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

100 years of whatever this will be

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211201

4 years ago

Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

How to rest well

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

4 years ago

Understanding Zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples

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

4 years ago

“Risc V greatly underperforms”

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

4 years ago

What will enter the public domain in 2022

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

https://github.com/haampie/libtree

4 years ago

The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Gigablast Search Engine

https://gigablast.com/about.html

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

The 40th anniversary edition of Codex Seraphinianus

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

4 years ago

Glitch effect on text in pure CSS

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

4 years ago

The Impending Cloud Reshuffle

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

4 years ago

Anthem Blue Cross breach notification [pdf]

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Vivaldi Browser 5.0

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

4 years ago

Who is the most accurate world chess champion?

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

4 years ago

Avy Can Do Anything

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

4 years ago

Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy

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

4 years ago

Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

I Rewrote WinUI to WPF

https://github.com/lepoco/wpfui

4 years ago

Pybaobab – Python implementation of visualization technique for decision trees

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix

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

4 years ago

Notes on Writing Web Scrapers

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021

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

4 years ago

Show HN: Earthly v0.6

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

4 years ago

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

https://wwvarc.org/wwvmodannouncement

4 years ago

An Inconsistent Truth: Next.js and Typesafety

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?

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

4 years ago

An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/sacrifice

4 years ago

Consider the Lobster (2004) [pdf]

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

4 years ago

Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1

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

4 years ago

Show HN: MathLingua – A Structured Language of Mathematics

https://www.mathlingua.org

4 years ago

What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It?

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

YouTube had censored North Korean defector Yeonmi Park

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

4 years ago

Using Nginx as an Object Storage Gateway

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Codesandbox open sources their execution enviornment: Sandpack

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

The Church of the Clocked Screws (2019)

https://blog.lostartpress.com/2019/04/18/the-church-of-the-clocked-screws/

4 years ago

Twitter photo-removal policy aimed at improving privacy goes into effect

https://text.npr.org/1060600043

4 years ago