967
1169
The rise of never-ending job interviews
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210727-the-rise-of-never-ending-job-interviews
5 years ago
669
482
Life before smartphones (2020)
https://mattruby.substack.com/p/the-most-unbelievable-things-about
622
182
WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-August/006887.html
617
220
Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28036927
616
117
Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance
https://bou.ke/blog/formulas/
525
285
The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
https://www.axios.com/pbs-internet-online-information-nonprofit-e9a78344-ae58-4214-9cb6-974ab9576cb1.html
463
321
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
https://calpaterson.com/printers.html
445
340
FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1023801277/your-facebook-account-was-hacked-getting-help-may-take-weeks-or-299
419
304
Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20210729-israel-tries-to-limit-fallout-from-the-pegasus-spyware-scandal
404
97
Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/aug/02/pegasus-spyware-found-on-journalists-phones-french-intelligence-confirms
401
354
Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Linux-July-2021
357
897
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037366
353
199
Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/SOZREBYR36PUNFZXMIUBVAIOQI4N7PDU/
311
383
Why is China smashing its tech industry?
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-is-china-smashing-its-tech-industry
295
129
How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion
https://blog.azuki.vip/csrf/
284
168
Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28034882
275
250
Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible
https://newengland.com/today/food/red-delicious-apple/
253
403
SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/spacex-installed-29-raptor-engines-on-a-super-heavy-rocket-last-night/
246
132
We Switched to Mattermost
https://netfoundry.io/why-we-switched-to-mattermost/
243
438
The UK’s delta surge is collapsing
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-u-k-s-delta-surge-is-collapsing-will-ours.html
228
Goose flying upside down is simply showing off, say experts
https://wgme.com/news/offbeat/goose-flying-upside-down-is-simply-showing-off-say-experts
223
Six Years of Professional Clojure
https://engineering.nanit.com/6-years-of-professional-clojure-2b61cb6c1983
211
153
Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard Workweek to 32 Hours
https://takano.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-takano-introduces-legislation-to-reduce-the-standard-workweek-to-32-hours
206
96
Amazon union election should be run again, labor board official says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-02/amazon-union-election-should-be-re-run-labor-official-says
198
535
Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen
https://www.businessinsider.com/home-depot-fights-shoplifters-special-power-tools-2021-7
196
36
Winnebiko
https://microship.com/winnebiko/
195
301
Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien
https://www.quantamagazine.org/arik-kershenbaum-on-why-alien-life-may-be-like-life-on-earth-20210318/
192
35
Docker container security cheat sheet
https://blog.gitguardian.com/how-to-improve-your-docker-containers-security-cheat-sheet/
185
104
Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations
https://www.hhyu.org/posts/generator_and_continuation/
174
42
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images
https://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum/astronomy-photographer-year-2021-shortlist-images
172
34
AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Valve-New-CPU-Freq
171
24
Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3
https://www.psycopg.org/articles/2021/08/02/psycopg3-django-driver/
160
61
Wealthy Americans Targeted by U.S. in Panama Tax-Fraud Probe
https://bermudapost.com/wealthy-americans-targeted-by-u-s-in-panama-tax-fraud-probe
39
OpenBSD Router Guide (2020)
https://openbsdrouterguide.net/
154
30
The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg/
150
108
Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000)
http://www.norvig.com/java-lisp.html
147
251
Dollar stores make up nearly half of all new store openings in the U.S.
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/dollar-stores-make-up-nearly-half-of-all-new-store-openings-this-year
144
65
Zoom settles US class action privacy lawsuit for $86m
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58050391
137
98
Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23
https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/issues/144
128
214
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037364
127
32
Who Were the Romans, Part V: Saving and Losing an Empire
https://acoup.blog/2021/07/30/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-v-saving-and-losing-an-empire/
122
11
Reading Levels: Different Ways to Read Different Books (2018)
https://www.thecuriousreader.in/features/reading-levels/
120
56
The quiet battle raging around open banking
https://sifted.eu/articles/open-banking-finance-battle/
Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall
https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-tensor-debuts-new-pixel-6-fall/
118
18
Show HN: Open by Design
https://openby.design/?0
91
A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/speech-at-the-stadium
70
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
107
75
How to write slow Rust code
https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/how-to-write-slow-rust-code.html
103
113
Back to Linux
http://metaredux.com/posts/2021/07/31/back-to-linux.html
99
My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit
http://peterhajas.com/blog/streamdeck.html
7
Tilck – Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck
Unix and Microservice Platforms
https://blog.deref.io/unix-and-microservice-platforms/
12
Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains
https://spectrum.ieee.org/fast-efficient-neural-networks-copy-dragonfly-brains
95
51
Notes from the Architect (2016)
http://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html
48
The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”
https://chelseatroy.com/2021/07/30/the-oxymoron-of-data-driven-innovation/
94
81
Tesla big battery fire under control after burning more than three days
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/02/tesla-big-battery-fire-in-victoria-burns-into-day-three
92
13
Thinking about “traceability”
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/08/01/thinking-about-traceability/
90
55
Sentenced by Algorithm
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/06/10/prison-terms-sentenced-by-algorithm/
20
Libertarians built a Bitcoin economy in a New Hampshire town, feds tore it down
https://www.theverge.com/22599932/bitcoin-raid-keene-new-hampshire-ian-freeman-libertarian-prosecution
89
23
Show HN: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support
https://github.com/susam/muboard
88
112
Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-01/china-tech-crackdown-communist-party-policy-changes-behind-1-trillion-selloff
86
44
The Windows 96 Story
https://blog.racket.com/the-windows-96-story/