995
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Arm China Has Gone Rogue
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695
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Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
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447
179
Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
https://github.com/hecrj/iced/
442
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I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
https://neilbostian.github.io/#/doomphone
418
217
Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
https://metameme.app/
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Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-authorities-say-overtime-996-policy-is-illegal-2021-08-27/
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Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier
https://zwischenzugs.com/2021/08/27/five-ansible-techniques-i-wish-id-known-earlier/
345
152
Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28327660
331
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App store payments will have increased competition
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2021/08/27/app-store-payment-competition/
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401
Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/08/28/why-san-franciscos-city-government-is-so-dysfunctional
252
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How does Google Authenticator work?
https://prezu.ca/post/2021-07-30-totp-1/
141
My love-hate affair with technology
https://nolanlawson.com/2021/08/26/my-love-hate-affair-with-technology/
237
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Mental health impacts of a big tech job
https://oilyraincloud.com/2021/08/16/mental-health-impacts-of-a-big-tech-job/
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Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/26/apple-app-store-payment-settlement/
228
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The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video]
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Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-no-infection-parties
220
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Facebook “transparency report” turns out to be anything but
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/facebook-transparency-report-turns-out-to-be-anything-but.php
216
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IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ
https://tailscale.com/kb/1134/ipv6-faq/
212
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Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/western-digital-confirms-speed-crippling-sn550-ssd-flash-change/
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Some Reasons to Measure
https://danluu.com/why-benchmark/
48
Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
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For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades
https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/research/public-opinion-survey/first-time-half-americans-favor-defending-taiwan-if-china-invades
192
133
What I'm Up to Now
https://martinfowler.com/articles/202107-what-doing-now.html
172
106
Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum
171
Illustrated Redirection Tutorial
https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/redirection_tutorial
163
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The Semiconductor Heist of the Century
https://semianalysis.com/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century-arm-china-has-gone-completely-rogue-operating-as-an-independent-company-with-their-own-ip/
162
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Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/08/26/delta-air-lines-delta-variant-covid/
103
Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense
https://interconnected.org/home/2021/08/27/data_sense
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SnakeOS: Bootable x86 snake game in Rust
https://github.com/trusch/snakeos
149
Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/27/enbridge-line-3-pipeline-police-training-intelligence/
147
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Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/27/brussels-battles-old-prejudices-as-it-frees-unloved-river-senne-from-its-vault
140
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Turning satellite imagery into wall art
https://ramblemaps.com/turning-satellite-imagery-into-wall-art
135
25
Latency Sneaks Up on You
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/05/utilization.html
89
An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object
https://searchvoidstar.tumblr.com/post/659634228574715904/an-amazing-error-message-if-you-put-more-than-2-24
132
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Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use
https://fedoramagazine.org/automatically-light-up-a-sign-when-your-webcam-is-in-use/
129
27
Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort
https://duckdb.org/2021/08/27/external-sorting.html
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58352098
Hurricane Ida could be close to Cat 4, dump up to 20“ of rain in S.E. Louisiana
https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_a708d202-073b-11ec-9caa-0f909fa26fd7.html
122
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Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993)
https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html
15
Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326377-samsung-is-the-latest-ssd-manufacturer-cheating-its-customers?source=flipboard
52
The QSBS Tax Exemption: A Valuable Benefit for Startup Founders and Builders
https://www.brownadvisory.com/us/theadvisory/qsbs-tax-exemption-valuable-benefit-startup-founders-and-builders
60
Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released
https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.6-released
104
Adult Obesity Facts
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
108
The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/the-74000-numbers-of-barclays-bank/
101
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UK loses 83% of department stores since BHS collapsed
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58331168
99
38
Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD
https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html
98
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Launch HN: Lemonade Finance (YC S21) – Digital Bank for the African Diaspora
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329211
96
First image of a black hole: a CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/first-ever-image-black-hole-cnrs-researcher-had-simulated-it-early-1979
31
Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/science/ocean-bioluminescent-satellite.html
93
Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards
https://charity.wtf/2021/08/09/notes-on-the-perfidy-of-dashboards/
13
Why observability requires a distributed column store
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-observability-requires-distributed-column-store/
45
The problem of effects in Rust (2020)
https://without.boats/blog/the-problem-of-effects/
One Week of Bugs (2014)
https://danluu.com/everything-is-broken/
90
An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming
https://survivingtomorrow.org/an-open-letter-to-airbnb-8b1b58b4ad33
87
16
OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects
https://www.openshot.org/blog/2021/08/25/new_openshot_release_260/
14
BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS
85
74
Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys
https://jesseduffield.com/Type-Keys/
84
Being on-call is working. FULL STOP
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/pc02sc/being_oncall_is_working_full_stop/
80
126
Fundamental physics sees worlds in grains of sand and infinities in hours
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/28/fundamental-physics-is-humanitys-most-extraordinary-achievement
41
Proxmox VE 7.0 Released
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-ve-7-0-released.92006/
100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/how-sf-tech-giants-are-navigating-a-successful-return-to-the-office/
America’s response to 9/11 contributed to our national decline
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/08/27/how-americas-response-to-9-11-contributed-to-our-national-decline/
58
IEEE 754 round-off errors
https://yurichev.com/news/20210131_IEEE_754/
77
76
Some Vermonters turn to ayahuasca as a 'last resort' to heal
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/some-vermonters-turn-to-ayahuasca-as-a-last-resort-to-heal-their-bodies-and-minds/Content?oid=32812290
21
The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets
https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-electromagnetic-force-of-fridge-magnets
72
43
The Dresden Job
https://www.gq.com/story/the-dresden-job
71
The radical power of the book index
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-radical-power-of-the-book-index-history-review
70
8
Slack's Secret STDERR Messages
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-08-27/slack-crashes-secret-stderr.html
37
When correlation is better than causation
https://www.narrator.ai/blog/when-correlation-is-better-than-causation/
68
Database internals are becoming less important than developer experience
https://planetscale.com/blog/nonesql-all-the-devex
Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/27/yc-grad-buoyant-wants-to-solve-middle-mile-delivery-with-cargo-airships/
67
Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products
https://mixpanel.com/blog/upsides-to-unshipping-the-art-of-removing-features-and-products/
Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/26/windows_11_user_feedback/
44
The Battle of Blair Mountain
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/battle-blair-mountain-largest-labor-uprising-american-history-180978520/
64
Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.16.21251535v3
7
ChaosDB: Unauthorized Privileged Access to Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
https://chaosdb.wiz.io/
9
EPA is falsifying risk assessments for dangerous chemicals, say whistleblowers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/27/epa-whistleblowers-falsifying-risk-assessments-dangerous-chemicals
83
Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58343062
62
Who Would Kidnap a Space Telescope?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-pirates/618268/
39
New evidence shows this uranium cube is likely relic of Nazi A-bomb program
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/forensic-tracking-could-verify-uranium-cube-came-from-nazi-nuclear-effort/
When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]
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