Hacker News Daily

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go
  (comments)
• Tetr.io
  (comments)
• FAA investigating controversial crash video
  (comments)
• You can't copy code with memcpy
  (comments)
• Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
  (comments)
• Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
  (comments)
• Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (2013)
  (comments)
• How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?
  (comments)
• The gift of it's your problem now
  (comments)
• DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy
  (comments)
• Lessons from my PhD
  (comments)
• Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
  (comments)
• Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?
  (comments)
• Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default
  (comments)
• A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet
  (comments)
• Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong
  (comments)
• Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing
  (comments)
• GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  (comments)
• Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech
  (comments)
• The state of external retina displays
  (comments)
• Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
  (comments)
• Japan's Paper Culture
  (comments)
• Prince of Persia in JavaScript
  (comments)
• Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
  (comments)
• Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
  (comments)
• LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
  (comments)
• “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ten Years of Logging My Life
  (comments)
• Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
  (comments)
• CPM MagnaCut
  (comments)
• Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
  (comments)
• Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
  (comments)
• Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
  (comments)
• E.O. Wilson has died
  (comments)
• \"Widevine Dump\":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix
  (comments)
• Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
  (comments)
• Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• “Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
  (comments)
• Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
  (comments)
• New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
  (comments)
• A New Coefficient of Correlation
  (comments)
• Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters
  (comments)
• Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid icon, dies at 90
  (comments)
• Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine
  (comments)
• My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
  (comments)
• You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
  (comments)
• Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned
  (comments)
• All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
  (comments)
• ADHD Accommodations Guide
  (comments)
• James Webb Space Telescope launch [video]
  (comments)
• Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
  (comments)
• What the Hell Is This Company the 76ers Just Partnered With?
  (comments)
• Steam has been banned in China
  (comments)
• Ruby 3.1
  (comments)
• Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  (comments)
• 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SpeedCrunch
  (comments)
• Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
  (comments)
• Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
  (comments)
• Entire website in a single HTML file
  (comments)
• The Google home page is 500K
  (comments)
• Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)
  (comments)
• Misbrands
  (comments)
• Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
  (comments)
• Wish HN: Happy Holidays
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
  (comments)
• Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
  (comments)
• Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
  (comments)
• Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
  (comments)
• AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change
  (comments)
• Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
  (comments)
• Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed
  (comments)
• An interview that disappeared – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
  (comments)
• Krita 5.0
  (comments)
• My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?
  (comments)
• Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers
  (comments)
• (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
  (comments)
• Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
  (comments)
• Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
  (comments)
• Skillsoft Buys Codecademy for $525M
  (comments)
• How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes
  (comments)
• Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter
  (comments)
• Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Code Review as a Service
  (comments)
• Learn accounting for free
  (comments)
• TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics
  (comments)
• Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes
  (comments)
• Zig 0.9.0
  (comments)
• Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
  (comments)
• RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negative Profit
  (comments)
• All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
  (comments)
• The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’ from new law
  (comments)
• PR to Merge Multicore OCaml
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
  (comments)
• My parents collect cans for a living
  (comments)
• The Big DevOps Misunderstanding
  (comments)
• Show HN: Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's
  (comments)
• Against 3x Speed
  (comments)
• There's never been a better time to build websites
  (comments)
• New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
  (comments)
• HTTP Toolkit
  (comments)
• European alternatives for digital products
  (comments)
• Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Omnizart: Library for automatic music transcription
  (comments)
• Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM
  (comments)
• Test your product on a crappy laptop
  (comments)
• I was part of a human subject research study without my consent
  (comments)
• Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
  (comments)
• Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China
  (comments)
• Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
  (comments)
• An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the Camera and Microphone
  (comments)
• Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kinesis Advantage 360
  (comments)
• Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon
  (comments)
• Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
  (comments)
• I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]
  (comments)
• Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)
  (comments)
• CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
  (comments)
• Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
  (comments)
• My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns
  (comments)
• Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published
  (comments)
• A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Defrag Like It's 1993
  (comments)
• Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews
  (comments)
• Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
  (comments)
• Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
  (comments)
• YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021
  (comments)
• President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
  (comments)
• Apple Helps Asahi Linux
  (comments)
• TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
  (comments)
• Tokio Console
  (comments)
• Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
  (comments)
• PNG Parser Differential
  (comments)
• Reddit files to go public
  (comments)
• Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
  (comments)
• From Node to Ruby on Rails
  (comments)
• Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’
  (comments)
• Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
  (comments)
• There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
  (comments)
• Tqdm (Python)
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Webb placed on top of Ariane 5
  (comments)
• Plans you're not supposed to talk about
  (comments)
• Pico CSS Framework
  (comments)
• Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds
  (comments)
• Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published
  (comments)
• HTTP/3 Is Fast
  (comments)
• Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh
  (comments)
• Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
  (comments)
• Mess with DNS
  (comments)
• A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Opt Out of Cynicism
  (comments)
• Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
  (comments)
• Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment
  (comments)
• Bird populations declining fast across North America
  (comments)
• uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
  (comments)
• Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
  (comments)
• I started a paper website business
  (comments)
• Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
  (comments)
• Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
  (comments)
• Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice
  (comments)
• The Matrix Is Unreal
  (comments)
• Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?
  (comments)
• Adventures of putting 16 GB RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it (2019)
  (comments)
• GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment
  (comments)
• Marketing is scary for a solo developer
  (comments)
• Deno Joins TC39
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube
  (comments)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (2019)
  (comments)
• Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• “Open source” is broken
  (comments)
• Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place
  (comments)
• Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
  (comments)
• The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
  (comments)
• Fredrik Lundh has died
  (comments)
• Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging
  (comments)
• Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
  (comments)
• This website has 81% battery power remaining
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' [video]
  (comments)
• Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
  (comments)
• Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
  (comments)
• Kropotkin escapes from prison
  (comments)
• Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
  (comments)
• Mercedes-Benz wins approval for Level 3 autonomous driving on the Autobahn
  (comments)
• Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match
  (comments)
• PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET
  (comments)
• Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The CIA and the Media (1977)
  (comments)
• Stack Graphs
  (comments)
• HashiCorp IPO today
  (comments)
• Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
  (comments)
• Log4j RCE Found
  (comments)
• Defensive CSS
  (comments)
• Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
  (comments)
• Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
  (comments)
• Quaternions
  (comments)
• Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to run a small social network site for your friends
  (comments)
• Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
  (comments)
• The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe
  (comments)
• Groups never admit failure
  (comments)
• Pixel prevented me from calling 911
  (comments)
• Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
  (comments)
• Evergrande has defaulted on its debt
  (comments)
• Masayuki Uemura has died
  (comments)
• “Free PACER” bill advances through Senate judiciary unanimously
  (comments)
• Tailwind CSS v3.0
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rockstar: a language for programs that are also hair metal power ballads
  (comments)
• NASA returns Hubble to full science operations
  (comments)
• Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
  (comments)
• Player of Games
  (comments)
• Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
  (comments)
• Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
  (comments)
• Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
  (comments)
• Rust support in the Linux kernel
  (comments)
• Improving GitHub Code Search
  (comments)
• We will be retiring Alexa.com
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
  (comments)
• Why don't you accept donations?
  (comments)
• Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?
  (comments)
• Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
  (comments)
• Web3? I have my DAOts
  (comments)
• Django 4.0
  (comments)
• Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
  (comments)
• How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
  (comments)
• AWS us-east-1 outage
  (comments)
• Issues with Cloudflare Images
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting
  (comments)
• WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
  (comments)
• Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”
  (comments)
• Leaving MySQL
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?
  (comments)
• YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video
  (comments)
• Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy
  (comments)
• Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call
  (comments)
• Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
  (comments)
• CT scans of AirPods evolution
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 05, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Is the big tech era ending?
  (comments)
• How to use dig
  (comments)
• Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’
  (comments)
• How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]
  (comments)
• Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers
  (comments)
• Apple broke up with me
  (comments)
• One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
  (comments)
• Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
  (comments)
• Zrythm: A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation
  (comments)
• Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 04, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Writing maintainable code is a communication skill
  (comments)
• Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not
  (comments)
• Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips
  (comments)
• Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
  (comments)
• Never Use Black (2012)
  (comments)
• An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
  (comments)
• Rclone: Rsync for cloud storage – CLI to sync between cloud storage providers
  (comments)
• ADSL works over wet string (2017)
  (comments)
• “Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”
  (comments)
• Apache Guacamole
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 03, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
  (comments)
• Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app
  (comments)
• Show HN: Emoji to Scale
  (comments)
• Boox Mira Pro – 25.3\" E Ink Monitor
  (comments)
• Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
  (comments)
• Blender 3.0
  (comments)
• Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL
  (comments)
• U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
  (comments)
• Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
  (comments)
• YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Supersonic Trebuchet
  (comments)
• Instagram Is Facebook Now
  (comments)
• Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company
  (comments)
• Google voluntarily de-lists The Pirate Bay
  (comments)
• Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags
  (comments)
• Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
  (comments)
• 100 years of whatever this will be
  (comments)
• Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
  (comments)
• Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
  (comments)
• Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 01, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
  (comments)
• FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]
  (comments)
• New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types
  (comments)
• The American prison system’s war on reading
  (comments)
• Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth
  (comments)
• Advent of Code 2021
  (comments)
• Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
  (comments)
• Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers
  (comments)
• Townscaper Running in the Browser
  (comments)
• This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
  (comments)

Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Every pricing page should have GIFs
  (comments)
• Free public domain audiobooks
  (comments)
• Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
  (comments)
• Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses
  (comments)
• Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
  (comments)
• 4x Smaller, 50x Faster
  (comments)
• Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems
  (comments)
• U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy
  (comments)
• Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
  (comments)
• AWS Private 5G
  (comments)