Using Nginx as an Object Storage Gateway

https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-nginx-as-object-storage-gateway/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

Some experts suggest Omicron variant may have evolved in an animal host

https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/02/some-experts-suggest-omicron-variant-may-have-evolved-in-an-animal-host/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 140 comments

Release of AWS CDKv2 and Construct Hub

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-general-availability-of-construct-hub-and-aws-cloud-development-kit-version-2/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

Happy palindrome day either way: 12-02-2021 or 2021-12-02

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29413195

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

Codesandbox open sources their execution enviornment: Sandpack

https://codesandbox.io/post/sandpack-announcement

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Why It’s So Difficult – and Costly – To Secure Chips

https://semiengineering.com/why-its-so-difficult-and-costly-to-secure-chips/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments
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