top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-09

Log4j RCE Found

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/

4 years ago

Pixel prevented me from calling 911

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/r4xz1f/pixel_prevented_me_from_calling_911/

4 years ago

Tailwind CSS v3.0

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v3

4 years ago

Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

4 years ago

Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps

https://draculatheme.com

4 years ago

Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/investing/evergrande-default-fitch-intl-hnk/index.html

4 years ago

HashiCorp IPO today

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/a-new-chapter-for-hashicorp

4 years ago

“Free PACER” bill advances through Senate judiciary unanimously

https://fixthecourt.com/2021/12/free-pacer-bill-advances-senate-judiciary-unanimously/

4 years ago

Masayuki Uemura has died

https://www.thegamer.com/masayuki-uemura-creator-nes-snes-dies/

4 years ago

Defensive CSS

https://ishadeed.com/article/defensive-css/

4 years ago

Stack Graphs

https://github.blog/2021-12-09-introducing-stack-graphs/

4 years ago

Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29497680

4 years ago

Number of journalists in jail reaches global high

https://cpj.org/reports/2021/12/number-of-journalists-behind-bars-reaches-global-high/

4 years ago

How do you fix a stroad?

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/12/2/how-do-you-actually-fix-a-stroad

4 years ago

Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance

https://www.reuters.com/technology/italys-antitrust-fines-amazon-113-bln-euros-alleged-abuse-market-dominance-2021-12-09/

4 years ago

The CIA and the Media (1977)

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

4 years ago

The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme

https://rorodi.substack.com/p/the-biggest-crypto-lending-company

4 years ago

Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-really

4 years ago

Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

https://tdinh.notion.site/The-2-lines-of-CSS-that-will-improve-HN-on-mobile-cc7521e476ae487180e94e8dd4275c80

4 years ago

Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29498220

4 years ago

eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars

https://isovalent.com/blog/post/2021-12-08-ebpf-servicemesh

4 years ago

FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police involvement

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2021/12/09/fbi-police-shooting-data/

4 years ago

America is running on fumes

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/america-innovation-film-science-business/620858/

4 years ago

Jam – Self-Hosted Clubhouse

https://github.com/jam-systems/jam

4 years ago

Web3 Is Not Decentralization

https://invisibleup.com/articles/38/

4 years ago

Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (2018)

https://cdagostino.io/posts/2018-03-28-one-year-common-lisp-developer-part-1-the-good.html

4 years ago

Defund the Police meets the crime wave

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/when-the-crime-wave-hits-your-family

4 years ago

PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager

https://pdm.fming.dev/

4 years ago

Universal Paperclips

https://if50.substack.com/p/2017-universal-paperclips

4 years ago

The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who exposed torture by US troops

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/02/1060884859/the-final-anguished-years-of-a-warrior-scholar-who-exposed-torture-by-u-s-troops

4 years ago

Facts don’t change our minds (2018)

https://jamesclear.com/why-facts-dont-change-minds

4 years ago

Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B

https://blog.replit.com/b

4 years ago

A molten salt storage solution using sodium hydroxide

https://sifted.eu/articles/salt-energy-storage-seaborg-hyme/

4 years ago

Monoio – A thread-per-core Rust async runtime with io_uring

https://github.com/bytedance/monoio

4 years ago

Avoiding Internet Centralization

https://mnot.github.io/avoiding-internet-centralization/draft-nottingham-avoiding-internet-centralization.html

4 years ago

Faster Gitlab CI/CD pipelines

https://blog.nimbleways.com/let-s-make-faster-gitlab-ci-cd-pipelines/

4 years ago

Code2flow: Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages

https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow

4 years ago

Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images

https://www.unite.ai/training-computer-vision-models-on-random-noise-instead-of-real-images/

4 years ago

Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon (2020)

https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/-/blob/master/GoNotes.adoc

4 years ago

Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

https://thezenjournal.com

4 years ago

WhatsApp Launches Instant Cryptocurrency Payments in the US

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/09/whatsapp-cryptocurrency-payments-us/

4 years ago

Don't spend 6mins doing it by hand when you can spend 6h failing to automate it

https://twitter.com/camilaleniss/status/1370883721319026690

4 years ago

Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-transcend-geometric-theory-of-motion-20211209/

4 years ago

IPv4 Waiting List

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/ipv4-waiting-list

4 years ago

Haystack 1.0 – open-source NLP framework to build NLProc back end applications

https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack

4 years ago

A library for audio feature extraction, regression, classification, segmentation

https://github.com/tyiannak/pyAudioAnalysis

4 years ago

Tailwind CSS v3

https://tailwindcss.com/

4 years ago

Tile buyer Life360 reportedly sells precise user location data to nearly anyone

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/06/tile-buyer-life360-reportedly-sells-precise-user-location-data-to-nearly-anyone

4 years ago

The [Rust] Core Team Is Toxic

https://hackmd.io/@XAMPPRocky/r1HT-Z6_t

4 years ago

Computers revolutionized chess – Magnus Carlsen wins by being human

https://www.wsj.com/articles/magnus-carlsen-ian-nepomniachtchi-world-chess-championship-computer-analysis-11639003641

4 years ago

The HoTT Game

https://homotopytypetheory.org/2021/12/01/the-hott-game/

4 years ago

Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

https://www.thedrive.com/news/43442/tesla-update-allows-video-games-while-driving-and-the-feds-arent-happy

4 years ago

Ask HN: Am I the only “unlucky” software engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29496160

4 years ago

Radical Polish books to add to your reading list

https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12858/queer-feminist-sci-fi-books-polish-literature

4 years ago

Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit

https://daedalean.ai/tpost/edft5l2a31-artificial-intelligence-in-the-cockpit-s

4 years ago

Car, gas industry knew about health risks of lead, sold it for 100 years anyway

https://theconversation.com/a-century-of-tragedy-how-the-car-and-gas-industry-knew-about-the-health-risks-of-leaded-fuel-but-sold-it-for-100-years-anyway-173395

4 years ago

Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/revisiting-the-tsar-bomba-nuclear-test/

4 years ago

Base16 – architecture for building color themes for many apps

http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/

4 years ago