top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-14

I started a paper website business

https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website

3 years ago

1511 upvotes – 257 comments

Plans you're not supposed to talk about

https://dynomight.net/plans/

3 years ago

846 upvotes – 635 comments

uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

3 years ago

769 upvotes – 294 comments

Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/2580d0e08d5e9f979b943758d3c49877fb2324cb

3 years ago

726 upvotes – 459 comments

Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping

https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_update_december_2021

3 years ago

604 upvotes – 419 comments

Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus/

3 years ago

425 upvotes – 947 comments

Webb placed on top of Ariane 5

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_placed_on_top_of_Ariane_5

3 years ago

377 upvotes – 212 comments

Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/find-anything-blazingly-fast-googles-vector-search-technology

3 years ago

368 upvotes – 159 comments

PyTorch vs. TensorFlow in 2022

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/pytorch-vs-tensorflow-in-2022/

3 years ago

350 upvotes – 118 comments

Dell and HPE switches come with 'American Megatrands' stickers

https://www.servethehome.com/dude-dell-hpe-ami-american-megatrands/

3 years ago

345 upvotes – 198 comments

Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

3 years ago

333 upvotes – 145 comments

Web3 is going just great

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

3 years ago

299 upvotes – 344 comments

Show HN: I made a free course, 'NLP for Semantic Search'

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/nlp/

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 29 comments

Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

https://roughjs.com/

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 23 comments

What does a Principal Software Engineer do?

https://blog.devgenius.io/what-does-a-principal-engineer-do-2e6af918ff28?gi=df8d9ead7c29

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 164 comments

Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6274

3 years ago

233 upvotes – 69 comments

Fun with File Formats

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/12/fun-with-file-formats/

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 25 comments

The web is fucked

https://thewebisfucked.com/

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 144 comments

Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition in 2023

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/rijksmuseum-to-stage-the-largest-vermeer-exhibition-ever

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 75 comments

When the government hides spy cameras on your land, fight back in court

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2021/12/13/when-government-hides-spy-cameras-your-land-fight-back-court/6500524001/

3 years ago

193 upvotes – 119 comments

The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World

https://www.science.org/content/article/arctic-warming-four-times-faster-rest-world

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 213 comments

Show HN: A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme

https://chr15m.github.io/DoodleCSS/

3 years ago

188 upvotes – 35 comments

I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind

https://steveblank.com/2021/12/14/i-cant-see-you-but-im-not-blind/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 306 comments

The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying

https://www.economist.com/business/the-battle-of-the-computing-clouds-is-intensifying/21806813

3 years ago

178 upvotes – 248 comments

Faiss: Facebook's open source vector search library

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 38 comments

Sublime Clojure

https://tonsky.me/blog/sublime-clojure/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?

https://legiblenews.com/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 135 comments

Analogue Pocket Hate Story

https://endrift.com/2021/12/13/analogue-pocket-hate-story/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 159 comments

About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated

https://www.pewforum.org/2021/12/14/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 334 comments

About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.1

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212978

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 227 comments

All hyped up for Hypercard: further adventures with an Apple legacy format

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/07/all-hyped-up-for-hypercard-further-adventures-with-an-apple-legacy-format/

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 62 comments

Wholesale prices measure rises 9.6% in Nov from year ago, fastest pace on record

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/wholesale-prices-measure-rises-9point6percent-in-november-from-a-year-ago-the-fastest-pace-on-record.html

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 129 comments

The Great Bifurcation

https://stratechery.com/2021/the-great-bifurcation/

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 161 comments

$45k in AWS charges due to account being hacked to mine cryptocurrency

https://twitter.com/jonnyplatt/status/1470714901412954112

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 133 comments

Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/12/13/former-harvard-chemistry-chair-to-stand-trial-for-allegedly-hiding-ties-to-china

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 177 comments

Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application

https://openai.com/blog/customized-gpt3/

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 53 comments

California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident

https://www.reuters.com/article/ponyai-autonomous-test-idCNL4N2SY4KG

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 151 comments

Wolfram Cloud

https://www.wolframcloud.com/

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 71 comments

Three loud climate warning signals

https://www.axios.com/three-climate-warning-signals-9f930b4e-110a-4225-9eb9-c63a22993b82.html

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 127 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory (14 December 2021)

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20211214.txt

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 41 comments

XXH: Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH

https://github.com/xxh/xxh

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 49 comments

SQL: The difference between WHERE and HAVING

https://sql-bits.com/the-difference-between-where-and-having/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 132 comments

Coaxial Goes to War

https://computer.rip/2021-12-13-coaxial-goes-to-war.html

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 17 comments

Hex-rays is moving to a subscription model

https://hex-rays.com/blog/hex-rays-is-moving-to-a-subscription-model/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 119 comments

Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29552136

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 136 comments

Work/life balance should be difficult

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/work-life-balance-should-be-difficult-61bed50d0313

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 183 comments

Foot: A fast and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

At SpaceX, I couldn't stop getting sexually harassed

https://www.lioness.co/post/at-spacex-we-re-told-we-can-change-the-world-just-don-t-try-to-stop-the-sexual-harassment

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 157 comments

Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/50/e2102139118

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 289 comments

Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-34-of

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

Ice shelf holding back keystone Antarctic glacier within years of failure

https://www.science.org/content/article/ice-shelf-holding-back-keystone-antarctic-glacier-within-years-failure

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite (2013)

https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-debris/astrophotography/view-keyhole-satellite/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: WanderApp – Cast Harry Potter Spells with gyroscope data

https://github.com/corupta/wander-app

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Gaming on Wayland

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2021/12/14/about-gaming-on-wayland.html

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 187 comments

Please rename aux.py

https://github.com/pyscf/pyscf/issues/1119

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 34 comments

Digital Painting with Real Brushes: Light Strokes for iPad

https://www.instructables.com/Digital-Painting-With-Real-Brushes-Light-Strokes-f/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

Goodbye Gas Fees

https://every.to/almanack/layer-2

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 105 comments

Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age

https://tabby.sh

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 103 comments

Pgmigrate: Write migrations using plain SQL

https://github.com/charperbonaroo/pgmigrate

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

“Microsoft Edge will collect and use data from your web searches”

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whitepaper/

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments
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