top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-11

PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/rdaz50/ysk_ublock_and_other_adblocks_in_chrome_will_lose/

4 years ago

571 upvotes – 315 comments

Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place

https://crawshaw.io/blog/log4j

4 years ago

553 upvotes – 393 comments

Professional maintainers: a wake-up call

https://blog.filippo.io/professional-maintainers/

4 years ago

547 upvotes – 447 comments

Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29521714

4 years ago

409 upvotes – 275 comments

“Open source” is broken

https://christine.website/blog/open-source-broken-2021-12-11

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 341 comments

Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/injuries-reported-after-roof-collapse-amazon-warehouse-illinois-ap-2021-12-11/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 336 comments

Mercedes-Benz wins approval for Level 3 autonomous driving on the Autobahn

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/mercedes-beats-tesla-hands-free-driving-autobahn

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 248 comments

Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match

https://en.chessbase.com/post/world-championship-2021-g11

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 139 comments

Learn X in Y Minutes

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 52 comments

Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/phone-screens-broken/

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 324 comments

What happens to developers who never go into management?

https://www.wbscodingschool.com/what-happens-devs-never-management/

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 283 comments

PDP-11 Booting

https://trmm.net/PDP-11/Booting/

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 69 comments

Space-shooter.c: cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C

https://github.com/tsherif/space-shooter.c

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 73 comments

Jndi: An irresponsibly bad logging library

https://github.com/bradfitz/jndi

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 81 comments

Widespread exploitation of critical remote code execution in Apache Log4j

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/12/10/widespread-exploitation-of-critical-remote-code-execution-in-apache-log4j/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 91 comments

Excel World Championship Finals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSU11kxxJvc

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 36 comments

The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-strange-unfinished-saga-of-cyberpunk-2077

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 255 comments

Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/10/1063218669/nobel-peace-laureates-blast-tech-giants-and-warn-against-rising-authoritarianism

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 211 comments

I have a brain injury [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ3hWyfMlU0

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 95 comments

We check our node_modules folder into source control

https://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/check-in-your-node-dependencies/

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 235 comments

Blizzard executive asks employees to “consider the consequences” of union card

https://twitter.com/charlieintel/status/1469361004056387584

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 148 comments

AI is discovering patterns in pure mathematics that have never been seen before

https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-is-discovering-patterns-in-pure-mathematics-that-have-never-been-seen-before

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 39 comments

Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/06/bitcoin-city-el-salvador-nayib-bukele/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 244 comments

Amazon Facility Hit by Tornado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkBeM6RP2I

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 144 comments

To secure the supply chain, you must properly fund it

https://ariadne.space/2021/12/11/to-secure-the-supply-chain-you-must-properly-fund-it/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 52 comments

Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies

https://raku-advent.blog/2021/12/11/unix_philosophy_without_leftpad_part2/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Books Similar to Code by Charles Petzold?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29522588

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: Why were a few rank numbers black on the homepage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29524781

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-greeks-didn-t-kill-weak-babies-new-study-argues

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 98 comments

Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)

https://www.seriouseats.com/carolina-gold-heirloom-rice-anson-mills

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 101 comments

Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aNAFrGbzXddQBMDqh/moore-s-law-ai-and-the-pace-of-progress

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Randomize HTML content to test your defensive CSS

https://cleartax.github.io/html-mocker/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it

http://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2021/12/why-general-inheritance-is-flawed-and.html

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 101 comments

Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation via clusterin

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04183-x

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: Why is everyone so fake on LinkedIn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29517042

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 95 comments

Why does Minnesota sometimes get colder than the North Pole?

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-winter-weather-temperature-cold-north-pole/600114153/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 106 comments

A Future Without Manipulation

https://afuturewithoutmanipulation.eu/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed

https://sprudge.com/can-seaweed-replace-plastic-in-single-serve-coffee-183443.html

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 71 comments

A Mac For Mick (2005)

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=A_Mac_For_Mick.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

E-Shotgun

https://e-shotgun.com/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 138 comments

Crows are self-aware just like us, says new study (2020)

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/crows-higher-intelligence/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Advent of Code 2021 in pure TensorFlow – day 1

https://pgaleone.eu/tensorflow/2021/12/11/advent-of-code-tensorflow/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

Scaling Tacit Knowledge

https://nintil.com/scaling-tacit-knowledge

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules

https://news.yahoo.com/operation-whistle-pig-inside-the-secret-cbp-unit-with-no-rules-that-investigates-americans-100000147.html

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

StarFive Dubhe 64-bit RISC-V core to be found in 12nm, 2 GHz processors

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/10/starfive-dubhe-64-bit-risc-v-core-12nm-2-ghz-processors/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Logout4Shell

https://github.com/Cybereason/Logout4Shell

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 5 comments

The debate about nuclear power and climate change

https://bostonreview.net/articles/is-nuclear-power-our-best-bet-against-climate-change/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 151 comments

Shardz

https://rakyll.org/shardz/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: Best way to prepare a codebase for open-source?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29519754

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels? (2020)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/05/thermoelectric-stoves-ditch-the-solar-panels.html

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

I didn't say that. In fact, no one seems to have, according to Google

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1469256270150520836

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments
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