1202
594
The 'Fuck You' Pattern
https://cedwards.xyz/the-fuck-you-pattern/
4 years ago
927
644
I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/324134-i-will-never-use-a-microsoft-account-to-log-into-my-own-pc
799
469
Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend
https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1409185044501987340
655
198
Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist
https://blog.dbmiller.org/2021-06-28-dear-google-public-domain-compositions-exist
494
548
SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon
https://cryptoslate.com/safedollar-stablecoin-drops-to-0-following-248000-defi-exploit-on-polygon/
454
372
Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
https://www.freethink.com/shows/just-might-work/how-to-make-insulin
413
224
Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/judge-dismisses-ftc-antitrust-complaint-against-facebook.html
408
173
UK regulator clamps down on Binance
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57632831
377
194
Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API
https://2ality.com/2021/06/temporal-api.html
376
369
JavaScript Is Weird
https://jsisweird.com/
262
171
Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/7/253459-why-computing-students-should-contribute-to-open-source-software-projects/fulltext
256
206
Duolingo S-1 IPO
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562088/000162828021013065/duolingos-1.htm
236
167
China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57628653
359
Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)
https://gamesfromwithin.com/data-oriented-design
233
339
World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day
https://www.slashgear.com/worlds-first-lab-grown-meat-facility-pumps-out-5000-burgers-per-day-25680053/
222
232
Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/amazon-is-firing-flex-workers-using-algorithms-with-little-human-intervention/
86
Off the Grid Messenger
https://github.com/TrevorAttema/OTGMessenger
191
208
YouTube permanently bans Right Wing Watch
https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-permanently-bans-right-wing-watch-a-media-watchdog-devoted-to-exposing-right-wing-conspiracies
184
60
The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/the_dev_behind_one_of_the_worlds_best_snes_emulators_has_taken_their_own_life
181
62
Incremental note-taking
https://thesephist.com/posts/inc/
230
Google no longer requires AMP, but the replacement might be worse
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/28/google_amp_core_web_vitals/
177
146
Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-simple-test-reveals-if-your-mental-images-are-more-vivid-than-other-people-s
176
Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may embrace Bitcoin
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/mexican-billionaire-salinas-says-his-banking-business-may-embrace-bitcoin-2021-06-28/
172
227
YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-reinstates-channel-devoted-exposing-conservative-extremism-rcna1286
308
Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27663618
170
102
Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks?
https://www.frontpagetech.com/2021/06/28/exclusive-apple-making-employees-wear-police-grade-body-cams-in-response-to-leaks/
153
46
Dr. Software: An unfinished journey starting from dirty code [pdf]
https://bitgloss.ro/dr-software.pdf
152
65
My approach to taking notes in meetings
https://blog.witful.com/how-i-take-notes-in-meetings/
137
A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
https://blog.frantovo.cz/s/1576/Niklaus%20Wirth%20-%20A%20Plea%20for%20Lean%20Software%20-%20OCR.pdf
144
255
The Lightness of Windows
https://stratechery.com/2021/the-lightness-of-windows/
49
One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing
http://nvidia-research-mingyuliu.com/vid2vid-cameo/
143
78
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
141
82
“The Martian” + Starship
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/the-martian-starship/
139
212
Engineers can disrupt climate change
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/engineers-you-can-disrupt-climate-change
135
This Chemical Does Not Exist
https://www.thischemicaldoesnotexist.com/
133
79
Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-TSX-Off-New-Microcode
127
103
Ask HN: How to grow after 10 years in the industry?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27661713
Subdomains for IPFS
https://ipds.io/
91
Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57622710
123
128
Show HN: Anki alternative with integrated notes and import/export
https://get21stnight.com/
An announcement about the comment section
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/28/an-announcement-about-the-comment-section
117
The Method of Loci: Build Your Memory Palace
https://fs.blog/2021/06/memory-palace/
111
100
Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are posting about you online
https://www.optery.com/introducing-optery-remove-yourself-from-150-people-search-sites-like-truthfinder-mylife-radaris-socialcatfish-spokeo-whitepages/
110
15
Show HN: Minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp
https://github.com/codr7/whirlog
18
Economics of Innovation: Detailed Reading List (2019)
http://matt-clancy.com/economics-of-innovation-detailed-reading-list/
45
We moderns are status-drunk
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/06/our-big-wealth-status-mistake.html
Canada weather: Heatwave hits record 46.6C as US north-west also frazzles
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57634700
97
55
Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp
https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/unicode-sorting-why-browsers-added-special-emoji-matching
93
159
BTC Hashrate dropped another 27% down ~62% form peak now at 2019 levels
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html#3y
87
33
Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/facit-homes-wikihouse-and-the-plywood
84
106
EU startup fund overwhelmed by high demand
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-startup-fund-overwhelmed-by-huge-demand-digital-economy/
Google no longer requires AMP, but the replacement might be worse