571
124
BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass
https://secret.club/2021/01/15/bitlocker-bypass.html
5 years ago
450
212
‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years
https://singularityhub.com/2021/01/10/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronomers-say-global-myths-about-seven-sisters-stars-may-reach-back-100000-years/
435
274
JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
https://www.jingos.com/
429
343
The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
https://www.murilopereira.com/the-values-of-emacs-the-neovim-revolution-and-the-vscode-gorilla/
425
259
The Buy Nothing Project
https://buynothingproject.org/about/
358
549
Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features
https://www.inputmag.com/design/apple-macbook-revival-plan-is-stupid-smart-bring-back-old-features
339
190
E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper
https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-has-developed-acep-gallery-4100-color-e-paper
328
142
The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yinmn-blue-comes-market-1921665
323
Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu
https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap
320
263
That's not how 2FA works
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/thats-not-how-2fa-works/
316
149
Signal Is Back
https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350595202872823809/
304
111
“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”
https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350625255765671938
292
55
BladeRF-wiphy: Open-source, software defined radio modem
https://www.nuand.com/bladeRF-wiphy/
279
13
Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (2018)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8
272
152
German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance
https://www.complianceweek.com/regulatory-enforcement/german-laptop-retailer-fined-127m-under-gdpr-for-employee-surveillance/29911.article
269
205
Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2021/01/16/arrest-warrant-issued-for-ex-florida-data-scientist-rebekah-jones/
266
181
GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2021-cloud-report/
250
158
I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-looked-at-all-the-ways-microsoft-teams-tracks-users-and-my-head-is-spinning/
244
121
Review broken products instead of new ones
https://www.buyforlife.com/blog/6CNqJGMKraaQhfivS0EH6L/why-we-should-review-broken-products-instead-of-new-ones
236
78
MuseScore 3.6
https://musescore.org/en/3.6
230
215
js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
https://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
208
233
Update on an Employee Matter
https://github.blog/2021-01-17-update-on-an-employee-matter/
201
30
IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/ieee-medal-of-honor-goes-to-data-compression-pioneer-jacob-ziv
200
216
Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?
https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/01/safari-14-added-webextensions-support-so-where-are-the-extensions/
199
49
Ask HN: Which are the best Go repositories to read to learn the language?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25812021
191
When parties reverse their stance, supporters immediately switch their opinions
https://thespeakernewsjournal.com/science/when-political-parties-reverse-their-policy-stance-their-supporters-immediately-switch-their-opinions-too/
179
57
Downpour: DRM Free Audiobooks
https://www.downpour.com/
175
286
We can do better than Signal
https://icyphox.sh/blog/signal/
162
116
Learning to Suffer
https://backpackinglight.com/learning-curve-learning-to-suffer
68
Human-like neural network chess engine trained on lichess games
https://maiachess.com/
157
165
Enter Sandbox: Google is building an internet without cookies
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/death-of-third-party-cookies-sandbox-google/
155
430
Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-parler-website/parlers-website-is-back-online-but-app-still-not-in-stores-idUSKBN29M0QU
154
90
Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-16/investing-legend-james-simons-s-record-won-t-be-beat
38
Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
https://www.philippflenker.com/hecto/
151
197
Ask HN: Is frugality underrated in startups?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25809852
146
44
I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors (2011) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8elxpSu9pw&lc=Ugw9uYtPMZ7t1-qfLr54AaABAg
141
PBRT in Rust
https://github.com/wahn/rs_pbrt
137
An Economic Analysis of Ethereum
https://www.lynalden.com/ethereum-analysis/
136
357
Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018
https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1350880234917285888
123
Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools
https://kettunen.io/post/standard-freebsd-jails/
119
Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon
https://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2021/01/amazon-echo-flex-teardown-big-silicon.html
After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/nasas-space-launch-system-rocket-shuts-down-after-just-67-seconds/
26
Dostoevsky in Love
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/14/dostoevsky-in-love-by-alex-christofi-review-unpredictable-dangerous-and-thrilling
110
69
Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty
https://opengameart.org/content/opl2-unkown-drunken-sailor
109
174
The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (1998)
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
108
35
Virgin Orbit confirms that LauncherOne has reached orbit
https://twitter.com/Virgin_Orbit/status/1350892947160485889
102
US Navy – Tic Tac UFO – High frequency gravitational wave generator
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en?inventor=Salvatore+Cezar+Pais
100
Einstein and Hume’s philosophy of time
https://aeon.co/essays/what-albert-einstein-owes-to-david-humes-notion-of-time
94
22
Show HN: BFS, Dijkstra and A* interactive demo made in React
https://github.com/npretto/pathfinding
92
75
GitHub admits fault in firing of Jewish employee, head of HR resigns
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/17/22235913/github-significant-mistakes-were-made-firing-jewish-employee-nazis
89
63
New measurements of the sky's blackness
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-01
86
84
The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1350869944888664064
46
Another scam paper published in a “scientific” journal
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/01/15/another-scam-paper-published-in-a-scientific-journal/
83
18
QuantMath: Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk in Rust
https://github.com/MarcusRainbow/QuantMath
80
14
Knot Theory and its Applications [pdf]
https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/murasug3.pdf
15
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-facebook-ad-deal-antitrust.html
77
39
ZFS copies=n is not a substitute for device redundancy (2016)
https://jrs-s.net/2016/05/02/zfs-copies-equals-n/
The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla