1130
388
How Dwarf Fortress is built
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/
4 years ago
903
346
The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
https://alexskra.com/blog/the-mermaid-is-taking-over-google-search-in-norway/
669
620
Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
https://i.postimg.cc/CLBCNx0Q/D4Hg99zw.jpg
627
360
Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale
623
118
Crafting Interpreters is available in print
http://craftinginterpreters.com/
544
502
Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html
454
173
“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1420807961518088194
427
140
Command line tools for productive programmers
https://earthly.dev/blog/command-line-tools/
413
211
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
334
342
Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO
https://www.reuters.com/technology/duolingo-valued-65-bln-shares-soar-debut-2021-07-28/
321
314
Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22598747/kindle-3g-network-shutdown-e-readers-no-internet
293
282
Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
http://mdolon.com/essays/amazon-has-ruined-search-and-google-is-in-on-it
290
135
Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
284
124
Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database
https://news.err.ee/1608291072/hacker-downloads-close-to-300-000-personal-id-photos
283
198
FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-white-papers-on-philosophical-and-legal-questions-around-copilot
237
74
Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/07/29/bootstraping-a-multiplayer-server-with-elixir-at-x-plane/
231
53
UsTaxes – open-source tax filing web application
https://ustaxes.org/start
210
185
The Playdate store is now open
https://shop.play.date/
91
One Tenth of a Second
https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/one-tenth-of-a-second
209
163
Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda
https://ez.substack.com/p/the-remote-culture-war-has-begun
203
244
The Itanic Has Sunk
https://honeypot.net/post/the-itanic-has-sunk/
194
65
So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming
https://css-tricks.com/so-you-want-to-self-publish-books-and-courses-on-programming/
164
49
Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors
https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate
162
142
Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
https://github.com/syncfast/clockwise
156
83
Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13023
153
101
Low level is easy (2008)
http://yosefk.com/blog/low-level-is-easy.html
151
286
The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU
https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease
149
128
The fig is an ecological marvel
https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-incredible-fig
148
41
Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa21-209a
147
14
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users
145
31
ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1420795248205312000
141
70
Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts
https://thewalrus.ca/smell-you-later-the-weird-science-of-how-sweat-attracts/
137
24
Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition
https://jacobian.org/2021/jul/8/appsec-pagnis/
136
112
M4 as a templating language (2020)
https://chrisman.github.io/9.html
59
Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/cal-newport-industrial-revolution-for-office-work/
133
60
You can be shy and still be a CEO
https://www.thecut.com/2021/07/how-thrilling-ceo-shilla-kim-parker-gets-it-done.html
132
M8.2 earthquake near Perryville, Alaska
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000f02w/executive
130
48
What the Heck is a Data Mesh?
https://cnr.sh/essays/what-the-heck-data-mesh
119
66
Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots
https://klarasystems.com/articles/lets-talk-openzfs-snapshots/
61
Water transformed into shiny, golden metal
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02065-w
104
US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/29/eviction-moratorium-expiration-renters
100
75
South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor
https://www.globallegalpost.com/news/south-africa-issues-worlds-first-patent-listing-ai-as-inventor-161068982
98
46
Announcing Vitess 11
https://vitess.io/blog/2021-07-27-announcing-vitess-11/
97
34
Rust Audio Development Forum
https://rust-audio.discourse.group/
95
22
Liveblocks: Add real‑time collaboration to your product in minutes
https://liveblocks.io/blog/introducing-liveblocks
93
20
Morloc: Foreign languages unified under common functional type system
https://github.com/morloc-project/morloc
92
15
Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver
https://blog.cri.epita.fr/post/2021-07-29-hunting-a-bug-in-the-i40e-intel-driver/
88
72
Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48896
68
Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996057
86
30
Show HN: WASM and WebGL Fluid Simulation
https://birchlabs.co.uk/liquidfun-wasm/
85
On Geofoam
https://theprepared.org/features-feed/on-geofoam
82
157
Facebook has sold 4M Quest 2 headsets in the US, recall docs reveal
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/quest-2-4-million-units
80
43
Show HN: Notes.cx – A simple, anonymous online notepad \w Markdown support
https://notes.cx/
78
52
Amazon ending IE11 support on Management Console and Documentation
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/heads-up-aws-support-for-internet-explorer-11-is-ending/
77
The weird world of Australian sea snakes
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2021/07/the-weird-world-of-australian-sea-snakes/
Swarm, the satellite connectivity company, debuts $499 evaluation kit
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/29/swarm-debuts-499-evaluation-kit-for-consumers-and-tinkerers/
76
CATL Unveils First Generation of Sodium-Ion Batteries
https://www.catl.com/en/news/665.html
73
47
Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/thousands-of-scientists-declare-worldwide-climate-emergency
25
A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12699
23
The Baked Data architectural pattern
https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/28/baked-data/
13
ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Gmy2s4Nmkw6VDv2B6b5K1DLYhPrTUqSntrlmYzJpNw/edit#
Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
