1206
487
I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/i-refused-to-become-an-fbi-informant-and-the-government-put-me-on-the-no-fly-list/
5 years ago
847
106
Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
https://robertchen.cc/blog/2021/04/03/github-pages-xss
682
601
I hope work from home continues
https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2021/4/6/some-of-the-reasons-i-hope-work-from-home-continues-and-i-never-have-to-return-to-an-office
597
477
Programming is hard
https://dorinlazar.ro/2021-02-programming-is-hard/
565
237
The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/
559
148
Surprisingly Slow
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/
544
639
Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messaging-cryptocurrency/
470
119
Eliminating Data Races in Firefox
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/04/eliminating-data-races-in-firefox-a-technical-report/
462
138
Wuffs’ PNG image decoder
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/fastest-safest-png-decoder.html
439
272
Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
https://rbranson.medium.com/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791
394
186
Django 3.2
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/apr/06/django-32-released/
358
166
AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=58127&start=50&tstart=0
306
115
“I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16574
284
How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client
https://missiveapp.com/blog/how-we-built-1m-arr-email-client
269
50
How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages
https://browser.engineering/layout.html
266
93
In Support of Richard Stallman
https://stallmansupport.org/#intro
262
83
Rust in the Android Platform
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html
261
120
A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals
https://whitehotharlots.tumblr.com/post/647740298162831360/a-movement-that-cannot-be-criticized-cannot
Booking.com fined €475k for reporting data breach too late
https://therecord.media/booking-com-fined-e475000-for-reporting-data-breach-too-late/
249
133
Apache Mesos to be moved to Attic
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rab2a820507f7c846e54a847398ab20f47698ec5bce0c8e182bfe51ba%40%3Cdev.mesos.apache.org%3E
245
139
Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/04/lyra-enabling-voice-calls-for-next-billion-users.html
242
177
It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signal-isnt-as-open-source-as-you-thought-it-was-anymore/
214
104
Facebook Analytics will no longer be available
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/966883707418907
205
63
Show HN: Xplr – A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr
198
125
Kallithea – Self-hosted alternative to GitHub
https://kallithea-scm.org/
195
164
Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/google-will-stop-using-oracle-finance-software-switch-to-sap.html
182
149
To upgrade the SSD in a Mac Pro, you need a second Mac computer
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210626
178
72
ClojureScript 1.10.844
https://clojurescript.org/news/2021-04-06-release
174
8
Parser Combinators in Elixir
https://serokell.io/blog/parser-combinators-in-elixir
171
86
Neuroscientists discover molecular mechanism that allows memories to form (2020)
https://news.mit.edu/2020/engram-memories-form-1005
31
Jakub Konka Hired Full Time
https://ziglang.org/news/jakub-konka-hired-full-time/
169
Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationType=individual&donationYear=2021
168
54
Soil bacteria could improve crop yields, via fungi
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/04/soil-bacteria-could-improve-crop-yields-fungi
167
65
Bevy 0.5: data oriented game engine built in Rust
https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-5/
134
A majority of uninfected adults show pre-existing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/146316
163
143
Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-research/surface-transmission.html
160
An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem
https://www.govtech.com/opinion/An-Apology-to-COBOL-Maybe-Old-Technology-Isnt-the-Real-Problem.html
147
Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals
https://perens.com/2021/04/04/on-non-judicical-punishment-of-individuals/
144
3
Intel Launches 10nm 'Ice Lake' Datacenter CPU with Up to 40 Cores
https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/04/06/intel-launches-10nm-ice-lake-datacenter-cpu-with-up-to-40-cores/
142
95
Credit Suisse Takes $4.7B Hit on Archegos Meltdown
https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisse-takes-4-7-billion-hit-on-archegos-meltdown-11617687483
251
Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16594/intel-3rd-gen-xeon-scalable-review
141
61
IPython as a System Shell
https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/shell.html
136
45
Sublime Text 4 – Build 4100 has native Apple Silicon support
https://twitter.com/wbond/status/1379430132138541056
132
82
Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (2015)
http://www.dein.fr/2015-02-18-maslows-pyramid-of-code-review.html
128
32
Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56648055
79
Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head inside a particle accelerator (2020)
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/02/anatoli-bugorski-man-who-stuck-his-head.html
70
A record label bringing Iranian music to the world
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-record-label-bringing-iranian-music-to-the-world/
118
51
Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
92
Apple can own I/O to own the universe
https://diff.substack.com/p/how-apple-can-own-io-to-own-the-universe
40
Strong software tips from 2000 that are 100% valid today
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/
102
98
The Daily Standup Is a Waste of Time
https://buildthestage.com/the-daily-standup-is-a-waste-of-time/
19
UX Challenges based in the real world
https://uxtools.co/challenges/
101
87
Google AI scientist Samy Bengio resigns
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-bengio/google-ai-scientist-bengio-resigns-after-colleagues-firings-email-idUSKBN2BT2JT
99
46
Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
https://inf.news/en/digital/b5599514f985bf2acd947d74d74a203d.html
17
Mathematicians Settle Erdős Coloring Conjecture
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-settle-erdos-coloring-conjecture-20210405/
WeWork documentary explores a decade of delusion
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-wework-documentary-explores-a-decade-of-delusion
35
What Goodreads could have been
https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/what-goodreads-could-have-been
90
2
Help us test payments in Signal
https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/
Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/ml00ac/how_much_are_games_like_factorio_and_eve_online/
117
The myth of excess vacant housing distracts from solutions
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2021/03/25/the-myth-of-excess-vacant-housing-distracts-from-solutions/
47
Django 3.2 – News on compressed fixtures and fixtures compression
https://www.paulox.net/2021/04/06/django-32-news-on-compressed-fixtures-and-fixtures-compression/
