809
339
Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix
4 years ago
724
316
Windows 96
https://windows96.net
717
138
Naval Architecture
https://ciechanow.ski/naval-architecture/
687
191
Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/father-builds-exoskeleton-help-wheelchair-bound-son-walk-2021-07-26/
601
137
Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-a-search-engine-in-a-database
500
598
For developers, Safari is crap and outdated
https://blog.perrysun.com/2021/07/15/for-developers-safari-is-crap-and-outdated/
495
528
Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday
https://www.axios.com/activision-blizzard-walkout-harassment-lawsuit-fefa807b-107e-41e2-a6e2-78a086119e04.html
441
225
Discord Launches Threads
https://blog.discord.com/connect-the-conversation-with-threads-on-discord-3f5fa8b0f6b
434
150
Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill%27s_mystery_soda_machine
362
126
Curated list of personal blogs
https://refined.blog/
351
45
Netcat – All you need to know
https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/netcat/
350
133
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html
333
213
Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595227/star-wars-lucasfilm-mandalorian-rogue-one-hire-deepfake-shamook
315
114
Monkey Island PC-speaker music player
https://www.thanassis.space/monkeyisland.html
304
104
Google launches new vulnerability reward platform
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/07/a-new-chapter-for-googles-vulnerability.html
277
51
Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-emerge-from-open-ended-play
271
131
Israeli military search team helped recover majority of Surfside victims
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/07/26/surfside-condo-collapse-how-israeli-team-found-majority-victims/8021350002/
202
182
Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971757
201
188
TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA17674
196
23
FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia
https://forums.fast.ai/t/ann-announcing-fastai-jl-fastai-for-julia/90228
190
109
Live Starlink Satellite Map
http://satellitemap.space/
69
A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-soil-science-revolution-upends-plans-to-fight-climate-change-20210727/
187
98
Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo
https://candidegardening.com/GB/identify-plants
WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencents-wechat-suspends-new-user-registration-cites-technical-upgrade-2021-07-27/
176
108
Functional Programming in OCaml
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2021sp/textbook/intro/intro.html
168
93
Columbo: an origin story (2018)
https://columbophile.com/2018/02/17/columbo-an-origin-story/
166
77
Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-ebay-employee-gets-18-months-prison-abominable-cyberstalking-campaign-2021-07-27/
165
194
It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it
https://groundtruthautonomy.com/its-not-self-driving-car-unless-you-can-sleep-in-it/
160
30
Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf
https://nicole.express/2021/remember-alf.html
158
189
In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
https://waywardstrategy.com/2021/07/27/hard-counters/
143
60
Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/western-canada-wildfires-creating-own-weather-experts-firestorm-1.6118889
36
Launch HN: Abbot (YC S21) – ChatOps as a Service, inspired by GitHub's Hubot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27974077
141
61
Getting sweet patron money on the modern internet (2020)
https://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2020/02/getting-sweet-patron-money-on-modern.html
153
Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
https://dankennedy.net/2020/12/09/blogging-is-dead-long-live-blogging-or-why-the-substack-hype-is-much-ado-about-very-little/
63
I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)
https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/26/how-i-created-a-350m-software-company-knowing-nothing-about-software/
Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal
https://www.charlieharrington.com/smart-phone-dumb-terminal/
229
Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/26/exclusive-half-covid-hospitalisations-tested-positive-admission/
72
We need to talk about testing
https://dannorth.net/2021/07/26/we-need-to-talk-about-testing/
123
20
Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone
https://vgnotepad.blogspot.com/2021/04/reprogramming-old-sennheiser-skm-3072-u.html
121
32
Show HN: iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code
https://tinkerstellar.com
120
United States sells Wu-Tang album forfeited by Martin Shkreli
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-sells-unique-wu-tang-clan-album-forfeited-convicted-hedge-fund-manager
112
99
Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)
https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/
193
IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-07-27-Announcing-IBM-z-OS-V2-5,-Next-Gen-Operating-System-Designed-for-Hybrid-Cloud-and-AI
105
9
Cryptanalysis of Meow Hash
https://peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysis
102
Show HN: AI Background Remover
https://www.photoroom.com/background-remover/
7
Compilers as Teachers
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/compilers-as-teachers/
164
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/07/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/
91
Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v2
94
Large cars kill US pedestrians, don't make drivers safer
https://twitter.com/justin_tyndall/status/1419790491076288516
Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can record iPhone screens (2017)
https://wccftech.com/apple-uber-secret-record-iphone-screen/
11
The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic)
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/47
90
87
Tesla second-quarter profits top $1B even as it struggles to handle demand
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/26/tesla-profits-second-quarter-demand-chip-shortage
88
124
Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change evidence gets
https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2021/07/japans-cherry-blossom-as-indisputable-as-climate-change-evidence-gets/
22
Analysis of large binaries and games in Ghidra-SRE
https://kiwidog.me/2021/07/analysis-of-large-binaries-and-games-in-ghidra-sre/
86
55
Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27968255
85
28
Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues
https://www.quantamagazine.org/fractons-the-weirdest-matter-could-yield-quantum-clues-20210726/
81
222
Mercedes-Benz teases super-efficient EV with over 1,000km of range
https://electrek.co/2021/07/22/mercedes-benz-teases-super-efficient-electric-car/
75
Get ready for many more record-shattering heatwaves
https://www.axios.com/record-shattering-heat-waves-becoming-far-more-likely-study-e13fde50-45d8-4bcd-bc86-efecba6c5217.html
THC: Tight Home Control, automation framework in Tcl
https://github.com/Drolla/thc
70
13
Lego logic gates and mechanical computing
https://www.randomwraith.com/logic.html
68
53
Blogger has bad UX and it annoys me
https://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/2021/07/blogger-has-bad-ux-and-it-annoys-me.html
12
Composable Data Validation with Haskell
https://www.foxhound.systems/blog/composable-data-validation/
67
46
Room C, where my little ballerina danced
https://jenniferbrogdon.substack.com/p/room-c
IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
