415
167
The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen
https://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/1441497498573545478
4 years ago
291
160
Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability
https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/24/comcom-acm/
229
168
Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
https://telegra.ph/Why-Telegram-had-to-follow-Apple-and-Google-when-they-suspended-a-voting-app-09-25
219
133
When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/25/tech-subpoena-secrecy-fight/
207
62
OpenTTD 12.0-RC1
https://www.openttd.org/news/2021/09/25/openttd-12-0-rc1.html
200
124
Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ceo-sought-keep-incognito-mode-issues-out-spotlight-lawsuit-alleges-2021-09-24/
198
72
Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life
https://madned.substack.com/p/the-dead-code-diaries
186
73
The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
https://future.a16z.com/the-case-for-developer-experience/
184
107
Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/can-anyone-release-extensions-right-now-to-me-it-looks-like-addons-mozilla-org-is-critically-broken/84830
181
114
Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes
https://huyenchip.com/2021/09/13/data-science-infrastructure.html
169
24
Code Review from the Command Line
https://blog.jez.io/cli-code-review/
166
102
AS13335 doing SSH scanning
https://encryp.ch/blog/cloudflare-abuses-22-tcp/
165
I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09/i-am-not-satoshi-nakamoto.html
162
84
Did a Chinese hack kill Nortel? (2020)
http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/did-a-chinese-hack-kill-canada-s-greatest-tech-company-1.1459269
152
64
In search of the perfect URL validation regex (2010)
https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex
148
Speech Synthesis on Linux (2020)
https://darkshadow.io/2020/08/01/speech-synthesis-on-linux.html
139
146
What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4655
335
The Science of the Benefits of Religion
https://www.wired.com/story/psychologists-religion-how-god-works/
79
Paint.NET 4.3 is now available
https://blog.getpaint.net/2021/09/22/paint-net-4-3-is-now-available/
136
34
The Perfect Voxel Engine
https://voxely.net/blog/the-perfect-voxel-engine/
134
EU Is Warned Green Label for Gas Would Be ‘Disastrous’ Mistake
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-22/eu-is-warned-green-label-for-gas-would-be-disastrous-mistake
131
25
How I built forlater.email, my first big side project
https://icyphox.sh/blog/building-forlater/
71
TheseToonsDoNotExist: StyleGAN2-ADA trained on CG cartoon faces
http://www.thesetoonsdonotexist.com/
76
All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005)
http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2005/02/all-16777216-rgb-colours/
123
96
Pope Francis and Other Christian Leaders Are Calling for Bold Climate Action
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035653392/pope-francis-and-other-christian-leaders-are-calling-for-bold-climate-action
113
Apple is working on iPhone features to help detect depression, cognitive decline
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-detect-depression-cognitive-decline-sources-say-11632216601
111
47
Maybe the spaghetti code conjecture is false
https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/09/25/spaghetti-code-conjecture-false.html
106
227
Italy wants an exception to Europe's gas-engine ban for Ferrari, Lamborghini
https://driving.ca/auto-news/industry/italy-wants-an-exception-to-europes-combustion-engine-ban-for-ferrari-lamborghini
104
59
Grommunio an open source Exchange replacement
https://grommunio.com/
103
32
Big problems at the timezone database
https://blog.joda.org/2021/09/big-problems-at-timezone-database.html
94
57
Writing the Roadmap from Engineer to Manager
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/09/17/podcast-376-writing-the-roadmap-from-engineer-to-manager/
92
31
Thermal Grill Illusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grill_illusion
88
20
Create, train and run Scikit-learn and TensorFlow models in Excel
https://predictionlaboratory.com
86
48
Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652736
85
Closest known relatives of virus behind Covid-19 found in Laos
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2
83
22
Visualize 3D hyperbolic honeycombs and sphere packings
https://github.com/neozhaoliang/Hyperbolic-Honeycombs
How to Deal with Complexity Like a Pilot (Part 1)
https://www.franklinfaraday.com/how-to-deal-with-complexity-like-a-pilot-part-1/
53
Ask HN: What is going wrong at Amazon?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28655917
159
Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/millions-still-months-behind-on-rent-after-eviction-moratorium-ends
77
Arctic World Archive Adds Latest Data Deposit in Svalbard Facility
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/arctic-world-archive-adds-latest-data-deposit-in-svalbard-facility/
8
Geographic Spice Index
http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl/spice_geo.html
13
Modern Communication: Sockets (2014)
https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/sockets.html
74
87
Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/09/24/fedora-workstation-our-vision-for-linux-desktop/
A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/hamster-trading-cryptocurrencies-rigged-cage-goxx-bitcoin-price-ether-doge-2021-9
Fast PCIe 5.0 SSD prototype hits sequential read speeds of 14,000 MB/s
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Blazing-fast-PCIe-5-0-SSD-prototype-hits-sequential-read-speeds-of-14-000-MB-s.564595.0.html
70
28
Show HN: ML enabled creative tools for artists and designers
https://www.vizcom.co/
69
35
Copyright claims on YouTube Bach videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfF4D5x_UTE
67
Limits on Toilet Paper and Cleaning Supplies Are Back at Costco
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/24/1040471872/limits-toilet-paper-cleaning-supplies-costco-delta-covid
63
All businesses will eventually turn into subscriptions
https://blog.viveksrinivasan.com/p/subscriptions-learning-by-proxy
Lessons learned from running GraphQL
https://blog.dream11engineering.com/lessons-learned-from-running-graphql-at-scale-2ad60b3cefeb
66
Show HN: LIV is a webmail front-end for your personal email server
https://github.com/derek-zhou/liv
60
Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng Admits to Misleading Global Financial Institution
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/huawei-cfo-wanzhou-meng-admits-misleading-global-financial-institution
The implications of low cholesterol in depression and suicide (2015)
https://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/articles-1/2015/11/13/the-implications-of-low-cholesterol-in-depression-and-suicide
58
10
Oregon’s distinctive bridge style is Conde McCullough’s legacy (2011)
http://offbeatoregon.com/o1111b-legendary-bridge-designer-conde-mccullough.html
New Zealand council's Zoom meeting goes viral as people pretend they're in it
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/452241/new-zealand-council-s-zoom-meeting-goes-viral-as-people-pretend-they-re-in-it
52
39
The World’s Greatest Freediver
https://www.gq.com/story/freediver-alexey-molchanov-profile
All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005)