405
145
What Went Wrong?
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3475967
4 years ago
378
226
Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
https://www.cyberscoop.com/telegram-app-security-encryption/
339
180
GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea
https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a37029490/gm-will-suck-lithium-from-the-salton-sea-to-make-batteries/
319
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I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbmwy/im-a-frito-lay-factory-worker-i-work-12-hour-days-7-days-a-week
306
80
HaikuOS running on RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched)
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-progress-on-real-risc-v-hardware/10963/31
300
113
A Short Guide to Iraq (1943)
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/short-guide-to-iraq.html
293
103
TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0
https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc/news/tftc-v10-is-out-now
287
199
A Solarpunk Manifesto
http://www.re-des.org/a-solarpunk-manifesto/
265
230
Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design
https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
251
164
The database ruins all good ideas
http://squarism.com/2021/07/08/databases-ruin-all-good-ideas/
249
299
Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education?
https://slate.com/business/2021/07/masters-degrees-debt-loans-worth-it.html
232
86
Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production
https://fullstaqruby.org/
225
62
Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/mysterious-dna-sequences-known-borgs-recovered-california-mud
212
41
Show HN: Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System
https://gorse.io/
198
215
Cancer risks increase with alcohol use, leading to over 740k cases last year
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/16/1016586837/new-study-says-nearly-3-4-million-cancers-a-year-linked-to-alcohol-use
175
119
Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation
https://github.com/pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server
160
89
Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods
https://mattmower.com/2021/07/17/elixir-protocols-vs-clojure-multimethods/
159
65
The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships
https://every.to/cybernaut/the-blurred-lines-of-parasocial-relationships
152
13
What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)
https://www.simplanations.in/people/2046200-vivek-raju
134
Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html
128
115
Fasting lowers blood pressure by reshaping the gut microbiota
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210429123340.htm
118
Show HN: Make spaced-repetition flashcards
https://zorbi.cards
117
77
dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8)
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210717141912
20
A man in Egypt keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile-making [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5x7GLl-mMo
112
140
Intuit will no longer be a part of IRS Free File program
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/16/intuit-will-no-longer-participate-in-an-irs-free-tax-filing-program-.html
108
10
Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]
http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_of_showrunning_nice_version.pdf
107
57
Show HN: CalDOM: An agnostic, reactive and minimalist JavaScript UI library
https://caldom.org
106
36
Is Apollo 11’s lunar module still in orbit around the moon? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHbLV7xEhc
104
52
The U.S. set off a nuclear bomb in space in 1962
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-the-us-once-set-off-a-nuclear-bomb-in-space-called-starfish-prime
101
31
Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
http://shapecatcher.com/
95
Consciousness and the Laws of Physics
https://philpapers.org/rec/CARCAT-31
92
26
BlenderBot 2.0: A chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/blender-bot-2-an-open-source-chatbot-that-builds-long-term-memory-and-searches-the-internet
161
Google Maps updates 'dangerous' Ben Nevis route
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-57873330
110
The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic
https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-metaphysical-presuppositions-of.html
87
24
Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator
https://electronicsdeli.net/2021/06/23/mk52/
16
Magnetism Simulations: Three Months in Monte Carlo
http://bit-player.org/2021/three-months-in-monte-carlo
Nim on the Attack: Process Injection Using Nim and the Windows API
https://huskyhacks.dev/2021/07/17/nim-exploit-dev/
76
Imperial Delusions
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/imperial-delusions/
69
37
Every Super Nintendo Port on the Game Boy Advance Compared (2020)
https://captrobau.blogspot.com/2020/05/as-i-mentioned-in-my-previous-post-im.html
28
12 Months, 850 Languages, 63 Fonts, No Waiting Or: Thank God for Google Noto
https://curiousnotions.com/blog/#7/14/2021
54
Linux: Using goto In Kernel Code (2003)
https://web.archive.org/web/20130305022050/http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131
9
Mount of piety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_piety
60
Designing Synced Blocks
https://www.notion.so/blog/designing-synced-blocks
93
Pay secrecy: Why some workers can't discuss salaries
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210708-pay-secrecy-why-some-workers-cant-discuss-salaries
Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud
