top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-13

Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/

4 years ago

876 upvotes – 716 comments

Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540708

4 years ago

604 upvotes – 166 comments

Marketing is scary for a solo developer

https://raumet.com/marketing

4 years ago

513 upvotes – 276 comments

Neon Genesis Evangelion (2019)

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion

4 years ago

511 upvotes – 197 comments

Adventures of putting 16 GB RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it (2019)

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/

4 years ago

419 upvotes – 74 comments

Deno Joins TC39

https://deno.com/blog/deno-joins-tc39

4 years ago

415 upvotes – 153 comments

Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/adaptive-projections

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment

https://deploymentfromscratch.com/

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 122 comments

“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

https://twitter.com/DanielNemenyi/status/1470385279383089153

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 240 comments

GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment

http://gnustep.org

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 162 comments

Bird populations declining fast across North America

https://emagazine.com/bird-population-declines/

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 310 comments

Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a software engineer

https://twitter.com/yurukov/status/1470422316102430720

4 years ago

309 upvotes – 129 comments

Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide

https://www.techsolvency.com/story-so-far/cve-2021-44228-log4j-log4shell/

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 195 comments

Kintsugi – Art of Repair

https://traditionalkyoto.com/culture/kintsugi/

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 99 comments

Weird: Generative Art in Common Lisp

https://github.com/inconvergent/weird

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 20 comments

Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the kernel at scale

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/12/09/drgn-how-linux-kernel-team-meta-debugs-kernel-scale/

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 125 comments

Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)

https://www.k-international.com/blog/men-and-women-dont-speak-the-same-language/

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 211 comments

Hertz customers arrested, jailed and held at gunpoint after false theft reports

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hertz-claims-false-arrests/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 169 comments

Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 166 comments

When HDMI 2.1 isn't HDMI 2.1 – the confusing world of the standard

https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/when-hdmi-2-1-isnt-hdmi-2-1

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 181 comments

The Scientific Paper is Obsolete (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 162 comments

Americans overestimate social mobility in their country

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/americans-overestimate-social-mobility-in-their-country

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 364 comments

Americans are rethinking where they want to live

https://www.economist.com/united-states/why-americans-are-rethinking-where-they-want-to-live/21806771

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 602 comments

GitHub taking down tools allowing defenders to reproduce the Log4j vulnerability

https://twitter.com/christophetd/status/1470287687265529861

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 94 comments

More than you want to know about gift cards

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/more-than-you-want-to-know-about-gift-cards/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: 10-40% faster LZMA decoder using x86 CMOVcc

https://gist.github.com/ilyakurdyukov/f514418f3affd677e1ac408ec0c09188

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 68 comments

Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation

https://www.axios.com/facebook-bosworth-covid-misinformation-89a751dc-6875-4ad3-8103-33cd10b9972c.html

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 354 comments

The Session Extension

https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 39 comments

Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

http://exquora.thoughtstorms.info/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 130 comments

Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4709/managed-bots-surveillance-gig-economy-workers

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: A 166 KB file for cross compiling glibc for any version, any target

https://github.com/ziglang/glibc-abi-tool

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 32 comments

NeXTSpirit: high-res NeXTSTEP Icons for macOS

http://galgot.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1380

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: We open sourced our new Mac developer setup script

https://github.com/vendasta/setup-new-computer-script

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 126 comments

The Evolutions of Lambdas in C++14, C++17 and C++20

https://www.fluentcpp.com/2021/12/13/the-evolutions-of-lambdas-in-c14-c17-and-c20/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 73 comments

Kryptology: Coinbase’s Open Source Cryptography Library

https://blog.coinbase.com/meet-kryptology-coinbases-open-source-cryptography-library-b5f22854f3f7

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 50 comments

Repulsive Surfaces

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RepulsiveSurfaces/index.html

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 15 comments

What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/california-san-francisco-outdoor-dining-progressive-utopia/620974/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 302 comments

How to handle difficult clients

https://zimtik.com/en/posts/how-to-handle-difficult-clients

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 86 comments

Some thoughts on writing

https://danluu.com/writing-non-advice/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 62 comments

Framer Motion 3D

https://www.framer.com/docs/three-introduction/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 21 comments

Vivaldi: Violating CoC on forum may close your email account

https://vivaldi.com/privacy/code-of-conduct/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 209 comments

Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29535977

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 115 comments

Discourage use of Mailgun as a mail provider

https://secure.phabricator.com/T13669

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 93 comments

NASA's new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball 'squashing' on the ISS

https://www.engadget.com/nasa-sleeping-bag-prevent-eyeball-squashing-083937316.html

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 88 comments

Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities

https://thinknewsmedia.com/2021/12/13/how-rising-groundwater-caused-by-climate-change-could-devastate-coastal-communities/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

https://w.hutson.gy/projects/emergency-wallet-cards

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

Étoilé on Gnustep

http://etoileos.com/etoile/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 45 comments

Sonic the Hedgehog for Commodore 64/128 + REU

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78945

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

The ‘invisible’, often unhappy workforce that’s deciding the future of AI

https://www.unite.ai/the-invisible-often-unhappy-workforce-thats-deciding-the-future-of-ai/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 73 comments

Keanu Reeves Thinks NFTs Are a Joke

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2021/12/11/keanu-reeves-thinks-nfts-are-a-joke/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 88 comments

CEPL: A lispy and REPL-friendly Common Lisp library for working with OpenGL

https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 8 comments

Is Protonmail logging my email content?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537549

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

I am in favour of the term “Web4” to describe small, local, personal, private...

https://mastodon.social/@natecull/107438374262423694

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 73 comments

Ain't no party like a third party

https://adactio.com/articles/18676

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

ToaruOS 2.0

https://github.com/klange/toaruos/releases/tag/v2.0.0

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Spiking Neural Networks

https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/spiking-neural-networks

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Western Digital HDD boss mentions archive disk drive idea

https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/12/09/western-digital-spinner-boss-drops-tape-archive-invasion-bomb/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 117 comments

T* makes for a poor optional<T&>

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2021/12/13/optional-ref-ptr/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

Optimizing the kernel to saturate a 100Gbps link (2017)

https://netflixtechblog.com/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-connect-appliance-cdb51dda3b99?gi=7c9e72ecd546

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Help Is This Arabic?

https://isthatarabic.com/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/technology/instagram-handle-metaverse.html

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

JuNest – The lightweight Arch based distro that runs upon any Linux distribution

http://fsquillace.github.io/junest-site/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

The messy future of social media

https://jacobobryant.com/p/messy-future-social-media/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

Drugs, secrets and the circling hyenas

https://backstory.substack.com/p/drugs-secrets-and-the-circling-hyenas

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Kentucky candle factory: questions arise over why staff worked during tornadoes

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/13/kentucky-tornadoes-candle-factory-search-survivors

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 128 comments

Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

https://danpetrov.xyz/macos/emacs/lisp/2021/12/11/integrating-emacs-with-siri-shortcuts.html

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Fixing a performance problem in Elm using Html.Lazy

https://blogg.bekk.no/fixing-a-performance-problem-in-elm-using-html-lazy-c4298b72500d?gi=65357a7e63ad

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Borderless Media Consumption: Geoblocking Reform

https://www.fuen.org/en/article/Borderless-Media-Consumption-Geoblocking-reform-FUEN-sits-at-the-table-with-film-and-TV-industry

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

Researchers find a treatable indicator of blood clotting in Covid patients

https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2021/12/new-technology-could-help-doctors-improve-covid-19-patient-outcomes

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments
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