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151
Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
4 years ago
567
77
Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
https://phiresky.netlify.app/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/
415
270
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)
https://locusmag.com/2020/11/cory-doctorow-past-performance-is-not-indicative-of-future-results/
377
598
Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
223
Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
https://www.pcgamer.com/how-blizzards-reputation-collapsed-in-just-3-years/
350
247
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)
https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/
346
333
The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environment-plastic-oil-recycling/
339
132
Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9
https://github.com/cy384/ssheven
301
153
Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/chemistry/olympic-medal-composition
299
176
Six corporations control 90% of America media
https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020/
293
173
Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Drone Documents
https://thedissenter.org/daniel-hale-receives-harshest-sentence-ever-for-a-leak/
272
130
Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend
https://github.com/langjam/langjam
114
Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017289
245
236
Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/jeff-bezos-loses-attempt-to-block-the-moon-landing-contract-nasa-gave-to-spacex/
238
96
Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases
https://www.amazon.com/gp/b2b/reports
211
Where has all the productivity gone?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/07/31/where-has-productivity-gone/
235
166
FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fbi-probe-shows-amount-chemicals-beirut-blast-was-fraction-original-shipment-2021-07-30/
100
Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C
https://twitter.com/ilyakurdyukov/status/1421349901720510465
213
495
Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58014256
209
107
PM orders internet blocked for anyone spreading info that might frighten people
https://chiangmaione.com/featured/pm-orders-internet-blocked-for-anyone-spreading-info-that-might-frighten-people
203
91
Safari extension rejected because developer not “reputable”
https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1420678663046111232
195
131
Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating
https://ea.rna.nl/2021/07/31/dont-become-an-enterprise-it-architect/
159
197
As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”
https://www.economist.com/international/2021/07/01/as-lockdowns-lift-media-firms-brace-for-an-attention-recession
154
57
Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011)
https://gingerybookstore.com/MetalWorkingShopFromScrap.html
148
19
Lumen: Alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly
https://github.com/lumen/lumen
146
112
Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story
https://eji.org/news/ian-manuel-survivor-of-excessive-child-punishment-tells-his-story/
133
95
The Day the Good Internet Died
https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/21/22586870/google-reader-ode-end-of-the-good-internet
28
The Poincaré Conjecture, Explained
https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-poincare-conjecture
129
Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)
https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/
128
22
The Retrocomputing Archive
http://www.retroarchive.org/
21
TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix protocol and infrastucture
https://github.com/toger5/TheBoard
127
Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?
https://jabberwocking.com/has-the-lead-crime-hypothesis-been-debunked/
120
11
FBI and Detroit police groomed 14 year old informant for years before conviction
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/us/white-boy-rick-lawsuit-fbi-detroit-police/index.html
86
Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a47793/what-happened-to-vaporwave/
117
45
Air – Live reload when developing with Go
https://github.com/cosmtrek/air
108
Recursion in SQL Explained Visually (2020)
https://denis-lukichev.medium.com/recursion-in-sql-explained-graphically-679f6a0f143b
106
41
Murray's jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-07-30/craig-murrays-jailing-is-the-latest-move-in-the-battle-to-snuff-out-independent-journalism/
85
Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999)
http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
105
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I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart
https://brettscott.substack.com/p/the-hole-in-bitcoins-heart
103
26
The future of deep learning is photonic
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-future-of-deep-learning-is-photonic
101
Department of Justice Statement on SolarWinds Update
https://www.justice.gov/opcl/department-justice-statement-solarwinds-update
27
Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS and libuv
https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js
60
Comma Three Devkit
https://comma.ai/shop/products/three
56
The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7eqbb/the-metaverse-has-always-been-a-dystopia
Ask HN: Solopreneurs, what is your day and week like?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28016774
84
34
Typos, tricks and misprints
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent
79
14
How hard is it to get counting right?
https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-1
78
London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (2016)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/londons-crossrail-is-a-21-billion-test-of-virtual-modeling
75
72
High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/30/high-court-victory-for-stonehenge-campaigners-as-tunnel-is-ruled-unlawful
74
20
One-Thousand Year-Old Plants
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/science/plant-leaves-welwitschia.html
71
Fencers Refused to Fight. Then Came the Rule That Changed the Sport
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fencers-refused-to-fight-rule-change-epee-11627457900
70
43
Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the Linux kernel
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/864521/d704bdcced0c5c60/
69
12
Reprogrammable Satellite Launched
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Telecommunications_Integrated_Applications/Reprogrammable_satellite_launched
Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story