1257
616
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/
6 years ago
712
399
The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/
524
142
VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
https://web.archive.org/web/20220305031855/https://vtm.netxs.online/
518
371
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/22/21397424/apple-wordpress-apology-iap-free-ios-app
497
150
Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools
https://thesephist.com/posts/tools/
448
226
Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/08/rosatom-releases-previously-classified-documentary-video-50-mt-novaya-zemlya-test
394
106
Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution
https://www.ventoy.net/
323
89
macOS Security and Privacy Guide
https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
301
283
Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing/84495599980-95473476
266
220
Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
253
297
GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/
227
Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mystery-of-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-gets-trickier/
211
Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (2005)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/top-colleges-should-select-randomly-from-a-pool-of-good-enough/
207
388
Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24242412
193
88
Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
https://hackaday.com/2020/05/29/two-way-mirror-improves-video-conferencing/
188
19
Unity Joins the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member
https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-a-patron-member/
174
143
AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings
https://github.com/google/autocxx
172
75
Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/400506/congratulations-for-reaching-a-million-gordon-linoff
169
38
Help Make the 19th Century Searchable
https://blog.archive.org/2020/08/21/can-you-help-us-make-the-19th-century-searchable/
166
154
Code for The Economist's election model for 2020
https://github.com/TheEconomist/us-potus-model
162
28
How NAT Traversal Works
https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
153
132
Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server
https://n-o-d-e.net/node_mini_server3.html
151
163
Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear
https://medium.com/generation-atomic/for-the-first-time-world-learns-truth-about-risk-of-nuclear-6b7e97d435df
149
20
Debian Janitor: 60k Lintian Issues Automatically Fixed
https://www.jelmer.uk/janitor-update-3.html
148
74
WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2
https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=165248
147
Future of DeepSpeech / STT after recent changes at Mozilla
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/future-of-deepspeech-stt-after-recent-changes-at-mozilla/66191
145
12
Show HN: ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML
https://github.com/samsonmking/epaper.js
140
47
The $8M Heist from the Carnegie Library
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/theft-carnegie-library-books-maps-artworks-180975506/
139
212
How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/magazine/teeth-mewing-incels.html
136
84
Anti-piracy outfit hires VPN expert to help track down The Pirate Bay
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-hires-vpn-expert-to-help-track-down-the-pirate-bay-200821/
31
Today is Earth Overshoot Day – (08/22)
https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/past-earth-overshoot-days/
122
95
Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2143375/1994-he-convinced-22-family-and-friends-each-pay
121
113
Dropshipping: Hustlers making millions from goods they never handle
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53759932
119
55
Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping
https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-cost-saver
114
33
Teletext Bad Apple
https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-badapple.html
18
Fallen Boulder Reveals 313M-Year-Old Fossil Footprints at Grand Canyon
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904943006/fallen-boulder-reveals-313-million-year-old-fossil-footprints-at-grand-canyon
112
Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man
https://acoup.blog/2020/08/21/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-iv-markets-and-non-farmers/
105
68
AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller
https://arnholm.github.io/angelcad-docs/
102
Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos
http://www.righto.com/2020/08/reverse-engineering-8086s.html
101
85
Rogue planets could outnumber the stars
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-rogue-planets-outnumber-stars.html
100
79
C# .NET Core versus Java fastest programs
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/csharp.html
92
168
Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24243598
90
Nasal vaccine against Covid-19 prevents infection in mice
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/nasal-vaccine-against-covid-19-prevents-infection-in-mice/
57
Cloudflare Package Repository Mirrors
https://cloudflaremirrors.com/
7
Stef's Free Online Smalltalk Books
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
86
Implement an emulator for a fantasy CPU in JavaScript
https://dev.to/codeguppy/implement-an-emulator-for-a-fantasy-cpu-in-javascript-3617
40
Show HN: Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
https://codemap.app