844
118
Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/
5 years ago
674
172
Attention is your scarcest resource
https://www.benkuhn.net/attention/
628
1290
Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-firms-face-growing-resentment-of-parent-employees-during-covid-19/
498
422
The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers
https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-could-help-address-critical-shortage-school-computers#new_tab
489
186
Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated
https://noitagame.com/
381
162
Data Broker Opt-Out List
https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
346
229
Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
https://thume.ca/2020/09/04/macos-tips/
323
266
Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/09/hong-kong-mourns-way-life-china-cracks-down-dissent/
264
130
Desolate English path has killed more than 100 people (2017)
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170110-why-the-broomway-is-the-most-dangerous-path-in-britain
303
'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland
https://reason.com/2020/09/04/youre-not-allowed-to-film-the-fight-for-control-over-who-reports-from-portland/
253
322
C++20 has been approved
https://twitter.com/PatriceRoy1/status/1302055575140945921
246
84
Universal Paperclips
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
228
193
Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/belarus-protests-tech-workers-flee-as-country-takes-authoritarian-turn
218
112
Fennel – Lisp in Lua
https://fennel-lang.org
214
124
How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (2018)
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/resolvconf-tutorial.html
203
59
Hidden costs of constantly shipping new things
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-hidden-costs-of-constantly-shipping-new-things/
196
127
Low Doses of LSD Acutely Increase BDNF Blood Plasma Levels in Healthy Volunteers
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsptsci.0c00099
194
102
A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-floppy-disk-mp3-player-using-a-raspberry-pi/
96
Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unlimited-information-is-transforming-society/
191
175
Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/warrior-skeletons-reveal-bronze-age-europeans-couldn-t-drink-milk
188
244
More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-half-of-18-to-29-year-olds-in-the-us-are-living-with-parents/ar-BB18Khdk?li=BBnb7Kz
184
Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (2015)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/winner-of-french-scrabble-title-does-not-speak-french
181
133
Amazon is filled with fake reviews and it’s getting harder to spot them
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/06/amazon-reviews-thousands-are-fake-heres-how-to-spot-them.html
171
131
Does storing bread in the fridge make it last longer? (2019)
https://culinarylore.com/food-science:does-storing-bread-in-the-fridge-make-it-last-longer/
164
101
Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
https://habitica.com/static/home
159
50
AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory
https://github.com/MantechUser/aes-finder
147
79
Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/30/google-proposed-web-bundles-could-threaten-the-web-as-we-know-it/
146
145
Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/09/05/wire/
143
208
Is There a Google-Free Future for Firefox?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/09/03/is-there-a-google-free-future-for-firefox/
142
Carmack on not being a power editor user
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1302651878065475584
139
64
Understanding OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
https://www.polarsparc.com/xhtml/OAuth2-OIDC.html
137
63
With a simple piece of paper, engineers create self-powered, wireless keyboard
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/your-next-digital-tablet-could-be-made-paper-180975727/
136
5
Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law by Separating Religion, State
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-04/sudan-ends-30-years-of-islamic-law-by-separating-religion-state
119
72
Why it is important that software projects fail (2008)
https://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/ImportantThatSoftwareFails.html
116
38
Show HN: Revived my personal website to join the nostalgia
https://gasoved.github.io/webbew/
114
The economics of the Tour de France
https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-the-tour-de-france/
113
The Art of Debating for Software Developers
https://thevaluable.dev/guide-debate-software-developer-skill/
115
Ask HN: How can I prevent myself from being doxxed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24388442
111
148
How to Hide a Billion Dollars: Three Techniques the Ultrarich Use to Dodge Ex-Sp
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2020/09/04/how-to-hide-a-billion-dollars-three-techniques-the-ultra-rich-use-to-dodge-ex-spouses-the-taxman-and-disgruntled-business-partners/#5b681a8a5994
25
Principles for Better Design
https://reflexio.debec.eu/principles-for-better-design
108
66
Getting paid not to use Facebook
https://imgur.com/a/AJXKetl
107
37
The Powder Toy
https://powdertoy.co.uk/
80
The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass
https://silahreport.com/2019/08/23/the-last-gunsmiths-of-the-khyber-pass/
104
15
Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10006
Mystery seeds: Amazon bans foreign plant sales in US
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54046154
77
Lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment
https://restofworld.org/2020/okash-microlending-public-shaming/
94
24
A Meta-Layer for Notes
https://julian.digital/2020/09/04/a-meta-layer-for
93
CubeSat interplanetary exploration is heating up
http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-09-02-Issue-80/
Letter to 20 Years Ago
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2020/09/06/20yearsago.html
92
74
SensibleSideButtons – side navigation for third-party mice in macOS
https://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net
90
Facebook security app used to 'spy' on competitors (2019)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47281906
13
The Ocean Is Struggling to Breathe, Too
http://oceans.nautil.us/feature/613/the-ocean-is-struggling-to-breathe-too
89
45
Finally Confirmed Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in Covid-19
https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/covid-19/finally-confirmed-vitamin-d-nearly-abolishes-icu-risk-in-covid-19
87
73
Show HN: Base32H, a human-friendly duotrigesimal number system
https://base32h.github.io
86
56
Graviton Database: ZFS for key-value stores
https://github.com/deroproject/graviton
One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/sep/06/one-step-beyond-the-ascent-of-mountain-runner-kilian-jornet
81
12
Yacd – Decrypts FairPlay applications on iOS 13.4.1 and lower, no jb required
https://github.com/DerekSelander/yacd
48
China Launches a 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft'
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2020/09/china-launches-reusable-experimental.html
76
71
Tgppl, a new type of open-source license
https://electriccoin.co/blog/introducing-tgppl-a-radically-new-type-of-open-source-license/
6
LibreOffice Online API
https://github.com/LibreOffice/online/blob/master/wsd/reference.md
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