1236
335
Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/delays-arent-good-enough-apple-must-abandon-its-surveillance-plans
4 years ago
722
245
uBlock Origin review
https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/ublock-origin-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ad-blocker/
525
1274
How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/09/04/how-did-american-wokeness-jump-from-elite-schools-to-everyday-life
389
221
Back Orifice (1998)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180715070715/http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/bo.html
363
96
200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor
https://spectrum.ieee.org/200-years-ago-faraday-invented-the-electric-motor
337
107
Migrating from Docker to Podman
https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2021-09-01-migrating-from-docker-to-podman
333
142
Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples
https://codecatalog.org/2021/09/04/well-documented-code.html
307
57
Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network
https://www.shlinkedin.com/
303
86
OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1B
https://onezero.medium.com/openai-sold-its-soul-for-1-billion-cf35ff9e8cd4
274
146
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2018)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
267
366
GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website
https://gizmodo.com/godaddy-is-giving-texas-abortion-snitching-site-the-boo-1847616447
259
95
Kubescape – tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely
https://github.com/armosec/kubescape
249
39
Neurocracy
https://neurocracy.site/
239
117
Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEWsLdLmcc
236
261
Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tourettes-youtube-jan-zimmermann
222
27
Faust: Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing
https://faust.grame.fr/
214
139
Flowers Make a Nice Gift
https://www.echevarria.io/blog/flowers-make-a-nice-gift/index.html
201
111
An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)
https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/
192
171
Forgetting My First Language
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/forgetting-my-first-language
191
55
Pint – A Python package to define, operate and manipulate physical quantities
https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
176
56
New NTFS Read-Write Driver from Paragon Merged to Linux Kernel
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7464060f7ab9a2424428008f0ee9f1e267e410f
166
69
WaterBear – A free library of documentaries and shorts
https://www.waterbear.com/
165
52
Ask HN: How much is Google collecting and keeping on Android if not signed in?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28419727
154
161
Financial literacy is a passport to financial freedom
https://www.ft.com/content/80480742-9853-4144-9c91-238021414bc8
150
23
Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and fixes typo so it works
https://www.pcgamer.com/developer-returns-to-game-after-four-decades-discovers-and-fixes-typo-so-it-works/
140
58
How you can track your personal finances using Python
https://sgoel.dev/posts/how-you-can-track-your-personal-finances-using-python/
179
Kei Car
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car
131
105
Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification?
https://sid-thinketh.medium.com/has-agile-become-addiction-to-instant-gratification-cd0d0bfacb6f
125
49
Y Combinator's Demo Day loses luster
https://www.axios.com/y-combinators-demo-day-loses-luster-fe34966b-062c-4591-af9a-3eabb4237571.html
120
153
Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts “Primates” Label on Video of Black Men
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/technology/facebook-ai-race-primates.html
48
An Emoji from 1803
https://twitter.com/neildrysdale/status/1434163873804955648
Sweden delivered the world’s first fossil fuel-free steel
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/08/19/how-sweden-delivered-the-worlds-first-fossil-fuel-free-steel/
118
100
New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/new-texas-abortion-law-likely-unleash-torrent-lawsuits-against-online-education
116
Scotland Joins the Growing Global Movement Towards a Four-Day Workweek
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/09/03/scotland-joins-the-growing-global-movement-towards-a-four-day-workweek/
115
29
MIT CSAIL network design principles
https://tig.csail.mit.edu/network-wireless/wireless-design/
114
Fish eyes grown in a petri dish from embryonic stem cells
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-fish-eyes-grown-petri-dish.html
113
44
Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/
112
33
Mad God: What happens when the best practical VFX artist, ever, writes a film?
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/phil-tippetts-mad-god-a-sensory-feast-for-lovers-of-practical-filmmaking/
50
Pollen – A library of CSS variables inspired by TailwindCSS
https://www.pollen.style/
37
How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose
https://www.rubick.com/how-to-build-silos-and-decrease-collaboration/
110
53
PayPal Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
97
Why do they burn a man at Burning Man?
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/why-do-they-burn-a-man-at-burning
22
Making world-class docs takes effort
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/04/making-world-class-docs-takes-effort/
A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-03-golang-time-bugs/
91
Lyft, Uber lash out at legal threat from strict Texas abortion law
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-abortion-ban-lyft-uber-fight-back-1.6165045
90
5
The strange race to track down a missing billion years
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210901-the-strange-race-to-track-down-a-missing-billion-years
87
Zorin OS 16 is what a Linux desktop distribution should be
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zorinos-16-is-exactly-what-a-linux-desktop-distribution-should-be/
92
Object-Oriented Programming in C (2019) [pdf]
https://www.state-machine.com/doc/AN_OOP_in_C.pdf
83
36
Bitwarden is now in Arch Linux community repository
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/bitwarden
80
Predictors and effects of phubbing behaviour in friendships [pdf]
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0144929X.2021.1943711
79
The Golden Age of Quantum Physics
https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-golden-age-of-quantum-physics-ff7
77
Student tracks Bluetooth headset wearers by wardriving around Oslo on a bicycle
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/04/bluetooth_headphones_tracking_oslo/
76
UBC Engineering removes online classes, obstacles for international students
https://www.ubyssey.ca/news/international-students-struggle-to-return/
71
68
A spy who helped to end apartheid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/29/south-africa-spy-who-helped-to-end-apartheid
Mad God: What happens when the best practical VFX artist, ever, writes a film?