1285
584
Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106
4 years ago
1154
160
Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1434356217208623106
606
579
Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/02/dutch-cities-want-ban-property-investors-neighborhoods
512
74
Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/suzuki-kango-plock-wooden-automaton-time-writing-clock/
500
168
Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-02/juniper-mystery-attacks-traced-to-pentagon-role-and-chinese-hackers
437
157
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)
https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.352.6285.508
405
248
Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1433837480449613839
376
152
Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-94374-3
338
321
Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425379
327
88
BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement
https://wedistribute.org/2021/08/bookwyrm-is-the-federated-goodreads-replacement-i-didnt-know-i-needed/
300
135
Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020)
https://avherald.com/h?article=4d97ca46&opt=0
290
122
Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends
https://plaintextaccounting.org/
289
116
Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia
https://therecord.media/malware-found-preinstalled-in-classic-push-button-phones-sold-in-russia/
266
417
It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/570441-its-not-a-labor-shortage-its-a-wage-and-worker-rights-shortage
257
172
Chekhov's Gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun
249
117
Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/6562466c32a8750d7a71a6cc6232e6b5a28fe13a
237
214
Fast Rust Builds
https://matklad.github.io/2021/09/04/fast-rust-builds.html
223
51
Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history
https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff
220
91
OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released
https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/notes-21.02.0
213
65
Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane
https://medium.com/@weizmangal/javascript-anti-debugging-some-next-level-sh-t-part-2-abusing-chromium-devtools-scope-pane-b2796c00331d
207
97
Follow boring advice
http://nywkap.com/other/follow-boring-advice.html
204
39
Show HN: Relativity: A Modern Primer
http://ramp-book.com/
199
89
Your Phone Is Your Private Space
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/spyware-your-iphone-step-too-far-privacy/619987/
196
103
New Evidence Against the Standard Model of Cosmology
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-evidence-against-standard-model-of.html
167
93
E-Ink Typewriter
https://github.com/olup/kobowriter
155
22
The Vinland Map is awash in 20th-century ink
https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/01/analysis-unlocks-secret-vinland-map-its-fake
147
38
A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (2019)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe
133
The number of legal chess positions estimated at 4.5x10^44 – proof games wanted
https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking
131
25
Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps?
https://ramblemaps.com/why-does-sunlight-come-from-north
127
20
Suture: A Ruby gem that helps you refactor your legacy code
https://github.com/testdouble/suture
120
32
The Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible
https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/
104
19
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC (2019)
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
141
New Orleans levees passed their first major test
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/new-orleans-levees-passed-their-first-major-test
102
68
Arc – A P2P CDN that runs in the browser
https://arc.io
101
61
Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC117239/
98
56
Progress on C23
https://thephd.dev/c-the-improvements-june-september-virtual-c-meeting
45
Rolling Stone 'Horse Dewormer' Hit-Piece Debunked After Hospital Says No ODs
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/rolling-stone-horse-dewormer-hit-piece-debunked-after-hospital-says-no-ivermectin
90
18
Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker
https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker
75
Onivim 2 – A retro-futuristic modal editor
https://onivim.io/
86
79
Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera (2016)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html
84
16
Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/09/04/germany-wants-apple-to-offer-iphone-updates-and-parts-for-7-years
81
47
Borax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax
80
The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210217-the-moments-that-we-could-have-destroyed-humanity
99
Regular exercisers drink more but are less likely to be problem drinkers – study
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/exercise-alcohol-research/
82
Google introduces $50 4G smartphone
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/google-introduces-50-4g-smartphone-to-enable-billions-of-people/
76
36
ZeroTier – Global Area Networking
https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020)
