915
422
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908
4 years ago
515
206
Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/airgradient-diy-air-quality-monitor-co2-pm25
495
924
20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/07/20-years-after-9-11-will-we-ever-stop-taking-our-shoes-off-at-airports/
481
379
LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/revealed-los-angeles-police-officers-gathering-social-media
438
278
Maintain It with Zig
https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/
437
415
The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why
https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-sue-us-over-lend-we-have-no-idea-why-a3a1b6507009
431
219
Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
https://github.com/doctorray117/minecraft-ondemand
402
205
My university sacrificed ideas for ideology, so today I quit
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for
334
68
The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade
https://www.space.com/giant-comet-bernardinelli-bernstein-discovery-size-activity
324
85
How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/replace-docker-podman-macos
302
194
How Docker broke in half
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632142/how-docker-broke-in-half.html
293
155
How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go
https://brandur.org/sqlc
272
291
How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
https://archive.cancerworld.net/featured/how-doctors-die/
256
50
Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/09/07/introducing-pedalboard-spotifys-audio-effects-library-for-python/
252
267
If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-still-working-70-hours-a-week
230
117
No laughing matter? what the Romans found funny
https://antigonejournal.com/2021/08/what-romans-found-funny/
223
213
Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
https://join-lemmy.org/
221
114
How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?
https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/how-strong-would-a-magnetic-field-have-to-be-to-kill-you/#comment-3929
217
130
GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas
https://www.cbui.dev/github-actions-limitations-and-gotchas/
197
87
Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale
https://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/massive-new-animal-species-discovered-in-half-billion-year-old
115
Ok, so you can’t decide
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/ok-so-you-cant-decide/
191
54
Suspicious Discontinuities
https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
190
76
Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”
https://blog.archive.today/post/660719734341386240/is-there-any-structure-in-place-to-assure-the
189
Web3 is a stupid idea
https://timdaub.github.io/2020/09/08/web3/
188
163
Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation's bank account
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-activist-ai-weiwei-says-credit-suisse-closing-his-foundations-bank-2021-09-07/
174
97
The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex
https://99u.adobe.com/articles/55974/the-creative-worlds-bullshit-industrial-complex
170
82
Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit
150
120
The code that controls our money
https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money
67
The Problems with Deliberate Practice (2020)
https://commoncog.com/blog/the-problems-with-deliberate-practice/
146
239
Toyota to spend 1.5T yen on EV battery development
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14436029
136
101
Disinformation-for-hire in Kenya
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-inside-the-shadowy-world-of-disinformation-for-hire-in-kenya/
132
51
Space station astronaut captures breathtaking view of the edge of the Earth
https://www.cnet.com/news/space-station-astronaut-captures-breathtaking-view-of-the-edge-of-the-earth/
86
Notion Acquires Automate.io
https://www.notion.so/blog/taking-building-blocks-beyond-the-workspace-welcome-automate-io
127
ADE 651
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
126
158
We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth
https://spectrum.ieee.org/climate-change-2654802125
123
IBM mainframe beats other platforms for cost and performance
https://www.planetmainframe.com/2021/09/the-ibm-mainframe-the-most-powerful-and-cost-effective-computing-platform-for-business/
Some sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1435439291715358721
72
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to December
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-december-2021
118
103
Built to Last – RSS, HTTP (2015)
https://blog.theoldreader.com/post/111572910019/standard
28
The dark patterns of Network Solutions
https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/network-solutions-dark-patterns-domain-registration-transfers/
108
Gen Z members flock to climate careers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/06/gen-z-climate-change-careers-jobs
99
62
Poka Yoke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke
95
172
The bargain at the heart of the BBC is fraying
https://jamesomalley.substack.com/p/the-bbc-faces-a-death-spiral-and
20
How the Wire’s Omar Changed TV
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/sep/07/shotgun-briefcase-omar-wire-great-scenes-michael-k-williams-changed-tv
32
Generating a QR code with only ARM Assembly
https://github.com/barrettotte/qr-asm
84
52
Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board
https://protonmail.com/blog/sir-tim-berners-lee-advisory-board/
247
As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/07/virologist-work-anti-vaxxers-covid
33
Silanano launches the first new commercial battery chemistry since 1991
https://silanano.com/news/one-small-new-battery-one-giant-leap-for-our-energy-future
81
First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) [pdf]
http://web.archive.org/web/20000829224359/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/man71.pdf
109
Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elasticsearch-service-is-now-amazon-opensearch-service-and-supports-opensearch-10/
80
21
Miegakure Update September 2021
https://marctenbosch.com/news/2021/09/miegakure-update-september-2021/
78
40
The ACLU, Prior to Covid, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures for Pandemics
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-aclu-prior-to-covid-denounced
77
63
Should you delete social media? That’s the wrong question.
https://mehretbiruk.com/delete-social-media/
100
Bitcoin’s first day as El Salvador’s legal tender
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58459098
74
Opal Camera
https://opalcamera.com/
73
How do computers generate random numbers?
https://betterprogramming.pub/generating-random-numbers-is-a-lot-harder-than-you-think-b121c3e75d08
ByteDance in talks with banks to borrow over $3B
https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-talks-borrow-up-5-bln-information-2021-09-08/
59
Australia media can be sued for social media comments, court rules
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58484205
66
13
FD 100
https://susam.in/maze/fd-100.html
65
But down in the underground, you’ll find someone true
https://quidplura.com/2021/09/07/but-down-in-the-underground-youll-find-someone-true-2/
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