967
230
Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi/
6 years ago
416
653
Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tiktok-through-executive-action-as-soon-as-saturday.html
409
481
Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24020899
408
298
What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days
https://meekg33k.dev/what-i-learned-from-doing-60-technical-interviews-in-30-days-ckda9sn7s00iftss13b0wd0ky
405
96
NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=13OkD0C_TWU
344
241
Hacking Portable Air Conditioners
https://pmarks.net/ac/
336
645
TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-bytedance-exclusive-idUSKBN24X3SK
257
98
Bogleheads
https://www.bogleheads.org/
214
107
Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering
https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/01/pkg-go-dev-sucks.html
209
159
Data isn't just being collected from your phone, it's being used to score you
https://www.chron.com/opinion/article/Data-isn-t-just-being-collected-from-your-phone-15449776.php
202
137
We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized
http://cshl.nautil.us/article/593/why-were-a-lot-better-at-fighting-cancer-than-we-realized
195
43
JS1024 Results – 1k JavaScript Demos
https://js1024.fun/results/2020
191
99
Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really?
https://tiemoko.com/blog/blue-team-rust/
183
17
Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020
https://prolost.com/blog/skatewarrior
182
78
Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough
https://brendancahill.io/brensblog/dereksivers
172
42
Designing a Physics Engine
https://blog.winter.dev/2020/designing-a-physics-engine/
167
57
T-Mobile: Are you blocking specific words and suspending accounts?
https://reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/i1fk1z/tmobile_are_you_blocking_specific_words_and/
161
94
“Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zombie-cicadas-infected-mind-controlling-fungus-west-virginia/
90
Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python
https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder
156
36
Samsung to halt production at its last computer factory in China
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china-pc-idUSKBN24X3K4
151
141
Perl7 is a fork of values
http://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2020/08/perl7-is-a-fork-of-values.html
The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-cooker-history
148
242
Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800
https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/silicon-macbook-could-launch-on-27-october-cost-800-3793534/
147
63
Inside Information and Kodak Stock
https://www.chartfleau.com/kodak
143
207
Reviewing the worst piece of code ever
https://www.micheleriva.it/posts/2020-07-31-reviewing-the-worst-piece-of-code-ever
136
45
PlayCanvas, the Web-first game engine
https://playcanvas.com/
133
23
Bootstrap Icons
https://github.com/twbs/icons
128
108
Alacritty v0.5
https://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_0_5_0_announcement.html
33
The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html
127
StackExchange Performance Stats
https://stackexchange.com/performance
125
56
Artificial brains may need sleep too
https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2020/June/0608-artificial-brains.php
124
106
Conventions for Command Line Options
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/08/01/
123
72
Show HN: JavaScript-free personal bio hosting
https://plumebio.com
116
SpaceX says Starlink internet has ‘extraordinary demand,’
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/01/spacex-starlink-extraordinary-demand-with-nearly-700000-interested.html
113
60
Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/
112
26
Show HN: Glitterly – Create and share videos of your app
https://glitterly.app
109
118
AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-results-vaccine-liability/astrazeneca-to-be-exempt-from-coronavirus-vaccine-liability-claims-in-most-countries-idUKKCN24V2EN
110
Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition
https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-and-bytedance-put-tiktok-talks-on-hold-after-trump-signals-opposition-11596312611
40
Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2020/08/hacking-up-a-fix-for-the-broken-appletalk-kernel-module-in-linux-5-1-and-newer/
19
Kenyan tea workers file UN complaint against Unilever over 2007 ethnic violence
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/01/kenyan-tea-workers-file-un-complaint-against-unilever-over-2007-ethnic-violence
101
61
How a $175 covid-19 test led to $2,479 in charges
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-a-covid-19-test-led-to-charges
50
My Custom Payment Implant
https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/my-custom-payment-conversion-experience/7668/
83
The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-fantasy-and-the-cyberpunk-futurism-of-singapore
93
65
Amazon investing $10B to compete against SpaceX in satellite broadband
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/amazon-gets-fcc-approval-to-launch-3236-low-earth-broadband-satellites/
85
13
Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]
https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jzhou41/papers/freebsd_checkedc.pdf
The semver trick (2019)
https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick/
84
29
Show HN: Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System
https://github.com/theycallmemac/odin/blob/master/README.md
Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916
20
China uses Hong Kong security law against US and UK-based activists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/31/china-hong-kong-security-law-american-citizen-exiles
76
Stepping away from open source
https://omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-from-open-source
74
30
Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
https://www.ams.org/notices/200808/tx080800930p.pdf
73
71
Upcoming changes to Cortana
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4575625/upcoming-changes-to-cortana
Show HN: Japanese Language Learning Forum
https://questions.japanesecomplete.com