887
204
Open Source Tractor
https://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/LifeTrac
4 years ago
725
111
I keep making things out of checkboxes
https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/09/21/i-keep-making-things-out-of-checkboxes/
700
367
Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf
679
216
Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Sony-to-join-TSMC-on-new-7bn-chip-plant-in-Japan
593
547
Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-will-allow-many-employees-to-work-remotely-indefinitely/
542
94
Jörg Schilling has died
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-October/024523.html
469
105
Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/peter-norvig-todays-most-pressing-questions-ai-are-human-centered
448
567
Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
https://thepointsguy.com/news/southwest-meldown/
399
129
Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform
https://github.com/fosscord/fosscord
379
217
Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/10/solar-powered-aircraft-flown-for-nearly-three-weeks-without-landing/
366
175
The Microsoft MFA system almost brought me to a nervous breakdown
https://kgizdov.medium.com/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea81f69f5
338
445
Is going to the office a broken way of working?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/is-going-to-the-office-a-broken-way-of-working
307
123
Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App Review Process
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/22/apple-surprised-developer-concerns-app-review/
305
275
Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/10/10/credit-card-firms-are-becoming-reluctant-regulators-of-the-web
297
139
Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green
https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/11/led-by-france-10-eu-countries-call-on-brussels-to-label-nuclear-energy-as-green-source
293
114
Malwarebytes' privacy VPN is Mullvad in a shady trenchcoat
https://dustri.org/b/malwarebytes-privacy-vpn-is-mullvad-in-a-shady-trenchcoat.html
292
64
Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine
https://handtracking.io
281
125
The State of Web Scraping in 2021
https://mihaisplace.blog/2021/10/03/the-state-of-web-scraping-in-2021/
280
88
And you will know us by the company we keep
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/9/29/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-company-we-keep
176
The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/pandora-papers-britain-london.html
273
86
Hacking YouTube with a MP4
https://realkeyboardwarrior.github.io/security/2021/10/11/hacking-youtube.html
262
56
Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect
https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2021/memcached-vs-redis-whats-the-difference/
257
Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
https://www.innovationaus.com/australians-complacent-to-rapid-growth-in-digital-surveillance/
251
World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-food-prices-hit-10-year-peak-fao-2021-10-07/
149
My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs
https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/my-first-industry-job
243
219
The US Is a Banana Republic: The 1% Own More Wealth Than the Entire Middle Class
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-officially-banana-republic-top-1-now-own-more-wealth-entire-middle-class
60
Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3
https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3
240
324
So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel?
https://paulmck.livejournal.com/62436.html
233
162
The F.S.O. Safer could spill a million barrels of crude at any moment
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/the-ship-that-became-a-bomb
226
106
Worst Case
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/10/08/The-WOrst-Case
225
146
iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things
https://lux.camera/iphone-macro-camera-a-big-day-for-small-things/
215
135
One painful meeting with Steve Jobs
https://twitter.com/apartovi/status/1447251334814523392
151
Companies that use Lisp extensively
https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies
208
12
Network Programming with Go
https://tumregels.github.io/Network-Programming-with-Go/
207
45
European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/the-european-parliament-voted-to-ban-remote-biometric-surveillance.html
57
Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India
https://restofworld.org/2021/instagram-and-class-in-india/
184
173
Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2016)
http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html
169
42
Pro rata is a bad term for founders
https://blog.aaronkharris.com/pro-rata-is-a-bad-term
168
Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-data-scientists-take-top-spots-in-miccai-2021-brain-tumor-segmentation-challenge/
163
101
2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience
https://news.mit.edu/2021/roman-tomb-offers-insights-ancient-concrete-resilience-1008
SRE Doesn’t Scale
https://bravenewgeek.com/sre-doesnt-scale/
161
68
This Sneaker Does Not Exist
https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/
153
33
Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/hacking-agriculture-defcon29/42402/
148
58
Financial Secrecy Index
https://fsi.taxjustice.net/en/
141
82
‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups
https://review.firstround.com/give-away-your-legos-and-other-commandments-for-scaling-startups
133
131
FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming
https://spectrum.ieee.org/gps-jamming
130
11
Learn electronics technology, IT and fiber optics technology
https://rsdacademy.net
127
V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/StackSizeLimitWhen
119
24
“This guy is on every startup website”
https://twitter.com/michaelrbock/status/1384636058441117696
117
Coal Prices Rising Exponentially
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal
116
99
Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/using-deepspeed-and-megatron-to-train-megatron-turing-nlg-530b-the-worlds-largest-and-most-powerful-generative-language-model/
115
Best Practices – Why I Hate Them
https://fev.al/posts/best-practices/
110
Large percentage fear having children because of climate crisis
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/572140-poll-finds-huge-percentage-fear-having
108
84
A Multi-Billion Dollar Real Estate Project Is Rising on Native Land in Vancouver
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/vancouver-real-estate-native-reserve-land
50
Full WireGuard Support in ProtonVPN for Android
https://github.com/ProtonVPN/android-app/releases/tag/2.9.0.28
104
21
New treatment destroys head and neck cancer tumours in trial
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/11/new-cancer-treatment-destroys-tumours-in-terminally-ill-finds-trial
100
28
When can glibc be built with Clang?
https://maskray.me/blog/2021-10-10-when-can-glibc-be-built-with-clang
93
26
Rust: Does the published crate match the upstream source?
https://codeandbitters.com/published-crate-analysis/
90
Windows Package Manager 1.1
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-1-1/
91
A cryptography game-changer for biomedical research at scale
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25972-y
51
The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/the-shadow-penal-system-for-struggling-kids
37
SQL for Distributed Systems
https://www.babbling.fish/elt-cookbook-sql/
Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 powerconnector
https://www.igorslab.de/en/up-to-600-watt-power-for-graphics-cards-with-the-new-pcie-5-0-adapter-nvidias-rtx-3090-ti-makes-the-start-exclusive/
85
England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/11/data_guardian_police_bill/