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380
The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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822
332
Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
679
838
I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
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630
596
TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-hikes-chip-prices-up-to-20-amid-supply-shortage
555
361
Canistilluse.com
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/canistilluse.com/
501
194
Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28320346
428
98
Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/
416
188
Work Hard (2007)
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/work-hard/
386
104
Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/silent-changes-to-western-digitals-budget-ssd-may-lower-speeds-by-up-to-50/
375
144
Sailfish 4
https://sailfishos.org/
357
298
Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
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350
248
Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/valneva-and-pfizer-announce-initiation-phase-2-study-lyme
348
255
Why are hyperlinks blue?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/
324
Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-15-billion-to-remain-default-safari-search-engine-in-2021/
313
270
Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook
306
533
Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309520
149
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/
290
198
There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
https://ariadne.space/2021/08/26/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-glibc-based-alpine-image/
288
330
My Tungsten Cube (2019)
https://thume.ca/2019/03/03/my-tungsten-cube/
254
481
Rent control isn’t working in Sweden
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555
128
T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-hacker-who-stole-data-on-50-million-customers-their-security-is-awful-11629985105
240
231
Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/
230
450
Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-58310532
218
CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions
https://www.tibetanreview.net/70th-party-anniversary-publication-calls-chinas-tibet-policy-a-template-for-other-ethnic-minority-regions/
225
212
‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament
https://www.innovationaus.com/extraordinary-new-hacking-powers-pass-parliament/
223
154
An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-illustrated-guide-to-post-orwellian-censorship/
215
The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dream-of-co2-air-capture-edges-toward-reality
209
50
The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018)
https://jdlm.info/articles/2018/03/18/markov-decision-process-2048.html
206
57
FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthorized-access-to-private-data/
161
113
Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++
https://notes.eatonphil.com/writing-a-simple-json-library-in-modern-cpp.html
220
“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/8/24/does-induced-demand-apply-to-bike-lanes-and-other-questions
138
43
Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/25/federal-facial-recognition-expansion/
135
35
Unit testing a TCP stack (2015)
http://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-07-09-unit-testing-a-tcp-stack/
123
51
Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210826_10/
122
PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/pureos-mobile/
126
LimeSDR
https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/
120
75
Cat Automatic Sprayer
http://www.fabidouille.com/?p=286
114
63
Google has killed Discord's best music bot
https://www.pcgamer.com/google-has-killed-discords-best-music-bot/
107
73
High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-Bit Floating Point
https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/08/26/high-performance-correctly-rounded-math-libraries-for-32-bit-floating-point-representations/
96
64
UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/26/uk-to-overhaul-privacy-rules-in-post-brexit-departure-from-gdpr
93
66
Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates
https://mcculley.github.io/VisualizingObservedDeaths/
92
58
Apple has surpassed Facebook and Google in violating user trust
https://tinyapps.org/blog/202108260700_apple_violates_trust.html
71
The Dual-Drive IDE Hell
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-dual-drive-ide-hell/
85
38
Nauka's Troubled Flight–Before It Tumbled the ISS
https://spectrum.ieee.org/naukas-troubled-flight-t
84
You and Your Research (1986)
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
83
12
Zero Shot Object Tracking
https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-object-tracking/
82
89
Seeking early signals of dementia in driving and credit scores
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/health/dementia-behavior-alzheimers.html
81
33
The Chief People Officer as PM
https://review.firstround.com/the-chief-people-officer-as-pm:-rethinking-the-systems-and-tools-that-run-the-company
79
159
Hospitalizations hit 100k in United States for first time since January
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/26/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/
74
37
Adding Optimistic Locking to an API
https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/designing-ledgers-with-optimistic-locking
28
Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana
https://blog.thecloudside.com/raspberry-pi-monitoring-using-telegraf-influxdb-and-grafana-defb63127fe3
