1040
622
My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/status/1311349439479463937
5 years ago
590
605
USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
https://debugger.medium.com/usb-c-was-supposed-to-simplify-our-lives-instead-its-a-total-mess-626bb2ea3688#Echobox=1601499898
536
238
My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/j321gz/my_wife_recently_passed_away_i_used_my_time_off/
496
167
We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-learn-faster-when-we-arent-told-what-choices-to-make/
426
809
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651639
377
329
Car seats as contraception
https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046
361
253
Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/subway-bread-sugar-content-ireland-court-ruling
330
192
Industrial Literacy
https://rootsofprogress.org/industrial-literacy
298
109
Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available
https://github.blog/2020-09-30-code-scanning-is-now-available/
276
440
Where our economy is, for the young
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1662085.html
260
108
Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/memristor-first-single-device-to-act-like-a-neuron
73
Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-police-database-1.5745481
242
325
YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy
235
83
Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-stellar-explosion-earth-proximity.html
215
55
Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf]
https://github.com/koutto/hardware-hacking/blob/master/Hardware-Hacking-Experiments-Jeremy-Brun-Nouvion-2020.pdf
209
254
Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/09/17/stripe-will-pay-workers-20000-to-leave-new-york-and-san-francisco-but-heres-the-catch/#412c4f3f562f
194
Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions
https://github.com/actionsflow/actionsflow
184
82
3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
183
125
United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-obtains-final-judgement-and-permanent-injunction-against-edward-snowden
179
120
Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data
https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/
USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess