1094
334
CT scans of AirPods evolution
https://scanofthemonth.com/airpods
3 years ago
979
409
Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
https://www.modernwiki.app/
639
370
YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29458246
626
341
Leaving MySQL
https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2021-12-05-16-41_leaving_mysql.html
623
168
WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/26000016
556
295
Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests
513
381
Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457930
495
163
Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy
https://www.airgradient.com/resources/ikea-vindriktning-accuracy/
420
448
Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call
https://maggrand.com/new-york-ceo-fires-900-employees-on-zoom-call-video/
417
620
Web3? I have my DAOts
https://networked.substack.com/p/web3-i-have-my-daots
392
144
WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again-fine-grained-sandboxing-in-firefox-95/
388
228
Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charged-with-extortion-causing-2020-breach/
386
186
Why don't you accept donations?
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don%27t-you-accept-donations%3F
306
97
Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?
https://nusenu.medium.com/is-kax17-performing-de-anonymization-attacks-against-tor-users-42e566defce8
303
162
The "five whys" productivity technique
https://blog.superhuman.com/five-whys-method/
280
185
CFTC Orders JPMorgan to Pay Record $920M for Spoofing and Manipulation (2020)
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8260-20
270
99
uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS
https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploiting-ad-blockers-with-css
269
94
Popular Family Safety App Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Its Users
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user
260
71
A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
https://www.unite.ai/a-cartel-of-influential-datasets-are-dominating-machine-learning-research-new-study-suggests/
259
453
In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns
https://www.saferleftturns.org
243
314
Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
233
155
No Easter Eggs in Curl
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/12/06/no-easter-eggs-in-curl/
230
64
Whitehead and Russell’s Principia rewritten in Coq
https://www.principiarewrite.com/
229
151
DNS doesn't “propagate”
https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/06/dns-doesn-t-propagate/
220
30
How the GNU coreutils are tested
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html
210
145
Show HN: I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible
https://straw.page?ref=hn
197
308
Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in
https://www.amazingcto.com/why-we-always-endup-with-waterfall-even-scrum/
191
234
SF suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/san-francisco-suspends-cannabis-tax-to-help-dispensaries-compete-with-drug-dealers
103
Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston
https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm
175
23
Show HN: Fourier Transform Visualized via WebGL
https://static.laszlokorte.de/fourier/
169
217
The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
https://stratechery.com/2021/the-amazon-empire-strikes-back/
165
24
Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/testing-firefox-more-efficiently-with-machine-learning/
164
242
Goodbye Brave
https://arunmozhi.in/2021/12/06/goodbye-brave/
37
Show HN: Podcast Audiograms – Make clips with captions, title and audio waves
https://app.milkvideo.com/focused-flow
47
How SQLite Is Tested
https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
153
184
Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29458125
149
156
Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]
https://edelson.com/wp-content/uploads/doevmetacomplaint.pdf
148
86
There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use
https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
147
68
Bouncing a LoRa message off the moon
https://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/17494/bouncing-a-lora-message-off-the-moon
19
Learning with Not Enough Data: Semi-Supervised Learning
https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2021/12/05/semi-supervised-learning.html
141
10
Digging into Linux namespaces – part 1
https://blog.quarkslab.com/digging-into-linux-namespaces-part-1.html
132
362
Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/evidence-for-the-great-resignation-is-thin-on-the-ground/21806659
Show HN: PlanckForth – Bootstrapping an interpreter from handwritten 1kb binary
https://github.com/nineties/planckforth
127
39
The utilization of 44/8: the reason I mapped IPv4 and IPv6
https://blog.daknob.net/mapping-44net/
118
121
Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (2016)
http://askageologist.blogspot.com/2016/03/can-you-drill-into-supervolcano-to.html
117
77
Chrome client “variations” can be used to identify you (2020)
https://zapek.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-use-google-chrome/
105
33
Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457470
22
Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB
https://www.mattritter.me/?p=398
104
80
Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
https://spotifychords.luca.gg/
34
Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard
https://ziglang.org/perf/
101
32
Color Vision Simulation
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector/Simulation
100
42
DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
https://www.blender.org/press/new-patron-member-decentraland/
95
40
SEC probes Tesla over whistleblower claims on solar panel defects
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/exclusive-sec-probes-tesla-over-whistleblower-claims-solar-panel-defects-2021-12-06/
14
Pots of Gold
https://blog.aaronkharris.com/pots-of-gold