743
261
The surreal experience of my first developer job
https://bennuttall.com/the-surreal-experience-of-my-first-developer-job/
4 years ago
459
240
The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate
435
77
Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/facebook-bans-researchers-providing-transparency-on-sites-ads/
338
113
PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/oxmgg2/phd_student_in_switzerland_expelled_from_his/
326
454
My small revenge on Apple
https://javierantonsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-small-revenge-on-apple.html
303
210
Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/simple-systems/
300
180
SAML Is Insecure by Design
https://joonas.fi/2021/08/saml-is-insecure-by-design/
292
126
Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
https://www.domainlanguage.com/articles/good-design-is-imperfect-design-part-1-honest-names/
234
378
Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-04/woman-sues-after-being-hit-by-a-car-on-street-where-homeless-encampment-blocks-the-sidewalk
220
31
Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/ray-tracing-gems-ii-available-today-as-free-digital-download/
209
58
Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes
https://github.com/DataHenHQ/till
203
238
$28.50 Beer at LaGuardia Sparks Audit of New York Airport Concession Prices
https://eyeoftheflyer.com/2021/08/03/tweet-of-28-50-beer-at-la-guardia-sparks-audit-of-new-york-airport-concession-prices/
202
46
AdObserver Blocked by Facebook
https://twitter.com/LauraEdelson2/status/1422736706554433538
200
111
Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28061725
178
285
Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/law-school-applicants-surge-13-biggest-increase-since-dot-com-bubble-2021-08-03/
170
296
Early Retirement (2006)
https://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/
169
76
GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs
https://www.unite.ai/master-faces-that-can-bypass-over-40-of-facial-id-authentication-systems/
166
259
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth
164
183
Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Damage-control-Microsoft-deletes-all-comments-under-heavily-criticized-Windows-11-upgrade-video.553279.0.html
163
93
China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor
https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor
160
190
A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017)
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-changed-the-u-s-constitution
156
62
Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
https://news.sky.com/story/netflix-announces-space-x-documentary-on-civilian-mission-into-orbit-12372247
152
52
Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/uptime-labs-cm4-blade-adds-nvme-tpm-20-raspberry-pi
143
How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58062630
146
47
Use Phoenix Channels
https://info.codecast.io/blog/how-to-use-phoenix-channels
144
79
EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library
https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL
57
Mario Paint Masterpiece
https://www.charlieharrington.com/mario-paint-masterpiece
140
63
Microsoft Edge Experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode
https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Secure-Mode/
137
192
Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609090/microsoft-365-free-trials-cloud-pcs-demand-trials
136
19
Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo
https://redcrafter.github.io/verilog2factorio/
133
96
Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/03/facebook-researching-analyzing-encrypted-data/
Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks
https://hookdeck.com?ref=hn
123
128
Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)
http://gitly.org/
121
131
The humble egg is an example of what’s wrong with nutrition studies (2019)
https://undark.org/2019/07/18/science-of-eggs/
110
Almost-Billionaires (2014)
http://lackingambition.com/?p=1464
108
Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
https://engineering.backtrace.io/2021-08-04-slitter-a-slab-allocator-that-trusts-but-verifies/
107
55
Leaked Document Says Google Fired Dozens of Employees for Data Misuse
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gk73/google-fired-dozens-for-data-misuse
91
427
Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003)
https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4639
89
37
Galois Groups and the Symmetries of Polynomials
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-galois-groups-used-polynomial-symmetries-to-reshape-math-20210803/
84
20
Man arrested in mistaken identity case locked in mental hospital for two years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/04/hawaii-man-mistaken-identity-case-mental-hospital-two-years
6
Where Do Models Go Wrong? Parameter-Space Saliency Maps for Explainability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01335
83
49
Tell HN: Protonmail is no longer private, sharing user info with US authorities
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28057433
82
3
Elm-Pages 2.0
https://elm-pages.com/blog/introducing-v2
44
Julian Assange: peering through the murk
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/julian-assange-peering-through-the-murk/5109400.article
67
What makes an interview podcast good or great?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/what-makes-a-podcast-good-or-great.html
75
Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test results out of trial
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elizabeth-holmes-fails-to-keep-customer-complaints-out-of-criminal-fraud-trial-210015777.html
73
69
Biking while Black: Racial bias in Oakland policing (2019)
https://bike-lab.org/2019/05/20/biking-while-black-racial-bias-in-oakland-policing/
Testing quantum mechanics in space
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02091-8
11
Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/05/australian-mathematician-discovers-applied-geometry-engraved-on-3700-year-old-tablet
71
5
Show HN: Learn to identify the birds at any location
https://github.com/dandavison/trogon
90
Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28063339
135
Why you should learn SQL
https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/why-you-should-learn-sql
I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated Patients Are Saying
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/icu-doctor-health-care-workers-unvaccinated-patients_n_6102ad2ae4b000b997df1f17
22
A tweet cost him his doctorate: the extent of China’s influence on Swiss Unis
https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spotlights-chinas-influence-ld.1638771
66
86
Tesla Model S garage fire follows pattern prompting warnings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/04/tesla-fire/
65
16
End-to-End Encryption through Kafka
https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/tree/develop/documentation/use-cases/end-to-end-encryption-through-kafka
38
Ask HN: Best resources to support a partner with depression?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28065640
Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble