1184
413
This word does not exist
https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/
4 years ago
799
208
A patent troll backs off
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3970
547
298
Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'
https://decrypt.co/84277/snowden-slams-sam-altman-worldcoin-eyeball-scan-for-crypto
530
403
Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place
https://element.io/blog/element-one-all-of-matrix-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram-in-one-place/
471
426
Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
https://flowingdata.com/2021/05/26/jobs-that-marry-together/
451
283
Next.js 12
https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12
175
Privacy Is a Human Right
https://blog.torproject.org/privacy-is-a-human-right
415
155
Offline-First Database Comparison
https://github.com/pubkey/client-side-databases
146
Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language
https://cooklang.org/
338
163
GitHub stale bot considered harmful
https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html
317
388
Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/wind-solar-power-rural-ontario-1.6224159
307
287
Where have all the insects gone?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/where-have-all-the-insects-gone-e-o-wilson-silent-earth
223
Apple Is Normalising Surveillance
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-surveillance-technology
291
134
A bug that doesn’t exist on x86: Exploiting an ARM-only race condition
https://github.com/stong/how-to-exploit-a-double-free
265
117
How we built a serverless SQL database
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-cockroachdb-serverless/
253
262
SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5
248
98
Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross
https://lukasz.langa.pl/5d044f91-49c1-4170-aed1-62b6763e6ad0/
247
85
Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture
https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.html
240
83
Wikivoyage has disappeared from DuckDuckGo
https://gaganpreet.in/posts/duckduckgo-wikivoyage/
230
69
Rust on Espressif chips
https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-18-10-2021/
228
My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post
https://alecmuffett.com/article/14994
220
288
France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/france-moves-shield-its-book-industry-amazon-2021-10-25/
218
210
Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047691984/decades-after-polio-martha-is-among-the-last-to-still-rely-on-an-iron-lung-to-br
211
179
Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/payments-company-stripe-is-kick-starting-market-for-carbon-removal-11635274208
205
86
Slow Down, Finish Faster
https://briandicroce.com/slow-down-finish-faster/
204
131
Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07450
188
79
The Sequoia Fund: Patient capital for building enduring companies
https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/the-sequoia-fund-patient-capital-for-building-enduring-companies-9ed7bcd6c7da
180
214
The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in Movie Master on MS-DOS
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdeay/the-dune-screenplay-was-written-in-ms-dos
193
Photoshop’s journey to the web
https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/
177
87
FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/justin-shafer-fbi-raid/
174
57
Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production
https://heap.io/blog/how-postgres-audit-tables-saved-us-from-taking-down-production
173
43
Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas (2020)
https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/recommendation_engine_in_postgres_with_pandas_and_python
171
31
We need new data books, so we published one
https://theinformedcompany.com/posts/we-need-new-data-books-so-we-published-one/
168
OpenTelemetry
https://opentelemetry.io/
30
Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-you-time
167
Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
https://seiya.me/writing-linux-clone-in-rust
Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute
https://www.protocol.com/policy/integrity-institute
157
169
Why Lisp? (2015)
http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/05/why-lisp.html
154
140
Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises
https://mondaynote.com/apple-m1-pro-max-surprises-7b097788160b?gi=48d77e07e47
153
73
Geothermal's path to relevance: cheap drilling
https://austinvernon.site/blog/drillingplan.html
65
A Love Letter to Ruby and Rails
https://jmarchello.com/a-love-letter-to-ruby-and-rails
92
Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/19/cornel-west-howard-classics/
Is college worth it? A return-on-investment analysis
https://freopp.org/is-college-worth-it-a-comprehensive-return-on-investment-analysis-1b2ad17f84c8?gi=eb96088eb650
136
108
Apple Privacy Rules to Blame for Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/26/apple-privacy-rules-blame-facebook-earnings/
129
46
Sudan woke up without Internet
https://blog.cloudflare.com/sudan-woke-up-without-internet/
119
45
CRDT resources
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/distributed-systems/crdt
113
36
A librarian and a food historian rediscovered the recipes of Moorish Spain
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moorish-cuisine
110
135
Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf
104
44
Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
https://www.vantage.sh/blog/vantage-slack-notifications
100
48
Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/10/25/allwinner-d1s-f133-risc-v-processor-64mb-ddr2/
22
Right-to-disconnect legislation being introduced by Ontario Government
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-to-introduce-legislation-to-help-protect-workers-1.6223719
93
260
10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes
https://www2.nber.org/papers/w29393%23fromrss
88
63
Porting WebGL Shaders to WebGPU
https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/porting-webgl-shaders-webgpu-1576
84
71
The Rolling Stones’ studio receipt for recording ‘Wild Horses’ and ‘Brown Sugar’
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_rolling_stones_studio_receipt
80
41
Dune 2 is officially happening
https://www.polygon.com/22739982/dune-2-release-date-announcement
24
The slab and the permacomputer
https://society.robinsloan.com/archive/slab/
78
Hacking Hacker News for Fun and Profit – Part 1
https://blog.arnica.io/hacking-hacker-news-for-fun-and-profit-part-1-41bd6a48a2c2?gi=60c4e82c053c
76
11
FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/fbi-raids-chinese-point-of-sale-giant-pax-technology/
74
130
reMarkable Connect subscription plans
https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406217575441-Information-about-Connect
6
Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops for Minuscule Cosmic Particles
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/10/jon-larsen-project-stardust/
18
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04018-9
72
62
The IKEA catalogue through the ages
https://ikeamuseum.com/en/digital/ikea-catalogues-through-the-ages/
56
MobaXterm free Xserver and tabbed SSH client for Windows
https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place