top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-04

Apache Guacamole

https://guacamole.apache.org/

4 years ago

“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1466934223831506951

4 years ago

ADSL works over wet string (2017)

https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html

4 years ago

How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Av3jGKee8

4 years ago

How to use dig

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/04/how-to-use-dig/

4 years ago

Common Jobs in a Medieval City

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/11/most-common-jobs-medieval-city/

4 years ago

Don't send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement

https://twitter.com/avantgame/status/1467192779973398531

4 years ago

Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fans-pour-fundingand-faithinto-a-hit-drama-about-jesus-11637989204

4 years ago

Is the big tech era ending?

https://wyclif.substack.com/p/is-the-big-tech-era-ending

4 years ago

The Fraud Supply Chain

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/the-fraud-supply-chain/

4 years ago

Keep a Changelog

https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/

4 years ago

USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables

https://tidbits.com/2021/12/03/usbefuddled-untangling-the-rats-nest-of-usb-c-standards-and-cables/

4 years ago

FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox

https://github.com/filips123/FirefoxPWA

4 years ago

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°

https://twitter.com/splattne/status/1373698826880614402

4 years ago

To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/to-regrow-forests-us-needs-billions-of-seeds-many-more-seed-hunters

4 years ago

Show HN: I made a book with a hundred UI/UX tips

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29437527

4 years ago

<ruby>: The Ruby Annotation element

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ruby

4 years ago

The field of longevity biotech is a mess

https://psblab.org/?p=697

4 years ago

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

4 years ago

Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos

4 years ago

Web3 Is Bullshit

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html

4 years ago

Fast CSV Processing with SIMD

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/12/04/

4 years ago

All Horses Are the Same Color

https://jeremykun.com/2011/07/16/false-proof-all-horses-are-the-same-color/

4 years ago

SuperH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperH

4 years ago

Threepp: A C++17 Port of Three.js

https://github.com/markaren/threepp

4 years ago

Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams

https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalksfu

4 years ago

The team that powers VLC (2019)

https://increment.com/teams/the-team-that-powers-vlc/

4 years ago

Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables

https://www.pyinstaller.org/

4 years ago

Three Ways to Debug Code in Elixir

https://blog.appsignal.com/2021/11/30/three-ways-to-debug-code-in-elixir.html

4 years ago

Apple user permabanned, loses $1.2K in App Store goods for legit gift card buys

https://twitter.com/com/status/1466928315562958850

4 years ago

On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust [video]

https://talks.osfc.io/osfc2021/talk/JTWYEH/

4 years ago

LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups

https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/11/29/LLVM-internals-part-4-attributes-and-attribute-groups

4 years ago

Graviton2 and Graviton3

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/12/graviton2-and-graviton3.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Code Hike – More than syntax highlighting

https://codehike.org/

4 years ago

Super Pyxelate converts images to 8-bit pixel art

https://github.com/sedthh/pyxelate

4 years ago

Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/08/02/Writing-and-publishing-a-python-module-in-rust

4 years ago

Mister FPGA: The Future of Game and Computer Emulation

https://www.racketboy.com/retro/mister-fpga-the-future-of-retro-game-emulation-and-preservation

4 years ago

Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0

https://twitter.com/UrbanFoxxxx/status/1466782775244111872

4 years ago

Show HN: I wrote a book about using Lambda with Go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29441272

4 years ago

Black couple ‘erases themselves’ from their home, its value goes up by $500k

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Black-Marin-City-couple-sues-appraiser-for-16672840.php

4 years ago

More Data from Voyager 1

https://destevez.net/2021/12/more-data-from-voyager-1/

4 years ago

It's December and it hasn't snowed in Denver yet. That's never been recorded

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_7f69495d740ab8ce6728ce5646752faa

4 years ago

Getting a Computer Science PhD in the USA

https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/us-cs-phd-faq/

4 years ago

Why Bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally (2020)

https://diem25.org/why-bitcoin-not-socialists-ally-reply-ben-arc/

4 years ago

ZSH Completions How To

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions/blob/master/zsh-completions-howto.org

4 years ago

Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/03/twitter-agrawal-restructuring/

4 years ago

Bitcoin Price Tumbles After Wall Street Selloff

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-price-tumbles-after-wall-street-selloff-11638621435

4 years ago

The FAANG Market Is Fading

https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1070180/the-faang-market-is-fading

4 years ago

English to Emoji – Yandex Translate

https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=en-emj&text=Hello%20World

4 years ago

Awesome Hacker News – A collection of Hacker News apps, libraries, resources

https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news

4 years ago

Electrodynamic Tether

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether

4 years ago

Tshwane District Omicron Variant Patient Profile – Early Features

https://www.samrc.ac.za/news/tshwane-district-omicron-variant-patient-profile-early-features

4 years ago

Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (2008)

https://www.fs.fed.us/eng/pubs/html/98511316/98511316.html

4 years ago

A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (2015)

https://qz.com/338767/the-man-who-brought-us-the-lithium-ion-battery-at-57-has-an-idea-for-a-new-one-at-92/

4 years ago

Coding for non-programmers: Why we need better GUI automation tools

https://matduggan.com/why-we-need-better/

4 years ago

The Racial Experience of a White Working Class American Boy

https://andyarclight.com/2021/12/04/the-racial-experience-of-a-white-working-class-american-boy/

4 years ago

Trump social media group raises $1B from undisclosed investors

https://www.axios.com/trump-social-media-group-raises-1-billion-undisclosed-investors-798f947c-cdd6-416e-bb10-bf537087a4c9.html

4 years ago

“UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/fired-for-being-ungoogley-after-asking-about-holiday-pay/

4 years ago

Why punish a scientist for defending science?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-punish-a-scientist-for-defending-science-

4 years ago

Rule-Based Expert Systems (1984)

https://people.dbmi.columbia.edu/~ehs7001/Buchanan-Shortliffe-1984/MYCIN%20Book.htm

4 years ago

Shopify modular monolith scaled to 30 TB per minute during Cyber Monday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440966

4 years ago

Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence

https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/aimagazine/article/view/466

4 years ago

“New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-old-functionality-with-raspberry-pi-os-legacy/

4 years ago