817
304
John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/john-carmack-pushes-out-unlocked-os-for-defunct-oculus-go-headset/
4 years ago
666
787
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28957573
658
344
Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface/
592
581
Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/police-cant-demand-you-reveal-your-phone-passcode-and-then-tell-jury-you-refused
512
132
The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]
https://twitter.com/nickdale/status/1450617359375343617
487
115
ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier
https://www.hauntedchocolatier.net/
356
222
How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
https://www.bambooimport.com/en/how-is-bamboo-lumber-made
350
76
How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method
http://www.geometry.org/tex/conc/mathlearn.html
333
223
Hackernews.com
https://hackernews.com/
290
267
Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543776992845834
259
307
Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954390
255
141
NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/qdlela/breaking_npm_package_uaparserjs_with_more_than_7m/
237
488
Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-groups-violates-affero-gpl/
236
252
Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
https://truthout.org/articles/half-a-million-south-korean-workers-prepare-to-walk-off-jobs-in-general-strike/
224
235
Facebook chooses profits over people
https://peoplesworld.org/article/facebook-doesnt-care-about-you-tech-giant-always-chooses-profits-over-people/
217
328
Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
210
93
Across Kazakhstan by rail
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/oct/22/across-kazakhstan-by-rail-a-photo-essay
203
46
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
https://www.filfre.net/2021/10/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream/
196
Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-charges-more-than-twice-its-rivals-in-ad-deals-wins-80-of-its-own-auctions-court-documents-say-11634912297
192
45
A Rust optimization story
https://quickwit.io/blog/search-a-sorted-block/
60
Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/
191
73
PyTorch 1.10
https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-1.10-released/
178
87
We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider
https://www.fastmailstatus.com/
167
136
Chilling Effects
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/chilling-effects
164
59
Microsoft removes hot reload from open source .NET, locks it to Visual Studio
https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247
161
238
After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-after-the-pandemic-we-can-t-go-back-to-sleep
160
28
Knowledge Graphs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02320
155
173
The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/10/living-alone-couple-partner-single/620434/
150
79
Idiomatic Clojure without sacrificing performance
https://bsless.github.io/fast-and-elegant-clojure/
144
147
Fake shutters make me angry (2018)
https://thecraftsmanblog.com/why-fake-shutters-make-me-angry/
143
336
Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
https://www.lpi.org/blog/2021/10/05/eleven-reasons-switch-windows-linux
142
27
How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/on_call/
FOSDEM 2022 will be online
https://fosdem.org/2022/news/2021-10-22-fosdem-online-2022/
137
119
Science of Slow Cooking
https://www.scienceofcooking.com/meat/slow_cooking1.htm
135
102
Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud, but don't forget about her VC enablers
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Elizabeth-Holmes-is-on-trial-for-fraud-but-16546832.php
125
151
Bid to unionize Amazon workers in New York nears milestone
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-staten-island-labor-unions-national-labor-relations-board-e0b998ff8b79bff7e4c48234b7d3490a
121
106
Intel Betting the Farm
https://semianalysis.com/intel-betting-the-farm-shrinking-business-margins-down-for-few-years-but-aggressively-investing-40b-43b-a-year-and-more-with-subsidies/
193
Vinyl records are now outselling CDs
https://twitter.com/robwalling/status/1451570246935003140
117
32
Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)
http://www.sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm
54
The age of machine learning as code has arrived
https://huggingface.co/blog/the-age-of-ml-as-code
12
GPT Code Clippy, the Open Source Version of GitHub Copilot
https://github.com/CodedotAl/gpt-code-clippy
110
91
Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955562
107
Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-governments-turn-tables-ransomware-gang-revil-by-pushing-it-offline-2021-10-21/
104
64
YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/google-to-remove-youtube-apps-from-roku.html
97
19
nMigen – A refreshed Python toolbox for building complex digital hardware
https://github.com/nmigen/nmigen
96
21
A different and often better way to downsample your Prometheus metrics
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/a-different-and-often-better-way-to-downsample-your-prometheus-metrics/
95
134
Hooks are the best thing to happen to React
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/10/20/why-hooks-are-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-react/
89
17
Swapchains and Frame Pacing
https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/gpu/2021/10/22/swapchain-frame-pacing.html
2
Trapped in amber: Fossilized dinosaur-era crab bridges evolutionary gap
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/trapped-in-amber-fossilized-dinosaur-era-crab-bridges-evolutionary-gap/
Fastmail currently down/under attack
https://www.fastmailstatus.com/services/general/2021-10-22
62
The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/vizio-vs-the-world/#capital-as-power
85
Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/trader-joe-wrote-a-memoir
84
Fastmail is having problems again
https://www.fastmailstatus.com/services/general
82
128
Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740354/trump-truth-social-network-spac-mastodon-license-software-freedom-conservancy
16
The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-Bit Bytes
https://www.cpushack.com/2021/10/22/the-ibm-4020-military-computer-tracking-missiles-with-6-bit-bytes/
13
Show HN: Semgrep App
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28959174
78
4
Ruby Together and Ruby Central, coming together
https://rubytogether.org/news/2021/10/ruby-together-and-ruby-central-coming-together
30
The Klimt Color Enigma
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-klimt-color-enigma/SQWxuZfE5ki3mQ?hl=en
74
Predicting stock market returns from news photos
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/media-releases-and-expert-comments/2021/oct/investor-mood-stock-photos
69
50
Wall of Sound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound
68
51
It's not your imagination – Microsoft's sofware has gone downhill
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/amd-and-microsoft-release-fixes-for-ryzen-slowdowns-in-windows-11/?comments=1&post=40343211#comment-40343211
EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/john-gilmore-leaves-eff-board-becomes-board-member-emeritus
Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud, but don't forget about her VC enablers