763
343
PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations
https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress
5 years ago
575
262
ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors
https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464889307762688
502
226
On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
https://lithub.com/on-the-link-between-great-thinking-and-obsessive-walking/
387
259
Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/
351
Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking
https://smartgrowthamerica.org/bigger-vehicles-are-directly-resulting-in-more-deaths-of-people-walking/
372
204
A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/22/in_brief_ai/
371
216
How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2TFiL5BM3ss
312
421
The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/22/sweden-experiment-no-lockdowns-led-better-mental-health-healthier/
302
84
How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)
https://productivityhub.org/2019/04/19/how-to-deliver-constructive-feedback-in-difficult-situations/
298
157
FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
https://fsnot.es/
263
130
Gnome Shell on the Apple M1, bare metal
https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1429579145827127296
139
Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/ex-lobbyist-slams-blue-hydrogen-says-it-would-lock-in-fossil-fuel-dependence/
242
78
India's living dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-58259497
238
146
Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2019/11/26/bringing-the-unix-philosophy-to-the-21st-century/
224
201
Houses in Japan are going for as little as $500
https://www.travelpirates.com/others/buy-an-empty-house-in-japan-for-less-than-a-months-rent
223
258
A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-diy-e-bike-conversion-on-the-cheap
346
Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/business/electric-cars-japan.html
213
234
Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use
https://github.com/dapr/dapr/issues/3563
210
134
The Pyret Programming Language
http://pyret.org/index.html
209
128
Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/1428438081871433731
208
101
Machine learning’s crumbling foundations
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/failure-cascades/#dirty-data
205
102
Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/19/a-scandal-in-tedhemia-noted-study-in-psychology-first-fails-to-replicate-but-is-still-promoted-by-npr-then-crumbles-with-striking-evidence-of-data-fraud/
189
58
Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
https://www.presslabs.com/docs/code/gitfs/
186
141
The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf]
http://iopenshell.usc.edu/pubs/pdf/jpcl_opinion_2021.pdf
184
53
WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy
https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
172
104
One does not simply calculate the absolute value
https://habr.com/en/post/574082/
164
176
The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/22/upshot/hospital-prices.html
142
Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/waymo-s-self-driving-cars-are-99-of-the-way-there-the-last-1-is-the-hardest
100
C++20 Concepts: The Definitive Guide
https://thecodepad.com/cpp/c20-concepts-the-definitive-guide/
131
41
I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic
https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/i-was-there-when-the-dc-8-went-supersonic-27846699/
20
Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search
https://yurichev.com/news/20210205_rolling_hash/
129
105
Clickbait is unreasonably effective [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
32
PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained
https://github.com/langjam/jam0001/tree/main/hope
126
114
Record rise in U.S. rents
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-18/housing-hunt-turns-to-desperation-with-record-rise-in-u-s-rents
125
116
AWS doesn’t know who I am
https://ben11kehoe.medium.com/aws-doesnt-know-who-i-am-here-s-why-that-s-a-problem-4aeca591b0a6
117
The world needs a proper investigation into how Covid-19 started
https://www.economist.com/international/2021/08/21/the-world-needs-a-proper-investigation-into-how-covid-19-started
38
Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule
https://wsdot.com/Ferries/Schedule/Small/pda.aspx
108
Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-worst-invasive-weed-sold-us-garden-centers-180978481/
115
18
Some mental abilities seem to improve as we get older
https://www.sciencealert.com/aging-isn-t-all-bad-some-key-mental-abilities-improve-as-we-get-older
13
A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit (2018)
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
110
19
Liquidsoap – A scripting language for multimedia streaming
https://www.liquidsoap.info/
107
124
George Mason professor wins Covid antibody lawsuit as vaccine exemption
https://nclalegal.org/2021/08/george-mason-univ-caves-to-nclas-lawsuit-over-vaccine-mandate-grants-prof-medical-exemption/
103
98
Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16881/a-deep-dive-into-intels-alder-lake-microarchitectures/2
99
7
Moldable Emacs: Vega-Lite, Nyxt and Emacs Towards Sustainable Development
https://ag91.github.io/blog/2021/08/22/moldable-emacs-vega-lite-nyxt-and-emacs-towards-sustainable-development/
97
122
The Middle East is running out of water, and parts are becoming uninhabitable
https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_c68d65f14dea3cfd383f1627438ca5c7
Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system
https://bootstrappable.org/projects/mes.html
11
NetBox: Infrastructure resource modeling application for network automation
https://netbox.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
94
158
Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/18/even-my-bigoted-critics-deserve-free-speech/
92
BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite
https://learnbchs.org/
90
27
Collaborative Editing Options for Emacs
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollaborativeEditing
119
Apple Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Their iPhones
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2021/08/21/apple-iphone-warning-ios-15-csam-privacy-upggrade-ios-macos-ipados-security/
89
70
Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28263375
87
26
Show HN: TypeIt – A Versatile JavaScript Animated Typing Utility
https://typeitjs.com
42
Protecting privacy is a losing game today (2018)
https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-protecting-privacy-is-a-losing-game-today-and-how-to-change-the-game/
82
5
Apple manually boosted its 'Files' app ahead of 'Dropbox' in organic search [pdf]
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21043959/2018-may-boosting-files-app-we-wrote-about-it.pdf
79
Countering climate change with cool pavements
https://news.mit.edu/2021/countering-climate-change-cool-pavements-0822
77
91
Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-staffer-bathroom-breaks-irritable-bowel-syndrome-lawsuit-2021-8
86
I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks
https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/046_cgi/
74
SWE interviews should be paid
https://blog.algora.io/post/2021-08-pay-when-hiring/index.html