604
237
Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
https://usebottles.com/
3 years ago
583
673
Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China
https://www.economist.com/china/lithuania-evacuates-its-embassy-in-china/21806843
562
271
An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone
https://techsparx.com/software-development/security/csp-camera-microphone.html
529
314
The Big DevOps Misunderstanding
https://wolfoliver.medium.com/the-big-devops-misunderstanding-8435a910a5fd
527
307
Test your product on a crappy laptop
https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/
452
392
My parents collect cans for a living
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/parents-collecting-cans-bottles/
434
365
I was part of a human subject research study without my consent
https://christine.website/blog/princeton-study-2021-12-17
425
500
Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29613382
423
321
Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29614095
335
361
Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar
https://twitter.com/Sega__JEANAsis/status/1472198123506257937
278
140
Move myself to inactive
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6e70d51011cfb3fb86d84055182
269
313
Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v1.full.pdf
259
97
Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019)
https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/
248
163
Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
https://blog.timac.org/2021/1219-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-ios15/
217
103
Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301500-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong-faster-than-an-ai/
208
80
Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization
https://github.com/nerdsinspace/nocom-explanation/blob/main/README.md
75
Space Debris is an Amiga mod I composed back in 1991
https://markuskaarlonen.com/space-debris
182
41
Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/696785
159
42
War stories: how Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/war-stories-how-crash-bandicoot-hacked-the-original-playstation/
64
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/07/14/unix-shell-programming-the-next-50-years.html
151
67
Writing embedded firmware using Rust
https://www.anyleaf.org/blog/writing-embedded-firmware-using-rust
148
147
The timing of evolutionary transitions suggests intelligent life is rare
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149
141
188
Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29612778
137
40
Decap of a tiny chip that plays Christmas songs
https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1472297415201869831
134
227
NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-college-graduate-parent-student-loans-11639618241
125
190
The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun
https://medium.com/predict/sorry-but-the-mother-of-all-crashes-is-coming-and-it-wont-be-fun-beaa2bc9f96a
121
98
Fish sausages: Ugandan CEO taps into demand
https://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/fish-sausages-ugandan-ceo-taps-into-demand-for-fish-products/134985/
115
44
Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/19/video-of-peng-shuai-appears-online-as-fears-over-wellbeing-persist
109
106
The rise and decline of thinking over feeling
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/12/the-rise-and-decline-of-thinking-over-feeling.html
108
197
My values, howled into the wind
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6173
107
213
Pfizer’s Covid-19 Pill is 89% Effective in Phase 2/3 Study
https://www.fdanews.com/articles/205801-pfizers-covid-19-pill-is-89-percent-effective-in-phase-23-study
105
34
Zig: Drop MinGW-w64
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9998
100
55
What children lose when their brains develop too fast
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-children-lose-when-their-brains-develop-too-fast-11639071752
96
89
Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins
https://razib.substack.com/p/yo-mamas-mamas-mamas-mama-etc
93
17
SciRate: An open source website to browse, save, and comment ArXiv articles
https://scirate.com/
26
Lisp in Vim with Slimv or Vlime (2019)
https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime.html
87
51
Show HN: IR stove thermometer, firmware in Rust
https://www.anyleaf.org/stove-thermometer
85
Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631133/
84
38
France latest to slap Clearview AI with order to delete data
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/clearview-gdpr-breaches-france/
82
25
About 2 months ago I went to review a product I bought from Amazon
https://twitter.com/jowanza/status/1472677342627598337
81
20
Forest data for 236 countries and territories in the period 1990-2020
https://www.fao.org/forest-resources-assessment/2020/en/
79
31
The Dead Sea of West Texas
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/lake-boehmer-dead-sea-west-texas/
59
Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17)
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/omicron-update
78
77
A mental model for decentralization
https://jacobobryant.com/p/mental-model-decentralization/
47
Designing a New PRNG
https://tom-kaitchuck.medium.com/designing-a-new-prng-1c4ffd27124d
Outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Norway, Nov to Dec 2021
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101147
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Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/12/does-superdeterminism-save-quantum.html