1040
448
What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
https://blog.immersed.team/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d385
4 years ago
837
407
You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
https://mux.com/blog/you-either-die-an-mvp-or-live-long-enough-to-build-content-moderation
667
216
Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/
541
322
My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/my-wife-was-dying-of-brain-cancer-my-boss-at-amazon-told-me-to-perform-or-quit/
469
130
Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes
https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
457
311
Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-breaks-ground-20-bln-arizona-plants-us-chip-factory-race-heats-up-2021-09-24/
451
386
Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/27/google_chrome_manifest_v2_extensions/
447
162
The code worked differently when the moon was full
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-code-worked-differently-when-the-moon-was-full
433
286
Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok
https://warisboring.com/secret-military-aircraft-possibly-exposed-on-tiktok/
389
71
The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney
https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/news/2021/09/kidney-project-successfully-tests-prototype-bioartificial-kidney
380
207
Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
https://www.fastmail.com/1password/
379
127
Spaces launch in Element
https://element.io/blog/spaces-blast-out-of-beta/
359
350
Dude, where’s my stuff
https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/institutional/insights/market-insights/eye-on-the-market/dude-where-is-my-stuff/
351
151
Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
https://apps.apple.com/br/app/amplosion-redirect-amp-links/id1585734696?l=en
342
106
Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.1/
325
131
Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-pandemic-as-unique-opportunity-to-test-propaganda-techniques-on-canadians-forces-report-says
287
155
Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck
https://local12.com/news/offbeat/squirrel-stores-thousands-of-nuts-inside-mans-parked-truck-north-dakota-storage-bill-fischer-engine-compartment-black-walnuts-cleanup-gallons-chevy-avalanche
284
159
Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682173
281
266
Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say
https://futurism.com/neoscope/half-american-kids-lead-blood-doctors-say
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/revenge-bedtime-procrastination
272
12
How to Visualize Decision Trees
https://explained.ai/decision-tree-viz/index.html
268
Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxPEz9x2fs
94
Vintage Byte Magazine Library
https://vintageapple.org/byte/
255
129
Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking
https://peguero.xyz/blog/google_and_facebook_i_am_facilitating_packet_filtering_to_block_your_tracking.html
239
120
False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
https://bitterwinter.org/pro-ccp-false-pro-china-accounts-invade-twitter-in-the-uk/
236
78
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relational-databases-scale/
231
109
FOIA requests show Apple’s emails pitching state agencies on IDs and Wallet app
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2021/aug/25/apple-wants-your-new-drivers-license-to-be-an-ipho/
228
OBS Studio 27.1.1
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.1.1
224
111
I don't think Elasticsearch is a good logging system
https://blog.sinkingpoint.com/posts/elasticsearch-logging/
217
41
Show HN: Extract Table from Image
https://extract-table.com/
215
Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CStackSizeInvisible
214
40
AngelList Stack
https://www.angellist.com/stack
141
Launch HN: RescueTime (YC W08) – Redesigned for wellness, balance, remote work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683597
197
181
Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02634-z
189
121
Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/portpass-privacy-breach-1.6191749
188
73
Tesla Sues for Defamation over Social Media Posts
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-sues-for-defamation-over-social-media-posts-1847750963
183
35
Show HN: Firezone, an open-source WireGuard-based alternative to OpenVPN AS
https://github.com/firezone/firezone
177
128
A monk’s guide to office life
https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/07/14/hell-is-other-people-a-monks-guide-to-office-life
172
Google’s dominance in ad tech supply chain harms businesses and consumers
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google%E2%80%99s-dominance-in-ad-tech-supply-chain-harms-businesses-and-consumers
170
63
Fail2ban – Remote Code Execution
https://research.securitum.com/fail2ban-remote-code-execution/
32
How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE
https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/-/blob/docs/sourcedive.snb.md
158
42
How malware gets into the App Store and why Apple can't stop that
https://habr.com/en/post/580272/
153
18
Flowistry helps you understand Rust programs with program analysis
https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry
146
89
Podman in Linux
http://diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2021/09/podmain-in-linux.html
142
57
Oculus will allow sideloading and rooting to avoid e-waste
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1441496418368294914
139
48
Australia has lost one-third of its koalas in the past three years
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-has-lost-one-third-its-koalas-past-three-years-2021-09-21/
125
173
Ford to invest in EV and battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky [pdf]
https://s23.q4cdn.com/799033206/files/doc_news/2021/09/27/Press-Release_Ford-Multi-State-Investment_9-27-21.pdf
148
A professor’s resignation highlights pressures within academia to conform
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/09/25/a-professors-resignation-highlights-pressures-within-academia-to-conform
79
Mobile LTE Coverage Map
https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/MobileMaps/mobile-map
119
14
Project IceStorm: open-source toolchain for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs
http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
43
Show HN: Self-Parking Car Evolution
https://trekhleb.dev/self-parking-car-evolution/
118
Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order
https://scholars-stage.org/xi-jinpings-war-on-spontaneous-order/
110
36
Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era
https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-cloud-packaging-in-the-terabyte-era-d6869b4b84ae
80
Cooling system leak led to Victorian Big Battery fire
https://esv.vic.gov.au/news/cooling-system-leak-led-to-victorian-big-battery-fire/
Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
https://luiscruz.github.io/2021/07/20/measuring-energy.html
102
59
Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk
https://piszek.com/2021/09/28/humboldt-the-first-solarpunk/
21
Art of Assembly Language Programming and HLA by Randall Hyde
https://www.randallhyde.com/AssemblyLanguage/www.artofasm.com/index.html
100
126
The train that shrunk France and Western Europe
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/09/the-train-that-shrunk-france-and-europe/
What the GNU?
https://ariadnavigo.xyz/posts/what-the-gnu/
52
Apple’s browser engine ban is holding back web app innovation
https://thenewstack.io/apples-browser-engine-ban-is-holding-back-web-app-innovation/
95
200
Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden
https://www.airforcemag.com/hypersonic-hawc-missile-flies-details-kept-hidden/
104
The killer product of robotics could be a low-cost collaborative manipulator
https://lorenzopieri.com/cobot/
84
15
Generate Elixir/Phoenix Boilerplate
https://fullstackphoenix.com/boilerplates
10
Zen of Streaming: Building and Loading ‘Ghost of Tsushima’ [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur53sJdS8rQ
76
Ask HN: Have you ever spend days unable to do *any* work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682543
74
QR error correction helps and hinders scanning
https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/09/qr-error-correction/
26
Round rectangles are everywhere
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt
33
The Milken Way - “The scarce resource in our society is not money but people.”
https://neckar.substack.com/p/the-milken-way
16
Show HN: O's URL Lengthener
https://ooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo/
19
VS Code in the Browser for Everyone
https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch
72
The Legality of Web Scraping
https://www.crawlnow.com/blog/is-web-scraping-legal
Dropbox Capture
https://www.dropbox.com/capture
5
131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases with Financial Interest
https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421
Launch HN: RescueTime (YC W08) – Redesigned for wellness, balance, remote work