1271
463
Tips for a Better Life
https://ideopunk.com/2020/12/22/100-tips-for-a-better-life/
5 years ago
1187
151
How We Saved Dot Org
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-review
974
607
How bad is your Spotify?
https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify
769
402
Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust
https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-12-tokio-1-0
645
239
No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”
https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/
643
216
Comic Mono
https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
642
359
Interview advice that got me offers
https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-interviewing-advice-no-one-shares/
548
Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20
537
416
Things You're Allowed to Do
https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/
423
352
‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)
https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/06/14/youtube-recommendations-toxic-algorithm-google-ai/
413
210
Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel
https://twitter.com/cmdkhalilov/status/1341462579680587778
410
192
Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2096
355
99
Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death
https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/englisch/anti-diarrhoea-drug-drives-cancer-cells-to-cell-death/
351
82
How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-favicon-in-2021-six-files-that-fit-most-needs
105
Xfce 4.16
https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200
314
131
Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/lets-encrypt-comes-up-with-workaround-for-abandonware-android-devices/
303
271
Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-focus/google-told-its-scientists-to-strike-a-positive-tone-in-ai-research-documents-idUSKBN28X1CB
130
Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers [pdf]
https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/policy_insights/PolicyInsight107.pdf
300
264
Robinhood was indeed too good to be true
https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1015686/robinhood-was-indeed-too-good-to-be-true
285
207
The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
https://fabiensanglard.net/tb3/index.html
263
64
Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives
https://opensourcestash.com
254
62
The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-secretly-breaking-into-encrypted-devices-were-suing
158
UX Issues with Notion
https://telegra.ph/Notion-is-a-UX-Disaster-12-23
199
80
India’s booming dark data economy
https://restofworld.org/2020/all-the-data-fit-to-sell/
197
65
Git Koans (2013)
https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
78
MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/muzero-mastering-go-chess-shogi-and-atari-without-rules
194
81
Build a tiny certificate authority for your homelab
https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi-yubikey/
191
72
Stan is a state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling
https://mc-stan.org/
189
Building My Own Chess Engine
https://healeycodes.com/building-my-own-chess-engine/
120
Telegram Voice Chats
https://telegram.org/blog/voice-chats
187
116
We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
https://itnext.io/we-rendered-a-million-web-pages-to-find-out-what-makes-the-web-slow-72bbba9ade96
181
102
Web Authentication Methods Compared
https://testdriven.io/blog/web-authentication-methods/
172
31
Jepsen: Scylla 4.2-rc3
https://jepsen.io/analyses/scylla-4.2-rc3
169
29
Medo: A modern UHD 4K open source Media editor for Haiku OS in less than 1.44 Mb
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/announcement-haiku-media-editor-r1-0-0-beta-1/10218
168
TerarkDB, ByteDance's RocksDB replacement
https://github.com/bytedance/terarkdb
160
100
Octopuses Like to Punch Fish
https://gizmodo.com/octopuses-like-to-punch-fish-new-research-suggests-1845929379
157
56
Interactive C++ for Data Science
https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2020-12-21-interactive-cpp-for-data-science/
141
198
Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kieqyu/warning_linux_510_has_a_500_to_2000_btrfs/
49
IPv6 WireGuard Peering
https://fly.io/blog/ipv6-wireguard-peering/
135
114
Show HN: Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial
https://github.com/saasitive/django-react-boilerplate
48
PureOS: Freedom, Privacy, and Security
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/841105/d99c445b4aca536f/
128
231
Going All in on the Mac App Store
https://www.unboundapp.com/blog/mac-app-store/
38
BlocklySQL: A new block-based editor for SQL
https://www.dbinf.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/google-blockly-4efa0da/sql/index.html
127
54
The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me
https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-of-the-first-microprocessor-f-14/
122
84
Flix – Next-generation reliable, concise, functional-first programming language
https://flix.dev/
121
25
Real Time Continuous Blood Monitoring
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/12/21/new-blood-test-device-monitors-blood-chemistry-continually/
104
Military scrambling to understand aviation crash risk from new 5G sale
https://www.defensenews.com/2020/12/21/the-military-is-scrambling-to-understand-the-aviation-crash-risk-from-a-new-5g-sale/
118
86
Booting an M1 Mac from an external disk
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/22/booting-an-m1-mac-from-an-external-disk-it-is-possible/
115
73
PC DOS Reimagined
https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2020/12/22/
108
53
Visions of Alt-Berlin in “Man in the High Castle” (2017)
https://mitsap.medium.com/visions-of-alt-berlin-in-man-in-the-high-castle-no-spoilers-b3beaba77984
101
17
NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
https://dlmf.nist.gov/
10
Finding Software Bugs Using Symbolic Execution
https://sasnauskas.eu/finding-software-bugs-using-symbolic-execution/
96
US deaths in 2020 top 3M, by far most ever counted
https://apnews.com/article/us-coronavirus-deaths-top-3-million-e2bc856b6ec45563b84ee2e87ae8d5e7
95
88
Facebook Employees Say Apple Fight Is “Self Serving”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-apple-fight-self-serving
93
23
Show HN: Edamagit – Magit for VSCode
https://github.com/kahole/edamagit
124
What if incomes grew like GDP?
https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/10/a-25-trillion-question-what-if-incomes-grew-like-gdp.html
18
Raster CRT Typography (According to Dec)
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography
91
32
Israeli Cyber Experts Uncover Attack on 85,000 MySQL Servers
https://www.srnnews.com/the-media-line-israeli-cyber-experts-uncover-massive-attack-on-85000-mysql-servers/