694
272
“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”
https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2021-07/thai-cave-rescue-thailand-tham-luang-2018-diver-mikko-paasi
4 years ago
652
328
Instagram Has Become SkyMall
https://clivethompson.medium.com/instagram-has-become-skymall-68b9f2fbbc30
499
339
Against SQL
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
489
347
25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-internet-router-pc-build/
429
84
Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda
https://www.bschaatsbergen.com/behind-the-scenes-lambda
336
397
Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-05/solar-power-is-dirt-cheap-and-about-to-get-even-more-powerful
168
Non Session Manager vs New Session Manager
https://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/2021-02-07%20Linux%20Audio%20is%20Dead
302
150
Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use
https://fairuseify.ml
268
180
Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Using_IceWM_and_sharing_my_config_and_tips_tricks.html
224
118
What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020)
https://www.blopig.com/blog/2020/12/casp14-what-google-deepminds-alphafold-2-really-achieved-and-what-it-means-for-protein-folding-biology-and-bioinformatics/
216
40
Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/09/data-infrastructure/ribbon-filter/
211
57
PostgreSQL, Memory and the Cloud
https://sosna.de/posts/pgaas-memory-overcommit/
209
50
AIeyes: Walking simulator where the world is seen through a realtime neural net
https://tmdev.itch.io/aieyes
206
154
FDA head asks for investigation into Aduhelm drug approval
https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-head-asks-for-investigation-into-aduhelm-drug-approval-2021-7
183
140
No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/no-bids-over-70-indian-coal-mines-up-auction-2021-07-09/
181
143
80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
https://twitter.com/eric_khun/status/1413724571765809152
179
Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1779166
156
74
Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (2019)
https://twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013
83
Preschool children rarely seek data when observation and testimony conflict
https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13612
151
241
Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/06/19/apple-iphone-warning-switch-google-maps-to-apple-maps-after-chrome-and-gmail-backlash/
34
Show HN: Hck – a fast and flexible cut-like tool
https://github.com/sstadick/hck
145
47
Expressive Animator: free software vector animation and motion graphics editor
https://www.expressivesuite.com/products/expressive-animator.html
119
A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution
https://blog.jreypo.io/2021/07/09/a-look-into-cbl-mariner-microsoft-internal-linux-distribution/
144
20
Nicole gets a real computer – the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard (2020)
https://nicole.express/2020/nicole-gets-a-real-computer.html
139
27
The Ink programming language
https://dotink.co/
137
198
A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/
131
35
HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser
https://www.httrack.com/
129
89
Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/09/death-valley-record-high-temperature/
128
191
Introverts didn't 'win' lockdown
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210705-why-introverts-didnt-actually-win-lockdown
124
EdgeDB: EdgeQL
https://website-atgsmhega-edgedb.vercel.app/docs/tutorial/queries
113
33
The strange, sketchy emails a browser extension developer receives
https://micahcantor.xyz/blog/extension-developer-emails/
112
53
We can now harvest usable lithium from seawater: study
https://interestingengineering.com/lithium-from-seawater
109
95
Quarter-dose of Moderna Covid vaccine still rouses a big immune response
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01893-0
105
36
The global threat from plastic pollution
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6550/61
103
41
NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbq7z/nasa-is-quietly-funding-a-hunt-for-alien-megastructures
133
Efficiency eludes the construction industry (2017)
https://www.economist.com/business/2017/08/17/efficiency-eludes-the-construction-industry
101
30
Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (2019)
https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/04/28/rethinking-software-testing-perspectives-from-the-world-of-hardware/
100
71
The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210701-the-damaging-effects-of-boreout-at-work
Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
http://www.jtoy.net/blog/deep-reinforcement-learning-is-a-waste-of-time.html
Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717
94
90
A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot
http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/a_bitter_pill_for_Microsoft_Copilot/
93
Show HN: Unlimited, free intraday stock data API
https://www.styvio.com/home
87
Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016)
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161216-why-japan-celebrates-christmas-with-kfc
82
75
How safe is Colin Furze's tunnel?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/oh0vt0/how_safe_is_the_colin_furzes_tunnel/
80
31
The coupon code is a slap in the face (2013)
https://justinjackson.ca/the-coupon-code-is-a-slap-in-the-face
76
12
Nanofiber membrane makes seawater drinkable in minutes
https://www.inceptivemind.com/nanofiber-membrane-makes-seawater-drinkable-minutes/19959/
1
Zygalski Sheets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygalski_sheets
22
Cavalry – 2D Animation Software for Mac and Windows
https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/
73
49
Hottest Temperature Ever – A Crazy Year of Weather
https://peratonweather.com/blog/2021/7/9/715-am-hottest-temperature-ever-recorded-on-earth-took-place-on-july-10th-1913-in-death-valley-california-a-crazy-year-of-weather
68
42
The hottest temperature ever reliably measured recorded in Death Valley today
https://twitter.com/DrJeffMasters/status/1413662322896289794
66
AI Text-to-Speech models have accents too
https://blog.waleson.com/2021/07/text-to-speech-models-have-accents-too.html
Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some