843
303
Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance
https://looking-glass.io/
5 years ago
446
An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
https://fanfan.rambo.codes/
659
544
Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship
643
167
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/
591
137
Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus
573
146
Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute
https://avi.im/blag/2021/fast-sqlite-inserts/
416
iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus
https://twitter.com/billmarczak/status/1416801514685796352
350
263
The Perils of M1 Ownership
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/07/18/last-week-on-my-mac-the-perils-of-m1-ownership/
301
121
Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)
https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html
286
160
Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/07/16/word-gap-when-moneys-tight-parents-talk-less-to-kids/
282
200
Show HN: I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD
https://checkyourlist.app/
140
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/dont-let-police-arm-autonomous-or-remote-controlled-robots-and-drones
278
118
“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis
275
48
ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust
https://github.com/erikgrinaker/toydb
272
91
Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280
223
64
Tesseract OCR
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
222
52
Greenland bans all oil exploration
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greenland-oil-1.6105230
219
193
Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv739/police-destroy-1069-bitcoin-miners-with-big-ass-steamroller-in-malaysia
213
53
Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
203
24
How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-how-nso-s-pegasus-is-used-to-spy-on-journalists-1.10010560
84
The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/06/10/inside-the-imaginarium-of-a-solarpunk-architect/
187
101
Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/10946/into-the-zone-4-days-inside-chernobyls-secretive-stalker-subculture
183
72
The new ProtonMail has passed its independent security audit
https://protonmail.com/blog/security-audit/
176
43
Habits of Expert Software Designers (2019)
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/
175
66
BANCStar (2000)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050313023432/http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Station/2266/tarpit/bancstar.html
154
59
NIL
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/01_dadd.htm
151
31
Piper: GTK application to configure gaming mice
https://github.com/libratbag/piper
148
81
NYC Mesh Community Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/nyregion/nyc-mesh-community-internet.html
147
97
How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-you-wound-playing-em-oregon-trailem-computer-class-180959851/
143
60
Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonical-2020-Filing
142
141
“We're Shutting Down Our 3G Network”
https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-network/
173
Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021
https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-smartphone-market-q2-2021
Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-cannabis-domesticated-years.html
133
69
A reporter’s fight to expose Epstein’s crimes, and earn a living
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/opinion/julie-brown-epstein-book.html
132
32
Perlin vs. Simplex
https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/07/perlin-vs-simplex/
131
78
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017)
https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
127
Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to support “full self-driving”
https://electrek.co/2021/07/18/tesla-is-charging-owners-1500-for-hardware-they-already-paid-for/
125
98
GitHub Copilot: First Impressions
https://vladiliescu.net/github-copilot-first-impressions/
123
481
Cities try to phase out gas stoves but cooks are pushing back
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-try-to-phase-out-gas-stovesbut-cooks-are-pushing-back-11626514200
120
87
Show HN: C3 – A C alternative that looks like C
https://github.com/c3lang/c3c
114
20
Racket v8.2
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/07/racket-v8-2.html
112
Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)
https://www.noaa.gov/news/study-global-plant-growth-surging-alongside-carbon-dioxide
99
168
React's UI State Model vs. Vanilla JavaScript
https://arihantverma.com/posts/2021/07/17/react-ui-state-model-vs-vanilla-js/
61
Show HN: Work with CSV files using SQL. For data scientists and engineers
https://superintendent.app/