top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-06

CT scans of AirPods evolution

https://scanofthemonth.com/airpods

4 years ago

Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

https://www.modernwiki.app/

4 years ago

YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29458246

4 years ago

Leaving MySQL

https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2021-12-05-16-41_leaving_mysql.html

4 years ago

WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/26000016

4 years ago

Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests

https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457930

4 years ago

Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy

https://www.airgradient.com/resources/ikea-vindriktning-accuracy/

4 years ago

Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call

https://maggrand.com/new-york-ceo-fires-900-employees-on-zoom-call-video/

4 years ago

Web3? I have my DAOts

https://networked.substack.com/p/web3-i-have-my-daots

4 years ago

WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again-fine-grained-sandboxing-in-firefox-95/

4 years ago

Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charged-with-extortion-causing-2020-breach/

4 years ago

Why don't you accept donations?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don%27t-you-accept-donations%3F

4 years ago

Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?

https://nusenu.medium.com/is-kax17-performing-de-anonymization-attacks-against-tor-users-42e566defce8

4 years ago

The "five whys" productivity technique

https://blog.superhuman.com/five-whys-method/

4 years ago

CFTC Orders JPMorgan to Pay Record $920M for Spoofing and Manipulation (2020)

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8260-20

4 years ago

uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS

https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploiting-ad-blockers-with-css

4 years ago

Popular Family Safety App Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Its Users

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user

4 years ago

A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research

https://www.unite.ai/a-cartel-of-influential-datasets-are-dominating-machine-learning-research-new-study-suggests/

4 years ago

In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns

https://www.saferleftturns.org

4 years ago

Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

4 years ago

No Easter Eggs in Curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/12/06/no-easter-eggs-in-curl/

4 years ago

Whitehead and Russell’s Principia rewritten in Coq

https://www.principiarewrite.com/

4 years ago

DNS doesn't “propagate”

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/06/dns-doesn-t-propagate/

4 years ago

How the GNU coreutils are tested

https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html

4 years ago

Show HN: I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible

https://straw.page?ref=hn

4 years ago

Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in

https://www.amazingcto.com/why-we-always-endup-with-waterfall-even-scrum/

4 years ago

SF suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/san-francisco-suspends-cannabis-tax-to-help-dispensaries-compete-with-drug-dealers

4 years ago

Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

4 years ago

Show HN: Fourier Transform Visualized via WebGL

https://static.laszlokorte.de/fourier/

4 years ago

The Amazon Empire Strikes Back

https://stratechery.com/2021/the-amazon-empire-strikes-back/

4 years ago

Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/testing-firefox-more-efficiently-with-machine-learning/

4 years ago

How SQLite Is Tested

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Podcast Audiograms – Make clips with captions, title and audio waves

https://app.milkvideo.com/focused-flow

4 years ago

Goodbye Brave

https://arunmozhi.in/2021/12/06/goodbye-brave/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29458125

4 years ago

Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]

https://edelson.com/wp-content/uploads/doevmetacomplaint.pdf

4 years ago

There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

4 years ago

Bouncing a LoRa message off the moon

https://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/17494/bouncing-a-lora-message-off-the-moon

4 years ago

Learning with Not Enough Data: Semi-Supervised Learning

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2021/12/05/semi-supervised-learning.html

4 years ago

Digging into Linux namespaces – part 1

https://blog.quarkslab.com/digging-into-linux-namespaces-part-1.html

4 years ago

Show HN: PlanckForth – Bootstrapping an interpreter from handwritten 1kb binary

https://github.com/nineties/planckforth

4 years ago

Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/evidence-for-the-great-resignation-is-thin-on-the-ground/21806659

4 years ago

The utilization of 44/8: the reason I mapped IPv4 and IPv6

https://blog.daknob.net/mapping-44net/

4 years ago

Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (2016)

http://askageologist.blogspot.com/2016/03/can-you-drill-into-supervolcano-to.html

4 years ago

Chrome client “variations” can be used to identify you (2020)

https://zapek.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-use-google-chrome/

4 years ago

Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB

https://www.mattritter.me/?p=398

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457470

4 years ago

Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists

https://spotifychords.luca.gg/

4 years ago

Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard

https://ziglang.org/perf/

4 years ago

Color Vision Simulation

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector/Simulation

4 years ago

DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member

https://www.blender.org/press/new-patron-member-decentraland/

4 years ago

SEC probes Tesla over whistleblower claims on solar panel defects

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/exclusive-sec-probes-tesla-over-whistleblower-claims-solar-panel-defects-2021-12-06/

4 years ago

Pots of Gold

https://blog.aaronkharris.com/pots-of-gold

4 years ago

The Effects of Major Retailers Raising Their Minimum Wages

https://www.nber.org/digest-202112/effects-major-retailers-raising-their-minimum-wages

4 years ago

Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (1996)

http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

4 years ago

Show HN: A place for feedback on PCB designs

https://www.postdrc.com/

4 years ago

Generic GPU Kernels

https://mikeinnes.github.io/2017/08/24/cudanative.html

4 years ago

A neat approximation algorithm

https://mht.wtf/post/min-deg-st/

4 years ago