1666
460
This electrical transmission tower has a problem
https://twitter.com/tubetimeus/status/1306359385656946688
6 years ago
1656
729
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303
711
147
Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
http://blog.archive.org/2020/09/17/internet-archive-partners-with-cloudflare-to-help-make-the-web-more-useful-and-reliable/
690
269
21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687
663
212
GitHub CLI 1.0
https://github.blog/2020-09-17-github-cli-1-0-is-now-available/
496
316
I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
https://annoying.technology/posts/e82ff3bde8b225e6/
473
311
We Don’t Like Our Underground House
https://dengarden.com/misc/The-Pitfalls-of-an-Underground-House
430
157
An Introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust
https://jamesmcm.github.io/blog/2020/07/25/intro-dod/
403
277
Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII
https://ffii.org/open-letter-to-the-bundesrat-on-the-unitary-patent-tomorrow-germany-will-be-asked-to-violate-multiple-international-agreements/
327
84
To All the Jobs I Had Before
https://elisabethirgens.github.io/notes/2020/09/to-all-jobs-i-had-before/
324
523
Ultra Safe Nuclear
https://www.usnc.com/
142
Scientists say a mind-bending rhythm in the brain can act like ketamine
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/16/913565163/scientists-discover-way-to-induce-altered-state-of-mind-without-drugs
323
265
DuckDuckGo is growing fast
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-is-growing-fast/
312
125
Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/shopify-monolith
295
229
Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54191058
290
111
Array Programming with NumPy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2649-2
273
52
Ice
https://hivewired.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/ice/
266
493
FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-curb-internal-debate-over-sensitive-issues-amid-employee-discord-11600368481
263
151
Nvidia Broadcast App
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-broadcast-app/
257
117
Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-Tor-0day-Finding-IP-Addresses.html
238
118
My Favorite Rust Function Signature
https://www.brandons.me/blog/favorite-rust-function
233
189
UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech
https://freespeechunion.org/why-the-governments-plans-to-regulate-the-internet-are-a-threat-to-free-speech/
139
We made an open source ESP8266 dev board for makers
https://github.com/MaloufSleep/ME-ESP8266
228
193
Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/09/17/update-on-firefox-send-and-firefox-notes/
224
334
Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563
211
97
Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2017/
201
173
Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-crowdsourcing-research-youtube-recommendations/
199
53
Kb: A minimalist hacker-oriented knowledge base manager
https://github.com/gnebbia/kb
192
Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists
https://hackaday.com/2020/09/16/autodesk-announces-major-changes-to-fusion-360-personal-use-license-terms/#comments
178
Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man?
https://www.stevenbuccini.com/why-1wtc-isnt-in-spiderman
159
100
The Infosec Apocalypse
https://blog.rickasaurus.com/2020/08/31/The-Infosec-Apocalypse.html
171
Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-270.html
150
68
Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
https://github.com/schollz/croc
144
55
Space Tethers: Stringing Up the Solar System
https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2020/07/tethers-all-way.html
137
44
New in Thunderbird 78
https://www.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/78.0/whatsnew/?locale=en-GB&version=78.2.2&channel=release&os=%OS%&buildid=%APPBUILDID%&oldversion=68.12.0
128
165
The Russian vaccine for Covid-19
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30402-1/fulltext
122
74
SteelSeries include adware in driver automatically installed by Windows Update
https://www.reddit.com/r/steelseries/comments/ishp8t/unwanted_steelseries_ads_installed_to_my_computer/
121
186
On Browser Tabs
https://abuqader.substack.com/p/on-browser-tabs
49
Coffee Rust
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/coffee-rust/616358/
Six months in, N95 mask shortages persist
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/913093387/why-cant-america-make-enough-n95-masks-6-months-into-pandemic-shortages-persist
115
162
We Still Need Howard Zinn
https://lithub.com/we-really-still-need-howard-zinn/
123
How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]
https://www.gwern.net/docs/math/1996-hoare.pdf
107
94
5D chess game where pieces time travel
https://www.5dchesswithmultiversetimetravel.com/
105
80
Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/iu1a6w/rocket_league_now_requires_an_epic_account_to/
104
85
TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmcs-wafer-prices-revealed-300mm-wafer-at-5nm-is-nearly-dollar17000
102
213
U.S. Adult Obesity Rate Tops 42 Percent; Highest Ever Recorded
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-adult-obesity-rate-tops-42-percent-highest-ever-recorded-301132778.html
184
The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pret-barista-subscription-future
99
32
Data-Oriented Programming in Python
https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/data_oriented_python/
98
54
Microsoft Has a Large Presence at This Year's X.org Conference
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-XDC-2020
91
DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian
https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/worlds-largest-ever-dna-sequencing-viking-skeletons-reveals-they-werent-all-scandinavian
95
77
Toward a Technological Cage for the Masses
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/techno-cage.html
