1328
447
NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/nda-expired-lets-spill-the-beans-on-a-weird-startup/
5 years ago
529
106
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
https://github.com/romeovs/creep
524
313
Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
https://www.baneproctoring.com/#letter
477
162
Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57763037
407
167
How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/how-the-chronicle-is-trying-to-malign-sci-hub/
389
282
Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking
https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/do-patents-kill-innovation-us-patent-office-asking
367
206
New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/new-mirror-fabric-can-cool-wearers-nearly-5-c
355
Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-tells-bosses-to-conceal-when-employees-are-on-a-performance-management-plan/
315
68
SpriteStack Voxel Editor
https://spritestack.io/
293
242
Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)
https://daedtech.com/programmers-teach-non-geeks-the-true-cost-of-interruptions/
255
174
The Amazon 'Personal Games' Policy
https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/amazon-games-personal-game-policy
249
479
Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1014095135/barry-diller-headed-2-hollywood-studios-he-now-says-the-movie-business-is-dead
246
My trust in software, an all time low
https://underjord.io/trust-in-software-an-all-time-low.html
52
MIT OpenCourseWare
https://ocw.mit.edu/
232
69
Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash
https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash
225
240
Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives SF customers back to taxis
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/rideshare-surge-pricing-drives-angry-sf-customers-back-to-taxis/
223
82
Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds
https://earthly.dev/
222
101
Google “bought off Samsung” to limit app store competition, 36 states allege
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/google-bought-off-samsung-to-limit-app-store-competition-36-states-allege/
220
214
F# is the best coding language today
https://danielbmarkham.com/fsharp-is-the-best-programming-language-today/
207
122
Concise algorithms written in Julia
https://github.com/mossr/BeautifulAlgorithms.jl
205
189
Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust
https://www.areweguiyet.com/#ecosystem
199
40
Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/09/beetle-that-can-walk-upside-down-under-water-surface-filmed-in-australia-in-world-first
197
164
GraalVM at Facebook
https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-at-facebook-af09338ac519
191
269
A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dying forest language
https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-05-06/small-town-sweden-fights-preserve-elfdalian-dying-forest-language
180
76
Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support
https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/releases/tag/release%2F2021.7%2F2021.202
153
Regarding Michael Pollan’s New Book This Is Your Mind on Plants
https://harpers.org/2021/07/regarding-michael-pollans-new-book-this-is-your-mind-on-plants/
145
66
Passive radiative cooling below ambient airtemperature under direct sun (2014) [pdf]
https://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Raman_Nature_515_540_2014.pdf
143
10
Kmart In-Store Music Tapes [audio]
https://forkeepspodcast.com/71-kmart-in-store-music-tapes-saved-by-mark-davis
142
46
What I learned from Erlang about resiliency in systems design (2019)
https://www.mgasch.com/2019/03/crash/
14
How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (2019)
https://blog.teddykatz.com/2019/11/12/github-actions-dos.html
140
134
A simple mistake that stuffed up world temperature records for 90 years
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-09/global-temperature-record-mistake/100244736
It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us
http://www.redcross.ca/about-us/about-the-canadian-red-cross/red-cross-emblem/it-may-just-be-a-game-to-you-but--it-means-the-world-to-us
132
318
Alcohol-free beer is fizzing
https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/07/alcohol-free-beer-is-fizzing
131
Casa Client Case Study: The Tinder Trap
https://blog.keys.casa/casa-client-case-study-the-tinder-trap/
123
38
My proposal for scaling open source: don’t
https://www.sicpers.info/2021/07/my-proposal-for-scaling-open-source-dont/
118
173
Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/07/ai-is-transforming-the-coding-of-computer-programs
113
28
Seagate Barracuda Ramp Weakness (2016)
https://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/seagate-barracuda-ramp-weakness/
112
27
Show HN: Tilemaker – DIY vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data
https://tilemaker.org
103
Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27783939
109
33
Blitsort is an in-place stable adaptive rotate merge sort
https://github.com/scandum/blitsort/
22
Gmail is blocking emails with links to Tutanota
https://twitter.com/TutanotaTeam/status/1413408730092384260
108
2
Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti
99
CMake Part 1 – The Dark Arts
https://blog.feabhas.com/2021/07/cmake-part-1-the-dark-arts/
A History of Clojure [video]
https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.11.html
98
26
How to achieve sustainable remote work
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-to-achieve-sustainable-remote-work
48
VPN – A Very Precarious Narrative
https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html
95
85
M1 MacBook battery life so good Apple thought indicator was broken
https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/09/m1-macbook-battery-life/
94
9
Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer (2019)
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/12/vladimir-lukyanovs-water-computer.html
91
16
Ask HN: Collection of Pitch Decks?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782377
90
18
Mathematicians prove symmetry of phase transitions at critical moments
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-symmetry-of-phase-transitions-20210708/
81
71
German region to fine Tesla for illegal construction
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/german-region-fine-tesla-illegal-construction-2021-07-08/
This Week in Rust 398
https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2021/07/07/this-week-in-rust-398/
79
59
How Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/07/how-intel-financialized-and-lost-leadership-in-semiconductor-fabrication.html
77
86
GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It
https://medium.com/geekculture/githubs-ai-copilot-might-get-you-sued-if-you-use-it-c1cade1ea229
50
Surveilling the Gamers: Privacy Impacts of the Video Game Industry
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3881279
105
Could a four-day working week become the norm?
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/07/08/could-a-four-day-working-week-become-the-norm
75
11
Serverless Computing: A Security Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03832
