825
210
ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
https://alien-project.org/
4 years ago
795
280
Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/
717
294
Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/1402986015107653647
651
196
New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
https://www.ifixit.com/News/50722/victory-new-york-senate-passes-landmark-right-to-repair-bill
594
768
As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america-politics-religion/618072/
541
319
Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/11/22528701/apple-rank-own-app-over-competitor-files-dropbox-wwdc-2017
413
156
'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale
https://capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/
410
1144
Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-11/fewer-young-men-are-in-the-labor-force-more-are-living-at-home
383
132
Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right
https://engineering.theblueground.com/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-migration-done-right/
365
209
Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack
354
109
OpenHistoricalMap
https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/
337
361
It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel
https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-meritocracy-became-trickle-down-education
287
155
J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/j-kenji-lopez-alt-is-seattles-most-powerful-food-influencer-and-its-most-reluctant-one/
282
71
How to think clearly
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-think-clearly-to-improve-understanding-and-communication
272
167
Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
https://www.danielde.dev/blog/surprising-shared-word-etymologies/
248
206
NVMe is not a hard disk
https://blog.koehntopp.info/2021/05/25/nvme-is-not-a-hard-disk.html
246
323
Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech
https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/congress-is-going-to-throw-the-kitchen
244
86
The NSA Instruction (2019)
https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/
243
204
Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/third-member-us-fda-advisory-panel-resigns-over-alzheimers-drug-approval-2021-06-10/
234
228
Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/husband-amazon-employee-sentenced-prison-insider-trading-amazon-stock
225
67
Mathematics Cheat Sheet [pdf]
https://ourway.keybase.pub/mathematics_cheat_sheet.pdf
218
863
Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/06/05/once-a-corporate-heavyweight-europe-is-now-an-also-ran-can-it-recover-its-footing
215
214
Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options
https://mynorthwest.com/2960761/amazon-offering-flexible-work-from-home-options-seattle-tech-companies/
119
Bandcamp's app is no longer listed on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandcamp.android&hl=en_US&gl=US
193
150
EA got hacked and games source code leaked including new game Battlefield 2042
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57431987
190
57
Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes
https://niedzejkob.p4.team/bootstrap/miniforth/
187
56
Plan2Scene: Converting Floorplans to 3D Scenes
https://3dlg-hcvc.github.io/plan2scene/
178
80
Legislation would unmask third-party sellers, but Amazon is fighting it
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/amazon-ebay-fight-legislation-that-would-unmask-third-party-sellers/
176
76
Kopia – Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup
https://kopia.io/
163
73
Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers
https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/guix/
152
322
El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volcanoes to Mine Bitcoin
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005231250/el-salvador-plans-to-use-electricity-generated-from-volcanoes-to-mine-bitcoin
135
A US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57399288
145
84
How to average floating point numbers (2015)
https://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html
45
Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S.
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-build-new-undersea-cable-connect-latin-america-us-2021-06-09/
141
205
Netherlands must ban cryptocurrencies immediately: CPB head
https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/11/netherlands-must-ban-cryptocurrencies-immediately-cpb-head
140
114
Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools
https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_50eb22586414571ed4fecc991feee20a
139
Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2017.1294256
91
Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1402388133086367751
131
Global banking regulators call for toughest rules for cryptocurrencies
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/10/global-banking-regulators-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin
129
Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin
https://cointelegraph.com/news/dutch-official-calls-for-complete-ban-on-bitcoin
128
47
Wildland – open data management protocol
https://wildland.io/
126
48
Desertification in Romania (2020)
https://www.geographyrealm.com/desertification-in-romania/
125
79
The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends
https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-i-beginnings-and-legends/
117
Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
https://winaero.com/microsoft-will-end-windows-10-support-in-2025/
112
1
Fitting a Forth in 512 Bytes
Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3073723
106
29
The iPhone 12 Mini Makes Me Sick (Literally)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/the-iphone-12-mini-makes-me-sick-literally
101
44
Toward Vagrant 3.0
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/toward-vagrant-3-0
99
154
Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?
https://wyclif.substack.com/p/incentives-in-economics-are-wrong
34
Launch HN: Slingshow (YC W20) – Easily build custom virtual events and webinars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27474808
96
Responsive images
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Responsive_images
94
21
Echo Dot, Apple Watch, JBL Speakers listings hijacked
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/review-manipulation-amazon-echo-dot-listing-hijacked-seriosly/856604
14
Reducing Python String Memory Use in Apache Arrow 0.12 (2019)
https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/02/05/python-string-memory-0.12/
89
52
Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl
https://wapp.tcl.tk/home/doc/trunk/README.md
88
Stripe rescinded my signed offer due to changing company priorities
https://twitter.com/jennleaver/status/1402972896184586244
2
Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome
https://therecord.media/google-abandons-experiment-to-show-simplified-domain-urls-in-chrome/
Work from home and productivity: evidence from personnel and analytics data [pdf]
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BFI_WP_2021-56.pdf
85
London and Switzerland seeking to dodge G7 global minimum tax
https://www.businessinsider.com/london-switzerland-plans-dodge-g7-global-minimum-tax-reports-2021-6
13
Trump officials seized Democrat's Apple data – reports
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57438354
37
AlpineJS
https://alpinejs.dev/
81
The U.S. Military Emits More CO2 Than Many Industrialized Nations (2019)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report-the-u-s-military-emits-more-co2-than-many-industrialized-nations-infographic/
15
Linux-Kernel: Printk() Indexing
https://lwn.net/Articles/857148/
10
Soggi's BIOS and Firmware Page (2020)
https://soggi.org/
69
Post Mortem: Incorrect Cache Configuration Exposes Personal Information
https://www.klarna.com/us/blog/detailed-incident-report-incorrect-cache-configuration-leading-to-klarna-app-exposing-personal-information/
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