805
640
What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1?sp=87
3 years ago
663
409
Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/01/will-chatbots-replace-the-art-of-human-conversation/
631
534
New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/01/06/in-a-big-win-for-workers-new-york-city-will-make-it-mandatory-for-companies-to-disclose-salaries-on-job-advertisements/
630
467
Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abavv/this-keyboard-lets-people-type-so-fast-its-banned-from-typing-competitions
537
278
Procrastinatory Doom Loops
https://brennancolberg.com/blog/procrastinatory-doom-loops
523
544
Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-million-euros-and-facebook-60-million-euros-non-compliance
459
679
Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1479143340159422468
397
406
“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1478785899009875968
384
488
Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830770
368
71
Show HN: 3D map of shade around the world
https://shademap.app/#37.74392,-119.56306,11.42013z,1641492931979t,-132.33425b,45p
366
129
Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated
https://digiday.com/media/why-facebook-keeps-collecting-peoples-data-and-building-their-profiles-even-when-their-accounts-are-deactivated/
327
Quit Your Job
https://palladiummag.com/2022/01/06/quit-your-job/
314
77
Unix in the Browser Tab
https://browsix.org/
304
167
Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825844
295
124
Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868777/everdrone-drone-defibrillator-health-tech-sweden
287
211
Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2021-12-23/geyserville-sonoma-county-black-perigord-truffle
274
44
Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released
https://dashbit.co/blog/elixir-and-machine-learning-nx-v0.1
271
88
Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/
263
668
Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado
https://covid19.colorado.gov/data
252
105
Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters
https://contains.dev/blog/optimizing-docker-image-size
251
311
Russia sends troops to Kazakhstan to put down deadly uprising
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/troops-protesters-clash-almaty-main-square-kazakhstan-shots-heard-2022-01-06/
240
47
Paxos
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/paxos.html
229
235
What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living?
https://reallifemag.com/same-old/
220
54
Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (2015)
http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/html/multi/index.html
207
Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
https://mrsteinberg.com/grow-your-north-korean-start-up/
197
99
Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
https://longform.org/
196
101
Inviting another GitHub user to be your successor
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-access-to-your-personal-repositories/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-user-accounts-repositories
193
46
IPv6-ghost-ship: Using TOTP as part of an AWS EC2 IPv6 address
https://github.com/aidansteele/ipv6-ghost-ship
190
Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
https://seldo.com/posts/crypto-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
183
244
Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality
https://psyche.co/ideas/autistic-people-challenge-preconceived-ideas-about-rationality
182
33
Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial
http://rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tcod/v2/
177
34
Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape
https://fabianlindfors.se/blog/schema-migrations-in-postgres-using-reshape/
169
100
Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse
https://social.gitea.io/@gitea/107576791626052697
168
203
Brussels Airlines makes 3,000 unnecessary flights to maintain airport slots
https://www.thebulletin.be/brussels-airlines-makes-3000-unnecessary-flights-maintain-airport-slots
165
GitHub Projects – Customizable, flexible tool for planning and tracking work
https://docs.github.com/en/issues/trying-out-the-new-projects-experience/about-projects
164
191
Ask HN: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29826725
158
162
Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?
https://dmitryelj.medium.com/nude-pictures-on-early-retro-pcs-was-it-possible-3434b5c0447e
156
How to quit like a boss
https://jmsbrdy.com/blog/leaving-spring/
155
131
CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0106-human-rabies.html
153
Mozilla's call for cryptocurrency donations angers founder
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/mozilla_accepts_cryptocurrency/
151
238
Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825080
149
Washed Up
https://infrequently.org/2022/01/washed-up/
148
89
YK22 bug causing Honda clocks to stop working
https://www.crvownersclub.com/threads/clock-fault-year-2022-note-this-is-not-a-gps-related-issue-merged-master-thread.224326/
141
119
The ITC declares Google infringed on audio tech patents held by Sonos [pdf]
https://www.usitc.gov/system/files/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_1191_notice01062022sgl.pdf
136
93
Swiss army restricts use of messenger apps for military purposes
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/swiss-army-restricts-use-of-messenger-apps/47238938
126
31
JPEG: Image Compression Algorithm (2017)
http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~web6140/TopTenAlgorithms/JPEG.html
122
213
The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning'
https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-cruel-ridiculous-reality-of-virtual-learning/
121
280
Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones
https://www.axios.com/teen-iphone-use-spending-habits-bc2e598e-303d-4024-8db8-c345b1415ad4.html
114
194
Ask HN: How do you have fun without alcohol?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29824395
118
Farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-farmers-facing-fertiliser-sticker-shock-may-cut-use-raising-food-security-2021-12-09/
113
64
Deep learning can’t be trusted, brain modelling pioneer says
https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-learning-cant-be-trusted