1030
1053
China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rolls-out-new-rules-minors-online-gaming-xinhua-2021-08-30/
4 years ago
543
344
The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
https://stevenvanbael.com/open-calendar-task-space-is-a-mess
421
299
Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-classical-music-streaming-service-primephonic/
363
127
Stop Waiting for Godot
https://itch.io/jam/stop-waiting-for-godot
323
565
If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?
https://betterprogramming.pub/if-software-engineering-is-in-demand-why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-a-software-engineering-job-c043a964e463
319
157
Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-is-the-aol-of-2021/
307
94
Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware
https://yingtongli.me/blog/2021/08/29/drm5-1.html
297
198
French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid
https://thehftguy.com/2021/08/30/french-appeal-court-affirms-decision-that-copyright-claims-on-gpl-are-invalid-must-be-enforced-via-contractual-dispute/
288
78
A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
https://crontab.guru/
280
140
Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
https://github.com/rohit-px2/nvui
89
Writing Programs with Ncurses
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html
265
118
Walking increases spontaneous fluctuations in the brain
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/28/walking-and-spontaneous-fluctuations-brain/
258
232
Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content
https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/tree/main/model
254
244
European Union recommends halting non-essential travel from the U.S.
https://www.axios.com/eu-travel-restrictions-us-6f8f73f7-af1e-4614-a73e-46404ee0b085.html
252
115
Replay-based attack on Honda and Acura vehicles
https://github.com/HackingIntoYourHeart/Unoriginal-Rice-Patty
226
139
Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
https://www.thechiefmeat.com/guides/containers.html
224
70
Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/console/playdate-pulp-zero-to-video-game-in-60-seconds
219
148
Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
215
Software Development Waste
https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/08/29/software-development-waste.html
214
How do I turn off the “Try the new Safari” notification?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252412228
176
Photography technology has influenced what people consider a good picture
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/bad-photography-and-good-pictures/
196
123
FCC Temporary Waiver Permits Higher Symbol Rate Data for Hurricane Ida Traffic
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-grants-temporary-waiver-to-permit-higher-symbol-rate-data-transmissions-for-hurricane-ida-traffi
191
163
A Compass for the Politics of Collapse
https://write.as/conjure-utopia/a-compass-for-the-politics-of-collapse-a-short-straightforward-introduction
174
48
Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux
https://github.com/jashandeep-sohi/webcam-filters
How you play Spades is how you play life
https://pudding.cool/2021/08/spades
150
56
When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019)
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/
143
Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
https://javahippie.net/software/business/2021/08/30/enterprise-software-killed-the-developer.html
106
The Fatiguing Effects of Camera Use in Virtual Meetings [pdf]
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2021-77825-003.pdf
34
Fibonacci Sphere
http://extremelearning.com.au/how-to-evenly-distribute-points-on-a-sphere-more-effectively-than-the-canonical-fibonacci-lattice/
147
129
NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html
52
Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007)
https://msfn.org/board/topic/109018-windows-98-in-dr-dos/?tab=comments#comment-721209
145
88
What Is the Most Free TLD?
https://slc.is/#The%20Best%20TLD%20is%20Not%20.com
81
How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210825-how-to-fight-microplastic-pollution-with-magnets
131
17
A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself
https://therecord.media/a-new-wave-of-hacktivists-is-turning-the-surveillance-state-against-itself/
125
87
Music Composition with Deep Learning: A Review
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12290
93
A Screeching Voice of the Minority
https://meta.ath0.com/2021/08/apple-csam-scanning/
120
74
Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/08/421316/struggling-learn-new-language-blame-it-your-stable-brain
29
Wild boars are able to open traps to free their fellows
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95682-4
116
28
8 Bits of history: My first game is still available on the internet
https://smackeyacky.blogspot.com/2021/08/8-bits-of-history-my-first-game-is.html
14
Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=44438
113
26
Show HN: A strongly-typed document DB that runs on any transactional KV store
https://github.com/losfair/RefineDB
102
The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux
https://tuxphones.com/pinenote-eink-linux-tablet-remarkable-alternative/
101
45
Building a Desktop Application for Datasette
https://simonwillison.net/2021/Aug/30/datasette-app/
97
67
How to Paint 50k Miles of Lines
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/26/arts/design/road-lines.html
91
New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd)
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2108.3/05470.html
95
64
Stanford researchers make rechargeable batteries that store 6x more charge
https://news.stanford.edu/2021/08/25/researchers-make-alkali-metal-chlorine-batteries-rechargeable/
21
Freeing Your Goats
https://hyperthings.garden/posts/2021-08-30/freeing-your-goats.html
202
Alternative Milks
https://blog.bramp.net/post/2021/04/03/alternative-milks/
73
Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
https://github.com/liamg/darktile
104
In 2009, Two Nuclear Submarines Collided Under the Sea (2016)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/2009-two-nuclear-submarines-collided-under-the-sea-they-were-18690
12
Chaikin’s Algorithm: Drawing Curves
https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/08/chaikins-algorithm-drawing-curves/
86
23
Connection Strings Reference
https://www.connectionstrings.com/
79
84
EU states looking for MS Teams/O365 alternatives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353718
37
“I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve0TXM0VBiE
66
Gap acquires 3D fitting room startup Drapr
https://www.retaildive.com/news/gap-inc-acquires-3d-fitting-room-startup-drapr/605691/
75
36
The Unsolved Mystery of the D-Day Puzzles
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-d-day-puzzles
25
Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017)
https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/pen-plotter-1
72
68
Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)
http://www.herseyhiroshima.com/hiro.php
71
Burning Out and Finding Stability (2019)
https://destroytoday.com/blog/burning-out-and-finding-stability
61
Music streaming payouts comparison
https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream
10
Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard
https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-nanos-wireguard-vpn-gateway
69
The Oasis of Palmyra
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/home/oasis-palmyra
50
Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he doesn't own
https://github.com/krisives/elementary-os-extras/issues/1
63
49
Ask HN: Suspended by Google Domains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28352704
30
Three Clocks Are Better Than One
https://www.tigerbeetle.com/post/three-clocks-are-better-than-one
62
Implementing a class with void*
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/classes/cs140/Notes/Running_Times/voidstar.html
6
Grokking Fenwick Trees
https://jornhub.dev/articles/fenwick-trees/
40
We Can’t Trust the Market with Scientific Knowledge
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/08/we-cant-trust-the-market-with-scientific-knowledge
Ask HN: Why does validating a user require 14000 files?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353387
27
What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
https://warzel.substack.com/p/what-if-people-dont-want-a-career
4
China cuts children's online gaming to one hour
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58384457
60
Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28356047
59
Async Overloading
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/async-overloading/
eBPF: A curated list of projects related to eBPF
https://github.com/zoidbergwill/awesome-ebpf
When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019)