1912
383
IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick
4 years ago
650
220
Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
https://rancherdesktop.io/
598
264
Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
https://www.cstrnt.dev/blog/three-typescript-tricks
524
475
Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/228373/major-nuclear-fusion-milestone-reached-ignition/
510
796
Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02758-2
463
56
Solving NP-hard puzzles with the oldest trick in the book
https://davidkoloski.me/blog/intelligent-brute-forcing/
433
243
Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904
356
317
Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838132
355
224
AWS Lambda Cold Start Times
https://filia-aleks.medium.com/aws-lambda-battle-2021-performance-comparison-for-all-languages-c1b441005fd1
347
76
Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors
https://github.com/rahul-thakoor/air-pi-play
80
Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”
https://weatherspark.com/map
344
205
Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP
https://visionzeroreporting.com/
330
144
A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211012080039.htm
303
89
Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, secure and adware free
https://torrentfreak.com/adobe-uses-dmca-to-nuke-project-that-keeps-flash-alive-secure-adware-free-211012/
279
197
SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020)
https://duo.com/decipher/sha-1-fully-and-practically-broken-by-new-collision
253
191
Finland lobbied EU to declare nuclear power sustainable
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finland_lobbied_eu_to_declare_nuclear_power_sustainable_after_unpublished_cabinet_decision_supported_by_greens/12135621
250
108
Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
https://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/why-birds-can-fly-over-mount-everest
241
304
Nuclear Power in France
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx
216
229
Ethereum Services Are Centralized
https://michaelgummelt.medium.com/crypto-services-are-neither-decentralized-nor-trustworthy-f43c0a19a400
201
41
New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/postgresql-interface-adds-familiarity-and-portability-cloud-spanner
83
Psychonetics: A nerd's toolset to work with mind and perception
http://deconcentration-of-attention.com/psychonetics.html
195
102
Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/
192
42
Inventor builds Lego arm for eight-year-old
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/9/inventor-hand-solo-builds-lego-arm-for-eight-year-old-674574
186
155
The Home Depot Teams Up with Walmart to Expand Same-Day and Next-Day Delivery
https://corporate.homedepot.com/newsroom/expands-same-day-next-day-delivery-with-walmart
183
123
Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Reproduced Snapshot)
https://theintercept.com/document/2021/10/12/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot/
173
94
MoonHome: Remote Development Environment
https://moonhome.io/
66
A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-link-to-an-old-model-could-crack-the-mystery-of-deep-learning-20211011/
171
43
Scribe – An alternative front-end to Medium
https://scribe.rip/
168
115
Why I built my own static site generator
https://yakkomajuri.github.io/blog/teeny
159
Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-discover-a-highly-potent-antibody-again/
157
45
Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/rudin-squirrel-award
153
117
Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)
https://www.justinobeirne.com/apple-maps-acceleration
118
We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work (2006)
https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/jatbaseball/
151
69
The Problem with Macros
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/the-problem-with-macros/
148
59
Effective Concurrency with Algebraic Effects in Multicore OCaml
https://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multicore/
143
Why Japan Looks the Way It Does: Zoning [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk
134
64
Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better
https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/10/nsw-covid-qr/
132
162
My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead
https://www.magicleap.com/en-us/news/op-ed/my-first-year-at-magic-leap-and-the-opportunity-ahead
129
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00774-8
101
Facebook's Novi wallet hits trouble as two top engineers depart
https://financefeeds.com/facebooks-novi-wallet-hits-trouble-as-two-top-engineers-depart/
125
55
Reproducible builds for Debian: a big step forward
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2021/10/08/reproducible-builds-for-debian-a-big-step-forward/
122
28
How not to migrate an email domain
https://simianlogic.com/blog/2021/how-not-to-migrate-an-email-domain.html
120
Ask HN: How do you get a job as a software engineer if you've been cancelled?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28835775
116
49
The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/11/facebook_opinion_column/
81
How Laravel Livewire works
https://calebporzio.com/how-livewire-works-a-deep-dive
93
Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28839573
71
Building a high quality audio system [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw
110
26
Swarm: A resource-gathering game based on robot programming, written in Haskell
https://github.com/byorgey/swarm
107
79
Review of the Buick Riviera’s ‘touchscreen’ from 1986 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEzEbS4uvuo
104
40
Getting to the bottom of web map performance
https://bdon.org/blog/web-map-performance/
34
Ubuntu Frame; A secure, LTS display server for embedded displays [pdf]
https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/713b9224-Ubuntu.Frame.Datasheet.pdf
1
Study reveals Android phones constantly snoop on their users
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/study-reveals-android-phones-constantly-snoop-on-their-users/
16
Neuroscientists roll out first comprehensive atlas of brain cells
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/10/06/neuroscientists-roll-out-first-comprehensive-atlas-of-brain-cells/
Monorepos and Forced Migrations
https://buttondown.email/j2kun/archive/monorepos-and-forced-migrations/
100
2
Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/study-reveals-scale-of-data-sharing-from-android-mobile-phones/
98
Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas – top scientist
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58875152
96
145
France bets on more nuclear power in face of Europe energy crisis
https://www.ft.com/content/d06500e2-7fd2-4753-a54b-bc16f1faadd8
The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions
https://stratechery.com/2021/the-death-and-birth-of-technological-revolutions/
92
10
To catch a hacker in my home lab
https://marcusedmondson.com/2021/07/15/to-catch-a-hacker-in-my-home-lab/
38
Algebraic data types: things I wish someone had explained about FP (2019)
https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/algebraic-data-types-what-i-wish-someone-had-explained-about-functional-programming/
87
Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.185/
5
History of Mathematics Project
https://history-of-mathematics.org/
86
25
React Internals (2017)
https://mattgreer.dev/articles/react-internals-part-one-basic-rendering/
39
Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/12/stripe-is-hiring-a-crypto-team-3-years-after-ending-its-bitcoin-support/
85
33
Self Destructing Plastics via Embedded Enzymes
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2021/entries/sustainable-technologies-future-energy/11344
84
Ask HN: Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838530
36
Cybersecurity: EU to Ban Anonymous Websites
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/cybersecurity-eu-to-ban-anonymous-websites/
82
24
Thousands register for geophysicist’s lecture after MIT caved to ‘Twitter mob’
https://nypost.com/2021/10/11/thousands-register-for-geophysicists-lecture-at-princeton-after-mit-cancels/
140
Ask HN: A US programmer makes 3 times that of a EU programmer. Why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28837590
11
Jeremy Clarkson did more for farmers in one series than Countryfile in 30 years
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/10/jeremy-clarkson-did-farmers-one-tv-series-countryfile-managed/
22
Scaling Indexing and Search – Algolia New Search Architecture
http://highscalability.com/blog/2021/10/11/scaling-indexing-and-search-algolia-new-search-architecture.html
78
112
Ask HN: Any Artists on HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846126
67
‘When We Cease to Understand the World’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/books/review/benjamin-labatut-cease-understand-world.html
63
AWS Console Unavailable
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28840769
Ask HN: How can I get a tech job that's more social?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28839819
13
Slack LaTeX
https://blog.c0nrad.io/posts/slack-latex/