987
351
EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)
https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-piracy-no-sales-impact.html
5 years ago
769
326
Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
https://wificard.io/
743
337
People Staring at Computers
https://kylemcdonald.net/psac/
470
563
Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/biden-launches-sweeping-action-on
422
186
Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill
https://www.thepodswap.com/
419
66
Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020)
https://kylegabriel.com/projects/2020/06/automated-hydroponic-system-build.html
231
Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash
https://betterprogramming.pub/3-programmers-got-fired-including-me-due-to-a-single-app-crash-35d4c94555da
328
244
Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-village-crack-completely-fixes-its-stuttering-issues/
273
94
WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
https://writefreely.org/
254
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'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memories like 25-year-olds
https://www.sciencealert.com/superagers-with-incredible-memories-have-brains-like-25-year-olds
241
251
Why do we use R rather than Excel?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/why-do-we-use-r-rather-than-excel/
239
117
I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?
https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/ohykfm/im_a_programmer_how_can_i_help_scihub/
220
79
Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES
https://github.com/Myself086/Project-Nested
212
72
Neorg: Neovim 0.5’s answer to modern life organization
https://github.com/vhyrro/neorg
205
269
Branson and crew reach space, return in runway landing
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/11/virgin-galactic-launch-live-updates-video-stream-richard-branson.html
194
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I Stopped Using Emojis
https://thistooshallgrow.com/blog/emoji-stop
182
32
Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (2011)
https://rugsofwar.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/the-september-11-commemorative-carpet/
181
149
Julia and the Reincarnation of Lisp (2020)
https://arnuldondata.medium.com/julia-and-the-reincarnation-of-lisp-f60cacd5822c
173
196
List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K
https://twitter.com/grahamwalker/status/1413964824770342912
171
15
Gaussian Processes from Scratch (2019)
https://peterroelants.github.io/posts/gaussian-process-tutorial/
153
99
Cybersecurity and the curse of binary thinking
https://www.philvenables.com/post/cybersecurity-and-the-curse-of-binary-thinking
144
10
Show HN: A tiny web browser implementation with V8 JavaScript engine and Rust
https://github.com/lmt-swallow/puppy-browser/
141
74
The Death of the Festival
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/girard-series-part-1-the-death-of-the-festival/
134
Who’s running the Vincere bot network on Instagram?
https://medium.com/swlh/whos-running-the-vincere-bot-network-on-instagram-a558be6c69db
133
25
A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/commemoration/EWD-commemoration-2021.pdf
132
Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance
https://kerberos.io/product/open-source/
125
250
No sane compiler would optimize atomics (2015)
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4455.html
123
77
How to manually merge two Apple IDs to one (2020)
https://www.brianstucki.com/blog/how-to-manually-merge-two-apple-ids-to-one/
119
106
Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTpWYWIfP7Y
121
Older job seekers get fewer offers on LinkedIn but a younger profile photo helps
https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/older-job-seekers-on-linkedin-get-fewer-job-offers-but-younger-profile-photo-helps/
30
Roger Waters – Thoughts on Facebook Ad Offer [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuv3aMwHf6Q
Bret Victor: Learnable Programming (2012)
http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
116
107
Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27802233
112
258
USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?
https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/07/usa-today-is-getting-a-paywall-whos-the-audience-for-it/
108
44
The Cultural Implications of Silence Around the World (2020)
https://www.rw-3.com/blog/cultural-implications-of-silence
61
It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home
https://www.ft.com/content/c6ba4621-d2c1-4140-96e1-e6cfc29806e2
103
27
Good and Bad Monitoring
https://raynorelyp.medium.com/good-and-bad-monitoring-9e1370d808c2
101
The B-52’s’ “Rock Lobster” brought John Lennon back to music (2020)
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-rock-lobster-b-52s/
96
28
How does USB device discovery work? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0O5Uwc3C0o
90
29
The History of Standard ML [audio]
https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.21.html
87
57
Royal Mail Rubber Band
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_rubber_band
86
23
Jelly: a recreational programming language inspired by J
https://github.com/DennisMitchell/jellylanguage
81
49
Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/the-pandemic-drove-asthma-attacks-down-why/619396/
Spotting a cherry-picked paper
https://www.notion.so/Spotting-a-cherry-picked-paper-19a91d062ef8481b964895a7a43c8429
78
42
AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready to hire
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/09/1028140/ai-voice-actors-sound-human/
