1461
298
Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
https://text.npr.org/974534021
5 years ago
772
752
NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
https://seths.blog/2021/03/nfts-are-a-dangerous-trap/
743
387
Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
https://kevinlynagh.com/rust-zig/
619
401
Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/digital-identity-scheme-faces-scepticism-around-data-privacy/46399636
518
147
The Kilobyte’s Gambit
https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/
463
113
Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
https://pmigdal.medium.com/dont-fight-flight-or-freeze-your-body-and-emotions-96f5aa30b299
457
411
Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55349255
365
92
Nodes.io – A new way to create with code
https://nodes.io/
343
250
Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202101.0412/v1
323
101
A Year at Google Brain (2020)
https://www.debugmind.com/2020/01/04/paths-to-the-future-a-year-at-google-brain/
296
186
We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/900mhz-mesh.html
295
160
Someone is hacking the hackers
https://gizmodo.com/someone-is-hacking-the-hackers-1846406428
289
284
Donate Unrestricted
http://paulgraham.com/donate.html
288
69
What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? [pdf]
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/stat50.pdf
280
121
I Bought a Business for $0
https://every.to/superorganizers/how-i-bought-a-business-for-0
268
115
Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack
https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/6044830be2838505358d3108
262
90
UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020)
https://dailybruin.com/2020/02/27/ucs-termination-of-elsevier-contract-has-had-limited-negative-impact
245
FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-safety-engineer-goes-public-to-slam-the-agencys-oversight-of-boeings-737-max/
237
48
Apple M1 Microarchitecture Research
https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm.html
231
454
Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-04/california-exodus-san-francisco-migration