1216
345
Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207662
5 years ago
851
469
Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
https://www.them.us/story/moderna-begins-hiv-vaccine-trials-covid-19-research
595
421
A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/lyme-disease-prevention-antibody-shot/
589
137
Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/17/pop/
568
229
Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/stop-using-zoom-hamburgs-dpa-warns-state-government/
564
292
Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20210817a/full/?af=R&
547
263
Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28213292
415
127
You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)
https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/
362
68
Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror
https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/
346
95
Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/08/mastodon-now-a-non-profit-organisation/
320
189
Helvetica Now Variable
https://www.monotype.com/fonts/helvetica-now-variable
296
129
SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI
http://serenityos.org/
245
103
Speeding up atan2f
https://mazzo.li/posts/vectorized-atan2.html
243
218
Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702
242
106
South Kensington station's escalator replacement project
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/08/17/behind-the-scenes-at-south-kensington-tube-stations-escalator-replacement-project/
239
69
A simple way to build collaborative web apps
https://zjy.cloud/posts/collaborative-web-apps
227
61
Big Oil methane emissions: ‘significant gap’ between reality and reporting
https://www.reuters.com/article/emissions-methane-idUSMTZSPDEH8EU9J79K
224
163
Mailable Live Animals
https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
223
236
Bad News
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/
221
233
Atlas robot does parkour
http://blog.bostondynamics.com/atlas-leaps-bounds-and-backflips
220
65
Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=40fdb3212c3ded2150faf952dc2b669991bfbf94
203
76
Dallas police lose 8TB of data, impacting criminal cases
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/dallas_data_migration_8tb_deletion/
201
39
The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5125328/05_21
191
423
Will the rich world’s worker deficit last?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/will-the-rich-worlds-worker-deficit-last/21803401
179
59
Git 2.33
https://github.blog/2021-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-33/
176
85
How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?
https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-7
171
96
Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s
https://ourworldindata.org/global-deforestation-peak
167
30
Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-apple-don-t-scan-our-phones
162
84
After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/16/22627515/flicktype-ios-keyboard-discontinued-blind-visually-impaired
161
51
Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
https://datacolada.org/98
153
Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events
https://tara.ai/
151
19
The Quest for Very Wide Outlines
https://bgolus.medium.com/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9
150
67
Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-discover-limits-of-major-research-algorithm-20210817/
145
154
The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210812-the-big-sleep-the-most-baffling-film-ever-made
136
71
Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014)
http://www.monkeyandcrow.com/blog/estimation_bargaining/
134
A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf]
https://www.ese.wustl.edu/~nehorai/Porat_A_Gentle_Introduction_to_Tensors_2014.pdf
132
What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019)
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-last-breakthrough-in-computer-programming/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
41
Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/09/pompeis-fast-food-joint-unearthed-in-2019-opens-to-public
130
124
Why are so many knowledge workers quitting?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/why-are-so-many-knowledge-workers-quitting
126
31
How elephants avoid cancer (2015)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18534
123
57
The DOJ’s Crypto Dragnet Is Bigger Than You Think
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/the-dojs-crypto-dragnet-is-bigger
122
44
Modern LZ Compression (2019)
https://glinscott.github.io/lz/index.html
119
216
Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/05/why-do-so-many-people-move-to-the-falkland-islands.html
117
35
German parliament wants Tim Cook to reconsider CSAM plans
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/17/germany-writes-to-tim-cook-to-reconsider-csam-plans
112
83
People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/technology/amazon-walmart.html
149
How do I manage an employee who doesn’t need the job?
https://www.askamanager.org/2021/08/how-do-i-manage-an-employee-who-doesnt-need-the-job.html
102
Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta
99
36
The ATS Programming Language
http://www.ats-lang.org/
6
Let's write a compiler, part 4: Testing
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210817.html
33
Zorin OS 16 is Released
https://blog.zorin.com/2021/08/17/2021-08-17-zorin-os-16-is-released/
91
135
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209928
PureBasic switches to a C backend
https://www.purebasic.fr/blog/?p=486
81
Colorado River drops to record low levels, slashing Arizona’s water supply
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/colorado-river-drops-to-record-low-levels-slashing-arizonas-water-supply/
80
Homa, a transport protocol to replace TCP for low-latency RPC in data centers
https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/08/15/a-linux-kernel-implementation-of-the-homa-transport-protocol.html
55
Solopreneurship
https://flaviocopes.com/solopreneurship/
Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4
79
90
5G and Beyond for Contact Tracing
https://zenodo.org/record/5157830#.YRtkc4gzaUk
78
Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce catfishing incidents
https://www.neowin.net/news/tinder-will-introduce-voluntary-id-verification-to-reduce-catfishing-incidents/
4
The virtual data center – a 1401 3D simulation
https://rolffson.de
75
17
Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen
https://www.lodsb.com/reversing-lz91-from-commander-keen
Game Timers: Issues and Solutions (2012)
https://www.fabiensanglard.net/timer_and_framerate/index.php
74
Endianness, a constant source of conflict for decades
https://technicalsourcery.net/posts/on-endianness/