626
84
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/
4 years ago
589
538
Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-2.html
536
592
Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
https://www.techspot.com/news/90483-grandfather-died-heart-attack-after-minors-swatted-over.html
522
140
Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix
386
374
It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/17/standing-out/
375
319
Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/07/15/airbnb-raises-violent-crime-rates-in-cities-as-long-term-residents-are-pushed-out-says-us-
369
234
Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shubham-sharma-34bbab18b_webdevelopment-css-html-activity-6820715919568961536-WApS/
62
A digital museum of video game levels
https://noclip.website
348
248
Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/opinion/intuit-turbotax-free-filing.html
328
136
Planning and estimating large-scale software projects
https://tomrussell.co.uk/writing/2021/07/19/estimating-large-scale-software-projects.html
311
178
Pelosi and a lifetime of trading
https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi
307
128
Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea
287
159
BBEdit 14
https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit14.html
275
195
Twike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twike
271
243
Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28044450/
262
268
Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack
https://slack.com/intl/en-es/blog/news/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-slack
257
42
Programmatic Video Editing with Python
https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy
66
Crystal 1.1.0
https://crystal-lang.org/2021/07/16/1.1.0-released.html
86
NSO Group Hacked
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/nso-group-hacked.html
241
805
Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/media/van-jones-bezos-100-million/index.html
237
93
How to gain more from your reading
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-gain-more-from-reading-by-taking-it-all-in-more-slowly
171
Spanish police seize large drone used to carry drugs from Morocco
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-07-15/spanish-police-seize-large-drone-used-to-carry-drugs-from-morocco.html
229
339
Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-plans-open-up-its-charging-network-other-evs-later-this-year-2021-07-20/
214
28
Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/useful-algorithms-that-are-not-optimized-by-jax-pytorch-or-tensorflow/
210
124
THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief
https://www.dw.com/en/thw-germanys-army-of-volunteers-for-disaster-relief/a-58320465
201
105
A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew
https://github.com/withfig/fig/discussions/300
192
38
Mastering the Basics of Icon Design
https://blog.thenounproject.com/mastering-the-basics-of-icon-design-with-adrien-coquet-9c3802093e30
188
81
Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client
https://github.com/goranmoomin/HackerNews
183
89
Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust
https://web.dev/webassembly-threads/
177
44
Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued
https://lichess.org/blog/YPc7GREAACgAevs5/fat-fritz-is-not-the-only-ripoff-and-now-chessbase-is-getting-sued
167
125
Enough is enough
https://www.nsogroup.com/Newses/enough-is-enough/
166
55
I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/21/magazine/i-just-learned-i-only-have-months-live-this-is-what-i-want-say/
251
The Colorado River is shrinking
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/colorado-river-shrinking-hard-choices-lie-ahead-scientist-warns
161
108
Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons
https://www.moll.dev/projects/effective-multi-dispatch/
158
24
0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (2011)
http://pvk.ca/Blog/LowLevel/software-reciprocal.html
155
49
Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/21/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-listed-spyware-targets-nso-leak-pegasus
153
182
AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-allows-customers-pay-their-usage-in-advance/
99
Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/dubai-fake-rain-heat-b1887596.html
152
90
How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance?
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-extension-performance-2021
151
9
MGBA Integration: Introducing the Integrated GBA
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/07/21/integrated-gba/
149
Launch HN: Epsilon3 (YC S21) – Software for spacecraft and complex operations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906787
145
29
I built my first serverless robot and won $1000
https://towardsdev.com/how-i-built-my-first-serverless-robot-and-won-200-87127a0b108c
142
67
Show HN: Digger.dev – A PaaS that generates Terraform, in your AWS account
https://diggerdev.com
139
82
Intel Distribution for Python
https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/oneapi/components/distribution-for-python.html
138
104
Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop applications to the browser
https://neverinstall.com
126
Quantum computing hype is bad for science
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quantum-computing-hype-bad-science-victor-galitski-1c
135
59
A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it
https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/
134
25
Show HN: Sunflower Editor – like adding console.log to every line of your code
https://editor.sunflower.industries/?loadExample=basicExample
133
Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27905277
Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/serial-swatter-who-caused-death-gets-five-years-in-prison/
Vulkan Memory Allocator
https://gpuopen.com/vulkan-memory-allocator/
120
14
Show HN: Web-based visualization for robotics and autonomous vehicles
https://foxglove.dev/
118
300
A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s founder
https://www.cjr.org/opinion/nieman-lab-lawsuit-joshua-benton-francesca-viola.php
113
88
Namedtuple in a Post-Dataclasses World
https://death.andgravity.com/namedtuples
112
60
Yet another background music for developer, if you missed working at cafe
https://sudo.fm
111
21
Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: “You can hurt yourself in the ocean” (2016)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/with-every-splashdown-nasa-embraces-the-legacy-of-gus-grissom/
106
148
Why aren't there more programming-language startups?
https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/why-arent-there-more-programming-languages-startups
102
A monorepo misconception – atomic cross-project commits
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2021-07-21-monorepo-atomic/
101
How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-the-ibm-pc-won-then-lost-the-personal-computer-market
35
Photographic Reference Scale (2019)
https://smallpond.ca/jim/scale/
91
7
Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-microbially-fibers-stronger-steel-tougher.html
87
58
Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation
https://morrick.me/archives/9407
83
Watching Jeff Bezos Go to Space Was More Depressing Than Inspiring
https://variety.com/2021/tv/columns/jeff-bezos-space-richard-branson-1235023553/
Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1346
70
Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed alleged use of Grindr
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-quits-after-anonymized-data-revealed-alleged-use-of-grindr/
95
MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/50e48200cde7e2eaffdc6b726a9cdf2659f0e073
80
Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing platform
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/21/epic-games-acquires-sketchfab-a-3d-model-sharing-platform/
27
There’s Toxicity, and There’s Toxicity (2017)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/11/06/theres-toxicity-and-theres-toxicity
157
Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-57888460
Ask HN: How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27912487
75
50
Binary Trees are optimal except when they’re not
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/binary-trees-are-optimal-except-when-theyre-not/
AI and Robots Are a Minefield of Cognitive Biases
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/humans-cognitive-biases-facing-ai
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