1484
524
One Bad Apple
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-One-Bad-Apple.html
4 years ago
828
619
Apps Getting Worse
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse
761
92
Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/major-uk-science-funder-require-grantees-make-papers-immediately-free-all
484
194
A street snack that has baffled botanists
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indian-street-snack-root
422
181
Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
394
123
Space Station incident demands independent investigation
https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-station-accident-needs-independant-investigation
329
256
Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0
323
250
I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
https://roaring20s.substack.com/p/august-8-1921
304
154
Screw You, Microsoft Edge
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2021/08/Screw-You-Microsoft-Edge.html
300
240
Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
https://bombthrower.com/articles/when-dissent-is-misinformation-fallacies-become-facts/
297
222
1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults
https://1password.community/discussion/115018/support-for-local-vaults/p3
294
136
Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/pull/1623
233
81
Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/93423/how-unique-is-a-neuralhash
227
100
Tell HN: Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c3-a8-XQ1X0CxXuFL0N3XVkglUD2OJS_?usp=sharing
226
73
30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/08/30-years-on-from-introducing-the-web-to-the-world/
225
149
Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/07/glenfiddich-uses-own-whisky-waste-to-fuel-trucks/
223
180
Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/google-contemplated-buying-some-or-all-of-epic-to-stop-contagion-court-documents-say
217
67
Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1
http://highscalability.com/blog/2021/8/2/evolution-of-search-engines-architecture-algolia-new-search.html
206
134
The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJtiPRDIqtI
195
204
Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(21)00203-2
Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse