1484
524
One Bad Apple
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-One-Bad-Apple.html
5 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
188
311
Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/once-an-addict-always-an-addict
182
53
FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/us/politics/fec-trump-donations.html
175
The Principles of Newspeak (1949)
https://www.berfrois.com/2021/07/1984-by-george-orwell/
173
150
Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?
https://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/does-oil-come-from-dinosaurs
172
47
Trevor Moore has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Moore_(comedian)
121
Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health
https://theconversation.com/flawed-data-led-to-findings-of-a-connection-between-time-spent-on-devices-and-mental-health-problems-new-research-162585
16
The macOS Sandbox File Limit
https://buckleyisms.com/blog/anecdotes-about-the-macos-sandbox-file-limit/
166
31
Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA
https://destevez.net/2021/08/imaging-cygnus-a-at-8-45-ghz-with-ata/
159
132
The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
https://xsrus.com/the-economics-of-onlyfans
156
255
I closed a lot of browser tabs
https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2126
153
39
Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28105659
141
51
The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters
https://reason.com/2021/07/15/postal-censorship-and-surveillance-a-timeline/
18
Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/kernel-pwning-with-ebpf-a-love-story
116
Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores
https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2021-08-07/7-elevens-convenience-stores-tokyo-japan-olympics
37
Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine
https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/
129
The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-eldritch-roots-of-dungeons-dragons/
126
27
0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā
https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-25-yauna/
118
9
Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration
https://wf.lavatech.top/lun-4/bringing-netbsd-to-zigs-continuous-integration
71
Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages
https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-comparing-languages.html
60
RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html
114
15
Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based
https://internalregister.github.io/2021/08/08/Another-Homebrew-Console.html
112
76
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02547
104
54
The Elasticsearch Saga Continues
https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-the-elasticsearch-saga-continues/
103
6
BioNTech Plans to Address Infectious Diseases on the African Continent
https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-provides-update-plans-develop-sustainable-solutions
102
119
Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
https://www.tetrate.io/blog/wasm-outside-the-browser/
Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window
https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-15/
101
32
The Kawa Scheme Language
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/index.html
93
Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012)
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/07/27/157486108/embarrassed-by-your-olympic-javelin-did-cavemen-do-it-better
Constexpr is a Platform (2020)
https://foonathan.net/2020/10/constexpr-platform/
42
; Echo “Shell Injection”
https://matklad.github.io//2021/07/30/shell-injection.html
98
105
Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28106113
97
13
Unlocking PinkRabbit: Using 90s Email Software in 2021
https://jessicastokes.net/blog/2021/06/10/unlocking-pinkrabbit/
25
SpaceX is buying communications smallsat operator Swarm Technologies
https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-T-C-20210806-00096
History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS [pdf]
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2019/project/20-Chau-Ko-Tang.pdf
91
95
Growing object-oriented software vs. what I would do
https://dpc.pw/growing-object-oriented-software-vs-what-i-would-do
89
12
Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-firm-asks-google-to-block-127-0-0-1-210808/
88
56
The unknown features of Python's `operator` module
https://martinheinz.dev/blog/54
87
20
New York Public Library’s Picture Collection Will Be Archived
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/arts/design/new-york-public-library-picture-collection.html