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

This website has 81% battery power remaining

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html

3 years ago

1225 upvotes – 351 comments

Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source

https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/4085856.html?thread=28352864#cmt28352864

3 years ago

534 upvotes – 135 comments

The Matrix Is Unreal

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-matrix-is-unreal/

3 years ago

492 upvotes – 226 comments

Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/12/national/science-health/aging-vaccine/

3 years ago

484 upvotes – 357 comments

Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062

3 years ago

445 upvotes – 338 comments

Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice

https://commoncog.com/blog/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing/

3 years ago

414 upvotes – 126 comments

Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529267

3 years ago

382 upvotes – 489 comments

Fredrik Lundh has died

https://lwn.net/ml/python-dev/CAP7+vJLbxJY-SPPzaoT4qnhF9MRkXDuhmr8wxZ=Es1X2ob3gMg@mail.gmail.com/

3 years ago

364 upvotes – 46 comments

Opt Out of Cynicism

https://dimitarsimeonov.com/2021/12/12/opt-out-of-cynicism

3 years ago

345 upvotes – 312 comments

The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-internet-has-rat-poison-problem

3 years ago

336 upvotes – 206 comments

Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/performance/cloud-facts.html

3 years ago

320 upvotes – 315 comments

Old CSS, New CSS (2020)

https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/

3 years ago

284 upvotes – 97 comments

Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

https://www.science.org/content/article/chemical-emitted-babies-could-make-men-more-docile-women-more-aggressive

3 years ago

281 upvotes – 129 comments

Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS

https://www.hammerspoon.org/

3 years ago

272 upvotes – 80 comments

“Open source” is not broken

https://nadh.in/blog/open-source-is-not-broken/

3 years ago

262 upvotes – 251 comments

California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a year

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/12/07/california-is-the-only-state-to-hide-its-spending/

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 273 comments

Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533753

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 230 comments

Terms of Service: Monitoring and Anti-Cheat

https://www.riotgames.com/en/terms-of-service#id.j9yhwirgp1kr

3 years ago

186 upvotes – 256 comments

Arkham Quixote (2020)

https://sherief.fyi/post/arkham-quixote/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple’s Newest OLED Supplier

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/boe-technology-apples-next-oled-supplier

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 148 comments

Sending SMS Messages Through the ISS (2020)

https://www.kj7nzl.net/blog/sending-sms-messages-through-iss/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 18 comments

Win-Vind: Become an instant ninja in operating Windows at the speed of thought

https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 35 comments

Erich's Packing Center

https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 16 comments

Frickin' shaders with frickin' laser beams

https://acko.net/blog/frickin-shaders-with-frickin-laser-beams/

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 26 comments

Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015)

https://qz.com/557639/everyone-on-earth-is-actually-your-cousin/

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 80 comments

Predict civilization collapse with Python and World3 model

https://github.com/cvanwynsberghe/pyworld3

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 133 comments

Saving the shuttle simulator–“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/saving-the-shuttle-simulator-it-was-an-artifact-that-needed-to-be-preserved/

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 60 comments

Drop-In Replacement for Memcached

https://www.memc.rs

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 87 comments

Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools

https://medium.com/fundbox-engineering/cheating-at-a-company-group-activity-using-unix-tools-5c1d706f3d58

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 146 comments

Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer

https://www.gpsoft.com.au/

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 78 comments

CISA Director on Log4j Vulnerability

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2021/12/11/statement-cisa-director-easterly-log4j-vulnerability

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling programming courses

https://alterclass.io/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 69 comments

NASA Ogma: generate hard-realtime C runtime monitoring applications

https://github.com/nasa/ogma

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 22 comments

WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 126 comments

Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic

https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2021/11/15/internet-use/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 90 comments

CP/M Source Code

http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

Peer-to-Peer NAT64 Network

https://p2p.nat64.dk/

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 28 comments

Signal Identification Guide

https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 6 comments

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked

https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/indian-prime-minister-narendra-modis-twitter-account-gets-hacked

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

A Civil War cartoonist created the modern image of Santa Claus (2018)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-cartoonist-created-modern-image-santa-claus-union-propaganda-180971074/

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 55 comments

Minimalist Guide to Lossless Compression (2019)

https://tech.marksblogg.com/minimalist-guide-compression.html

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Former BuzzFeed employees missed their big payday

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-former-buzzfeed-employees-missed-their-big-payday

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments

Alarmed by Tesla’s self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-11/is-teslas-full-self-driving-public-experiment-safe-legislators-want-answers-from-dmv

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 156 comments

Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29534663

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 37 comments

Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli bridged mind and matter (2017)

https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/09/atom-and-archetype-pauli-jung/

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

Report shows HSE (Irish Health Service) hacked by malicious Excel file [pdf]

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/conti-cyber-attack-on-the-hse-full-report.pdf

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Dive into Ethereum signatures with Raku language

https://raku-advent.blog/2021/12/12/a-long-journey-to-ethereum-signatures/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Abolish Yale

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/12/10/abolish-yale/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 94 comments

Using BBS with my Amiga 3000 in 2021

https://www.epsilonsworld.com/2021/11/using-bbs-with-my-amiga-3000-in-2021.html

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532676

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 108 comments
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