737
238
Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
https://www.livescience.com/little-known-sleep-stage-may-be-creative-sweet-spot
4 years ago
702
717
Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59608641
638
388
Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/
524
92
Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/
433
186
Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist
377
112
Quaternions
https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2021/11/05/quaternion-1-intro.html
361
479
Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
306
266
Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqlJ50zDgeA
305
480
Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29511761
284
56
EU Commission to open source software
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_6649
271
240
AWS down again?
https://aws.amazon.com
415
Is Web3 anything?
https://www.chris-granger.com/2021/12/09/is-web3-anything/
267
145
The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ
258
90
Kropotkin escapes from prison
https://crimethinc.com/2021/12/09/june-30-1876-peter-kropotkin-escapes-from-prison-a-tale-of-derring-do-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday
251
166
Scala at scale at Databricks
https://databricks.com/blog/2021/12/03/scala-at-scale-at-databricks.html
248
304
Up all night with a Twitch millionaire
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/02/twitch-loltyler1-tyler-steinkamp/
213
307
Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29512963
212
67
Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest
https://declassifieduk.org/assange-judge-is-40-year-good-friend-of-minister-who-orchestrated-his-arrest/
207
38
Advanced NLP with spaCy v3
https://course.spacy.io/en/
204
109
C64 OS: make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful
http://c64os.com/
202
48
Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 4: how algorithms are implemented
http://www.righto.com/2021/12/yamaha-dx7-chip-reverse-engineering.html
199
60
New FDA-approved eye drops could replace reading glasses for millions
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vuity-eye-drops-fda-approved-blurred-vision-presbyopia/#app
194
110
More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could not be replicated
https://www.science.org/content/article/more-half-high-impact-cancer-lab-studies-could-not-be-replicated-controversial-analysis
190
170
SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.24.465626v1
187
95
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/10/better-com-ceo-vishal-garg-steps-back-as-employees-detail-how-he-led-by-fear/
177
78
The future of Python build systems and Gentoo
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2021/11/07/the-future-of-python-build-systems-and-gentoo/
174
27
Imagor: A fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go
https://github.com/cshum/imagor
173
165
The Invention of Chinese
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/invention-chinese
162
196
Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances
https://www.servethehome.com/oracle-cloud-giving-away-ampere-arm-a1-instances-always-free/
161
2
Interfacing with Zig, a BDFL-run project
https://kristoff.it/blog/interfacing-with-zig/
157
Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktoker-wrote-code-spam-kellogg-strike-busting-job-ad-site-2021-12
155
103
Insects are more sensitive than they seem
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211126-why-insects-are-more-sensitive-than-they-seem
Right-to-Left Styling 101
https://rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling
151
21
Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples
https://freesound.org/
148
54
Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on Delphi (1995)
https://www.theopenforce.com/2020/02/anders-hejlsberg-delphi-1995.html
Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018)
https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
137
Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-04-18/on-greece-mount-athos-no-women-allowed
136
62
DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03593-1
127
4
0-Day Vulnerability on Log4j
https://blog.sonatype.com/a-new-0-day-log4j-vulnerability-discovered-in-the-wild
124
Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-billing-markups
121
57
Tesla Full Self Driving Beta Causes a Crash
https://twitter.com/mostlyharmlessz/status/1469421762555351042
97
A key inflation measure rose to a 39-year high last month
http://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_28a127c8613541c21c31899bb26a6e09
30
The trees that miss the mammoths (2011)
https://af-legacy-prd.americanforests.org/magazine/article/trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/
11
Plenoxels
https://alexyu.net/plenoxels/?s=09
102
52
Ask HN: Where do you find weird and wonderful future tech nowadays?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509694
94
24
In court filing, Facebook admits ‘fact checks’ are nothing more than opinion
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/09/bombshell-in-court-filing-facebook-admits-fact-checks-are-nothing-more-than-opinion/
36
Pooping hippos create ‘community guts’ in African ponds
https://www.science.org/content/article/pooping-hippos-create-community-guts-african-ponds
89
58
Smart Audio for the Smart Home
https://computer.rip/2021-11-06-smart-audio-for-the-smart-home.html
84
Moo Card Player
https://hicks.design/journal/moo-card-player
15
Night Sky Map and Planets Visible Tonight
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/
82
31
An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture
https://github.com/jdah/jdh-8
77
An Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-massive-oil-spill-helped-one-billionaire-avoid-paying-income-tax-for-14-years
Ask HN: Where are you finding freelance/fractional work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29505524
17
Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules [pdf]
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/USA-v-Assange-judgment101221.pdf
NCC Group’s Cryptopals Guided Tour
https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/12/10/announcing-ncc-groups-cryptopals-guided-tour/
76
87
Plan Ahead for Phase Out of 3G Cellular Networks and Service
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/plan-ahead-phase-out-3g-cellular-networks-and-service
Tragic story – AWS hacked account
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29506337
71
Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29507085
3
Examples of the Log4jAttackSurface exploited in the wild
https://github.com/YfryTchsGD/Log4jAttackSurface
70
40
Jumping the Air Gap: 15 Years of Nation-State Effort [pdf]
https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/eset_jumping_the_air_gap_wp.pdf
69
Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)
https://github.com/spcask/pov-ray-tracing
It's Increasingly Obvious Apple's 'Do Not Track' Button Is Privacy Theater
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211209/06403948085/increasingly-obvious-apples-do-not-track-button-is-privacy-theater.shtml
19
Firefox 95 might be the most secure web browser on the market
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-new-firefox-95-might-be-the-most-secure-web-browser-on-the-market/
66
Learning how to ride a bike
https://notebook.wesleyac.com/learning-to-bike/
65
25
Richard Feynman – Session IV (1966)
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5020-4
72
Global economic inequality: what matters most is where you are
https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality-introduction
63
13
Types for Tables: A Language Design Benchmark
https://blog.brownplt.org/2021/11/21/b2t2.html
8
Space Weather Live
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com
61
Ask HN: Favorite Thing Built to Last?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29510819
