1403
644
Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208958
6 years ago
1169
746
Can't you just right click?
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
639
98
How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL
https://offensi.com/2020/08/18/how-to-contact-google-sre-dropping-a-shell-in-cloud-sql/
552
1242
Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/11/900895704/secret-gyms-and-the-economics-of-prohibition?s=09
508
251
Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53835079
469
392
Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/08/most-mandatory-requirements-in.html
436
227
Open Problems in Robotics
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/open-problems-in-robotics/
359
353
Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/apple-reaches-2-trillion-market-cap.html
324
90
Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
https://driesdepoorter.be/24h-sunrise-sunset/
448
My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/kindergartener-virtual-education/615316/
318
282
Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/19/mexico-kids-junk-food-ban/
284
273
'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903505983/coup-53-tells-the-true-story-of-the-cia-s-campaign-to-oust-iran-s-leader
279
336
Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-begins-universal-basic-income-trial-three-years-2020-8
269
755
What harm do minimum wages do?
https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/15/what-harm-do-minimum-wages-do
255
99
Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base
https://theheadless.dev/
253
79
Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
https://netflix.github.io/conductor/
242
138
Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/rust-and-c-interoperability
230
120
The dual PhD problem of today’s startups
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/19/the-dual-phd-problem-of-todays-startups/
47
Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/08/18/implementing--focus-and-reply--for-fastmail/
222
California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzeza/california-dmv-data-private-investigators
217
176
Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/with-ultralight-lithiumsulfur-batteries-electric-airplanes-could-finally-take-off
214
75
RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible
https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub
196
117
Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base
https://joshwin.imprint.to/post/how-i-use-obsidian-to-manage-my-goals-tasks-notes-and-software-development-knowledge-base
193
106
Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/though-forests-burn-agroforestry-advances-as-trees-retake-farmland-globally/
189
61
A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/official-python-docker-image/
187
110
How Happy Couples Argue: Study (2019)
https://news.utk.edu/2019/09/16/new-research-sheds-light-on-how-happy-couples-argue/
170
177
I had Covid-19, and these are the things nobody tells you
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-08-12/column-bill-plaschke-covid-19-experience
134
Launch HN: Quell (YC S20) – Immersive gaming and combat workout
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210098
168
28
Practical Data Ethics
http://ethics.fast.ai
153
118
I’m A Teapot – HTTP status code 418
https://httpstatuses.com/418
150
145
New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/
142
132
Toddlers who use touchscreens show attention differences
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/toddlers-who-use-touchscreens-show-attention-differences/
139
42
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth: study
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-stars-mass-extinction-earth.html
136
Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215376
133
51
Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/lehmann
126
82
Ice Lake AVX-512 Downclocking
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/08/19/icl-avx512-freq.html
125
The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02418-x
124
135
“Cold Tube” cooling system uses half the energy of an air conditioner
https://newatlas.com/energy/cold-tube-cooling-air-conditioner/
123
207
Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53830533
121
112
Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registration Statement
https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement/
24
Elastic 7.9
https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-in-elastic-7-9-0-free-workplace-search-engine-endpoint-security
103
Things the most successful people I know struggle with to be happy
https://leowid.com/the-7-things-the-most-successful-people-i-know-struggle-with-to-be-happy/
102
9
Erlang: The New Scalable ETS Ordered_set
http://blog.erlang.org/the-new-scalable-ets-ordered_set/
97
128
Ask HN: How to Become a Music Buff?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209025
95
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is more than the company’s response to SpaceX
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/amazons-project-kuiper-is-more-than-the-companys-response-to-spacex
93
50
Filecoin: Proof of Storage Systems
https://blog.coinlist.co/deep-dive-into-filecoin/
92
Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs
https://github.com/corvideon/mousemacs
88
15
Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/facebook-scaled-back-voter-registration-kickoff
86
20
Breaking the D-Link DIR3060 Firmware Encryption – Recon – Part 1
https://0x434b.dev/breaking-the-d-link-dir3060-firmware-encryption-recon-part-1/
84
How the ARM32 Kernel Starts
https://people.kernel.org/linusw/how-the-arm32-kernel-starts
81
23
A more detailed, colorful map
https://blog.google/products/maps/more-detailed-colorful-map/
