994
655
I want a computer that I own
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/computer-i-own.html
5 years ago
676
277
Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jail, hospital
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/hackers-break-into-thousands-of-security-cameras-exposing-tesla-jails-hospitals-1.1574681
635
322
Write libraries instead of services, where possible
http://catern.com/services.html
634
211
Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/3
552
112
New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-algorithm-breaks-speed-limit-for-solving-linear-equations-20210308/
492
332
Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils
397
104
Webmention.io
https://webmention.io/
381
198
ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available
https://twitter.com/isostandards/status/1367138676162105344
375
219
UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56321576
373
235
T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless they opt out
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/542303-t-mobile-to-share-customers-web-mobile-app-data-with-advertisers-unless
354
60
Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV
https://github.com/artperrin/image2csv
349
293
Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry
https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-israels-lucrative-and-secretive-cybersurveillance-talent-pipeline/
342
47
Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers
http://blog.archive.org/2021/03/09/search-scholarly-materials-preserved-in-the-internet-archive/
340
252
Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/03/08/zapier-bootstraps-to-5-billion-valuation/
331
107
5k Year Old Bog Oak Table: Digging up 4k-year-old trees for furniture
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2021/02/21/adamson-low-treasure-out-of-the-bog/
302
216
The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
https://newlinesinstitute.org/uyghurs/the-uyghur-genocide-an-examination-of-chinas-breaches-of-the-1948-genocide-convention/
267
559
Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21645759-boys-are-being-outclassed-girls-both-school-and-university-and-gap
258
81
I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc
http://theroadchoseme.com/how-i-self-published-a-professional-paperback-and-ebook-using-latex-and-pandoc/?1
254
116
Esbuild 0.9
https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/releases/tag/v0.9.0
248
413
Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56237988
239
101
`three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014)
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d25a55da5623399a2644f/fs/ext4/resize.c#L698
237
134
RSS as a Facebook alternative
https://thenewleafjournal.com/around-the-web-rss-as-a-facebook-alternative/
230
153
Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
https://www.abhijitbhaduri.com/2019/08/15/generalists-specialists/
217
106
Show HN: Diahook – Webhooks as a Service
https://www.diahook.com/?r=hn
215
A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
https://github.blog/2021-03-08-github-security-update-a-bug-related-to-handling-of-authenticated-sessions/
210
164
Inspired by Alabama’s union battle, Amazon workers elsewhere consider organizing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/09/amazon-union-bessemer-history/
197
86
The Quirks of Gmail UI
https://hanami.run/blog/posts/the-quirks-of-gmail-ui/
196
34
Agate, a simple Gemini server written in Rust
https://github.com/mbrubeck/agate
184
48
Flipper Zero: Tamagochi for Hackers
https://flipperzero.one/
173
203
The Roblox Microverse
https://stratechery.com/2021/the-roblox-microverse/
154
399
Nuclear technology’s role in the world’s energy supply is shrinking
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00615-w
152
37
Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/09/half-of-curls-vulnerabilities-are-c-mistakes/
151
167
What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes
https://www.dwell.com/article/japanese-prefab-homes-e1f1b65c
149
The Railsification of SaaS
https://keithwhor.medium.com/the-railsification-of-saas-e5d284fa44a1
147
9
“An Introduction to Ray Tracing” is now free for download (2019)
http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/an-introduction-to-ray-tracing-is-now-free-for-download/
146
The technical interview practice gap
https://blog.interviewing.io/the-technical-interview-practice-gap-and-how-it-keeps-underrepresented-groups-out-of-software-engineering/
139
32
Downsampling Time Series for Visual Representation [pdf] (2013)
https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/15343/3/SS_MSthesis.pdf
138
Cracking of encrypted messaging service dealt major blow to organised crime
https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/159039/cracking-of-encrypted-text-messaging-service-sky-ecc-app-dealt-major-blow-to-organised-crime/
133
56
Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)
http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/roauss.htm
130
90
The Future of Group Messaging
https://thejarren.com/group-messaging
126
Capturing Reality is now part of Epic Games
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/capturing-reality-is-now-part-of-epic-games
125
33
No, RSA Is Not Broken
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/03/no-rsa-is-not-broken.html
Search engine startup from former Google Ads boss raises $40M
https://www.axios.com/neeva-google-ad-fundraising-b23006ca-e9ee-410b-9914-7083beecbd1c.html
115
26
Building Webhooks into Your Application: Guidelines and Best Practices (2020)
https://workos.com/blog/building-webhooks-into-your-application-guidelines-and-best-practices?src=hn
108
Comparison of Postsurgical Scars Between Vegan and Omnivore Patients
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32769530/
160
What happens when investment firms acquire trailer parks
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/what-happens-when-investment-firms-acquire-trailer-parks
110
30
Qurt: The ancient road snack of Central Asian nomads
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-qurt
45
Music Software and Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius (2018) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI
102
20
Hackers Break into Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams
8
Apple M1 latencies, throughput and iops
https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm-int.html
97
38
Organizations announced for Google Summer of Code 2021
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
96
More fuckin' user interface design
https://blog.plover.com/tech/ui-2.html
93
70
Conflicted Capital
https://blog.aaronkharris.com/conflicted-capital
91
28
Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)
https://theparisreview.org/interviews/2027/the-art-of-fiction-no-130-italo-calvino
24
Signal Appears to Have Abandoned Their AGPL-Licensed Server Sourcecode
https://linuxreviews.org/Signal_Appears_To_Have_Abandoned_Their_AGPL-licensed_Server_Sourcecode
18
Myanmar police fled to India after refusing orders
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-india-exclusive-idUSKBN2B12U2
89
55
Ideas to improve the user and developer experiences of databases
https://dnlhg.com/posts/database-ux-ideas
82
98
Children Playing Blockchain
https://jott.live/markdown/elementary_blockchain
80
16
Self-decapitating sea slugs regrow their bodies – hearts and all
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/08/keep-your-head-the-self-decapitating-sea-slugs-that-regrow-their-bodies-hearts-and-all
Internet Explorer is evil (1996)
http://toastytech.com/evil/