1465
1532
Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58130705
4 years ago
1273
790
Apple’s Mistake
https://stratechery.com/2021/apples-mistake/
643
317
Messaging and chat control
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?lang=en
489
360
WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22613365/apple-icloud-csam-scanning-whatsapp-surveillance-reactions
480
101
New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1026091196/this-sweet-white-flower-is-actually-a-sneaky-carnivore-scientists-discovered
465
525
American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)
https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/04/13/russian-math-school
451
114
Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Top-5-Polluting-Power-Plants-Account-For-73-Of-Global-Emissions.html
405
62
Interactive introduction to game theory and trust
https://ncase.me/trust/
333
160
Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/09/how-wildfire-restored-a-yosemite-watershed/
324
42
Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
https://www.tomtom.com/blog/maps/tomtom-openstreetmaps-mapmetrics-map-editing/
294
70
The World of CSS Transforms
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/transforms/
288
130
Done with YC: Age Discrimination
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28121086
272
47
Localhost
https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/localhost
270
78
The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft
https://www.mindat.org/a/minecraft
264
163
Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-some-of-the-smartest-people-can-be-so-very-stupid
80
Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/08/04/crystal-arrangement-results-in-1000x-more-power-from-ferroelectric-solar-cells/
255
125
Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials' personal data
https://en.currenttime.tv/a/seeking-change-anti-lukashenka-hackers-seize-senior-belarusian-officials-personal-data-/31392092.html
254
138
How Watches Work
https://www.fratellowatches.com/how-watches-work-what-is-an-automatic-watch-and-what-different-types-of-winding-weights-are-there/
253
341
Bring back hydrogen lifting gas
https://www.thecgo.org/news/bring-back-hydrogen-lifting-gas/
235
116
Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Why_does_it_take_so_long_to_get_to_Mercury
233
419
Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28119393
225
117
Stages of Denial
https://beyondloom.com/blog/denial.html
214
128
Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine
https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-next-with-a-virtual-machine?view=all
212
83
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565
210
A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtuber-won-10000-bet-with-physicist-over-wind-powered-vehicle-2021-7
201
154
Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules
https://freddixx.medium.com/hello-yarn-2-goodbye-node-modules-21d97afc1a75
200
44
2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-2400-year-old-fruit-baskets-underwater-egyptian-city-180978350/
195
188
Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding
https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-wont-solve-the-natural-language-understanding-challenge/
184
87
IPCC: Sixth Assessment Report
https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/
178
95
Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-amazon-third-party-sellers-reportedly-hound-c-1847446648
177
34
Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-5d3021ed9f193bf249c3af158b128d18
173
53
Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap
https://boyter.org/posts/bloom-filter/
172
63
Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication
https://www.zdnet.com/article/canberra-asks-big-tech-to-introduce-detection-capabilities-in-encrypted-communication/
171
59
Fundamentals of Incident Management
https://bitfieldconsulting.com/blog/got-game-secrets-of-great-incident-management
170
106
About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-08-06/animator-dorm-project-about-90-percent-of-animators-quit-their-jobs-within-3-years/.175908
169
31
Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1n_xrgKDlGQcCF6O-eL3NOd_x4NSqAUjK
166
97
When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2021/08/09/when-zero-cost-abstractions-aren-t-zero-cost.html
164
147
VCs are financing an economy of servants
https://sifted.eu/articles/servant-economy/
162
79
Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it
https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/
55
A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017)
https://www.lvguowei.me/post/the-most-beautiful-program-ever-written/
10
Incentives in Computer Science
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~tr/s20/s20.html
144
159
U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry
https://decrypt.co/78038/senate-votes-for-amendment-that-threatens-crypto-industry
141
It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113007
57
Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/big-tech-call-center-workers-face-pressure-accept-home-surveillance-n1276227
136
94
The 3x+1 Problem [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094y1Z2wpJg
108
Am I stuck in a local maximum?
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2021/08/09/am-i-stuck-in-a-local-maximum/
134
BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/olympics/58113457
133
Essence – An Operating System
https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence
120
25
The Top Shelf Principle (2019)
https://listed.to/@mo/4733/the-top-shelf-principle
118
86
Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
https://theconversation.com/how-summer-2021-has-changed-our-understanding-of-extreme-weather-165268
Sigstore – A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software
https://sigstore.dev
Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine
https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim
121
Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switching-from-debian-to-arch-for-steam-decks-linux-os/
Difficult math is about recognizing patterns
https://get21stnight.com/2021/08/09/difficult-math-is-about-recognizing-patterns-lessons-from-jeff-bezos/
48
What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-can-stop-worrying-and-love-the-particle-accelerator
113
50
Newly designed 'smart' insulin could improve type 1 diabetes treatment
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-kind-of-smart-insulin-could-help-diabetics-avoid-the-risks-of-low-blood-sugar-levels
12
Beyond coupling and cohesion: strategies for un-fucking yourself
https://jesseduffield.com/Beyond-Coupling-And-Cohesion/
107
Wealth Shown to Scale
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
100
15
Surveillance Under Surveillance
https://sunders.uber.space/
96
23
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]
https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf
Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/muscaria-hallucinogenic-mushroom-fresco
29
2,500-year-old olive tree burned down in Evia fires in Greece
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/08/evia-fire-greece-ancient-olive-tree-burned/
92
49
Supine Computing (2019)
https://mgsloan.com/posts/supine-computing/
89
Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
https://github.com/blocklistproject/Lists/issues/453
88
Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28116371
67
Why the McFlurry machine company just got hit with a restraining order
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ymbp/why-the-mcflurry-machine-company-just-got-hit-with-a-restraining-order
85
21
Zig Pathtracer
http://msinilo.pl/blog2/post/zig-pathtracer/
82
8
Elle: A transactional consistency checker for black-box databases
https://github.com/jepsen-io/elle
27
CBD Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987002/
77
Show HN: Ots – share a secret via one-time URL
https://github.com/sniptt-official/ots
76
5
Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
Supercritical CO2 Tech Team
https://www.energy.gov/supercritical-co2-tech-team
2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city