954
298
Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
https://zyppy.com/googlespeak/
5 years ago
912
619
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/
882
357
The most underused browser feature: reader mode
https://frankgroeneveld.nl/2021/08/24/most-underused-browser-feature/
696
368
How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7
620
669
Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
https://blog.waymo.com/2021/08/welcoming-our-first-riders-in-san.html
579
694
Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
https://news.samsung.com/za/samsung-supports-retailers-affected-by-looting-with-innovative-television-block-function
576
438
Apple’s crackdown on multicast
https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2021/08/24/apples-bizarre-crackdown-on-multicast.html
525
107
Gail.com
https://gail.com
472
95
My dead dad’s journal
https://www.seanblanda.com/my-dead-dads-journal-how-i-finally-met-a-man-i-knew-for-my-entire-life/
456
283
The rise of user-hostile software
https://den.dev/blog/user-hostile-software/
387
120
API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/
358
195
Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-3-unlock-bootloader-broken-camera/
350
92
Charlie Watts has died
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58316842
346
307
The Clickbaitification of Netflix
https://slate.com/culture/2021/08/netflix-top-10-movies-shows-clickbait.html
344
264
Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
https://jamespotter.dev/hacker-news-tech-trends/
339
They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017)
https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/
329
134
Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse
https://ploopy.co/
305
138
Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France
https://www.gizchina.com/2021/08/23/old-iphones-become-faster-if-you-change-the-region-to-france/
299
202
Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (2008)
http://www.varasanos.com/pizzarecipe.htm
293
140
Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
https://citizenlab.ca/2021/08/bahrain-hacks-activists-with-nso-group-zero-click-iphone-exploits/