1069
638
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739
4 years ago
804
250
Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/apple-founder-wozniak-space-debris-company-b1919747.html
745
242
Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer
http://www.bespokesynth.com/
701
165
Norm Macdonald has died
https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/
693
285
Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
https://justuseapp.com/page/stripe-ban
687
163
How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-percentile-approximation-works-and-why-its-more-useful-than-averages/
471
305
Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships
https://www.allkpop.com/article/2021/09/social-media-influencer-model-created-from-artificial-intelligence-lands-100-sponsorships
463
1568
Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101
413
249
Anonymous Hacks Epik
https://4chan.partyvan.epikfail.win:55899/
400
330
Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-reduces-server-pricing-to-fight-amd
399
204
Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
376
159
Effect size is significantly more important than statistical significance
http://www.argmin.net/2021/09/13/effect-size/
354
303
Turing Oversold?
https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/turing-oversold.html
349
246
Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-September/006037.html
329
107
14kb WASM game written in D
https://skoppe.github.io/spasm/examples/underrun/
328
77
Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript
https://js13kgames.com/entries/q1k3
296
"Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution
https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution
293
117
Rainbow Six Vegas, SWAT 4 unplayable due to disabled ad server
https://twitter.com/_eezstreet_/status/1437652748179234819
267
91
S.Korea fines Google $177M for blocking Android customisation
https://www.reuters.com/technology/skorean-antitrust-agency-fines-google-177-mln-abusing-market-dominance-2021-09-14/
260
102
Scikit-Learn Version 1.0
https://scikit-learn.org/dev/whats_new/v1.0.html
234
522
Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
https://www.axios.com/covid-19-vaccine-booster-not-needed-experts-fda-lancet-44bc8a25-c640-4268-8841-e652e285d8fe.html
233
30
Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and Tips
https://briansunter.com/blog/five-minute-journal/
207
54
Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rural-blood-test-analyser
203
366
Job vacancies surge past one million in new record
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58543554
194
76
Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE (2019)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-raven/
192
153
China uses anti-fraud app to track access to overseas financial news sites
https://www.ft.com/content/84b6b889-ae03-47f7-9cd0-bd604b21d5de
134
Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux
https://spectrum-os.org/
191
101
The Frustration with Productivity Culture
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/the-frustration-with-productivity-culture/
182
Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-26-dollars-economy-productivity/
169
52
FreshTomato
https://freshtomato.org
385
What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/09/13/whats-wrong-with-tech-hiring.html
75
Common cold combats Covid-19
https://news.yale.edu/2021/06/15/common-cold-combats-covid-19
149
211
Go’ing Insane: Endless Error Handling
https://jesseduffield.com/Gos-Shortcomings-1/
148
33
(L)Awful Interception
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/4/22/lawful-interception/
147
21
Tianwen-1 attitude in Mars orbit
https://destevez.net/2021/09/tianwen-1-attitude-in-mars-orbit/
145
U.S. Treasury Data Lab
https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/
141
304
Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-unveils-new-ipad-mini-with-breakthrough-performance-in-stunning-new-design/
139
284
Apple Watch Series 7
https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-series-7/
137
105
Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-milk
129
40
SEC charges App Annie and its founder with securities fraud
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-176
5
Secure env vars of all public travisci repositories were injected into PR builds
https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/1437646118700175360
128
334
AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
https://explainthispaper.com/ai-recognises-race-in-medical-images/
126
261
No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger (2016)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76144/why-no-one-wanted-aws-third-pound-burger
125
80
The Housing Theory of Everything
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/
120
Simple mathematical law predicts movement in cities around the world
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/simple-mathematical-law-predicts-movement-in-cities-around-the-world/
115
327
Silicon Valley stirs over proposal to end popular QSBS tax break
https://www.axios.com/silicon-valley-house-democrats-small-business-tax-ca3e106f-a95d-47ad-95c9-60552d048e89.html
'Concerned Citizen'at Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Trial Turns Out to Be Family
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036835868/elizabeth-holmes-trial-hotelier-bill-evans-goes-incognito
104
14
Multiperspective Diagramming – A guide for system engineers
https://blog.ilograph.com/posts/multiperspective-diagramming-guide/
103
200
US housing price higher than housing bubble 2008
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=kYEb
95
One Stuck Box of Fertilizer Shows the Global Supply Chain Crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-28/one-stuck-box-of-fertilizer-shows-the-global-supply-chain-crisis
97
Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2021/09/online-coding-school-treehouse-formerly-based-in-portland-lays-off-most-of-its-staff.html
213
iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
https://www.apple.com/iphone-13-pro/
Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/09/13/core-data/superpack/
86
50
Linux kernel VP9 codec V4L2 control interface
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2109.1/07229.html
85
154
Coal replaces wind as most important energy source in Germany in H1
https://renewablesnow.com/news/coal-replaces-wind-as-most-important-energy-source-in-germany-in-h1-753756/
Xiaomi Unveils Xiaomi Smart Glasses
https://blog.mi.com/en/2021/09/14/xiaomi-unveils-xiaomi-smart-glasses/
8
Travis CI Leaked Secure Environment Variables
https://travis-ci.community/t/security-bulletin/12081
83
19
List Homomorphisms and Parallelism
https://sigkill.dk/writings/par/lhomo.html
79
93
Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/september/entrepreneur-plans-to-resurrect-woolly-mammoths.html
116
The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode (2019)
https://erights.medium.com/the-tragedy-of-the-common-lisp-why-large-languages-explode-4e83096239b9
61
Machine-Learning media bias
https://www.unite.ai/mit-measuring-media-bias-in-major-news-outlets-with-machine-learning/
17
Donations make up a quarter of my income
https://method.ac/writing/work_journal/donations.html
32
Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
74
72
Australian Govt to revoke citizenship based on “confidential information”
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/legal-experts-have-criticised-the-government-s-proposed-amendments-to-visa-and-citizenship-laws/0287a0ce-229d-44f6-b3bb-4e86bcc46d5f
71
4
Norm Macdonald Dead: Comedian and 'SNL' Star Was 61
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/norm-macdonald-dead-dies-snl-1235064570/
69
123
Epik Registrar Hacked
https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Epik
68
49
What Is the Data Lakehouse Pattern?
https://timeflow.systems/what-is-the-data-lakehouse-pattern/