658
343
SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/16/nasa-lunar-lander-contract-spacex/
5 years ago
628
290
Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1099
586
252
Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
https://paramdeo.com/blog/opting-your-website-out-of-googles-floc-network
575
163
Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2021/luca-app-ccc-fordert-bundesnotbremse
538
87
Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google-misled-consumers-about-the-collection-and-use-of-location-data
502
141
QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/04/quic-and-http-3-support-now-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/
489
61
Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/content-aware-image-resizing-in-javascript/
455
423
Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme
https://digesttime.com/2021/04/16/nassim-taleb-bitcoin-failed-as-a-currency-and-became-a-speculative-ponzi-scheme/
556
Bitcoin miners are buying power plants
https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/04/13/new-york-bitcoin-mining-threat/
422
428
U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-house-committee-approves-blueprint-big-tech-crackdown-2021-04-15/
417
183
FTP is 50 years old
https://www.filestash.app/2021/04/16/ftp-is-50-years-old/
408
117
The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-rotates-memories-to-save-them-from-new-sensations-20210415/
405
276
Why has no one made a better Goodreads
https://uxdesign.cc/why-has-no-one-made-a-better-goodreads-dfc9cb9e149a
369
262
Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children [pdf]
https://commercialfreechildhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/instagram_letter.pdf
362
786
Java Is Underhyped
https://jackson.sh/posts/2021-04-java-underrated/
353
139
Squarespace S1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1496963/000110465921051251/tm213918-6_s1.htm
350
60
GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds
https://nvlabs.github.io/GANcraft/
347
151
FLoC Away from Chrome
https://www.floc-away-from-chrome.com/
337
256
'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56749105
330
194
Kelly Criterion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
323
292
Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments
https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-bans-use-cryptocurrencies-payments-sends-bitcoin-down-2021-04-16/
312
148
Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/
298
140
Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate
https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-prevents-sharing-new-york-post-story-black-lives-matter-founder-patrisse-cullors-real-1584050
286
248
Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
https://standardnotes.org
187
A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)
https://current.org/2015/06/a-top-audio-engineer-explains-nprs-signature-sound/
269
173
Nobody is joining Google's FLoC
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387492/google-floc-ad-tech-privacy-browsers-brave-vivaldi-edge-mozilla-chrome-safari
264
169
My Go executable files are still getting larger
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/go-file-size-update/
247
122
Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
https://www.docker.com/blog/released-docker-desktop-for-mac-apple-silicon/
230
78
Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/15/facebook-india-bjp-fake-accounts
191
Why most non-fiction authors don't make any money
https://writeusefulbooks.com/resources/why-nonfiction-fails-to-make-money/
162
59
Lisp and the Web: Creating Web Apps Through Lisp and GCE
https://medium.math.dev/lisp-the-web-4c00c88d11f9
44
List of Emerging Technologies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
160
34
LLVM 12
https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
159
77
Robot-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/industrial-robots/adidas-futurecraft-3d-printed-robot-woven-sneaker
158
90
How to fight back against Google FLoC
https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc
150
91
Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/flashlight-fast-and-flexible-machine-learning-in-c-plus-plus/
147
58
Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/unifying-the-cuda-python-ecosystem/
142
31
Vugu: Vue-like frontends in pure Go, HTML, and CSS
https://www.vugu.org/
136
170
Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success?
https://nautil.us/issue/99/universality/the-weak-case-for-grit
131
249
Why the United States has the best research universities
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/research-universities-incentives-resources-virtuous-circles-us
126
29
Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56772772
123
22
The original streamer, who ran his own public access gaming show in 1993
https://www.pcgamer.com/meet-the-original-streamer-who-ran-his-own-public-access-gaming-show-in-1993/
8
How to Write a Technical Book
https://serhack.me/articles/how-to-write-technical-book/
121
41
No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020)
https://www.eejournal.com/article/no-more-nanometers/
120
What I Wish I Knew About U2F and Other Hardware MFA Protocols
https://goteleport.com/blog/u2f-lessons-learned/
115
97
Sid Meier: More Than Just Civilization
https://boilingsteam.com/sid-meier-more-than-just-civilization/
109
28
New Horizons now 50AUs from the sun, shoots starfield containing Voyager 1
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20210415
107
79
Epic Games certificate expiration incident report
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/expiration-date-4-6-2021
106
110
SBA executives ‘beyond doubt’ that teleworking employees are more productive
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2021/04/sba-executives-beyond-doubt-that-teleworking-employees-are-more-productive/
101
67
Neurons might contain something within them
https://join.substack.com/p/is-this-the-most-interesting-idea
27
Foundations of Complexity Economics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-020-00273-3
96
First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released in the Florida Keys
https://undark.org/2021/04/12/gmo-mosquitoes-to-be-released-florida-keys/