756
293
The gift of it's your problem now
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229
4 years ago
732
454
iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476351601862483968
611
321
Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/10/depression-treatment.html
506
141
Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster
https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1476698207413493766
347
395
macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
https://hookrace.net/blog/macos-setup/
327
107
Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
https://terrainformatica.com/2021/04/25/sciter-uses-javascript-from-now-and-on/
323
130
Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
https://ottertune.com/blog/2021-databases-retrospective/
320
103
An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abm2504
309
184
How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?
https://palant.info/2021/12/29/how-did-lastpass-master-passwords-get-compromised/
298
214
Why is my Rust build so slow?
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/why-is-my-rust-build-so-slow
276
28
Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (2013)
https://cs.brown.edu/people/rtamassi/gdhandbook/
275
134
DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
https://github.com/liaoxiong3x/DeepCreamPy
270
117
Germany: Data retention to be abolished
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-retention-germany/
260
153
Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/whatsnew/information/detail/211228056999.html
247
163
Reporter may be prosecuted for using “view source”
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/parson-says-he-believes-prosecutor-will-bring-charges-in-post-dispatch-case/article_c4d88dae-fbf7-565f-a96c-e3589a626273.html
232
218
Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211227/p2a/00m/0na/072000c
231
170
Using the wrong dictionary (2014)
https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
208
286
Idiocracy: A disturbingly prophetic look at the future
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jul/19/idiocracy-a-disturbingly-prophetic-look-at-the-future-of-america-and-our-era-of-stupidity
205
267
Tesla recalls nearly half a million Model 3 and Model S cars
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/30/22859717/tesla-model-3-s-recall-trunk-latch-failure-nhtsa
199
223
Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
https://northvolt.com/articles/first-cell/
140
List of games that Buddha would not play
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play
193
157
On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general
https://ruzkuku.com/texts/emacs-mouse.html
191
147
What’s entering the public domain on January 1
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whats-entering-the-public-domain-on-january-1-winnie-pooh-ernest-hemingway-180979299/
190
69
Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything else
https://www.wired.com/story/big-data-may-not-know-your-name-but-it-knows-everything-else/
187
196
SQL language proposal: JOIN FOREIGN
https://gist.github.com/joelonsql/15b50b65ec343dce94db6249cfea8aaa
186
33
A fast SQLite PWA notebook for CSV files
https://dirtylittlesql.com
185
Sega Europe suffers major security breach
https://vpnoverview.com/news/sega-europe-suffers-major-security-breach/
180
534
Stanford requires booster shots for all students
https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/resources-our-communities/covid-19-guidance-students/winter-break-return-testing-guide/booster-shot
164
89
Why can’t you design noise in frequency space?
https://blog.demofox.org/2021/12/29/why-cant-you-design-noise-in-frequency-space/
96
Crowded dorms,no flush toilets and food crawling with worms at iPhone plant
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/crowded-dorms-no-flush-toilets-and-worms-in-food-how-protest-forced-change-for-women-at-indian-iphone-plant-41194516.html
9
Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games from the Late 80s Period
https://scd.sk/clanky/playable-english-localizations-of-slovak-digital-games-from-the-late-80s-period/
156
226
Changes in Dutch streets throughout the years (photo album)
https://imgur.com/a/rffE0Oz
131
Browse the web like its 1999
https://oldweb.today/
148
133
Women force change at Indian iPhone plant
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/women-force-change-indian-iphone-plant-sick-bad-food-crowded-dorms-2021-12-30/
5
Anonymized data is rarely anonymous
https://flowingdata.com/2021/12/29/anonymized-data-is-rarely-anonymous/
68
Unusual login activity was due to bug
https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/12/unusual-attempted-login-activity-how-lastpass-protects-you/
74
Wind whipped fires raging through Boulder County
https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/12/30/boulder-county-grass-fires/
129
26
Category Theory: Lecture Notes and Online Books
https://www.logicmatters.net/categories/
127
201
Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz
https://nypost.com/2021/12/30/peter-thiel-hires-disgraced-ex-austrian-chancellor-sebastian-kurz/
126
87
Table Oriented Programming (2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20121024051826/http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/top.htm
118
45
Music Library and MusicBrainz Picard
https://homehack.nl/your-music-library-and-musicbrainz-picard/
19
Show HN: Pystitcher – A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk
https://github.com/captn3m0/pystitcher
11
The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15291006211051956
114
165
The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz (2013)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/requiem-for-a-dream
111
47
Fuck Off Google
https://fuckoffgoogle.de/
101
/R/PixelArt Update: NFT Posts Are Now Banned
https://old.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/rrb8s8/rpixelart_update_nft_posts_are_now_banned/
109
81
NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful
https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/lets-stop-using-nps
105
Children's Risk of Serious Illness from Covid-19 Is as Low as It Is for the Flu
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/25/997467734/childrens-risk-of-serious-illness-from-covid-19-is-as-low-as-it-is-for-the-flu
41
Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS
https://github.com/cmod/websters-1913
102
73
How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/
98
Court blocks Inglewood from destroying police disciplinary records
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-29/inglewood-blocked-from-destroying-police-disciplinary-records
95
35
The quest to build a general-purpose thought decoder
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-science-of-mind-reading
27
Malware Could Use SSD Over-Provisioning to Bypass Security Measures
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-over-provisioning-vulnerability
Scientific American does an hit job on E. O. Wilson, calling him a racist
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/12/30/scientific-american-does-an-asinine-hit-job-on-e-o-wilson-calling-him-a-racist/
93
65
Ask HN: Why do so many developers seem hostile to their users these days?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29742406
88
Improving the quality of publicly trusted intermediate CA certificates
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/12/09/improved-quality-of-intermediate-certificates-with-enhanced-oversight-and-automation/
52
Dooble: A minimal GUI web browser
https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/
80
13
Microplastics in food and drink may be fueling a dramatic rise in bowel diseases
https://www.studyfinds.org/microplastics-bowel-diseases/
106
Big cars are killing Americans
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/suvs-trucks-killing-pedestrians-cyclists/621102/
46
Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over safety issues
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recalls-over-475000-electric-vehicles-2021-12-30/
78
94
Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2021/dec/27/tanker-hit-super-yacht-sinks-new-providence/
75
38
Consuming Articles Offline
http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2021/Dec/consuming-articles-offline/
3
Reverse-engineering a Roku to control background lights
https://blog.ammaraskar.com/roku-tv-philips-hues/
71
375
Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confident is true?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29733026
