792
185
I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1292260921893457920
6 years ago
683
420
Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20200806a.htm
560
195
Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
393
273
Fire your bad customers
https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/fire-your-bad-customers
378
98
Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok
https://twiktwok.github.io/
376
83
The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hans-hildenbrand-german-front-in-rare-color-photos-1914-1918/
344
461
Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
https://www.wired.com/story/bill-gates-on-covid-most-us-tests-are-completely-garbage/#intcid=recommendations_wired-right-rail_dba541f5-54c4-45bf-b217-cbdce1ef7e25_popular4-1
314
474
Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098954
285
267
People work longer and different hours under lockdown
https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/
274
26
EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/victory-eff-defends-publics-right-access-court-records-about-patent-ownership
263
209
Adding a fiber link to my home network
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-08-09-fiber-link-home-network/
242
149
Linux 5.8-rc1
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whfuea587g8rh2DeLFFGYxiVuh-bzq22osJwz3q4SOfmA@mail.gmail.com/
224
SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/post/z3-iphone.html
208
95
GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/TheTechTree.md
24
Let’s implement a Bloom Filter
https://onatm.dev/2020/08/10/let-s-implement-a-bloom-filter/
198
178
How I got my Japanese permanent residency
https://www.dampfkraft.com/how-i-got-my-japanese-pr.html
191
105
Where do argc and argv come from?
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20200808.html
181
71
ThinkPad 560E
https://pappp.net/?p=26440
158
Hiroshima (1946)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
176
102
GraalVM
https://www.graalvm.org/
167
27
Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics
https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow
291
5G Just Got Weird
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/5g-release-16
164
32
Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
https://github.com/cloudhut/kowl
153
7
Reverse Engineering for Beginners [pdf]
https://yurichev.org/1564f46f1c207b2dbc84a2bd4a41ed4c/RE4B-EN.pdf
148
52
How malicious Tor relays are exploiting users in 2020
https://medium.com/@nusenu/how-malicious-tor-relays-are-exploiting-users-in-2020-part-i-1097575c0cac
146
100
Stopping deepfake news with an AI algorithm that can tell when a face doesnt fit
https://spie.org/news/stopping-deepfake-news-with-an-ai-algorithm-that-can-tell-when-a-face-doesnt-fit
133
21
Examples of ImageMagick Usage (2016)
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
130
106
There’s no such thing as a tech expert anymore
http://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tech-expert-anymore
125
91
Vertigo – a public domain 3D flight simulator (2003)
http://stjerneskud.info/vertigo/
123
64
Ask HN: How does your organisation train programmers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24097348
120
36
ZipPy: fast and lightweight Python 3 implementation using the Truffle framework
https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy
112
29
i8080 precise replica in Verilog, based on reverse engineering of real die
https://github.com/1801BM1/vm80a
107
88
Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sciadv.abd3083
A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200728-00/?p=104012
The Most Counterintuitive Recession Ever
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/08/the-most-counterintuitive-recession-ever/
The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)
http://www.metadyne.co.uk/ize.html
11
Run LLVM Assembly in the Browser
http://kripken.github.io/llvm.js/demo.html
92
60
More than 100 coal-fired plants have been converted to natural gas since 2011
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44636
89
69
90% economy, 120% gastronomy: Covid-19 seems to have changed lifestyles for good
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/08/08/covid-19-seems-to-have-changed-lifestyles-for-good
54
Validating Kubernetes YAML for best practice and policies
https://learnk8s.io/validating-kubernetes-yaml