top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-07

AWS us-east-1 outage

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

3 years ago

1658 upvotes – 957 comments

Issues with Cloudflare Images

https://blog.klungo.no/2021/12/07/cloudflare-images-has-a-lot-of-issues/

3 years ago

528 upvotes – 140 comments

How a Kalman filter works, in pictures

https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures/

3 years ago

481 upvotes – 78 comments

Django 4.0

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/dec/07/django-40-released/

3 years ago

473 upvotes – 219 comments

NASA returns Hubble to full science operations

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-returns-hubble-to-full-science-operations/

3 years ago

431 upvotes – 159 comments

Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers

https://www.hetzner.com/news/12-21-ipv6-only/

3 years ago

371 upvotes – 252 comments

How to run a small social network site for your friends

https://runyourown.social/

3 years ago

359 upvotes – 209 comments

Rockstar: a language for programs that are also hair metal power ballads

https://codewithrockstar.com/

3 years ago

341 upvotes – 67 comments

Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp

https://epjc.epj.org/articles/epjc/abs/2021/07/10052_2021_Article_9484/10052_2021_Article_9484.html

3 years ago

298 upvotes – 237 comments

Miniature 3456 LED Cube

https://willempennings.nl/miniature-3456-led-cube/

3 years ago

291 upvotes – 55 comments

You Can't Buy Integration

https://martinfowler.com/articles/cant-buy-integration.html

3 years ago

275 upvotes – 136 comments

Why Retaining Walls Collapse

https://practical.engineering/blog/2021/12/5/why-retaining-walls-collapse

3 years ago

271 upvotes – 147 comments

An engineer fighting Texas’s ban on Israel boycotts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/07/texas-ban-boycotting-israel

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 288 comments

Ask HN: How to be my own genetic disease researcher for my partner?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468831

3 years ago

262 upvotes – 83 comments

I lasted three minutes at Amazon

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/ra7tjf/i_lasted_three_minutes_at_amazon/

3 years ago

253 upvotes – 182 comments

All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/all-sound-recordings-prior-to-1923-will-enter-the-us-public-domain-in-2022/

3 years ago

248 upvotes – 228 comments

FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/07/25/faqs-why-we-dont-have-them/

3 years ago

242 upvotes – 192 comments

Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02089

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 103 comments

A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech

https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513

3 years ago

226 upvotes – 252 comments

Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook

https://www.axios.com/1-local-newspapers-lawsuits-facebook-google-3c3dee3a-cce3-49ef-b0a2-7a98c2e15c91.html

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 184 comments

Advent of Code 2021 with PostgreSQL

https://github.com/mitchellh/advent-2021-sql

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 29 comments

A submarine's weakness: its software?

https://fixvms.com/

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 228 comments

Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

https://tanayagrawal.substack.com/p/how-to-schedule-interviews

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 119 comments

MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs#show-tab-tree_2-id-7cd31cf6820896d838535a73cafb15ca

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 184 comments

Are 14 people really looking at that product? (2020)

https://blog.devgenius.io/are-14-people-currently-looking-at-this-product-e7fe8412f16b?gi=e7a96dc956cf

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 178 comments

Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-study-finds-viagra-is-linked-to-almost-70-lower-risk-of-alzheimer-s

3 years ago

179 upvotes – 119 comments

I host this blog from my garage

https://eevans.co/blog/garage/

3 years ago

178 upvotes – 65 comments

We only talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor

https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/an-attack-on-pearl-harbor

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 177 comments

Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/12/07/redesigned-notepad-for-windows-11-begins-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 297 comments

Firefox 95 Released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/95.0/releasenotes/

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk

https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/p2p

3 years ago

156 upvotes – 95 comments

The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness

https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/loneliness-in-america

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 239 comments

The Futurama Theorem

https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 38 comments

AWS Console is returning HTTP 500 errors

https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29469671

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 9 comments

RNA Takes Over

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rna-takes-over

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473236

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 221 comments

Compiling code into silicon

https://www.siliconcompiler.com

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 63 comments

Windows 10 RCE: The exploit is in the link

https://positive.security/blog/ms-officecmd-rce

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 56 comments

Image Kernels

https://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 1 comments

Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/verizon-ignored-users-previous-opt-outs-in-latest-push-to-scan-web-browsing/

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 12 comments

Twitter acquires Quill

https://quill.chat/updates/2021-12-07-quill-twitter/

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 128 comments

C++ in the Linux Kernel

https://www.threatstack.com/blog/c-in-the-linux-kernel

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 97 comments

Synthetic Cartilage (2020)

https://today.duke.edu/2020/06/lab-first-cartilage-mimicking-gel-strong-enough-knees

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: git-history, for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Dec/7/git-history/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

PCB Business Card

https://github.com/Hanqaqa/PCB_Business_Card

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 58 comments

Former Tesla employees say 2016 ‘Full Self-Driving’ video was staged

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/43408/former-tesla-employees-say-2016-full-self-driving-video-was-staged

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 44 comments

On Hubris and Humility

https://cliffle.com/blog/on-hubris-and-humility/

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Moos.app – Interactive animated experiences for the web

https://moos.app

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts

https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/03/apple_m1_drivers/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 154 comments

The Case Against Crypto

https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/news/2021/12/03/case-against-crypto

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 158 comments

Sayonara, C++, and Hello to Rust

https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/hello-rust/

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 165 comments

Fighting TLS Fingerprinting with Node.js

https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/tls-fingerprinting-node-js/

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Open Dynamic Robot Initiative (2020)

https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments

Common shell script mistakes (2008)

http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/shell_script_mistakes.html

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 53 comments

Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder (1996) [pdf]

https://www.netaddiction.com/articles/newdisorder.pdf

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 79 comments

Fact-Checking CSIRO’s Communications about the Trustworthy Systems Group

https://microkerneldude.org/2021/11/17/dishonest-and-contradictory-fact-checking-csiros-communications-about-the-trustworthy-systems-group/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Stacking Up AMD MI200 versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/12/06/stacking-up-amd-mi200-versus-nvidia-a100-compute-engines/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments

Nearly 3/4 of the World’s Dictators Receive US Weapons and Military Assistance

https://original.antiwar.com/matthew_hoh/2021/11/24/nearly-3-4-of-the-worlds-dictators-receive-us-weapons-and-military-assistance/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 18 comments

Loop Fission

https://richardstartin.github.io/posts/loop-fission

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments
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