top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-05

Apple broke up with me

https://merecivilian.com/apple-broke-up-with-me/

4 years ago

Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs

https://twitter.com/arkann1985/status/1467202744947822594

4 years ago

Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/04/how-amazon-beats-supply-chain-chaos-with-ships-and-long-haul-planes.html

4 years ago

One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again

https://dither8.xyz/blog/minecraft-cliffs-terrain/

4 years ago

You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting

https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107390725207653910

4 years ago

Zrythm: A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation

https://www.zrythm.org/en/index.html

4 years ago

Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers

https://github.com/intoli/exodus

4 years ago

Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?

https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/article/15/4/678/5908865

4 years ago

Approx. 24 hours ago, Tether printed 1B $USDT out of thin air

https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/1a23f7a875deb2120f7efca0b426772737c3d2fc1f51b07ba9f9418d8027552f

4 years ago

Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway

https://blog.haschek.at/2021/raspberry-pi-sms-gateway.html

4 years ago

Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150M

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/126367/crypto-exchange-bitmart-reportedly-hacked-for-100-million

4 years ago

Is Web3 Bullshit?

https://maxread.substack.com/p/is-web3-bullshit

4 years ago

Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis

https://github.com/qbit/widdler

4 years ago

A proposal to start “llvm-libc” (2020)

https://llvm.org/docs/Proposals/LLVMLibC.html

4 years ago

Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/sarco-suicide-capsule--passes-legal-review--in-switzerland/46966510

4 years ago

How to make any immutable data structure distributed

https://www.unison-lang.org/articles/distributed-datasets/core-idea/

4 years ago

Kubernetes at Home with K3s

https://blog.nootch.net/post/kubernetes-at-home-with-k3s/

4 years ago

The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks

https://nemets.substack.com/p/the-sea-people

4 years ago

Analog Devices Expands over 1000 Linux Device Drivers to Support Development

https://www.analog.com/en/about-adi/news-room/press-releases/2021/11-30-2021-analog-devices-expands-linux-distribution.html

4 years ago

Colour-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/colour-changing-magnifying-glass-gives-clear-view-of-infrared-light

4 years ago

Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]

https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf

4 years ago

FerretDB: A truly open-source MongoDB alternative

https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB

4 years ago

Tildeverse.org: A loose association of like-minded tilde communities

https://tildeverse.org/

4 years ago

My Favorite Software Subreddits

https://notes.eatonphil.com/high-quality-subreddits-you-should-be-following.html

4 years ago

Re-thinking electronic mail

https://liw.fi/rethinking-email/

4 years ago

New EC2 Instance Types of re:Invent 2021

https://aws-native.com/new-ec2-instance-types-of-reinvent-2021

4 years ago

Show HN: Collaborative RSS Reader

https://linklonk.com/

4 years ago

War Starts

https://backstory.substack.com/p/war-starts

4 years ago

Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware (2019)

https://aarongiles.com/programming/war-macos/

4 years ago

Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain

https://github.com/ethereum/fe

4 years ago

eBay’s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2021/12/02/ebay-ecommercebytes-stalking/

4 years ago

2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/it-will-prove-invincible-blade-runner-2049-and-the-dreams-of-philip-k-dick/

4 years ago

NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music

https://pointersgonewild.com/2021/12/05/noisecraft-a-browser-based-visual-programming-language-for-sound-music/

4 years ago

Fakelish – Fake English word generator

https://fakelish.nwtgck.org/

4 years ago

PineNote E Ink tablet and PinePhone Pro developer versions now shipping

https://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/pinenote-e-ink-tablet-and-pinephone-pro-developer-versions-now-shipping

4 years ago

Blockchains don't solve problems that are interesting to me

https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/12/05/Blockchains-dont-solve-problems-that-are-interesting-to-me

4 years ago

This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message (1967) [video]

https://archive.org/details/thisismarshallmcluhanthemediumisthemessage

4 years ago

Termination of LG Mobile Developer website service

https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060&width=675

4 years ago

The Yesterweb

https://yesterweb.org

4 years ago

Singapore: Sovereign City

https://devonzuegel.com/post/singapore-sovereign-city

4 years ago

Bpytop: Linux/macOS/FreeBSD resource monitor

https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop

4 years ago

Twitter’s heads of engineering and design will leave in a company shake-up

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/technology/twitter-engineering-design-shakeup.html

4 years ago

Cancelled by his college

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/march-2021/cancelled-by-his-college/

4 years ago

Stephen Wolfram – re:Clojure Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1QQXEg_F8&t=34811s

4 years ago

Bob Dole has died

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bob-dole-longtime-senator-republican-leader-dies-at-98-11638723258

4 years ago

Nvidia EditGAN: Image Editing with Full Control from Sketches

https://www.louisbouchard.ai/editgan/

4 years ago

AI training is outpacing Moore’s Law

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-training-mlperf

4 years ago

Joel Yliluoma's arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm

https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/

4 years ago

Monitoring 27kw Generac Generator with Raspberry Pi and Multimode Fiber

https://blog.networkprofile.org/monitoring-generac-generator-with-raspberry-pi-and-om3-fiber/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Please Give Me Advice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29446859

4 years ago

Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe

4 years ago

Library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets

https://github.com/gansm/finalcut

4 years ago

Open-Source Psychometrics Project

https://openpsychometrics.org/

4 years ago

Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (2017)

https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Demystifying-USB-C-and-Thunderbolt-i-e-adapter-and-dock/td-p/5153006

4 years ago

All Placebos are not created equal

https://atis.substack.com/p/all-placebos-are-not-created-equal

4 years ago

What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/What-desktop-Linux-needs.html

4 years ago

How new Linux users can increase their odds of success

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/How-new-Linux-users-succeed.html

4 years ago

C++ Compile Time Parser Generator

https://github.com/peter-winter/ctpg

4 years ago