748
690
Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest
4 years ago
685
578
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/10/09/facebook-is-nearing-a-reputational-point-of-no-return
661
120
Moths in slow motion [video]
https://aeon.co/videos/witness-the-majesty-of-moths-taking-flight-at-6000-frames-per-second
620
264
Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html
504
650
Bitcoin is a Ponzi
https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
500
475
Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether
451
160
Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)
https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-project.html
435
643
Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin
https://www.kxan.com/news/business/elon-musk-announces-teslas-headquarters-will-move-to-austin/
430
232
Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h
https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2021/Drone-in-the-wild.html
420
147
AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next
https://object-storage-name-generator.com/
407
176
Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/cloudflare-doesnt-have-to-cut-off-copyright-infringing-websites-judge-rules/
371
236
Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-dutch-watchdog-finds-apple-app-store-payment-rules-anti-competitive-2021-10-07/
331
192
Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
https://mbuffett.com/posts/chess_improvement_thoughts/
317
161
Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests
https://github.com/Ildaron/Laser_control
273
81
How to train large deep learning models as a startup
https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-train-large-deep-learning-models-as-a-startup/
266
66
How Facebook is trying to recover the money it lost during the outage
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-facebook-is-trying-to-recover-the-money-it-lost-during-the-outage-03a6ec6218
265
123
Eidos-Montréal Offices shifting to the 4 day work week
https://www.eidosmontreal.com/news/eidos-montreal-and-eidos-sherbrooke-shifting-to-the-4-day-work-week/
243
107
Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disadvantaged aspiring devs
https://www.underdogdevs.org
92
Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
https://metebalci.com/blog/hello-ipv6/
231
376
Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-pauses-use-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-young-men-2021-10-07/
226
245
Faster Python with Guido van Rossum
https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-34-faster-python
215
207
Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28788540
197
148
Paddle announces iOS IAP alternative that avoids Apple's 30% fees
https://paddle.com/platform/in-app-purchase/
76
Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy
https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/how-android-wallpaper-images-threaten-privacy/
191
144
A lesser known mechanism for alcohol tolerance
https://trevorklee.com/a-lesser-known-mechanism-for-alcohol-tolerance/
190
“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”
https://twitter.com/ladyaeva/status/1445834339917320194
184
37
Help Us Find the Apps That Sell Your Location
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/10/07/help-us-find-the-apps-that-sell-your-location
180
297
Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux/
178
21
Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer
https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/protein-complex-prediction-with-alphafold-multimer
169
239
Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/07/1044010141/diet-soda-may-prompt-food-cravings-especially-in-women-and-people-with-obesity
168
124
Samsung Foundry Forum announcements
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices
167
173
USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on Oct. 2
https://www.cpf.navy.mil/News/Article/2797630/statement-regarding-uss-connecticut-ssn-22/
166
115
The road to OCaml 5.0
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/the-road-to-ocaml-5-0/8584
164
312
It feels like America is running out of everything
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/
156
39
The Structure of a Stand-Up Comedy (2018)
https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/
154
M1 Inside a G4 Sunflower iMac
https://twitter.com/ColbySheets/status/1445513559580893200
22
Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists
https://shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/gentle-introduction-to-fluid-simulation-for-programmers-and-technical-artists-7c0045c40bac
61
Constitution Grove – the Navy’s White Oak Forest on a High Tech Base (2020)
http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2020/11/constitution-grove-the-navys-white-oak-forest-on-a-high-tech-base/
141
Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content
https://www.axios.com/google-youtube-climate-change-734f2b05-40e2-4e05-9100-39de589b3b0a.html
139
216
Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record
https://news.gallup.com/poll/355526/americans-trust-media-dips-second-lowest-record.aspx
136
299
Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill
https://www.advantaira.com/blog/urgent-action-needed-to-protect-your-self-directed-ira/
135
150
Facebook Political Problems
https://stratechery.com/2021/facebook-political-problems/
133
117
Employees given three months to return to Facebook office
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/facebook-ends-wfh-forever-rule-after-mega-outage
Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Alzheimer's
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293997/
130
157
RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term
https://blog.chromium.org/2021/10/renderingng.html
125
140
California is shutting down its last nuclear plant
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/02/why-is-california-closing-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant.html
121
40
A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers
https://biotinker.dev/posts/cider.html
116
Retired Husband Syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retired_husband_syndrome
80
An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0
113
34
Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-first-ever-atomic-resolution-video-salt.html
109
El Salvador's Bitcoin use grows but headaches persist
https://www.reuters.com/technology/one-month-el-salvadors-bitcoin-use-grows-headaches-persist-2021-10-07/
102
27
Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga (2018)
https://blog.nil.im/?76
101
54
Effective Code Browsing
https://aknooh.github.io/posts/effective-code-browsing-part1/
100
42
Understanding Shannon's Entropy metric for Information [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2061
98
63
GitHub Advisory Database now powers NPM audit
https://github.blog/2021-10-07-github-advisory-database-now-powers-npm-audit/
96
138
Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-10-07/why-arent-automatic-braking-systems-stopping-deadly-tesla-crashes
94
114
Intel CEO Cites Brexit as Reason for Chip Fab Plans in UK Not an Option
https://www.techpowerup.com/287574/intel-ceo-cites-brexit-as-reason-for-chip-fab-plans-in-uk-not-an-option
50
The History of OS/2 (2001)
http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/
91
25
The Ampere Altra Max Review: Pushing It to 128 Cores per Socket
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-review-pushing-it-to-128-cores-per-socket
89
“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer”
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/o3k5rt/safari_15_on_mac_os_a_user_interface_mess/
87
Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793637
85
82
Remembering Huxley's “Brave New World”
https://psydef.substack.com/p/brave-new-world
84
5
Stgi: A visual STG implementation to understand GHC/Haskell's execution model
https://github.com/quchen/stgi
18
Instanced Line Rendering Part II: Alpha Blending
https://wwwtyro.net/2021/10/01/instanced-lines-part-2.html
83
58
C++ is faster and safer than Rust (2020)
https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/0733/
14
A blank wall can show how many people are in a room and what they’re doing
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-blank-wall-can-show-how-many-people-are-in-a-room-and-what-theyre-doing/
79
110
Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging vaccine mandate
https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/legal-update-10521
Is Ford about to reinvent the bicycle derailleur?
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/products/are-ford-about-to-reinvent-the-bicycle-derailleur
74
59
“Put on the Diamonds”: Notes on Humiliation
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/put-on-the-diamonds-notes-on-humiliation-vivian-gornick/