701
325
The most precious resource is agency
https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency
4 years ago
565
207
Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/intuit-to-share-payroll-data-from-1-4m-small-businesses-with-equifax/
552
370
British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/01/british-right-to-repair-law/
516
198
Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public
https://gizmodo.com/exxon-lobbyists-reveal-in-secret-recordings-how-they-ma-1847205392
479
250
Check If Email Exists
https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists
418
142
Steve Jobs in Kyoto
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1622/
409
312
Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/1/22558292/police-officer-video-taylor-swift-youtube-copyright
399
978
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699704
387
333
Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
https://jakearchibald.com/2021/encoding-data-for-post-requests/
369
224
Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RKILN7HFLF4CS/
345
69
Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)
https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit
303
41
Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph
https://epilys.github.io/bibliothecula/notekeeping.html
300
104
Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/clip-art/
298
379
Robinhood S-1 IPO
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1783879/000162828021013318/robinhoods-1.htm
266
162
Folk wisdom on visual programming
https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/
260
338
Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S. proposal
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/nations-agree-to-support-us-proposal-for-global-minimum-tax-on-corporations.html
238
115
Servo Engine contributions this year
https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors
217
71
Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
https://news.mit.edu/2021/hawkings-black-hole-theorem-confirm-0701
65
Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups
https://stripe.com/blog/atlas-first-five-years
200
243
Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57684497
128
Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39
https://onlinedomain.com/2021/02/12/domain-name-news/verisign-will-increase-the-com-price-from-7-85-to-8-39/
78
Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
https://www.microprediction.com/blog/prophet
188
72
IT Without Software
http://ndt.instedd.org/2010/05/it-without-software.html?m=1
184
94
Otter Browser
https://otter-browser.org
180
114
FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-reaffirms-nearly-3-million-fine-for-marketing-unauthorized-drone-transmitters
172
47
PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09799
163
140
Whistleblower thought he would get a big payout, but got nothing and went broke
https://www.wsj.com/articles/whistleblower-thought-he-would-get-a-big-payout-instead-he-got-nothing-and-went-broke-11624791602
160
14
Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors
https://nagimov.me/post/measure-with-music-how-to-read-analog-sensors-using-a-pc-sound-card/
158
77
Fortran adds conditional expressions
https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/21/21-157r2.txt
149
95
Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?
https://kenstechtips.com/index.php/download-speeds-2g-3g-and-4g-actual-meaning
147
105
REPL vs CLI: IDE wars
https://vlaaad.github.io/clj-vs-cli
143
138
The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)
https://samoburja.com/the-youtube-revolution-in-knowledge-transfer/
113
Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-apks-sunset-1636829/
68
Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin
https://github.com/JesseDrain/Less-Addictive-YouTube
139
37
Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams
https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chaos-engineering-for-teams/
29
Vaccine made of live malaria parasites shows early success
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01806-1
137
93
Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1989
https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/installing-linux-into-a-286-laptop-from-the-year-1989/
126
Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
https://dynomight.net/alcohol/
132
'Most homes' in Lytton destroyed by catastrophic fire, B.C. minister says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-lytton-july-1-2021-1.6087311
131
Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts-per_notation#Uno
A distributed spam attack across the public Matrix network
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/30/security-update-synapse-1-37-1-released/
129
79
IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/01/ibm_email_disruption_sales
124
173
Amazon announce two new leadership principles
https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles
123
22
Mudras in Indian Dance
https://www.webindia123.com/dances/abhinaya/angika%20bhinaya/asamyukta.htm
The short tale of an online scam
https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/tale-online-scammer-python
118
117
An efficient way to make hash maps with insertion ordering
https://blog.toit.io/hash-maps-that-dont-hate-you-1a96150b492a
Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx
https://fly.io/blog/monitoring-your-fly-io-apps-with-prometheus/
110
154
Change.org workers form a union
https://text.npr.org/1011387838
Oklo has a plan to make tiny nuclear reactors that run off nuclear waste
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/oklo-planning-nuclear-micro-reactors-that-run-off-nuclear-waste.html
108
Why does my installer get flagged by Windows?
https://blog.pakkly.com/why-does-my-installer-get-flagged-by-windows/
107
34
Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested
https://blog.flipperzero.one/electronics-testing/
26
Show HN: VisaWhen – Data on US visa issuance backlogs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698322
102
50
Show HN: VentScape – Minimalistic site to vent, chat and see others do the same
https://www.ventscape.life/chat
101
134
Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57670737
99
Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families
https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/
98
35
Micron to Sell 3D XPoint Fab to Texas Instruments for $900M
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/micron-to-sell-3d-xpoint-fab-to-texas-instruments-for-dollar900-million
Any Encoding, Ever – ztd.text and Unicode for C++
https://thephd.dev/any-encoding-ever-ztd-text-unicode-cpp
A simple way to feel happier, according to the new science of emotion
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/29/1010319240/stuck-in-a-rut-sometimes-joy-takes-a-little-practice
92
62
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story drew the ire of the internet
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter
86
36
Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750k Meant to Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House (2018)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593204274/alabama-sheriff-legally-took-750-000-meant-to-feed-inmates-bought-beach-house
83
58
Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-june-30-2021-1.6085919
16
FUSE-based file system to inject faults
https://github.com/ligurio/unreliablefs
82
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699702
Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change
https://mleverything.substack.com/p/americans-arent-willing-to-pay-to
U.K. Will Stop Using Coal Power in Just Three Years
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-k-will-stop-using-coal-power-in-just-three-years/
25
The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (2014)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929119914000546
76
157
Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696235
Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?
