826
446
All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/change-your-life-sit-down-and-think
5 years ago
757
223
More challenging projects every programmer should try
https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/morechallengingprojects.html
754
163
The web is 30 years old today
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
622
289
Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hacked-with-suspected-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit/
462
93
FFmpeg is 20 years old today
https://twitter.com/ffmpeg/status/1340698413143224320
426
294
Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed
https://borncity.com/win/2020/12/18/windows-10-20h2-chkdsk-damages-file-system-on-ssds-with-update-kb4592438-installed/
401
305
Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V
https://erik-engheim.medium.com/apple-m1-foreshadows-risc-v-dd63a62b2562
367
104
Lode Runner
https://www.filfre.net/2020/12/lode-runner/
322
166
Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
https://uplab.pro/2020/12/raspberry-pi-server-mark-iii/
299
55
Mile-Long Wooden Xylophone Plays Bach in Japanese Forest
https://dornob.com/mile-long-wooden-xylophone-plays-bach-in-japanese-forest/
295
178
Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/19/22191096/internet-modem-router-rental-fee-fix-television-viewer-protection-act-tvpa
291
279
How and why I stopped buying new laptops
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html
290
344
The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)
https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/2019/02/06/the-strange-case-of-dr-ho-man-kwok/
268
44
eBPF Is Awesome
https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/ebpf/
266
427
The Internet Is for Porn
https://themargins.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-for-porn
249
99
An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (2013)
https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-options#
241
59
Show HN: Owncast – An open-source, self-hosted live streaming server
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25484133
239
103
Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/16/at-neurips-2020-researchers-proposed-faster-more-efficient-alternatives-to-backpropagation/
205
52
Security expert warned SolarWinds in 2019 that anyone could access server
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/solarwinds-warned-weak-123-password-could-expose-firm-report-2020-12
188
72
Decaying Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil as the Exxon Valdez
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-of-likely-massive-oil-spill-abandoned-tanker-has-4-times-the-amount-of-oil-as-the-exxon-valdez/
183
168
Autism and Invention Are Connected
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-autism-and-invention-are-connected-11607749260
177
Kivy: Cross-Platform Python Framework for UI Development
https://kivy.org/
174
145
The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor
https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/how-an-obscure-british-pc-maker-invented-arm-and-changed-the-world/
148
Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
https://li.substack.com/p/building-the-middle-class-of-the
160
122
Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/20/early-humans-may-have-survived-the-harsh-winters-by-hibernating
157
43
Geometrize: Turn Images into Geometric Primitives
https://www.geometrize.co.uk/
149
36
An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (2012)
https://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-programming/
147
How to cook a medieval feast: recipes from the Middle Ages
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/how-to-cook-a-medieval-feast/
139
262
On the Graying of Gnome
https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/
138
39
Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/diy/raspberry-pi-meteor-detector/
137
Building a simple neural net in Java
https://smalldata.tech/blog/2016/05/03/building-a-simple-neural-net-in-java
132
34
Show HN: Galène Videoconferencing Server
https://galene.org
129
Understanding how AES encryption works
https://nakabonne.dev/posts/understanding-how-aes-encryption-works/
158
Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52c5
125
33
How we made the PJON network protocol from scratch
https://www.pjon.org/how.php
20
Hypersim, Photorealistic Synthetic Dataset for Indoor Scene Understanding
https://github.com/apple/ml-hypersim
60
The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
111
22
Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/20/citizen-lab-nso-dozens-of-aljazeera-journalists-allegedly-hacked-using-israeli-firm-spyware
107
32
Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/crime-shouldnt-pay-why-big-tech-executives
106
Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling
https://speps.fr/articles/torus-trooper-part1/
91
23
Hackers last year conducted a 'dry run' of SolarWinds breach
https://news.yahoo.com/hackers-last-year-conducted-a-dry-run-of-solar-winds-breach-215232815.html
89
Ask HN: Where does one search development advice these days?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485171
88
49
Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Overdose-deaths-far-outpace-COVID-19-deaths-in-15816356.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
82
Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/microsoft-may-be-developing-its-own-in-house-arm-cpu-designs/