top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-15

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html

4 years ago

Mess with DNS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/15/mess-with-dns/

4 years ago

Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567170

4 years ago

Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-update-on-cve-2021-45046/

4 years ago

Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh

https://log4jmemes.com

4 years ago

HTTP/3 Is Fast

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/http3-is-fast

4 years ago

Pico CSS Framework

https://picocss.com/

4 years ago

Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds

https://busysimulator.com/

4 years ago

Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/15/apple-nixes-csam-references-website/

4 years ago

How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls

https://signal.org/blog/how-to-build-encrypted-group-calls/

4 years ago

Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021

https://asahilinux.org/2021/12/progress-report-oct-nov-2021/

4 years ago

Chess.com vs. Lichess

https://siddhesh.substack.com/p/chesscom-vs-lichess

4 years ago

Ask HN: I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567743

4 years ago

3 lines of code shouldn't take all day

https://devtails.xyz/3-lines-of-code-shouldnt-take-all-day

4 years ago

BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops

https://www.buskill.in/

4 years ago

Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/uncomfortable-truths-in-software-engineering/

4 years ago

NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03751-5

4 years ago

Swift Playgrounds 4

https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/

4 years ago

Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v1.0.0

4 years ago

Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf]

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/48E3E2DE-6DFC-4602-BADF-8926F551B670

4 years ago

Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561452

4 years ago

How to write a simple JIT compiler

https://github.com/spencertipping/jit-tutorial

4 years ago

Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics

https://go.dev/blog/go1.18beta1

4 years ago

Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29569561

4 years ago

Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy for Depression

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19070720

4 years ago

JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2021

4 years ago

The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)

https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/

4 years ago

I was stuck on a side project for 5 years – how I finished it (2020)

https://cassandraxia.com/writing/shed.html

4 years ago

FreeBSD Handbook / Introduction

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/introduction/

4 years ago

IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-12-14-IBM-and-Samsung-Unveil-Semiconductor-Breakthrough-That-Defies-Conventional-Design

4 years ago

Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-research-finds-immune-system-responds-to-mrna-treatment-for-cancer/

4 years ago

Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers

https://www.cossacklabs.com/blog/crypto-wallets-security/

4 years ago

Why battery costs have plunged since 2010

https://fullstackeconomics.com/untitled-2/

4 years ago

No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-warp-bubble/

4 years ago

Show HN: Overpass – a self-hosted video live streaming app

https://github.com/GOATS2K/overpass

4 years ago

Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0

4 years ago

Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team)

https://zed.dev

4 years ago

Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/google-is-building-a-new-augmented-reality-device-and-operating-system/

4 years ago

Arc Institute – for curiosity-driven biomedical science and technology

https://arcinstitute.org/

4 years ago

Okta Outage

https://status.okta.com/

4 years ago

F# Good and Bad

https://danielbmarkham.com/f-good-and-bad/

4 years ago

Preventing Pool-Party Attacks

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/13-pool-party-side-channels/

4 years ago

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W external antenna mod

https://shop.sb-components.co.uk/blogs/posts/adding-an-additional-antenna-with-a-u-fl-rf-connection-to-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w

4 years ago

Clojure Macros and Metaprogramming

https://clojure-doc.github.io/articles/language/macros/

4 years ago

Pine64 and Radxa's new Pi CM4-compatible boards

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/pine64-and-radxas-new-pi-cm4-compatible-boards

4 years ago

Inventing the Atari 2600 (1983)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/atari-2600

4 years ago

Plasmic – A headless page builder

https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic

4 years ago

The future of artificial intelligence is self-organizing and self-assembling

http://sebastianrisi.com/self_assembling_ai/

4 years ago

Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig

https://pithlessly.github.io/allocgate.html

4 years ago

Technorealism (1998)

https://www.technorealism.org/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do you manage direct updates to databases in a production system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29563226

4 years ago

ATX-80 – ZX-80 computer clone with ATmega8 processor

http://www.breatharian.eu/hw/atx80/index_en.html

4 years ago

Norm Macdonald website with every ep of Norm Macdonald Live and more Norm stuff

https://imnotnormeither.com

4 years ago

A Safer San Francisco

https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-safer-san-francisco-eb40d9d502e4

4 years ago

James Dyson answers design questions from Twitter [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCFe38EIfE

4 years ago

Show HN: FastWSGI, an ultra-fast WSGI server for Python

https://github.com/jamesroberts/fastwsgi

4 years ago

90% of Everything Is Crap

https://matt-rickard.com/90-of-everything-is-crap/

4 years ago

Google Chrome Zero Day CVE-2021-4102, Use after free in V8

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html

4 years ago

Proof of Steak

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06498

4 years ago

The longest train journey – in 2021

https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-world-in-2021/

4 years ago

Barreleye fish

https://www.mbari.org/products/creature-feature/barreleye-landing-page/

4 years ago

The Open Cap Table Coalition

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/29/introducing-the-open-cap-table-coalition/

4 years ago

Cash Glut in Eurozone Drives Dollar Demand

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cash-glut-in-eurozone-drives-dollar-demand-11639477801

4 years ago

Caterwaul: A JavaScript-to-JavaScript Compiler

https://github.com/spencertipping/caterwaul

4 years ago

The Omicron Question

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-omicron-question

4 years ago

Learn Django Web Framework

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django

4 years ago

San Francisco mayor pledges more police, safety measures

https://apnews.com/article/business-police-san-francisco-9210b1e49ad00f0001532a2d50bead81

4 years ago

Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eventually be fired

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-says-employees-will-eventually-be-fired-if-they-do-not-follow-vaccination-2021-12-14/

4 years ago