872
259
Npm Audit: broken by design?
https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/
4 years ago
740
271
A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
http://www.minimizedistraction.com/
487
265
Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
https://vivaldi.com/blog/letter-ban-surveillance-based-advertising/
471
403
Haiti’s President Is Assassinated
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/07/world/jovenel-moise-assassinated-killed
411
291
The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/news.asp
328
Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study
https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/psilocybin-repairs-brains-cells-depression-yale-study-shows/
402
78
Runway – Create impossible video
https://runwayml.com/
378
295
What Does My Site Cost?
https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/test/210707_AiDc36_6f01cdff93b8299725303f88e60febbc
369
80
An Intern’s Guide to Trading
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/an-interns-guide-to-trading-2021-07-01
286
198
How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?
https://www.quora.com/How-useful-was-the-Netflix-Prize-challenge-for-Netflix/answer/Xavier-Amatriain?share=1
283
Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively
https://libimobiledevice.org/
276
108
Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-kind-of-information-coding-seen-in-the-human-brain-20210707/
263
208
YouTube algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies: study
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-investigation-youtube-algorithm-recommends-videos-that-violate-the-platforms-very-own-policies/
238
234
Corona Game: A simulation of how Covid-19 spreads
https://koronahra.cz/game
195
What really happened to Jack Ma?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2021/06/24/what-really-happened-to-jack-ma/
230
268
DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants
https://blog.doordash.com/aligning-reward-with-impact-an-update-to-our-equity-vesting-approach-96bf61d21eda
113
AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they're looking at phones
https://mashable.com/article/flemish-politicians-ai-phone-use
218
89
First new VAX in 30 years?
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003899.html
212
40
Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/apollo-11-implementation-of-trigonometric-functions
204
Ideas in statistics that have powered AI
https://news.columbia.edu/news/top-10-ideas-statistics-ai
197
73
SVG favicons have some cool benefits
https://austingil.com/svg-favicons/
191
202
Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication
https://zitadel.ch/blog/imo-rba-is-broken/
190
42
Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver
https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/wifi
184
155
A classic Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – under scrutiny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/06/facebook-bulletin-antitrust/
182
164
The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/cost-new-way-message-instagram
174
51
The first on-orbit fuel depot has been deployed
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-07-07-Issue-124/#a-first-on-orbit-fuel-depot-has-been-deployed
173
146
macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/07/07/extensions-are-moving-away-from-the-kernel/
162
38
Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015)
https://egamebook.com/blog/complex-systems-simple-interface/
160
19
Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (1977-1996)
http://graficaobscura.com/
159
114
Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/11/gibraltar-airport-worlds-only-airport.html?m=1
152
Project Oberon Emulator in JavaScript and Java
https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/
53
SQL Join Types Explained in Visuals
https://dataschool.com/how-to-teach-people-sql/sql-join-types-explained-visually/
148
45
Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma
https://www.koyeb.com/blog/the-koyeb-serverless-engine-from-kubernetes-to-nomad-firecracker-and-kuma
147
43
HIV vaccine trial starts at Oxford
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-07-05-hiv-vaccine-trial-starts-oxford
85
Arduino Pro hardware is not open-source hardware
https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/07/07/arduino-pro-hardware-is-not-open-source-hardware/
144
Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chip-red-pill/udbgInstr/main/paper/undocumented_x86_insts_for_uarch_control.pdf
134
62
Show HN: SQLite query inside a Bash function
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762201
126
Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties psychedelic pop
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/easy_listening_acid_trip_an_elevator_ride_through_sixties_psychedelic_pop
125
16
Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/chrome-google-dse-preconnect.html
123
63
Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Windows Flaw
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/microsoft-issues-emergency-patch-for-windows-flaw/
121
Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avqx3/debit-card-apps-for-kids-are-collecting-a-shocking-amount-of-personal-data
77
Manual for a popular facial recognition tool shows how much the software tracks
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/07/06/this-manual-for-a-popular-facial-recognition-tool-shows-just-how-much-the-software-tracks-people
120
110
Coming to Terms with Tailwind
https://johanronsse.be/2021/07/07/coming-to-terms-with-tailwind/
Not school or homeschool, but modular learning
https://manisharoses.medium.com/not-school-or-homeschooling-but-modular-learning-5233927f8fc9
117
Camera Repair Course (2019)
https://learncamerarepair.com/productlist.php?category=1
112
Audacity fork dev quits due physical abuse by 4Chan
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/tenacity_maintainer_quits_4chan_harassment/
111
17
Launch HN: Evidently AI (YC S21) – Track and Debug ML Models in Production
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27760627
88
Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers? [pdf]
https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/carrier.pdf
105
24
The curious death of Oppenheimer’s mistress (2015)
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/12/11/the-curious-death-of-oppenheimers-mistress/
103
34
Right to repair movement gains power in US and Europe
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57744091
97
153
SF's crime debate turns nasty
https://cwnevius.substack.com/p/sfs-crime-debate-turns-nasty
93
154
We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/we-need-a-butlerian-jihad-against
205
Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ketchum-idaho-has-plenty-of-available-jobs-but-workers-cant-afford-housing-11625659200
82
55
Comparison of Haskell and Julia List Comprehensions
https://blog.lojic.com/2020/12/26/comprehensions-in-julia.html
JanusGraph – Distributed, open source, scalable graph database
https://janusgraph.org/
15
Dbcritic: Constructively criticizing your Postgres schema (using Idris)
https://www.channable.com/tech/dbcritic-constructively-criticizing-your-postgres-schema
76
11
Show HN: Open-source real-time transcription playground (React, Python, GCP)
https://github.com/saharmor/realtime-transcription-playground
74
3
Facebook is trying to kill the Chrome extension Unfollow Everything
https://twitter.com/gchaslot/status/1410843427164598275
The Old Computer Challenge
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-07-old-computer-challenge.html
72
Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762922
Controlling Marantz amplifier using Arduino via “Remote” socket
https://smallhacks.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/controlling-marantz-amplifier-using-arduino-via-remote-socket/
Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing