861
679
GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-moved-codespaces/
5 years ago
815
347
An old hacker's tips on staying employed
https://madned.substack.com/p/an-old-hackers-tips-on-staying-employed
618
303
Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-apple-has-opened-backdoor-increased-surveillance
577
661
1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults
https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917
516
343
Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
https://zapier.com/blog/actual-impostors-dont-get-impostor-syndrome/
498
182
Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appliance/
484
423
Australia is becoming a surveillance state
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2021/australia-is-becoming-a-surveillance-state.html
453
395
The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838
440
316
The Problem with Ethereum
https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/the-problem-with-ethereum-af9692f4af95
428
200
Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support
https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral
399
108
Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28141462
385
496
Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses
https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-intensifies-vpn-ban-and-targets-residential-ip-addresses-too-210811/
381
367
Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition
324
53
The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/08/11/british-library-puts-1-million-newspaper-pages-online-for-free/
314
185
The Ancient Persian way to keep cool
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210810-the-ancient-persian-way-to-keep-cool
295
167
New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/
285
752
YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/11/youtube-suspends-gop-sen-rand-paul-for-seven-days-for-claiming-masks-are-ineffective/
233
81
Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
https://www.zenrows.com/blog/mastering-web-scraping-in-python-crawling-from-scratch
232
111
Kind: A Modern Proof Language
https://github.com/uwu-tech/kind
227
289
How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-sweden-became-silicon-valley-europe-2021-08-11/
204
Default disappearing messages
https://signal.org/blog/disappearing-by-default/
191
Because I Am Bored
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/05/because-i-am-bored.html
197
67
Apple call center workers fear AI-powered surveillance cameras in their homes
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/09/apple-call-center-workers-surveillance/
510
The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-death-of-the-millionaire-next-door-dream-20150310-column.html
183
163
Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/blogs/adoption-of-llvm-complete-icx.html
207
Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28145998
179
195
1Password for Mac Moving to Electron
https://twitter.com/parrots/status/1425466671762972672
177
114
Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/sonys-new-curved-image-sensors-could-shake-up-the-whole-camera-industry
173
95
DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/devops-sre-and-platform-engineering/
169
158
California Megafires Are Solvable
https://gabekleinman.medium.com/california-megafires-are-solvable-b3e01af873dd
162
127
Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58009514
161
The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality
https://nianticlabs.com/blog/real-world-metaverse/
147
149
Coinbase Drops Promise of Token’s Cash Backing That Wasn’t True
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-11/coinbase-drops-promise-of-token-s-cash-backing-that-wasn-t-true
142
215
Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-should-treat-stablecoins-like-banks
141
202
DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation
https://www.fedscoop.com/dod-awards-1b-contract-to-peraton-to-counter-misinformation/
137
55
Plants, heavy metals, and the lingering scars of World War I
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zone-rouge-plant-growth
136
86
I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS
https://ldeming.posthaven.com/aubrey
132
57
ANSI Escape Codes
https://gist.github.com/fnky/458719343aabd01cfb17a3a4f7296797
129
38
The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/the%20machine%20stops.pdf
125
23
Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-indexes/
124
78
Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (2008)
https://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/01/copy-protection-for-vinyl-in-t.php
113
92
Moderna Vaccine Significantly More Effective Against Delta Variant Than Pfizer
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v1
110
126
Jewish Problems (2011)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
40
A dubious writing style emerging in science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751
105
88
Event Sourcing (2005)
https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
104
120
Europe's all-time heat record set in Sicily at nearly 120 degrees
https://www.axios.com/europe-all-time-heat-record-set-sicily-065cef11-fdb7-4aaf-abd5-82b5b8d7a475.html
101
73
James Gosling Interview
https://evrone.com/james-gosling-interview
100
72
Facebook announces privacy-enhancing technologies
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/building-for-the-future
96
32
Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack
https://rekt.news/polynetwork-rekt/
1
U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to rein in Apple, Google app stores
https://financialpost.com/technology/u-s-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-rein-in-apple-google-app-stores
90
54
YouTube suspends Rand Paul over a video disputing the effectiveness of masks
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/business/youtube-rand-paul-covid-masks.html
87
59
State of netbooting Raspberry Pi in 2021
https://blog.alexellis.io/state-of-netbooting-raspberry-pi-in-2021/
77
Former college professor accused of serial arson is denied bail in California
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026700103/former-college-professor-arson-charges-california-dixie-fire
36
Ask HN: How to become a ridiculously good back end staff eng?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28145843
76
51
What I Learned About Productivity by Writing About Productivity
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/tips-about-productivity-teamwork-and-collaboration-from-high-achievers
2
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Ultrawealthy Gained by Trump “Big Beautiful Tax Cut”
https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-reveal-how-much-the-ultrawealthy-gained-by-shaping-trumps-big-beautiful-tax-cut