1225
351
This website has 81% battery power remaining
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html
4 years ago
534
135
Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/4085856.html?thread=28352864#cmt28352864
492
226
The Matrix Is Unreal
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-matrix-is-unreal/
484
357
Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/12/national/science-health/aging-vaccine/
445
338
Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062
414
126
Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice
https://commoncog.com/blog/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing/
382
489
Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529267
364
48
Fredrik Lundh has died
https://lwn.net/ml/python-dev/CAP7+vJLbxJY-SPPzaoT4qnhF9MRkXDuhmr8wxZ=Es1X2ob3gMg@mail.gmail.com/
345
312
Opt Out of Cynicism
https://dimitarsimeonov.com/2021/12/12/opt-out-of-cynicism
336
206
The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-internet-has-rat-poison-problem
320
315
Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/performance/cloud-facts.html
284
97
Old CSS, New CSS (2020)
https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/
281
129
Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive
https://www.science.org/content/article/chemical-emitted-babies-could-make-men-more-docile-women-more-aggressive
272
80
Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
https://www.hammerspoon.org/
262
251
“Open source” is not broken
https://nadh.in/blog/open-source-is-not-broken/
205
273
California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a year
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/12/07/california-is-the-only-state-to-hide-its-spending/
203
230
Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533753
186
256
Terms of Service: Monitoring and Anti-Cheat
https://www.riotgames.com/en/terms-of-service#id.j9yhwirgp1kr
183
18
Arkham Quixote (2020)
https://sherief.fyi/post/arkham-quixote/
148
Apple’s Newest OLED Supplier
https://asianometry.substack.com/p/boe-technology-apples-next-oled-supplier
169
Sending SMS Messages Through the ISS (2020)
https://www.kj7nzl.net/blog/sending-sms-messages-through-iss/
163
35
Win-Vind: Become an instant ninja in operating Windows at the speed of thought
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind
161
16
Erich's Packing Center
https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html
160
26
Frickin' shaders with frickin' laser beams
https://acko.net/blog/frickin-shaders-with-frickin-laser-beams/
159
133
Predict civilization collapse with Python and World3 model
https://github.com/cvanwynsberghe/pyworld3
Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015)
https://qz.com/557639/everyone-on-earth-is-actually-your-cousin/
154
60
Saving the shuttle simulator–“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/saving-the-shuttle-simulator-it-was-an-artifact-that-needed-to-be-preserved/
143
87
Drop-In Replacement for Memcached
https://www.memc.rs
139
146
Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
https://medium.com/fundbox-engineering/cheating-at-a-company-group-activity-using-unix-tools-5c1d706f3d58
78
Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer
https://www.gpsoft.com.au/
119
81
CISA Director on Log4j Vulnerability
https://www.cisa.gov/news/2021/12/11/statement-cisa-director-easterly-log4j-vulnerability
117
69
Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling programming courses
https://alterclass.io/
116
22
NASA Ogma: generate hard-realtime C runtime monitoring applications
https://github.com/nasa/ogma
114
WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/
113
90
Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic
https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2021/11/15/internet-use/
106
32
CP/M Source Code
http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html
104
28
Peer-to-Peer NAT64 Network
https://p2p.nat64.dk/
103
6
Signal Identification Guide
https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide
102
74
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked
https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/indian-prime-minister-narendra-modis-twitter-account-gets-hacked
100
55
A Civil War cartoonist created the modern image of Santa Claus (2018)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-cartoonist-created-modern-image-santa-claus-union-propaganda-180971074/
99
Minimalist Guide to Lossless Compression (2019)
https://tech.marksblogg.com/minimalist-guide-compression.html
92
66
Former BuzzFeed employees missed their big payday
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-former-buzzfeed-employees-missed-their-big-payday
156
Alarmed by Tesla’s self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-11/is-teslas-full-self-driving-public-experiment-safe-legislators-want-answers-from-dmv
50
Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli bridged mind and matter (2017)
https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/09/atom-and-archetype-pauli-jung/
37
Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29534663
84
12
Report shows HSE (Irish Health Service) hacked by malicious Excel file [pdf]
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/conti-cyber-attack-on-the-hse-full-report.pdf
11
Dive into Ethereum signatures with Raku language
https://raku-advent.blog/2021/12/12/a-long-journey-to-ethereum-signatures/
77
Using BBS with my Amiga 3000 in 2021
https://www.epsilonsworld.com/2021/11/using-bbs-with-my-amiga-3000-in-2021.html
94
Abolish Yale
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/12/10/abolish-yale/
76
108
Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532676
72
33
Every Schubert Song, Ranked: Listening to 40 hours of Lieder
https://van-magazine.com/mag/every-schubert-song-ranked/
71
Type-Safe Printf for C
https://github.com/moehriegitt/vastringify
70
138
Why the demographic transition is speeding up
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/12/11/why-the-demographic-transition-is-speeding-up
19
Using ephemeral Onion Services for quick NAT traversal
https://www.trickster.dev/post/using-ephemeral-onion-services-for-quick-nat-traversal/
68
UniFi Network Application 6.5.54
https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Application-6-5-54/d717f241-48bb-4979-8b10-99db36ddabe1
67
8
Apple CCP $275B deal included Maps changes for disputed islands
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/22826695/apple-china-mou-275-billion-tim-cook-icloud