521
328
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/
4 years ago
509
377
Starlink review, four months in
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/spacexs-starlink-review-four-months
465
218
Akamai Edge DNS was down
https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/
452
127
Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools
https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives
444
424
A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
https://www.wired.com/story/why-youtube-chat-chess-flagged-hate-speech/
462
California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019293032/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-unequal-pay-sexual-harassment-video-games
405
276
The Tyranny of Spreadsheets
https://timharford.com/2021/07/the-tyranny-of-spreadsheets/
365
118
Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25
https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/21/reflections-as-the-internet-archive-turns-25/
359
137
MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT
https://microk8s.io/
357
70
Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp
353
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PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1019058925/utility-bury-power-lines-wildfires-california
315
58
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
305
428
Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/health/marijuana-schizophrenia-study-wellness/index.html
292
269
Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-pushed-a-one-character-typo-to-production-bricking-chrome-os-devices/
94
Hacker News in the Style of Teletext
https://glynnbird.github.io/teletext/
274
162
Zip – How not to design a file format
https://games.greggman.com/game/zip-rant/
259
82
Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages
https://bozhobg.medium.com/facebook-took-our-election-ad-money-then-bulk-deleted-our-pages-bbdf7bea948
255
158
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind
243
How to spot a good fake ID
https://trevorklee.com/how-to-spot-a-good-fake-id/
231
57
Implement unprivileged chroot
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699b
227
380
Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/21/twitter-tests-reddit-style-upvote-and-downvote-buttons/
221
171
My app failed: lessons learned
https://rithm.app/8-lessons-from-a-failed-version-1/
216
277
SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/10/21-1427_article
196
206
MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
https://www.arch13.com/ms-windows-defender-decss/
192
133
The LaTeX Font Catalogue
https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/
210
Even if you’re paying, you’re still the product
https://odysee.com/@CyberLounge:a/even-if-youre-paying-youre-still-the-product:7
190
167
RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00982-9
189
368
A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/penniless-two-decades-without-money
187
409
iDOS 2 will be gone soon
https://litchie.com/2021/07/idos2-will-be-gone
186
51
UK wants to reform Official Secrets law by pretending journalism doesn't exist
https://davidallengreen.com/2021/07/the-home-office-wants-to-reform-official-secrets-law-by-pretending-journalism-does-not-exist/
180
37
The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxc3mKqKTk
170
123
Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself
https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-apologize
164
74
Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code
https://george.mand.is/2021/06/idle-javascript-observations/
159
130
The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/bugs_expense_bs/
153
86
Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people
http://alias.co?ref=hn
150
152
The economic value of targeting aging
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00080-0
146
A priest was outed for using Grindr, experts say it’s a warning sign for privacy
https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/catholic-priest-grindr-data-privacy.html
144
61
Launch HN: hotglue (YC S21) – Easy user-facing SaaS integrations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27918900
142
20
Pfeilstorch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch
140
114
First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
https://www.mpg.de/17223684/0719-evan-lethal-attacks-by-chimpanzees-on-gorillas-observed-150495-x
136
107
Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods
https://sell.app
31
Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C
https://github.com/flouthoc/wiser
202
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57933718
41
How to exfiltrate code from Bitbucket
https://etodd.io/2021/07/21/how-to-exfiltrate-code-from-bitbucket/
131
116
Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you
https://magicbell.com/blog/artist-to-ui-designer-career-transition
129
16
RVVM – RISC-V Virtual Machine
https://github.com/lekkit/rvvm
119
121
10 years since the Utoya massacre in Norway
https://www.vg.no/spesial/2021/22-juli/english/
109
22
Dlib: Modern C++/Python Toolkit for Machine Learning
http://dlib.net/
105
Activision Blizzard Sued by California over ‘Frat Boy’ Culture
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture
104
23
Entropy and Algebra and Topology = ?
https://www.math3ma.com/blog/entropy-algebra-topology
CIA director says he is escalating efforts to solve 'Havana Syndrome'
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1013402176/cia-director-says-he-is-escalating-efforts-to-solve-havana-syndrome-mystery
103
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‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/22/nso-group-ceo-defends-1-billion-spyware-company-against-pegasus-project-hacking-allegations/
99
I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi
https://medium.com/@davidkongfilm/how-i-hacked-my-standing-desk-with-a-raspberry-pi-a50ed14c7f6f
97
39
4.6B-year-old meteorite found
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2021/july/meteorite-reveal-origins-life-on-earth/
78
The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job
https://zipcpu.com/blog/2021/01/29/hiring.html
92
Macros on Steroids: How pure C can benefit from metaprogramming
https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/macros-on-steroids-or-how-can-pure-c-benefit-from-metaprogramming.html
91
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Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
https://winaero.com/microsoft-confirms-taskbar-in-windows-11-no-longer-supports-drag-and-drop/
88
93
Launch HN: Payflow (YC S21) – Allow workers to access their wages instantly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916764
43
Worse Is Better (2001)
https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
87
The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works
https://www.publicbooks.org/the-realism-of-our-times-kim-stanley-robinson-on-how-science-fiction-works/
10
Preserving Worlds: a travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds
https://preservingworlds.net/
90
A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub
https://bien.ee/a-contenteditable-pasted-garbage-and-caret-placement-walk-into-a-pub/
80
14
Fuzzing Modern UDP Game Protocols with Snapshot-Based Fuzzers
http://blog.ret2.io/2021/07/21/wtf-snapshot-fuzzing/
79
3
Algorithmic Botany, Biological Modelling and Visualization Software
http://algorithmicbotany.org/virtual_laboratory/
Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance (2013)
https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/
73
108
Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57922664
MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT