643
15
Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”
https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1428415192480698371
4 years ago
566
159
Patterns in Confusing Explanations
https://jvns.ca/blog/confusing-explanations/
549
209
EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/eff-joins-global-coalition-asking-apple-ceo-tim-cook-stop-phone-scanning
402
130
An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/xargs.html
371
234
I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers
https://www.thecut.com/article/i-dont-want-to-be-like-a-family-with-my-co-workers.html
360
139
Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/21/beware-state-surveillance-of-your-lives-governments-can-change-afghanistan
342
183
Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hacker%20news
331
107
Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
https://www.sqlite.org/draft/stricttables.html
330
91
How to Remember What You Read
https://fs.blog/2021/08/remember-books/
323
55
Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)
http://simonschreibt.de/gat/dont-starve-diablo-parallax-7/
312
304
Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253647838.html
275
30
Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/20/22634841/facebook-most-viewed-content-report-look-bad
257
Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42021/radio-transmissions-from-police-helicopters-chase-of-bizarre-craft-over-tucson-add-to-mystery
264
365
Generics enabled by default in Go tip
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/343732/
113
Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2021/08/thoughts-work-invaded-my-life-until-i-learned-how-unplug
250
123
GitHub Issues-only project management
https://blog.placemark.io/2021/07/19/issues-only-management.html
231
114
The Janet Programming Language
https://janet-lang.org/
199
43
Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX
https://tikz.net/
196
7
I won't be posting any more preimages against neuralhash for now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261147
190
145
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021
https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html
309
Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257352
186
A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/dan-ariely-honesty-study-retraction
182
152
Job-hopping heats up: 65% of U.S. workers are looking for a new job
https://fortune.com/2021/08/20/us-workers-looking-for-jobs/
162
133
Genius Checklist
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Genius_checklist
160
373
Benefits of Not Using an IDE
https://alexander-hansen.dev/blog/benefits-of-not-using-an-ide
156
Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department
https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1429173367643516936
153
31
Working in One Bit
https://dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midnight/devlog/285964/working-in-one-bit
70
IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol
https://github.com/gitsrc/IceFireDB
148
45
Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes
https://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2021/08/expert-help-needed-to-decode-rare-piece.html
142
93
Golang.org will be merged into go.dev
https://go.dev/blog/tidy-web
83
The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
119
68
RG3D (Rust game engine) feature highlights
https://rg3d.rs/general/2021/08/21/0.22-feature-highlights.html
118
34
Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started
https://data.berkeley.edu/news/project-jupyter-celebrates-20-years-fernando-perez-reflects-how-it-started-open-sciences
112
62
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Low Testosterone Levels
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8350060/
108
DNS alias mode (2020)
https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/DNS-alias-mode
24
Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011
https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/047_x131e_repair/
105
40
The World’s Largest Computer Chip
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-worlds-largest-computer-chip
99
63
The reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom, it’s bad UX
https://www.fastcompany.com/90667790/the-real-reason-youre-not-more-productive-at-work-its-not-boredom-its-bad-ux
94
41
Amazon Genomics CLI
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/announcing-amazon-genomics-cli-preview/
44
TLA+ is hard to learn (2018)
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2018/12/24/tla-is-hard-to-learn/
71
DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)
https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4041510&blobtype=pdf
Schema on write is better to live by
https://hrishioa.github.io/schema-on-write-is-better-to-live-by/
88
2
Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/Prop-22-the-gig-worker-exemption-for-Uber-and-16401915.php
135
New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
https://www.wsj.com/articles/minimalist-phones-try-to-give-users-what-they-neednot-always-what-they-want-11629370801
87
18
An Introduction to AI Story Generation
https://thegradient.pub/an-introduction-to-ai-story-generation/
85
8
Airliner Number 4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airliner_Number_4
13
Snap: A microkernel approach to host networking (2019)
https://research.google/pubs/pub48630/
Going back to work? No, thank you
https://dsebastien.medium.com/going-back-to-work-no-thank-you-5429d60acd12
81
69
The Secret Lives of Mosquitoes
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2021/08/19/secret-life-worlds-most-hated-insect/
80
Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub
https://github.blog/2021-08-19-enhanced-support-citations-github/
79
16
The Apollo Affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair
72
Data Wrangler
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/data-wrangler
21
The Shadowy Business of International Education
https://thewalrus.ca/the-shadowy-business-of-international-education/
67
1
Prop 22 found unconstitutional by California Superior Court
https://twitter.com/veenadubal/status/1428873686212173826
3
A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/21/meet-the-man-behind-tveeder-the-no-frills-live-tv-transcript-that-became-an-australian-media-hero
66
126
Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing a Dramatic Surge in New Covid Cases
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why
64
23
The big-load anti-pattern
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/08/21/the-big-load-anti-pattern/
Cyber Attack, Possible Serious Breach, at U.S. State Department
