743
368
The Insecurity Industry
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal
4 years ago
699
436
TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-eyes-Germany-as-possible-location-for-first-Europe-chip-plant
614
747
Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594235/toyota-lobbying-dc-ev-congress-biden-donation
578
183
Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
https://news.yale.edu/2021/07/22/eyes-wide-shut-how-newborn-mammals-dream-world-theyre-entering
516
334
Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-shotspotter-to-alter-evidence-from-gunshot-detecting-ai
504
348
About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212623
475
130
Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/understanding-rust-futures-by-going-way-too-deep
399
283
Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/tether-executives-said-to-face-criminal-probe-into-bank-fraud
115
Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research
https://twitter.com/benskuhn/status/1419281153983500290
342
92
A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint
https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo
333
Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/14489
327
94
Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel
https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1419469011734073347
326
316
What's bad about Julia?
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/badjulia/
295
103
My First CSS
https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2021/my-first-css
289
219
Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1
277
290
Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
https://mleverything.substack.com/p/why-does-nbc-make-it-so-difficult
276
456
Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers
https://github.com/SteveMCarroll/PronouncingNamesForEnglishSpeakers
262
138
Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-build-qualcomm-chips-aims-catch-foundry-rivals-by-2025-2021-07-26/
244
Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformation-social-media.html
238
109
Debian for Mobile
https://mobian-project.org/
230
96
Git-blame-someone-else
https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else
226
142
Autofill in password managers can allow login credentials to be stolen
https://marektoth.com/blog/password-managers-autofill/
220
121
BLAKE3 1.0
https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/releases/tag/1.0.0
202
291
Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science
69
Launch HN: InstaKin (YC S21) - Help immigrants to manage tasks in home countries
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27958605
188
258
PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/gaming-and-games/cp/game?~ck=mn
185
42
Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/finding-windows-handle-leaks-in-chromium-and-others/
184
218
Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it's downright lethal
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/auto-pilot-i-give-up-its-downright-lethal.234498/
176
Haiku Beta 3
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-07-26_media_release_the_haiku_project_celebrates_the_release_of_beta_3/
173
26
What time-weighted averages are and why you should care
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-time-weighted-averages-are-and-why-you-should-care/?
146
242
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich [pdf]
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences_of_major_tax_cuts_published.pdf
157
Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake (2018)
https://yurideigin.medium.com/jaccuse-why-122-year-longevity-record-may-be-fake-af87fc0c3133
132
Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (2008)
https://blog.gatunka.com/2008/05/05/why-japan-didnt-create-the-ipod/
141
61
APSE – A Personal Search Engine
https://apse.io/
139
169
Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-denies-report-accepting-bitcoin-payment-2021-07-26/
137
255
Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-launches-a-career-program-for-people-with-autism
134
Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27959475
124
Japanese Typewriters
https://blog.gatunka.com/2009/09/30/japanese-typewriters/
67
Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list
https://holub.com/heuristics-for-effective-software-development-a-continuously-evolving-list/
120
60
Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps
https://ramblemaps.com/worlds-most-detailed-maps
118
150
US set for punishing temperatures as ‘heat dome’ to settle over country
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/24/america-heatwave-climate-crisis-heat-dome
113
55
Amid massive hospital sell-off, corporate giant continues suing patients
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/26/1019916638/amid-massive-hospital-sell-off-corporate-giant-continues-suing-patients
More Protein Folding Progress – What’s It Mean?
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/07/23/more-protein-folding-progress-whats-it-mean
Farmers always worked from home
https://piszek.com/2021/07/26/farmers-work-from-home/
112
174
Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies
https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/564696-bye-bye-bitcoin-time-to-ban-crypto-currencies
108
131
Peter the Great’s Beard Tax
https://daily.jstor.org/peter-the-greats-beard-tax/
107
155
Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27958431
105
84
Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16823/intel-accelerated-offensive-process-roadmap-updates-to-10nm-7nm-4nm-3nm-20a-18a-packaging-foundry-emib-foveros
104
41
The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-first-atomic-bomb-created-this-forbidden-quasicrystal
101
12
Evolution of tree data structures for indexing
https://erthalion.info/2020/11/28/evolution-of-btree-index-am
100
151
Tesla 2Q 2021 Quarterly Result
https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/ZBOUYO_TSLA_Q2_2021_Update_DJCVNJ.pdf?xseo=&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D%22q2_2021.pdf%22
70
Co-working with friends over video in virtual gather.town office
https://guzey.com/co-working/
99
27
Scaleway: Incident SSD was stolen during a secure transport between datacenters
https://blog.scaleway.com/incident-securitaire-video-youtube/
98
93
Why can't software engineers work from home most of the time? (2016)
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80668/why-cant-software-engineers-work-from-home-most-of-the-time
Reconstructed path of Ingenuity flight 9 via photogrammetry
https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1419414622973616129
35
Hastening Linux process cleanup with process_mrelease
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/864184/06caefb9c8f2bbd5/
91
Index machine: an open source pick and place machine
https://github.com/index-machines/index
90
71
Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans (2018)
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/open-offices-have-driven-panasonic-to-make-horse-blinders-for-humans/
89
65
Counterfactuals are not causality
https://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2021/06/counterfactuals-are-not-causality/
80
123
Is Aging Inevitable?
https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2021/06/17/is-aging-inevitable/
PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption