787
294
Inside a viral website
https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-website
4 years ago
677
79
Signed Char Lotte
https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/03/30/signed-char-lotte.html
635
377
Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/master/gd/rust/
563
528
Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/03/Cancer-diagnoses-implies-patients-wait-for-Medicare.html
485
241
What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur
https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007
83
UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
https://github.com/akavel/up
468
277
Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments
https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/03/30/apple-cooperation-with-authoritarian-governments/
459
118
Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/technology/turing-award-aho-ullman.html
445
478
Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count
https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/1376942486594150405
364
596
Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html
338
276
Sublime Text 4 [video]
https://vimeo.com/529550701
320
263
Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647717
317
156
Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app
https://github.com/thesimj/jBaseZ85/issues/1
314
352
Hit songwriters ask pop stars to stop taking credit for songs they didn't write
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56587621
310
287
Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
https://blog.google/products/maps/redefining-what-map-can-be-new-information-and-ai
280
114
BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56563449
273
109
Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644616
272
101
Tracing Paper (2020)
https://logicmag.io/security/tracing-paper/
264
611
The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban
https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/banbitcoin.html
260
122
The deck we used to raise our seed funding
https://airbyte.io/articles/our-story/the-deck-we-used-to-raise-our-seed-with-accel-in-13-days/
253
125
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/stop-calling-everything-ai-machinelearning-pioneer-says
243
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Latest Mozilla VPN features
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/03/30/latest-mozilla-vpn-features-keep-your-data-safe/
234
251
Apple doesn't care about album cover art
https://guilhermesimoes.github.io/blog/apple-does-not-care-about-album-cover-art
223
235
Libreboot – Defend Richard Stallman
https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html
214
Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-army/microsoft-wins-21-9-billion-contract-with-u-s-army-to-supply-augmented-reality-headsets-idUSKBN2BN36B
211
133
Hitachi to buy GlobalLogic for $9.6B
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hitachi-globallogic/hitachi-to-buy-u-s-software-developer-globallogic-for-9-6-billion-idUSKBN2BN0ED
199
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Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm
https://medium.com/@vlapiner/spreadsheet-is-a-software-development-paradigm-70c871ff5f49
186
68
Beach High School
http://www2.cruzio.com/~beachhi/graduation.html
170
What Data Can’t Do
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/what-data-cant-do
159
108
Masks distributed in Canada with microscopic graphene potentially toxic
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/masks-early-pulmonary-toxicity-quebec-schools-daycares-1.5966387
158
119
Incident: American B38M near Nassau on Mar 29th 2021, pitch trim issue/failure
http://avherald.com/h?article=4e52a7cb&opt=0
154
85
Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project in California
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-environment-idUSKBN2BN206
145
67
OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OBS-Studio-Wayland-Ready
137
88
Taking on Google
https://inthegood.co/taking-on-google/
136
81
Mathematicians find a new class of digitally delicate primes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-a-new-class-of-digitally-delicate-primes-20210330/
Show HN: Find people to play tabletop roleplaying games with
https://roleplayful.com/
129
37
The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (2018)
https://medium.com/@ravenstine/the-curious-history-of-novamin-toothpaste-620c6bef8881
127
45
Fighting cryptojacking and doing good things with content security policies
https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres-how-im-fighting-cryptojacking-and-doing-good-things-with-content-security-policies/
126
Systemd 248
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/systemd/systemd/main/NEWS
121
100
Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit
https://threethingsdaily.xyz
23
Louis Rossmann crowdfunding initiative & investing 2 years for Right to Repair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIF3ZRpf0I
120
Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google (2018) [pdf]
https://sback.it/publications/icse2018seip.pdf
116
94
Baltimore plant ruins 15M Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccines
https://www.axios.com/emergent-biosolutions-johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-dfd781a8-d007-4354-910a-e30d5007839b.html
115
90
Google is testing its new ad targeting tech in millions of browsers
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres
7
Frink
https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/
112
32
Fish Doorbell
https://dutchreview.com/news/fish-doorbell-utrecht/
111
35
Input: Customisable Fonts for Code
https://input.djr.com/preview/
36
TLA+ Action Properties
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/action-properties/
33
T cells recognize recent SARS-CoV-2 variants
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/t-cells-recognize-recent-sars-cov-2-variants
56
Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billion Pound Tech Company
https://hackaday.com/2021/03/29/wet-country-wireless-how-the-british-weather-killed-a-billion-pound-tech-company/
95
On getting poetry
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/4/on-getting-poetry
Tools for Auditing CSS
https://css-tricks.com/tools-for-auditing-css/
89
16
Code Reading Club (2020)
https://www.felienne.com/archives/6472
87
57
The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/the-collapse-of-puerto-ricos-iconic-telescope
50
Sublime Text 4
https://twitter.com/sublimehq/status/1377088860836913153
82
62
Facebook now lets users and pages turn off comments on their posts
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/31/facebook-turn-off-comments-on-post-limit-restrict-disable-comment-posts-moderation-control-tool
47
U.S. human rights report documents China's genocide in Xinjiang
https://www.axios.com/state-department-human-rights-report-china-genocide-760d4cb5-5b66-4533-9f64-a737ac5e2d02.html
Deliveroo shares drop 30% on UK IPO listing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56578445
78
48
Selection effects on dishonest behavior
http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200824b/jdm200824b.html
77
22
Backpropagation 101 (2020)
https://thinc.ai/docs/backprop101
76
27
Is the “cult” of Y Combinator good or bad for Africa’s startup ecosystem?
https://disrupt-africa.com/2021/03/30/is-the-cult-of-y-combinator-a-good-or-bad-thing-for-africas-startup-ecosystem/
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