1209
707
Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secret-deal-with-china/
4 years ago
667
241
We will be retiring Alexa.com
https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999
550
418
Rust support in the Linux kernel
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/12/6/461
505
213
Improving GitHub Code Search
https://github.blog/2021-12-08-improving-github-code-search/
485
346
Groups never admit failure
https://nav.al/failure
453
340
Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
https://patriotone.substack.com/p/twitter-suspension
419
198
Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2021/12/07/amazon-aws-cloud-users-report-issues-accessing-websites/6419088001/
376
82
Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
https://www.david-colson.com/2021/11/30/ps1-style-renderer.html
364
231
Player of Games
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03178
353
280
The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03620-1
342
639
Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-provide-update-omicron-variant
330
101
How to write idempotent Bash scripts (2019)
https://arslan.io/2019/07/03/how-to-write-idempotent-bash-scripts/
291
41
Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code
https://www.andreinc.net/2021/12/01/writing-a-simple-vm-in-less-than-125-lines-of-c
285
116
The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications
https://markusstrasser.org/extracting-knowledge-from-literature/
281
144
Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/08/amazon-search-results-ftc-complaint/
276
79
Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
https://htwins.net/scale2/
274
410
20 year study of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-bad-is-inequality-trickle-down-economics-thomas-piketty-economists-2021-12
253
297
Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29485904
246
232
Lead poisoning among US children
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/08/lead-poisoning-crisis-us-children
224
44
MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua
https://microstudio.dev/community/news/microstudio-now-supports-4-programming-languages-microscript-python-javascript-and-lua/254/
326
Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more
https://telegram.org/blog/protected-content-delete-by-date-and-more
216
212
Apple Open Source
https://opensource.apple.com/
210
205
Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/08/intel_software_defined_silicon_update/
201
86
Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/08/users-continue-to-be-tracked-by-facebook/
199
146
Essential security for Linux servers (2013)
https://sollove.com/2013/03/03/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essential-security-for-linux-servers/
194
110
Lack of sunlight makes our cells store more fat (2018)
https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2018/01/reduced-sunlight-may-contribute-to-winter-weight-gain.html
182
209
How I spend less time on YouTube
https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol
181
117
Gopher – A 280B parameter language model
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/language-modelling-at-scale
175
Controlled indoor cultivation of black morel
https://thedanishmorelproject.com/
164
260
Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/why-building-roads-and-transit-costs-more-in-the-u-s
160
123
Gravitational waves should permanently distort space-time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravitational-waves-should-permanently-distort-space-time-20211208/
159
166
An underrated idea: the priority view
https://atis.substack.com/p/an-underrated-idea-the-priority-view
158
112
Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all
155
97
Xsnow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsnow
152
55
Mu: A Human-Scale Computer
https://github.com/akkartik/mu
148
84
Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482573
34
The RNA World Hypothesis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26876/
Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/an-open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg/
26
Show HN: SyncedStore CRDT – build multiplayer collaborative apps for React / Vue
https://syncedstore.org/docs/
143
95
Why do antibiotics exist?
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01966-21
142
16
Yamaha DX7 reverse-engineering, part III: Inside the log-sine ROM
http://www.righto.com/2021/12/yamaha-dx7-reverse-engineering-part-iii.html
134
49
Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword
https://avi.im/blag/2021/rc-day-24/
130
Keep the web free, say no to Web3
https://yesterweb.org/no-to-web3/index.html
128
243
Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01209-2
127
Why I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file
https://bkhome.org/news/202112/why-iso-was-retired.html
126
63
Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Registers
https://www.blackhat.com/asia-21/briefings/schedule/index.html#apple-neural-engine-internal-from-ml-algorithm-to-hw-registers-22039
39
Type Stability in Julia: Avoiding Performance Pathologies in JIT Compilation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01950
119
68
How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/12/06/beatles-get-back-documentary-songwriters/
106
PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview
https://evrone.com/jeffrey-snover-interview
Faster remainders when divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/02/08/faster-remainders-when-the-divisor-is-a-constant-beating-compilers-and-libdivide/
Portable and Interoperable Async Rust
https://www.ncameron.org/blog/portable-and-interoperable-async-rust/
23
An update on 0day CVE-2021-43798: Grafana directory traversal
https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/08/an-update-on-0day-cve-2021-43798-grafana-directory-traversal/
94
36
A citizen journalist who shined a light on Wuhan's plight may die in prison
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1054650773/zhang-zhan-wuhan-citizen-journalist-hunger-strike
88
Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/ubisofts-first-nft-plans-make-no-sense/
87
42
The Microsoft paradox: Contributing to cyber threats and monetizing the cure
https://fortune.com/2021/12/06/microsoft-paradox-cybersecurity-solarwinds-exchange-national/
61
Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia's Proprietary Driver
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-36-NVIDIA-Wayland
83
Latest Earthquakes
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=36.72127,-143.37158&extent=50.94458,-108.21533&sort=largest&listOnlyShown=true
81
13
Web-Based Vulkan GLSL Ray Tracing Emulator
https://www.gsn-lib.org/apps/raytracing/index.php
35
Show HN: Play Zork with your friends via SSH
https://sayitwith.ink/boyd.html
78
40
Understanding Fast-Math
https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2021/understanding-fast-math/
77
12
Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/snowball-fights/
76
19
Show HN: Deeplinks.js – Simple deep links to selections of text on your website
https://github.com/WesleyAC/deeplinks
75
7
Generation of advanced Escher-like spiral tessellations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-021-02232-0
70
Mastering Bash and Terminal (2017)
https://www.blockloop.io/mastering-bash-and-terminal/
69
Web Push Notifications in WebKit
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182566
186
The U.S. Air Force Has Doubts About the F-35
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-air-force-has-doubts-about-f-35-197539
193
Crypto lobbying is going ballistic
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/12/07/crypto-lobbying-is-going-ballistic
46
Queue Despair: Ordering and Poison Messages
https://www.openmymind.net/Queue-Despair-Ordering-And-Poison-Messages/
66
Renault Zoe NCAP crash rating: zero stars [pdf]
https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/66976/euroncap-2021-renault-zoe-datasheet.pdf
65
32
Kubernetes 1.23 Released
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2021/12/07/kubernetes-1-23-release-announcement/
64
14
Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors (2013)
https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1
15
Sshell: Serverless Shell
https://github.com/crucial-project/serverless-shell