1738
1452
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87
6 years ago
874
369
The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalCode=jacr
768
305
Vue.js 3
https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0
672
261
Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/28
619
268
FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD
468
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Use long flags when scripting (2013)
https://changelog.com/posts/use-long-flags-when-scripting
426
258
What happened to Firefox Send?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send
398
134
rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor
https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rg3d
383
404
Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-provided-source-for-democratic-emails-lawyer-says-idUSKBN2691VW
328
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The benefits of note-taking by hand
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200910-the-benefits-of-note-taking-by-hand
323
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It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2546992/why-christopher-nolan-actually-blew-up-a-real-plane-for-tenet
319
203
Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-18/facebook-accused-of-watching-instagram-users-through-cameras
316
24
The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike
https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a33995147/tom-pritchard-bike-mystery/
309
30
Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python
https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/
301
214
Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial
https://dissenter.substack.com/p/khaled-el-masri-survivor-of-cia-torture
295
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John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmY26pOE-Y
289
553
Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/apple-ends-epics-ability-to-offer-fortnite-save-the-world-on-mac
280
381
Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions
https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/09/commerce-department-prohibits-wechat-and-tiktok-transactions-protect
272
68
Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining
https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-mining/
266
157
CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/09/17/ceo-of-cyber-fraud-startup-ns8-arrested-by-fbi-facing-fraud-charges/#702a4e3062ed
257
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Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/six-indicted-connection-multi-million-dollar-scheme-bribe-amazon-employees-and
252
288
US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns
https://apnews.com/a439ead01b75fc958c722daf40f9307c
241
391
How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?
https://cmhb.de/web-design-and-carbon-impact
235
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How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter
https://www.astrocamel.com/web/2020/09/04/how-i-bypassed-cloudflares-sql-injection-filter.html
221
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Giant Pacific Octopus
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/g/giant-pacific-octopus/
207
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Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21443851/death-ransomware-attack-hospital-germany-cybersecurity
196
56
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future (2000)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150219020855/http://exittheapple.com/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future/
194
63
Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders
https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities/
187
31
Bill to tear down federal courts’ paywall gains momentum in Congress
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/bill-to-tear-down-federal-courts-paywall-gains-momentum-in-congress/
183
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Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19
https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/news/60119
182
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Arm Officially Supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU Driver Development
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/18/arm-officially-supports-panfrost-open-source-mali-gpu-driver-development/
178
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Visualize Data Structures in VSCode
https://addyosmani.com/blog/visualize-data-structures-vscode/
175
61
OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
http://www.openscad.org/
170
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SiFive to Debut RISC-V PC for Developers Based on Freedom U740 Next-Gen SoC
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/15/sifive-to-debut-risc-v-pc-for-developers-based-on-freedom-u740-next-gen-soc/
168
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All the jobs I failed to get
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/all-the-jobs-i-didnt-get/
4
A patient died after ransomware attackers hit a German hospital
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/18/1008582/a-patient-has-died-after-ransomware-hackers-hit-a-german-hospital/
114
How the US Hacked ISIS
http://npr.org/2019/09/26/763545811/how-the-u-s-hacked-isis
308
Spotify reportedly fighting with employees about hosting episodes of Joe Rogan
https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-report-joe-rogan-transphobia-fight-employees2020-9
156
108
Actix Web 3.0
https://paper.dropbox.com/published/Announcing-Actix-Web-v3.0-QOXXb1lXgTubzXHzUq9ONY5
148
52
Writing an x86 bootloader in Rust that can launch vmlinux
https://vmm.dev/en/rust/krabs.md
146
35
Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2020/09/reinventing-virtualization-with-aws-nitro.html
143
38
Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat
https://news.mit.edu/2020/flat-fisheye-lens-0918
46
CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery
21
Playwright CLI – Open/inspect/emulate pages, generate screenshots, record users
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
131
89
RTX3080 TensorFlow and NAMD Performance on Linux
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/RTX3080-TensorFlow-and-NAMD-Performance-on-Linux-Preliminary-1885/
125
72
Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/facebook-democracy.html
116
45
Lua in the Kernel?
https://lwn.net/Articles/830154/
107
54
120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/these-120000-year-old-footprints-offer-early-evidence-humans-arabia
103
TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday
https://www.ft.com/content/c460ce4c-c691-4df5-af49-47a395429fe8
93
14
Piratebay.org Now Being Used to Crowdsource “The Torrent Man” Film
https://torrentfreak.com/piratebay-org-now-being-used-to-crowdsource-the-torrent-man-film-200918/
90
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Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture [pdf]
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/ampere/pdf/NVIDIA-ampere-GA102-GPU-Architecture-Whitepaper-V1.pdf
86
Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/flights-to-nowhere-qantas/index.html
83
111
ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-china/bytedance-plans-tiktok-ipo-to-win-u-s-deal-as-deadline-looms-sources-idUSKBN2682NL
43
Trials begin for a new weapon against Parkinson’s: light
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/trials-begin-new-weapon-against-parkinson-s-light