top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-03

U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-state-department-phones-hacked-with-israeli-company-spyware-sources-2021-12-03/

4 years ago

1093 upvotes – 592 comments

Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/germany-right-to-encryption/

4 years ago

899 upvotes – 285 comments

Blender 3.0

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-0/

4 years ago

848 upvotes – 248 comments

YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wp_EUk2ho

4 years ago

807 upvotes – 565 comments

Show HN: Emoji to Scale

https://javier.xyz/emoji-to-scale/

4 years ago

713 upvotes – 124 comments

Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart

https://brickset.com/article/67650/lego-has-designed-a-set-that-can-t-be-taken-apart

4 years ago

663 upvotes – 399 comments

Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

https://shop.boox.com/products/mira

4 years ago

437 upvotes – 260 comments

Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL

https://supabase.com/blog/2021/12/03/pg-graphql

4 years ago

431 upvotes – 99 comments

Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/33719083-post2040.html

4 years ago

407 upvotes – 233 comments

Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car

https://hothardware.com/news/bidens-infrastructure-bill-mandatory-backdoor-car-kill-switch

4 years ago

352 upvotes – 307 comments

U.S. indicts two men for running a $20M YouTube content ID scam

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-indicts-two-men-for-running-a-20-million-youtube-content-id-scam-211203/

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 209 comments

Never Use Black (2012)

https://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 217 comments

An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 484 comments

Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-world-chess-championship-2021-game-6

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 157 comments

Ask HN: Advice about aging parents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429558

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 230 comments

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

4 years ago

290 upvotes – 118 comments

I bought those AR cycling glasses that were on HN last month

https://painandcycling.com/engo-hud-ar-glasses

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 116 comments

Rclone: Rsync for cloud storage – CLI to sync between cloud storage providers

https://github.com/rclone/rclone

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 83 comments

Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made

https://matduggan.com/mistakes/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

https://anchor.fm/deepdreams

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 167 comments

Keep a Log

https://bruno-oliveira.github.io/techblog/Keep-a-log/

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 104 comments

Your eBay account has been suspended

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29435091

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 141 comments

Blender 3.0

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-0/

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 1 comments

Zinc Search engine. A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 64 comments

The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/the-us-productivity-slowdown-the-economy-wide-and-industry-level-analysis.htm

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

https://svija.love

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 162 comments

Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29428533

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 44 comments

Quake 1 gets its first major co-op content update in 25 years

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/quake-1-gets-its-first-major-co-op-content-update-in-25-years/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 78 comments

Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-fossil-record/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 203 comments

Empty and Misleading Communication Takes over Organizations (2020)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2631787720929704

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 112 comments

One way a builder culture can fail

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/12/02/build/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 126 comments

Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app

https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 110 comments

AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-amplify-studio/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 55 comments

OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 70 comments

Where is the CRDT for syntax trees

https://writer.zohopublic.com/writer/published/grcwy5c699d67b9c444219b60cdb90ccbabc7

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 54 comments

Privacy.com Reissuing All Cards

https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/categories/4414487825559-Privacy-Cards-Update-12-2021

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 165 comments

The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2725

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 27 comments

The Deadlock Empire

https://deadlockempire.github.io/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 20 comments

Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, with correct credentials

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29428922

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 143 comments

William Cook has died

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/12/02/william-cook-rip/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

Mushroom leather and how it is made (2020)

https://www.watsonwolfe.com/2020/02/08/what-is-mushroom-leather/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 68 comments

On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n21/edan-ring/on-pegasus

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 79 comments

Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1428457677261246465

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 144 comments

Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made

https://matduggan.com/mistakes/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 36 comments

Study: Most Dog Breeds Highly Inbred

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/most-dogs-highly-inbred

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 185 comments

Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/google-delays-return-office-europe-middle-east-africa-business-insider-2021-12-02/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 239 comments

Nanos: A kernel designed to run only one application in virtualized environment

https://nanos.org/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

The big idea around unikernels

https://changelog.com/posts/the-big-idea-around-unikernels

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 98 comments

Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes

https://den.dev/blog/spotify-wrapped/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open 3D Engine

https://o3de.org/blog/posts/o3de-2111-announcement/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

Rusty Typestates – Starting Out

https://rustype.github.io/notes/notes/rust-typestate-series/rust-typestate-part-1.html

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

Web Workers API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

DuckDB quacks Arrow: A zero-copy data integration between Arrow and DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.html

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments

How I Wrote My Book

https://www.kevinwmcconnell.com/writing/how-i-wrote-my-book

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

Amazon's Toll Road – How it funds its monopoly empire

https://ilsr.org/amazons-toll-road/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 131 comments

Supercharged high-resolution ocean simulation with Jax

https://dionhaefner.github.io/2021/12/supercharged-high-resolution-ocean-simulation-with-jax/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

A Website for Learning Vim

https://vim.is/#exercise

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 116 comments

The Rise of the Decentralized Startup

https://elizabethyin.com/2021/09/19/the-rise-of-the-decentralized-startup/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 71 comments

See brands' supply chain linkages that are contributing to Amazon deforestation

https://www.stand.earth/publication/forest-conservation/amazon-forest-protection/amazon-leather-supply-chain

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

The Jami conferencing system

https://jami.net/the-jami-conferencing-system/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

How to build a HackerNews Clone using Redis

https://developer.redis.com/howtos/hackernews/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments
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