top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-12-27

Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29705957

4 years ago

877 upvotes – 515 comments

Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable

http://ifthisbetreason.com/2021/12/italian-courts-find-open-source-software-terms-enforceable/

4 years ago

632 upvotes – 160 comments

Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work

https://gowlingwlg.com/en/insights-resources/articles/2021/ontario-legislation-bill-27-non-competes/

4 years ago

575 upvotes – 171 comments

Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity

https://mmos.com/news/ubisoft-deleted-account-with-hundreds-of-dollars-worth-of-games-for-inactivity

4 years ago

568 upvotes – 526 comments

"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

https://torrentfreak.com/widevine-dump-leaked-code-downloads-hd-video-from-disney-amazon-and-netflix-211227/

4 years ago

449 upvotes – 293 comments

Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech

https://philcalcado.com/2021/12/20/job_hunt.html

4 years ago

431 upvotes – 355 comments

Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700445

4 years ago

390 upvotes – 913 comments

The state of external retina displays

https://www.caseyliss.com/2021/12/7/monitor-liss

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 336 comments

E.O. Wilson has died

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/

4 years ago

353 upvotes – 74 comments

A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)

https://www.duskborn.com/posts/2021-aoc-zig/

4 years ago

341 upvotes – 270 comments

Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016)

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript/

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 219 comments

Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (2019)

https://blog.robertelder.org/recording-660-fps-on-raspberry-pi-camera/

4 years ago

293 upvotes – 63 comments

HyperNeRF

https://hypernerf.github.io/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 45 comments

Decoding James Webb Space Telescope

https://destevez.net/2021/12/decoding-james-webb-space-telescope/

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 93 comments

The Best Things and Stuff of 2021

http://blog.fogus.me/2021/12/27/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2021/

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 23 comments

I made my first web0 website today. It's so cool it just works

https://elliott.computer/pages/web0.html

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 253 comments

Whatever happened to Flickr?

https://www.techspot.com/article/2384-flickr/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 215 comments

Ask HN: Good Python projects to read for modern Python?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29698198

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 66 comments

There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1475231857851527169

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 184 comments

immudb – world’s fastest immutable database, built on a zero trust model

https://github.com/codenotary/immudb

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703564

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 139 comments

France's Jean Zay supercomputer now has an integrated photonic coprocessor

https://www.techradar.com/news/this-powerful-supercomputer-can-now-run-on-light-instead-of-electric-current

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 103 comments

Midwest Developer

https://lanie.dev/tech/midwest/

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 305 comments

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 192 comments

Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/26/iphones-without-sim-card-slot-2022-rumor/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 518 comments

Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skills

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 13 comments

Windows 2000 Modernization Guide

https://w2k.phreaknet.org/guide

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 200 comments

Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/quick-and-dirty-way-to-rip-an-ebook-from-android/

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 61 comments

Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex [pdf]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v1.full.pdf

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 194 comments

New muscle layer discovered on the jaw

https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/New-muscle-layer-discovered-on-the-jaw.html

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 62 comments

The Beverly Clock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Clock

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 49 comments

Superhighway84 – a Usenet-inspired decentralized internet discussion system

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/superhighway84/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 78 comments

DIY Mail

https://computer.rip/2021-12-26-diy-mail.html

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 75 comments

The Economist tracks excess deaths

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 275 comments

Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack)

https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 71 comments

MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon

https://kennethfriedman.org/thoughts/2021/mit-scheme-on-apple-silicon/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29702844

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 198 comments

Once poor, always poor?

https://www.stearsng.com/article/once-poor-always-poor

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 334 comments

rC3 Fahrplan – The Chaos Communication Congress 2021 schedule

https://rc3.world/2021/public_fahrplan#_

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 51 comments

A stochastic method to generate the Sierpinski triangle

https://github.com/ajnirp/stochastic_sierpinski

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 62 comments

An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (2017)

https://ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-algorithmic-solution-to-insomnia.html

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)

https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-collection-of-v-90v-92-modem-sounds/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Drovp – Convenient UI for any drag and drop operations

https://drovp.app

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

https://alfreadapp.com/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 94 comments

AWS Ground Station

https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 37 comments

Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vaccine neutralization

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03824-5

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 202 comments

FrameWork laptop is Tom's favorite laptop of the year—and completely unexpected

https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/my-favorite-laptop-of-the-year-was-completely-unexpected

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Wayne Thiebaud, known for his colorful depictions of everyday life, dies at 101

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/26/1068131242/artist-wayne-thiebaud-dies-at-age-101

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Luerl – An Implementation of Lua in Erlang

https://github.com/rvirding/luerl

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

Py2cr: A Python3 to Crystal Translator

https://github.com/nanobowers/py2cr

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-the-russians-thought-of-james-bond-in-the-1960s

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 118 comments

The Problem with Ponzis

https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2021/12/27/the-problem-with-ponzis/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Give the disappointment of an NFT-gift without having to buy one

http://nftgift.info

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Metrics-driven product development is hard

https://blog.doubleloop.app/metrics-driven-product-development-is-hard/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Speedcabling (2008)

http://schkolne.com/speedcabling/rules.html

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments
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