596
183
Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/
4 years ago
579
285
Debian 11
https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/
439
188
Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
https://startuppitch.substack.com/p/nail-your-startup-pitch-use-pixars
425
174
Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/08/14/10x10/
357
252
Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads
https://ticotimes.net/2021/08/11/costa-rica-signs-law-to-attract-digital-nomads
345
238
Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead
https://hackernoon.com/nerds-dont-respond-to-marketing-try-technical-documentation-instead
321
246
Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body problem
http://phys.technion.ac.il/en/about/research-bits/on-chaos-drunks-and-a-solution-to-the-chaotic-three-body-problem-the-research-of-yonadav-barry-ginat-and-hagai-perets
309
143
macOS in Svelte
https://macos.vercel.app/
298
271
AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses
https://github.com/seligman/aws-ip-ranges
292
247
I hate almost all software (2011)
https://tinyclouds.org/rant.html
254
205
Amazon will monitor workers' keystrokes to 'combat data theft'
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/amazon-will-monitor-workers-keystrokes-to-combat-data-theft-privacy-spying-surveillance
248
Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042911/
237
90
Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/14/facebook-research-disinformation-politics
222
180
Where does the plastic in oceans come from?
https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics
70
Tapedeck.org
http://tapedeck.org/
214
195
Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal
https://thehosk.medium.com/software-development-cannot-be-automated-because-its-a-creative-process-with-an-unknown-end-goal-2d4776866808
211
112
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
https://www.uu.se/en/news/article/?id=17306&typ=artikel&lang=en
193
33
Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623354/facebook-instagram-algorithm-watch-research-legal-threat
74
Amiga Music Preservation
http://amp.dascene.net/home.php
59
Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210814.html
43
Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVtA-ue-x0
169
28
Black Hat USA 2021 Review
https://l3ouu4n9.github.io/post/learningnotes/2021-08-13-black-hat-usa-2021-english/
163
40
Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2018)
https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
161
79
M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000f65h/executive
157
78
home.netscape.com in 1997
https://web.archive.org/web/19970220012313/http://home.netscape.com:80/
227
Ask HN: My friend made it big. How to handle?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28179542
142
120
The uncanny absence of nihilism
https://meaningness.com/nihilism-is-not-an-ism
140
151
The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t
https://www.howtogeek.com/748444/the-eu-wants-a-universal-mobile-charger-but-apple-doesnt/
130
Canada to require vaccinations for air and train passengers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-mandatory-vaccinations-1.6140131
128
52
GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages
https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/354
124
123
Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
https://www.macadie.net/2019/08/11/thoughts-on-lisp-and-racket/
121
83
25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0
https://twitter.com/hadip/status/1426587396343099397
215
Unifying iPadOS and macOS
https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/unifying-ipados-and-macos/
119
The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone
https://www.thelightphone.com/
110
34
Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/
101
Progress Beats Perfect
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/08/progress-beats-perfect.html
Canada's awful new proposals on “harmful” content
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#no-canada
100
8
Making 100 transistors silicon integrated circuit chips in your garage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg
99
D2X-XL – an OpenGL modification of the classic video game Descent 2
https://www.descent2.de/index.html
98
55
AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective
https://www.singlestore.com/blog/a-programmers-perspective/
97
80
Jury awards Optis $300M in second patent trial against Apple
https://www.reuters.com/technology/jury-awards-optis-300-million-second-patent-trial-against-apple-2021-08-13/
95
62
What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition
https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2021/
89
Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app
https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/08/not-important-enough-1password-abandons-its-native-mac-app/
30
How to compare two PDF documents
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/08/14/how-to-compare-two-pdf-documents/
93
27
Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60867-w
84
14
Avoiding Founder Burnout
https://waseem.substack.com/p/avoiding-founder-burnout
Large-Scale Automated Source Code Refactoring with OpenRewrite
https://docs.openrewrite.org/
61
Ask HN: Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28183901
16
Compiling C Programs Into “Mov” Instructions (And Only “Mov” Instructions)
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
77
88
The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/the-perl-foundation-is-fragmenting-over-code-of-conduct-enforcement/
76
49
Root cause of failure, root cause of success
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/08/13/root-cause-of-failure-root-cause-of-success/
73
0
BPF Isn't Just About Speed (2020)
https://pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2020/09/29/bpf-isnt-just-about-speed.html
45
Solving the double (quintuple) declaration Problem in GraphQL Applications
https://wundergraph.com/blog/solving_the_double_quintuple_declaration_problem_in_graphql_applications_how_to_not_repeat_yourself
71
108
I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me
https://believermag.com/ghosts/
YAML and Configuration Files
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/YAMLAndConfigurationFiles
69
10
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html
9
Alf 2: Collision Detection Is Hard, Blog Posts Are Harder
https://nicole.express/2021/alf-2-alf-harder.html
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