top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-08

James Webb is fully deployed

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-telescope-reaches-major-milestone-as-mirror-unfolds

4 years ago

Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

https://www.bookstackapp.com/

4 years ago

I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

https://reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i_am_a_new_york_city_public_high_school_student/

4 years ago

Bevy game engine 0.6

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-6/

4 years ago

Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-happiest-number-ive-heard-in

4 years ago

School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents

https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2022/Adolescent-Sleep.html

4 years ago

Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850665

4 years ago

DuckDuckGo Traffic

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

4 years ago

Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network

4 years ago

_Application.Run(Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.interop.excel._application.run?view=excel-pia

4 years ago

Approved Cameras

https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000579527-Cameras-and-Image-Capture

4 years ago

My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years

https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/my-70-year-old-mother-has-been-using-linux-on-the-desktop-for-the-past-21-years.html

4 years ago

UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/11/22/uuids-are-popular-but-bad-for-performance-lets-discuss/

4 years ago

Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green text bubble

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-teens-dread-the-green-text-bubble-11641618009

4 years ago

Systemd, 10 years later (2020)

https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/

4 years ago

My Experience as a SWE Intern at Goldman Sachs

https://www.lremes.com/posts/goldman-sachs/

4 years ago

How to make quitting your addiction easier

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-make-quitting-your-addiction-easier

4 years ago

MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C

https://github.com/FastVM/minivm

4 years ago

Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings

https://twitter.com/naderman/status/1479529888977760258

4 years ago

Toyota to remanufacture cars up to three times in UK

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-tech%2C-development-and-manufacturing/toyota-remanufacture-cars-three-times-uk

4 years ago

Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter

https://betterprogramming.pub/flutter-failed-to-solve-the-biggest-challenge-for-our-cross-platform-app-c551afa0ef18?gi=87b1ac51ba0b

4 years ago

In Response to My first impressions of Web3

https://skerritt.blog/response-to-moxie/

4 years ago

Proposed bill in New Hampshire would enshrine free software into law

https://libreboot.org/news/usa-libre.html

4 years ago

The Wall: Geostationary satellites near-real-time animations

https://earth2day.com/TheWall/

4 years ago

Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to disk

https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup

4 years ago

A neural network solves and generates mathematics problems by program synthesis

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.15594

4 years ago

Edible plants that grow in the shade

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/10-edible-plants-that-grow-in-the-shade/

4 years ago

Some people want to run their own servers

https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html

4 years ago

500M Avira antivirus users introduced to cryptomining

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/500m-avira-antivirus-users-introduced-to-cryptomining/

4 years ago

Land of Lisp (2010)

http://landoflisp.com/

4 years ago

Xiaomi cellphones can censor searches: NCC

https://taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2022/01/08/2003770963

4 years ago

Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make (2020)

http://jonasdn.blogspot.com/2020/10/proposal-to-add-build-graph-output-to.html

4 years ago

IRC technology news from the second half of 2021

https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2021/

4 years ago

Give me /events, not webhooks

https://blog.sequin.io/events-not-webhooks

4 years ago

Death Clock

https://thedeathclock.co/

4 years ago

Hashing is not encryption

https://eric.mann.blog/hashing-is-not-encryption/

4 years ago

How to read research paper, textbook, long text content?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29851336

4 years ago

Elasticlunr, a full-text search library for Elixir

https://atandarash.me/blog/introduction-to-elasticlunr

4 years ago

Practical Common Lisp (2005)

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

4 years ago

JWST Completely and Successfully Unfolded

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1479837936430596097

4 years ago

Fixing the Unfixable: Story of a Google Cloud SSRF

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/12/31/fixing-the-unfixable-story-of-a-google-cloud-ssrf/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Are We in a Bubble?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29854832

4 years ago

Do climate models predict extreme weather?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/01/do-climate-models-predict-extreme.html

4 years ago

Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)

https://wagslane.dev/posts/go-struct-ordering/

4 years ago

Stories Are Coming to Signal

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/8bc7d1b7f52b41cafb2a58197fb413aeb5271626

4 years ago

Where is every IP Address?

https://tech.marksblogg.com/where-are-ip-addresses-ipinfo.html

4 years ago

Hyrum's Law

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/#

4 years ago

T-Shaped People and Academia

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/t/

4 years ago

Web 3 Doesn't Exist

https://cobie.substack.com/p/wtf-is-web3

4 years ago

Tesla's Next-Generation Model Y Chassis

https://blog.onlyusedtesla.com/tesla-begins-building-a-next-generation-model-y-chassis-6b2e1579d0aa?gi=3bf7909ae2e3

4 years ago

HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space (2020)

https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-03-08-hsluv/

4 years ago

Is Bitcoin Down or Just Me?

https://www.isbitcoindownorjustme.com/

4 years ago

GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions

https://taler.net/en/index.html

4 years ago

Avoid Meaningless Binary Labels

https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2022/1/5/avoid-meaningless-binary-labels

4 years ago

France opens terror investigation after Dakar rally vehicle is hit by blast

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220105-france-opens-terror-investigation-into-dakar-rally-vehicle-blast-sodicars

4 years ago

Open-source tests of web browser privacy

https://privacytests.org/

4 years ago

Sketch: A Common Lisp environment for the creation of electronic art

https://github.com/vydd/sketch

4 years ago

Why do 70% of families lose their wealth in the 2nd generation? (2018)

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-do-70-of-families-lose-their-wealth-in-the-2nd-generation-2018-10

4 years ago

Technical Analysis of an Office RCE Exploit

https://billdemirkapi.me/unpacking-cve-2021-40444-microsoft-office-rce/

4 years ago

Log4Shell Vulnerabilities in VMware Horizon Targeted to Install Web Shells

https://digital.nhs.uk/cyber-alerts/2022/cc-4002

4 years ago

Bashforth: A Forth interpreter, written as bash script

https://github.com/Bushmills/Bashforth

4 years ago

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

https://eppc.org/publication/japans-vaccination-policy-no-force-no-discrimination/

4 years ago

Implementing a quantum computer emulator in SQL

https://explainextended.com/2021/12/31/happy-new-year-13/

4 years ago

The Importance Trap

https://brianlui.dog/2021/08/18/the-importance-trap/

4 years ago

Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and the Health Effects

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830718302763

4 years ago

Explaining Huffman’s Impossible Pyramid

https://mathblag.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/explaining-huffmans-impossible-pyramid/

4 years ago