711
383
Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3&showAllReviews=true
4 years ago
592
727
Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021
http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/202105m.html
501
327
State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-10/
489
394
North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
https://ij.org/press-release/north-carolina-board-tells-retired-engineer-he-cant-talk-about-engineering/
463
353
Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
https://morrick.me/archives/9368
447
141
How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It
https://thezerohack.com/apple-vulnerability-bug-bounty
405
289
Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/06/spectre-mitigations-murder-userspace.html
388
96
GAN Theft Auto [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0
367
374
U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing
https://www.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-usa-semiconductors-congress-idCAKCN2DT29F-OCATC
344
136
Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01627-2
337
602
Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Abstract/9000/Ivermectin_for_Prevention_and_Treatment_of.98040.aspx
260
Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57442175
310
121
Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
https://maddy.email/
309
75
CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)
https://zenodo.org/record/4008297
279
190
An unwanted update to your Google Account
https://roboleary.net/2021/05/01/unwated-change-to-your-google-account.html
276
237
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560781
254
100
Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface
https://www.renoise.com/
216
104
The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/the-inventor-of-the-black-box-was-told-to-drop-the-idea-and-get-on-with-blowing-up-fuel-tanks
209
175
Casu Martzu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu
193
176
Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
https://www.lifespan.io/news/pearl-is-funded-rapamycin-longevity-clinical-trials-begin/
174
98
Coober Pedy, the Australian mining town where residents live underground (2020)
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-coober-pedy-australias-underground-town-2016-1
167
118
Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/newly-discovered-vigilante-malware-outs-software-pirates-and-blocks-them/
159
122
Taxes Are for the Little People
https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/guillotines-and-taxes/#carried-interest
146
24
Taking students from schematic to silicon in one semester (2018) [pdf]
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/publications/2018/BurnettTapeoutClassISCAS2018.pdf
144
142
‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/18/us-heatwave-west-climate-crisis-drought
29
Advancing AI theory with first-principles understanding of deep neural networks
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/advancing-ai-theory-with-a-first-principles-understanding-of-deep-neural-networks/
126
32
Joining CSV and JSON data with an in-memory SQLite database
https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jun/19/sqlite-utils-memory/
12
A day in the life of a professional software engineer
https://www.darkcoding.net/software/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-software-engineer/
120
117
Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review
https://mcraiha.github.io/steam/review/metro/exodus/enhanced/edition/2021/06/19/Steam_required_additional_download_for_review.html
115
28
Korea revokes approvals for 1,700 communication equipment, devices
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210617000953
114
59
A Tour of Safe Tracing GC Designs in Rust
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
110
31
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
109
102
“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1406255522475556869
73
The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server
https://figbert.com/posts/wrong-way-to-switch-server-os/
6
Jose Valim introduces LiveBook v0.2: inputs, graphs, and more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTEgF-wIEI
108
74
John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ was supposed to be a warning
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/10/4/17933020/they-live-john-carpenter-america-donald-trump
106
44
Engineering Management
https://github.com/ixaxaar/awesome-engineering-management
58
A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone
https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/19/a-specific-network-name-can-completely-disable-wi-fi-on-your-iphone/
36
JPEG XL would be Turing-complete without the 1024×1024 pixel limitation
https://dbohdan.com/wiki/jpeg-xl?
62
Where is the source code for the actual bootloader shipped with the Prusa Mini+?
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/issues/1440
53
Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar
https://getradar.co
97
33
Adafruit interviews Siemens re SupplyFrame, the future of Hackaday, Tindie
https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/18/adafruit-interviews-siemens-supplyframe-the-future-of-hackaday-tindie-and-more/
92
10
WiFi SSIDs in Apple iOS have a format string vulnerability
https://twitter.com/vm_call/status/1405937492642123782
88
56
Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia_Disinformation_Assessment-2021
87
34
Deep reinforcement learning will transform manufacturing as we know it
https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/deep-reinforcement-learning-will-transform-manufacturing-as-we-know-it/
86
16
Learning to love a rigid and inflexible language
https://devblog.blackberry.com/en/2021/05/learning-to-love-a-rigid-and-inflexible-language
4
Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms
https://rltheorybook.github.io/
84
19
The Global Chessboard
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/world-chessboard
80
101
Ask HN: Why Poetry did not become a mainstream package manager for Python?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559655
Shocked to find smart thermostats raised remotely by “Smart Savers Texas” progrm
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/remote-thermostat-adjustment-texas-energy-shortage/285-5acf2bc5-54b7-4160-bffe-1f9a5ef4362a
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)