1296
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533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4
4 years ago
643
412
Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/03/31/lithium-battery-costs-have-fallen-by-98-in-three-decades
589
319
How Doctors Die (2013)
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/
390
299
My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission
https://kn100.me/terramaster-nas-exposing-itself-over-upnp/
312
151
“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
298
73
ShipMap
https://www.shipmap.org/
297
86
China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/chinese-officials-concordia-university-cancel-event-with-uighur-activist-1.5074423
267
111
Lawsuit against TSA and DEA over airport seizures achieves first victory
https://ij.org/press-release/major-class-action-lawsuit-against-tsa-and-dea-over-airport-seizures-achieves-first-round-victory/
248
205
The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/04/02/the-cesspool-of-the-internet-is-to-be-found-in-a-village-in-north-holland-a4038369
229
256
GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure
https://therecord.media/github-investigating-crypto-mining-campaign-abusing-its-server-infrastructure/
214
52
SQLite Plus: Missing SQLite functions
https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlite-plus/
207
94
Revision demoparty banned on Twitch mid-stream
https://twitter.com/revision_party/status/1378427185518764034
200
48
Show HN: Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs
https://bilbof.com/blogosphere
191
72
VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust
https://vpncloud.ddswd.de/
21
SpatiaLite: A Spatial Extension to SQLite
https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index
186
121
Bertrand Russell Is the Pope (2010)
http://ceadserv1.nku.edu/longa//classes/mat385_resources/docs/russellpope.html
173
93
How to do things safely in Bash (2018)
https://github.com/anordal/shellharden/blob/master/how_to_do_things_safely_in_bash.md
135
Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/barrier-reef-doomed-as-up-to-99-percent-of-coral-at-risk-report-finds-20210331-p57fng.html
162
183
Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BQ0DC
160
117
Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56614281
158
How much Polish is there in Yiddish and how much Yiddish is there in Polish?
https://culture.pl/en/article/how-much-polish-is-there-in-yiddish-and-how-much-yiddish-is-there-in-polish
152
47
Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26682980
131
155
Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26679749
130
120
50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power
https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2021-march-50years-pascal.html
125
100
Ergodicity, What's It Mean
https://avoidboringpeople.substack.com/p/ergodicity-whats-it-mean
114
11
Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/textedit-gatekeeper.html
108
75
Compensation as a Reflection of Values
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2021/03/04/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-values/
90
Learning about the navigational feats of animals
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/why-animals-dont-get-lost
96
19
Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Programming Language
https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
Why Software Jewels Are Rare (1996) [pdf]
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse870/Input/SS2002/MiniProject/Sources/r2057.pdf
Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android
https://krosbits.in/musicolet/
91
109
The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/02/the-us-dollars-hegemony-is-looking-fragile
88
What Is the Switch-Case Equivalent in Python?
https://pakstech.com/blog/python-switch-case/
82
The Browser – WorldWideWeb Next Application (2019)
https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/worldwideweb/?
81
23
Lunatic Python: Lua Inside Python, and Python Inside Lua
https://labix.org/lunatic-python
80
29
Exercise may help slow cognitive decline in some people with Parkinson’s disease
https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/4877
79
124
If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/technology/personaltech/online-privacy-private-browsers.html
78
5
From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile
https://necsi.edu/complexity-rising-from-human-beings-to-human-civilization-a-complexity-profile
77
106
Not Growing a Language
https://kevingal.com/blog/java-overloading.html
61
Most loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/most-loved-programming-language-rust-sparks-privacy-concerns/
92
Signs of an Immature Software Developer
https://pragmaticsoftwareengineering.com/f/5-signs-of-an-immature-software-developer
A joyless trudge? No, thanks
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/27/joyless-trudge-no-thanks-why-sick-of-going-for-a-walk
70
25
Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him
https://whoisylvia.medium.com/richard-stallman-has-been-vilified-by-those-who-dont-know-him-a3907b25b4c7
59
‘Eliminate Every Superfluous Word’
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/04/why-hemingways-prose-still-hits-so-hard/618444/
The Sad Truth About C++ Copy Elision
https://wolchok.org/posts/sad-truth-about-cxx-copy-elision/
69
38
Ask HN: OCR Libraries for Receipt Scanning/Parsing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26683637
67
219
Where have all the kindergartners gone?
https://hechingerreport.org/where-have-all-the-kindergartners-gone/