1875
1084
Just Be Rich
https://keenen.xyz/just-be-rich/
4 years ago
670
236
Deno 1.9
https://deno.com/blog/v1.9
572
269
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https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1381986746661892096
500
414
System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104
481
234
WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/13/whatsapps-new-privacy-policy-is-so-bad-it-might-be-illegal/
460
595
My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.html
458
291
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tattleware-privacy-employment-1.5978337
456
1059
US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56733715
411
205
Pass: The standard Unix password manager
https://www.passwordstore.org/
387
58
Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices
https://ieftimov.com/post/deep-dive-cors-history-how-it-works-best-practices/
374
178
1Password Secrets Automation
https://blog.1password.com/introducing-secrets-automation/
362
204
The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/
361
75
Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)
http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html
359
365
Surface Laptop 4
https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2021/04/13/introducing-surface-laptop-4-and-new-accessories-for-enhanced-meeting-experiences/
357
94
Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript
https://natto.dev
337
133
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/justice-department-announces-court-authorized-effort-disrupt-exploitation-microsoft
324
112
Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages
https://deephn.org
315
59
FreeBSD 13.0
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/
282
51
TTS: Text-to-Speech for All
https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
151
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvgej/counter-strike-bug-allows-hackers-to-take-over-a-pc-with-a-steam-invite
263
70
Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment
https://replit.com/kaboom
254
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https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005389362-NSFW-Server-Designation
159
The latest DSM update makes btrfs drives unavailable on budget Synology models
https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/142519
244
237
The war against money-laundering is being lost
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/04/12/the-war-against-money-laundering-is-being-lost
221
224
Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard
https://www.stavros.io/posts/keyyyyyyyys/
215
The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
https://refactoring.fm/p/the-true-meaning-of-technical-debt
194
96
I refuse to stand by while my students are indoctrinated
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students
188
276
Update on beta testing payments in Signal
https://signal.org/blog/update-on-beta-testing-payments/
187
120
How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus?
https://www.bluedot.space/tutorials/how-many-devices-can-you-connect-on-i2c-bus/
49
Inside PayPal (2010)
http://paulgraham.com/paypal.html
176
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http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/What-the-Dunning-Kruger-effect-Is-and-Isnt/
173
31
The most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/what-are-the-most-important-statistical-ideas-of-the-past-50-years
164
90
Marbles (2016)
http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/life-in-general/marbles.html
163
84
Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ixZLTmFfnKRbaStA5/book-review-a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins
156
322
China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline
https://www.economist.com/china/2021/04/03/china-is-betting-that-the-west-is-in-irreversible-decline
155
We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages (2020)
https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/
154
296
Is content moderation a dead end?
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/4/13/is-content-moderation-a-dead-end
147
92
HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrategy shares
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-cryptocurrency/hsbc-bans-customers-from-buying-bitcoin-backer-microstrategy-shares-idUSKBN2BZ21W
146
262
Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/13/iran-nuclear-natanz-israel/
138
153
Rust is for Professionals
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/13/rust-is-for-professionals/
136
83
FOVO: A new 3D rendering technique based on human vision
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertPepperell/20200527/363615/FOVO_A_new_3D_rendering_technique_based_on_human_vision.php
134
77
A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners (2018)
https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/
117
Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the 'worst year' ever to be alive
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/historians-pinpoint-the-very-worst-year-to-ever-be-alive/927803
74
The Crow Whisperer: What happens when we talk to animals?
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/the-crow-whisperer-animal-communicators/
128
103
The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)
https://arcan-fe.com/2017/07/12/the-dawn-of-a-new-command-line-interface/
124
Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf]
https://www.cs.rpi.edu/~milanova/docs/dls2020.pdf
125
Figma: Changes to free plan after April 21, 2021
https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061769534
122
Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for French town of Bitche
https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-unpublishes-official-page-for-french-town-of-bitche/
121
95
In Python, `[0xfor x in (1, 2, 3)]` returns `[15]`
https://twitter.com/nedbat/status/1382027078816653319
Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU
115
227
We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-living-in-a-climate-emergency-and-were-going-to-say-so/
110
116
Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/previous-covid-19-may-cut-risk-reinfection-84
105
9
Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-disproves-group-algebra-unit-conjecture-20210412/
101
Coinbase’s listing may break records
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/04/12/coinbases-listing-may-break-records
99
Student's physics homework picked up by Amazon quantum researchers
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/04/13/student-physics-homework-picked-up-by-amazon-web-services-quantum.html
53
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain
https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain
39
Exploring the Kubernetes API with Curl
https://blog.tilt.dev/2021/03/18/kubernetes-is-so-simple.html
93
76
Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix’s CEO
https://www.wix.com/blog/2021/04/letter-from-avishai-abrahami-to-matt-mullenweg/
Let us now praise tiny ants
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/science/ants-wilson-photography-niga-rice.html
22
CVE Alerting Platform
https://github.com/opencve/opencve
91
19
Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption (2018) [pdf]
https://svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publications/2018/2018-12-06-Sy-ACSAC-Tracking_Users_across_the_Web_via_TLS_Session_Resumption.pdf
88
64
Black Girls Code
https://www.blackgirlscode.com/
87
30
Depends on Every Package in NPM
https://www.npmjs.com/package/no-one-left-behind
Estate agent's hi-tech house tour exposes personal data
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56718046
35
Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/13/nominet_civil_war/
86
29
Pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity retained at ambient
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05662
In Python, `[0xfor x in (1, 2, 3)]` returns `[15]`