635
165
NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/03/2002820425/-1/-1/1/CTR_KUBERNETES%20HARDENING%20GUIDANCE.PDF
5 years ago
506
499
Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
https://marker.medium.com/why-dont-tech-companies-pay-their-engineers-to-stay-b9c7e4b751e9
495
126
Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/31/business/it-has-be-known-what-was-done-us-natick-couple-harassed-by-ebay-tell-their-story-first-time/?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery
489
226
Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code
https://jfrog.com/blog/malicious-pypi-packages-stealing-credit-cards-injecting-code/
452
543
Where are the robotic bricklayers?
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-are-the-robotic-bricklayers
426
374
Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/cryptocurrency-surveillance-provision-buried-infrastructure-bill-disaster-digital
417
177
Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-netcat
85
The 5-Hour CDN
https://fly.io/blog/the-5-hour-content-delivery-network/
410
1464
NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/nyc-to-mandate-proof-of-vaccination-for-many-indoor-settings/
406
234
Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvz3kv/amazon-unlawfully-confiscated-union-literature-nlrb-finds
379
273
Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012)
http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-quality.html
367
79
A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags
https://web.archive.org/web/20140310190221/http://www.sewingandembroiderywarehouse.com/embtrb.htm
296
141
Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
https://blues.io/
263
73
Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date
https://github.com/kspalaiologos/malbolge-lisp
254
258
This Can’t Go On
https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/
252
232
GitHub Copilot is ‘unacceptable and unjust,’ says Free Software Foundation
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3627319/github-copilot-is-unacceptable-and-unjust-says-free-software-foundation.html
207
New Leadership at Blizzard
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23706475/new-leadership-at-blizzard
64
Emacs' org-mode gets citation support
https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-07-31-citations.html
228
172
Leap seconds: Causing bugs even when they don’t happen
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/leapseconds-expose-bugs-even-when-they-dont-happen/
227
69
How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/08/mdns-autocomplete-search/
223
74
The Real Story of Pixar
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-real-story-of-pixar
220
99
Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux
https://chrisbergeron.com/2021/07/25/Ultra-fast-Thunderbolt-NAS-with-Apple-M1-and-Linux/
212
147
Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1065085
424
South Korea: The only middle power of its kind
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/south-korea-only-middle-power-its-kind-190911
205
75
Archegos was too busy for margin calls
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-29/archegos-was-too-busy-for-margin-calls
199
70
Activision Blizzard Sued Over ‘Frat Boy’ Culture, Harassment
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture
192
CIA’s fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust
https://www.vox.com/first-person/22256595/vaccine-covid-pakistan-cia-program
188
265
The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-drone-delivery-prime-air
183
280
Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory
https://www.reuters.com/article/eurozone-bonds/update-2-entire-german-bond-yield-curve-back-in-sub-zero-territory-idUSL1N2P90H5
176
Going mouseless
https://felipecortez.net/blog/mouseless.html
169
26
Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15-months/
120
Use Spreadsheets Everywhere
https://www.simplethread.com/use-spreadsheets-everywhere/
163
249
Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures
https://www.gq.com/story/powerplay-tesla-musk-excerpt/
59
Full-time open source with Andrew Kelley
https://corecursive.com/067-zig-with-andrew-kelley/
159
42
Show HN: A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch
https://github.com/riicchhaarrd/ocean
153
14
Computational algebraic geometry for high school students
https://www.solidangl.es/post/varieties-the-spice-of-life
150
22
Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
https://serokell.io/blog/introduction-to-convolutional-neural-networks
146
155
China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/china-quietly-sets-new-buy-chinese-targets-state-companies-us-sources-2021-08-02/
142
91
Cheap material converts heat to electricity
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/cheap-material-converts-heat-electricity
97
Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/03/macaques-at-japan-reserve-get-first-alpha-female-in-70-year-history
139
57
Bombs vs. Bugs
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/qa02
135
122
SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020)
https://blog.zachwf.com/posts/sqlite-is-dynamically-typed/
Uber requires nondisclosure agreement before compensating carjacked driver
https://themarkup.org/working-for-an-algorithm/2021/08/03/uber-requires-nondisclosure-agreement-before-helping-carjacked-driver
123
15
A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers
https://brunodias.dev/2021/03/19/functions-for-system-designers.html
129
Interview with a ransomware group
https://therecord.media/an-interview-with-blackmatter-a-new-ransomware-group-thats-learning-from-the-mistakes-of-darkside-and-revil/
118
43
Satan should chair your meetings: A literature lover’s guide to office politics
https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/08/03/why-satan-should-chair-your-meetings
111
60
Redwood World – Pictures and Locations of Redwoods in the British Isles
http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/locations.htm
88
Knuth on Dijkstra (2014)
https://gigamonkeys.com/knuth-dijkstra/
106
143
Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK293LL/A/magic-keyboard-with-touch-id-for-mac-models-with-apple-silicon-us-english
103
133
Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566040-fourth-police-officer-who-responded-to-jan-6-attack-dies-by-suicide-report
16
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2021
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2021/
96
56
Leap Smear
https://developers.google.com/time/smear
93
Leaving Well
https://avc.com/2021/08/leaving-well/
87
20
An attempt at demystifying graph deep learning
https://ericmjl.github.io/essays-on-data-science/machine-learning/graph-nets/
127
Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049500
104
The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-of-longtermism-and-existential-risk
84
8
Image synthesis and editing with stochastic differential equations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01073
81
Indie Hackers: Now Invite-Only
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/whats-new-indie-hackers-is-now-invite-only-cfed6a6a67
Fornicating Under Consent of King
https://literaryreview.co.uk/fornicating-under-consent-of-king
77
80
Companies address labor shortages by pursuing current or former prisoners
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/20/companies-claim-theres-a-labor-shortage-their-solution-prisoners
28
Official recommends rerun in Amazon union fight
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58065874
11
Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/sparse-array-beamforming-with-a-phase-coherent-21-channel-rtl-sdr-array/
40
Guide to Software Project Estimation
https://www.scalablepath.com/blog/software-project-estimation/
5
Linux Kernel Security Done Right
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/08/linux-kernel-security-done-right.html
62
Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, from U.S. Home and Garden Market
https://www.ecowatch.com/bayer-ending-glyphosate-sales-us-market-2654298339.html
On academic writing: a personal note (2016)
https://sci-hub.do/10.1080/07294360.2016.1172766
71
63
Firefighters bring large battery fire near Geelong under control
https://news.cfa.vic.gov.au/firefighters-bring-large-battery-fire-near-geelong-under-control
33
New sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this August
https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/new-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-books-august-2021/
68
27
The Education of Melvyn Bragg
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-education-of-melvyn-bragg