top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-19

Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

https://usebottles.com/

4 years ago

604 upvotes – 237 comments

Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China

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

4 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

4 years ago

562 upvotes – 271 comments

The Big DevOps Misunderstanding

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

4 years ago

529 upvotes – 314 comments

Test your product on a crappy laptop

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

4 years ago

527 upvotes – 307 comments

My parents collect cans for a living

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

4 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

4 years ago

434 upvotes – 365 comments

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

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

4 years ago

425 upvotes – 500 comments

Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?

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

4 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

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 361 comments

Move myself to inactive

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

4 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

4 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/

4 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/

4 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/

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 103 comments

Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991

https://markuskaarlonen.com/space-debris

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 75 comments

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

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

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 80 comments

Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability

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

4 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/

4 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

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 64 comments

Writing embedded firmware using Rust

https://www.anyleaf.org/blog/writing-embedded-firmware-using-rust

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 67 comments

The timing of evolutionary transitions suggests intelligent life is rare

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29612778

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 188 comments

Decap of a tiny chip that plays Christmas songs

https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1472297415201869831

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 40 comments

NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-college-graduate-parent-student-loans-11639618241

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 227 comments

The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun

https://medium.com/predict/sorry-but-the-mother-of-all-crashes-is-coming-and-it-wont-be-fun-beaa2bc9f96a

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 190 comments

Fish sausages: Ugandan CEO taps into demand

https://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/fish-sausages-ugandan-ceo-taps-into-demand-for-fish-products/134985/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 98 comments

Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/19/video-of-peng-shuai-appears-online-as-fears-over-wellbeing-persist

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 44 comments

The rise and decline of thinking over feeling

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/12/the-rise-and-decline-of-thinking-over-feeling.html

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 106 comments

My values, howled into the wind

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6173

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 197 comments

Pfizer’s Covid-19 Pill is 89% Effective in Phase 2/3 Study

https://www.fdanews.com/articles/205801-pfizers-covid-19-pill-is-89-percent-effective-in-phase-23-study

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 213 comments

Zig: Drop MinGW-w64

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9998

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

What children lose when their brains develop too fast

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-children-lose-when-their-brains-develop-too-fast-11639071752

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 55 comments

Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins

https://razib.substack.com/p/yo-mamas-mamas-mamas-mama-etc

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 89 comments

SciRate: An open source website to browse, save, and comment ArXiv articles

https://scirate.com/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Lisp in Vim with Slimv or Vlime (2019)

https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime.html

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: IR stove thermometer, firmware in Rust

https://www.anyleaf.org/stove-thermometer

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631133/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 227 comments

France latest to slap Clearview AI with order to delete data

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/clearview-gdpr-breaches-france/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 38 comments

About 2 months ago I went to review a product I bought from Amazon

https://twitter.com/jowanza/status/1472677342627598337

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Forest data for 236 countries and territories in the period 1990-2020

https://www.fao.org/forest-resources-assessment/2020/en/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

The Dead Sea of West Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/lake-boehmer-dead-sea-west-texas/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17)

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/omicron-update

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 59 comments

A mental model for decentralization

https://jacobobryant.com/p/mental-model-decentralization/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 77 comments

Designing a New PRNG

https://tom-kaitchuck.medium.com/designing-a-new-prng-1c4ffd27124d

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Norway, Nov to Dec 2021

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101147

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 159 comments

Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/12/does-superdeterminism-save-quantum.html

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 123 comments

Connecting the iDOTs (2020)

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/895-Connecting-the-iDOTs.html

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

The potential of transformers in reinforcement learning

https://lorenzopieri.com/rl_transformers/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

Collection of Unix ASCII Games

http://ligurio.github.io/awesome-ttygames/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

FPGA Advent Calendar

https://twitter.com/willflux/status/1465268154733637633

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Catching Lightning in a Bottle

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/blog-posts/playing-zeus

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments
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