918
243
Stripe Treasury
https://stripe.com/treasury
5 years ago
892
229
Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arecibo/
809
445
Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-has-pinkerton-agents-surveil-workers-who-try-to-form-unions
542
446
Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdv3j/colombia-is-considering-legalizing-its-massive-cocaine-industry
493
169
My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants
https://twitter.com/martingund/status/1334465877153095680
491
860
M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/m1_macs_truth_and_truthiness
483
846
AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical
454
259
Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
449
548
S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021
https://www.reuters.com/article/cryptocurrencies-sp/sp-dow-jones-indices-to-launch-cryptocurrency-indexes-in-2021-idUSL1N2IJ0TG
431
355
Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
https://returntonow.net/2018/01/11/7-ways-mushrooms-can-save-world/
407
419
An update to storage policies across your Google Account
https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/
363
143
A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
341
303
Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and Theaters
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warner-bros-smashes-box-office-windows-will-send-2021-slate-to-hbo-max-and-theaters
321
256
These are called opportunities
https://fabiensanglard.net/silicone/
306
352
Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-against-facebook-discriminating-against-us-workers
302
201
TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-amazon-timestream-6000x-higher-inserts-175x-faster-queries-220x-cheaper/
286
117
Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-visas-proposed-acquisition-plaid
261
104
Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55173063
238
141
How I read books: a guide on how to learn
https://denzhadanov.com/how-i-read-books-a-guide-on-how-to-learn-a943123a4aeb
237
268
Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334352694664957952
233
57
Sockets in Your Shell
https://who23.github.io/2020/12/03/sockets-in-your-shell.html
223
99
Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5122
217
50
Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks
https://supabase.io/beta
52
TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming from a smartphone
https://github.com/KasperskyLab/TinyCheck
209
192
Stored Procedures as a Back End
https://gnuhost.medium.com/stored-procedures-as-a-backend-c5d2db452fc2
207
235
AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/amd-cpu-sales-skyrocket-with-ryzen-5000-launch-leaving-intel-in-the-dust
179
AWS just went multi-cloud
https://acloudguru.com/blog/business/aws-just-went-multi-cloud-and-its-only-the-beginning
163
245
US ends era of emotional support animals on planes
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55177736
162
135
Pg-shortkey: YouTube-Like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys
https://github.com/turbo/pg-shortkey
156
130
Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55164607
153
39
Stripe: Platform of Platforms
https://stratechery.com/2020/stripe-platform-of-platforms/
149
30
The “$20M to $500M” Question: Adding Top Down Sales
https://a16z.com/2020/12/03/adding-top-down-sales-bottom-up-enterprise-startup/
22
Mesa 20.3 released with out-of-the-box support for Arm's Mali Bifrost GPUs
https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/20.3.0.html
137
70
What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020)
https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-december-2020
128
287
U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/03/world/covid-19-coronavirus#us-virus-deaths-have-surpassed-the-spring-peak
118
29
Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
https://blog.checklyhq.com/puppeteer-vs-selenium-vs-playwright-speed-comparison/
69
State of Common Lisp Survey 2020
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfg7UJRKrkI3OjOHWL4xI-murE4LpQjIxsiAhFdPEmtyLX3kg/viewanalytics
113
25
PFAS “forever” chemicals found in hundreds more everyday products
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/02/pfas-chemicals-products/
111
28
Show HN: NN-512 – Generate standalone C code for neural nets
https://NN-512.com
107
Ask HN: I am interviewing product managers – questions to ask?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25288133
100
27
Futures explained in 200 lines of Rust
https://cfsamson.github.io/books-futures-explained/introduction.html
96
14
Ethr Is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP and ICMP
https://github.com/microsoft/ethr
95
26
WMR – Tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps
https://github.com/preactjs/wmr
93
61
How To Safely Store A Password (2010)
https://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
91
A modern tool for the Windows kernel exploration and observability
https://www.fibratus.io/
90
68
Why are great athletes more likely to be younger siblings?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-are-great-athletes-more-likely-to-be-the-younger-siblings/
37
UX, Then Architecture, Then Tools
https://morethancoding.com/2013/03/12/ux-then-architecture-then-tools/
88
51
Vitamin D metabolites and the gut microbiome in older men
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19793-8
87
55
An oral history of the hamburger icon (2019)
https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/an-oral-history-of-the-hamburger-icon-from-the-people-who-were-there/
86
49
Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (1985)
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1981-88v05/d16
65
Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google Following Email Exchange
https://onezero.medium.com/noted-a-i-ethicist-timnit-gebru-leaves-google-following-tense-email-exchange-f602cdb7fe89
82
The Base58 Encoding Scheme
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msporny-base58-01.html
80
19
Show HN: CoScreen 1.0 – radically different pair/team programming
https://blog.coscreen.co/launch-of-coscreen-1-0-for-macos-private-alpha-for-windows/
79
Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (2017)
https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i31/Protein-folding-Much-intricate-thought.html
77
In-Database Machine Learning [pdf]
https://btw.informatik.uni-rostock.de/download/tagungsband/B6-1.pdf
76
127
How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook
https://medium.com/@anyengineer/how-much-i-made-as-a-really-good-engineer-at-facebook-9366151b52db
74
Unreal Engine 4.26
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/WhatsNew/Builds/ReleaseNotes/4_26/index.html