1280
640
Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
4 years ago
1110
637
Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
https://www.medialens.org/2021/a-remarkable-silence-media-blackout-after-key-witness-against-assange-admits-lying/
606
307
Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
https://purelymail.com
591
227
Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
https://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207
449
208
Neovim v0.5
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.5.0
400
226
Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/another-0-day-looms-for-many-western-digital-users/
331
301
Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7ez5x/amazon-delivery-companies-revolt-against-amazon-shut-down
294
82
Mise-en-place for knowledge workers
https://fortelabs.co/blog/mise-en-place-for-knowledge-workers/
275
168
Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price
https://www.migadu.com/
274
255
The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/
245
207
RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops
https://rateourcops.org/
244
101
Back to the Future with RSS
https://ncase.me/rss/
216
87
Image unshredding using a TSP solver
https://github.com/robinhouston/image-unshredding
204
HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise medical bills
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule-to-protect-consumers-from-surprise-medical-bills.html
201
219
When Orcs Were Real
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/when-orcs-were-real
193
61
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)
https://web.archive.org/web/20131130191257/http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
189
222
Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President
https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-Leadership-Changes
187
159
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2021-07-02/pokemon-go-bagram-troop-withdrawal-2027917.html
183
79
The Yoghurt Mafia
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018800662/the-yoghurt-mafia
180
76
Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-play-dumps-apks-for-the-more-google-controlled-android-app-bundle/
179
57
Leaky pipes can be better for moving water
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01822-1
135
The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/scientists-climate-crisis-big-oil-climate-crimes
165
First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta
https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/07/first-look-macos-monterey-public-beta/
162
45
Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs
https://github.com/semiosis/pen.el/
158
70
Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser
https://www.napkin.io/
156
89
To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe
https://bellmar.medium.com/how-to-be-a-genius-6d8b3709edca
151
33
“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s
https://www.righto.com/2021/07/space-age-electronics-inside-ge-thin.html
150
Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/past-courses/cs6510/public_html/lispm.pdf
147
75
Towards richer colors on the Web
https://darker.ink/writings/Towards-richer-colors-on-the-Web
143
85
Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/colosseum-rome-underground-hypogea/index.html
132
107
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710270
130
10
An Oral History of the L0pht (2018)
https://duo.com/decipher/an-oral-history-of-the-l0pht
126
Alzheimer’s enigma: Why is incidence falling 16% a decade in richest countries?
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-07-01/the-alzheimers-enigma-why-is-the-incidence-falling-at-16-a-decade-in-the-worlds-richest-countries.html
113
Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/a-deep-dive-into-airbnbs-server-driven-ui-system-842244c5f5
110
97
Miami orders evacuation of 156-unit as structurally and electrically unsafe
https://apnews.com/article/fl-state-wire-florida-evacuations-c2f6b6efe50d3c5a87c4a97363fa8772
59
Ask HN: Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer should know?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710097
105
2
Machine Learning for Beginners – A Curriculum
https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
104
12
The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)
https://typeclasses.com/phrasebook
Distill Hiatus
https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/
Koka: A Functional Language with Effects
https://github.com/koka-lang/koka
100
43
Cops play music during filmed encounters to game YouTube's copyright striking
https://mashable.com/article/police-playing-music-copyright-youtube-recording
Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs
https://slate.com/business/2021/07/miami-building-collapse-condo-boards.html
15
Protecting reserved roles with PostgreSQL Hooks
https://supabase.io/blog/2021/07/01/roles-postgres-hooks
98
418
Google reports soaring attrition among Black women
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/google-reports-soaring-attrition-among-black-women-2021-07-01/
94
Gitlab 14
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/06/22/gitlab-14-modern-devops/
93
Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ Covid study
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/scientists-quit-journal-board-protesting-grossly-irresponsible-study-claiming-covid-19
92
36
Aspirin could cut risk of death in cancer patients by 20%
https://ecancer.org/en/journal/article/1258-aspirin-and-cancer-survival-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analyses-of-118-observational-studies-of-aspirin-and-18-cancers
90
48
Kind Engineering [video]
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa21/presentation/smith
86
114
Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/01/tech/facebook-extremist-notification/
13
API Improvement Proposals
https://google.aip.dev/
83
38
Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bones, is on fire
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/kolyma-highway-in-yakutia-also-known-as-the-road-of-bones-is-on-fire-and-temporarily-shut/
81
19
Getting to know logical clocks by implementing them
https://brunocalza.me/getting-to-know-logical-clocks-by-implementing-them/
80
32
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852)
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
24
Plants that change our consciousness
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/06/plants-change-our-consciousness
78
Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/01/could-miniature-forests-help-air-condition-cities
77
Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever
https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever/
14
REvil ransomware executes supply chain attack via malicious Kaseya update
https://therecord.media/revil-ransomware-executes-supply-chain-attack-via-malicious-kaseya-update/
AlpineJS – Lightweight JavaScript Framework
https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
51
Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/canadian-inferno-northern-heat-exceeds-worst-case-climate-models
‘Dragon Man’ may be an elusive Denisovan
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6550/11
190
Libertarian Party of Colorado First to Officially Support Ending IP
https://lpedia.org/wiki/Document:Colorado_State_Party_Platform_2021#Intellectual_Monopolies
Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React
https://research.protocol.ai/blog/2021/designing-a-dataflow-editor-with-typescript-and-react/
74
60
Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon’s CEO After 27 Years
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/jeff-bezos-steps-down-amazon-110000036.html
71
23
WASM to PS Compiler
https://github.com/no-defun-allowed/wasm2ps
Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ Covid study