954
298
Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
https://zyppy.com/googlespeak/
4 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/
292
133
Tools for Thinking
https://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2021/08/21/tools-for-thinking.php
274
50
Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
248
242
Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28287617
247
230
IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations
https://www.extremetech.com/internet/326088-should-your-web-history-impact-your-credit-score-the-imf-thinks-so
118
The Nelua Programming Language
https://nelua.io/
237
141
Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home without Apple noticing
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-23/icloud-photo-theft-nude-women
232
210
Black barbers have become mental health advocates for African American men
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/23/us/black-barbers-mental-health-wellness-trnd/index.html
224
114
More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/studying-whistled-languages-180978484/
51
SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI
https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel
218
44
HyperPhysics (2016)
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html
200
161
Sweden must repay $1.6M in Bitcoin to convicted drug dealer
https://nypost.com/2021/08/23/sweden-must-repay-1-6m-in-bitcoin-to-convicted-drug-dealer/
99
Youtube-dl is possibly dead
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/p9riey/youtubedl_is_possibly_dead/
185
258
EU to make Bitcoin traceable, ban anonymous crypto wallets
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/07/21/eu-will-make-bitcoin-traceable-and-ban-anonymous-crypto-wallets-in-anti-money-laundering-d
180
66
Reuters photographer was killed after being left behind in retreat
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/afghanistan-conflict-reuters-siddiqui/
174
Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mental-phenomena-dont-map-into-the-brain-as-expected-20210824/
172
77
Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding
https://growth.design/case-studies/adobe-cancel-subscription/
170
152
Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
https://www.arun.is/blog/richard-sapper/
160
37
Soviet Moon Images (2004)
http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm
155
38
In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chile-three-border-collies-are-planting-seeds-bringing-life-back-forests-destroyed-by-fire-1628737
149
18
Science hobbyist website since 1994
http://amasci.com/
144
235
Y Combinator’s European founder intake continues to grow
https://sifted.eu/articles/y-combinator-founder-intake/
142
145
Startups now spend more on Airbnb than on office rent
https://skift.com/2021/08/20/startups-now-spend-more-on-airbnb-than-rent-for-offices/
103
Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python
https://death.andgravity.com/query-builder-how
137
62
Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants
https://www.easyzoom.com/imageaccess/2128f27845ed4921b3143004dc550c3e
135
75
Europe has now created more $1bn ‘unicorn’ companies than China
https://sifted.eu/articles/europe-china-unicorn/
125
197
Pacaso is turning houses into corporations
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/08/24/1030151330/a-unicorn-startup-is-turning-houses-into-corporations
122
131
Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (2019)
https://features.marketplace.org/why-no-ceo-went-jail-after-financial-crisis/
121
84
I could do that in a weekend (2016)
https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
171
Life Before Unicode
https://baturin.org/blog/life-before-unicode/
116
30
Observability: A New Theory Based on the Group of Invariance
https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/observability-a-new-theory-based-on-the-group-of-invariance
111
48
The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
https://github.blog/2021-08-23-npm-registry-deprecating-tls-1-0-tls-1-1/
16
QEMU Version 6.1.0 Released
https://www.qemu.org/2021/08/24/qemu-6-1-0/
104
90
The growing market of not cutting down trees
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-growing-market-of-not-cutting-down-trees/5e0b4e3d-f26e-42cf-94e8-acaab805a65a
I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway, but she didn’t wake up
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/23/some-tesla-drivers-relying-far-too-much-on-self-driving-technology-roadshow/
102
45
James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030442282/james-loewen-author-of-lies-my-teacher-told-me-dies-at-79
83
How does one get close to mastering software engineering?
https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-get-as-close-as-possible-to-mastering-software-engineering/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
101
Samsung Reveals DDR5-7200 512GB RAM
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-reveals-ddr5-7200-512gb-ram
110
Golang vs. C# (.NET 5.0) at Benchmarks Game
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/go-csharpcore.html
93
Reversing ocean acidification with aggressive CO2 removal will take 700+ years (2015)
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/reversing-ocean-acidification-aggressive-co2-removal-will-take-more-700-years-1513897
98
64
Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28285567
96
Scylla – Real-Time Big Data Database
https://www.scylladb.com/
56
Toledo’s Last Swordmakers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/24/toledos-last-swordmakers-refuse-to-give-up-on-their-ancient-craft
The Case for a Shorter Workweek
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210819-the-case-for-a-shorter-workweek
88
49
Show HN: SlashApi – a web platform to build REST APIs without code
https://slashapi.com/
My Journey as a Self-Taught Programmer
https://blog.octachart.com/my-journey-as-a-self-taught-programmer
James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79