top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-12-19

Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

https://usebottles.com/

3 years ago

604 upvotes – 237 comments

Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China

https://www.economist.com/china/lithuania-evacuates-its-embassy-in-china/21806843

3 years ago

583 upvotes – 673 comments

An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone

https://techsparx.com/software-development/security/csp-camera-microphone.html

3 years ago

562 upvotes – 271 comments

The Big DevOps Misunderstanding

https://wolfoliver.medium.com/the-big-devops-misunderstanding-8435a910a5fd

3 years ago

529 upvotes – 314 comments

Test your product on a crappy laptop

https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/

3 years ago

527 upvotes – 307 comments

My parents collect cans for a living

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/parents-collecting-cans-bottles/

3 years ago

452 upvotes – 392 comments

I was part of a human subject research study without my consent

https://christine.website/blog/princeton-study-2021-12-17

3 years ago

434 upvotes – 365 comments

Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29613382

3 years ago

425 upvotes – 500 comments

Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29614095

3 years ago

423 upvotes – 321 comments

Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar

https://twitter.com/Sega__JEANAsis/status/1472198123506257937

3 years ago

335 upvotes – 361 comments

Move myself to inactive

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6e70d51011cfb3fb86d84055182

3 years ago

278 upvotes – 140 comments

Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v1.full.pdf

3 years ago

269 upvotes – 313 comments

Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019)

https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/

3 years ago

259 upvotes – 97 comments

Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15

https://blog.timac.org/2021/1219-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-ios15/

3 years ago

248 upvotes – 163 comments

Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301500-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong-faster-than-an-ai/

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 103 comments

Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization

https://github.com/nerdsinspace/nocom-explanation/blob/main/README.md

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 80 comments

Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991

https://markuskaarlonen.com/space-debris

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 75 comments

Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/696785

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 41 comments

War stories: how Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/war-stories-how-crash-bandicoot-hacked-the-original-playstation/

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 42 comments

Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years

https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/07/14/unix-shell-programming-the-next-50-years.html

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 64 comments
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