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

3 years ago

1005 upvotes – 341 comments

Mess with DNS

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

3 years ago

958 upvotes – 87 comments

Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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

3 years ago

879 upvotes – 468 comments

Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published

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

3 years ago

698 upvotes – 278 comments

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

https://log4jmemes.com

3 years ago

513 upvotes – 108 comments

HTTP/3 Is Fast

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

3 years ago

445 upvotes – 294 comments

Pico CSS Framework

https://picocss.com/

3 years ago

413 upvotes – 100 comments

Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds

https://busysimulator.com/

3 years ago

398 upvotes – 113 comments

Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage

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

3 years ago

390 upvotes – 393 comments

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

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

3 years ago

371 upvotes – 135 comments

Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021

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

3 years ago

367 upvotes – 211 comments

Chess.com vs. Lichess

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

3 years ago

365 upvotes – 215 comments

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

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

3 years ago

318 upvotes – 235 comments

3 lines of code shouldn't take all day

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

3 years ago

302 upvotes – 202 comments

BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops

https://www.buskill.in/

3 years ago

291 upvotes – 333 comments

Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering

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

3 years ago

268 upvotes – 386 comments

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

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

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 83 comments

Swift Playgrounds 4

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

3 years ago

256 upvotes – 95 comments

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

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 65 comments

Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf]

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

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?

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

3 years ago

224 upvotes – 156 comments

How to write a simple JIT compiler

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

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 28 comments

Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics

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

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 162 comments

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

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

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 218 comments

Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy for Depression

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

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 142 comments

JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release

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

3 years ago

209 upvotes – 316 comments

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

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

3 years ago

186 upvotes – 125 comments

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

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

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 45 comments

FreeBSD Handbook / Introduction

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

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 46 comments

IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough

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

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 74 comments

Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers

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

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 102 comments

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/

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 121 comments

Why battery costs have plunged since 2010

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

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 206 comments

No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble

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

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 101 comments

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

https://github.com/GOATS2K/overpass

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 34 comments

Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines

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

3 years ago

156 upvotes – 300 comments

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

https://zed.dev

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 82 comments

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/

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 195 comments

Arc Institute – for curiosity-driven biomedical science and technology

https://arcinstitute.org/

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 38 comments

Okta Outage

https://status.okta.com/

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 82 comments
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