2900
285
GPS
https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
4 years ago
2051
1353
Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/
1384
346
Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
https://www.nginx.com/blog/do-svidaniya-igor-thank-you-for-nginx/
593
460
Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills
https://www.wired.com/story/nordictrack-ifit-treadmill-privilege-mode/
584
341
Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410,00.html
515
318
No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption
https://noplacetohide.org.uk/
456
159
The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification
https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix-compliant-certified
420
151
Wine 7.0
https://www.winehq.org/announce/7.0
393
262
Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML
https://eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-copyright-court-case/
392
54
CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
381
109
OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog
https://github.com/water111/jak-project
376
225
A delightful quirk of relativity theory
https://twitter.com/MarkusDeserno/status/1482811504424542211
365
326
How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020)
https://archipro.co.nz/articles/architecture/building-without-heating-how-to-build-warm-comfortable-homes-with-virtually-no-heating-archipro
322
179
The Intel Split
https://stratechery.com/2022/the-intel-split/
321
375
Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978099
320
72
Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend
https://github.com/YousefED/Matrix-CRDT
304
170
Kakoune Code Editor
https://kakoune.org/
293
78
Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening (2020)
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/systemd-service-hardening.html
275
258
Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/ee/d1ee03283f
259
132
Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan
https://spacelift.io/blog/tricking-postgres-into-using-query-plan
469
Letter from Union Pacific to LA District Attorney re: train thefts, safety [pdf]
https://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/@uprr/@newsinfo/documents/up_pdf_nativedocs/pdf_up_la_district_atty_211221.pdf
254
204
TypeScript Features to Avoid
https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/typescript-features-to-avoid
252
250
Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)
https://special.usps.com/testkits
249
41
PostgreSQL query performance bottlenecks
https://pawelurbanek.com/postgresql-query-bottleneck
248
181
How A.I. Conquered Poker
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/magazine/ai-technology-poker.html
232
207
You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline
https://twitter.com/DoesItPlay1/status/1483126058325090304
230
308
I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR
https://www.wired.com/story/hours-working-vr-tips/
222
178
It’s great to be a consultant
https://zwischenzugs.com/2022/01/17/why-its-great-to-be-a-consultant/
213
88
Geometry from Another Universe
https://www.falsifian.org/blog/2022/01/17/s3d/
210
103
Farming Co. Says John Deere Is Monopolizing Repair Market
https://www.law360.com/articles/1454988/farming-co-says-john-deere-is-monopolizing-repair-market
195
143
Myths about Social Media
https://twitter.com/M_B_Petersen/status/1483457679800651787
172
32
GNU Emacs Telegram Client
https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el
160
86
How do you visualize code?
https://alexanderell.is/posts/visualizing-code/
184
U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-oks-45-commercial-airplane-fleet-operations-after-5g-deployment-2022-01-16/
141
274
Automation is reaching more companies
https://www.wired.com/story/rent-robot-worker-less-paying-human/
139
224
Ireland to launch basic income program for artists
https://www.artforum.com/news/ireland-to-launch-universal-basic-income-program-for-artists-87612
137
302
Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/venmo-paypal-zelle-must-report-600-transactions-irs-rcna11260
130
94
Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)
https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/d-learn-workings-git/
125
45
A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK
https://www.opensanctions.org/articles/2022-01-18-peppercat/
123
12
Zooming in on Zero-Click Exploits
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/01/zooming-in-on-zero-click-exploits.html
122
110
Switzerland’s astonishingly polite armed conflict of 1847 (2019)
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/02/27/charm-offensive-switzerlands-polite-war-of-1847/
119
95
US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20111102045835/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2083906/claims-com-net-websites-jurisdiction
116
75
Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week
https://life-cal.com
113
66
The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/the-pinephone-pro-brings-upgraded-hardware-to-the-linux-phone/
112
34
Ask HN: Does anyone know of the whereabouts of the source code of FlexOS/386?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983702
106
10
Around 1860, Britain was gripped with a craze for “cartes de visite”
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220114-the-surprising-ways-that-victorians-flirted
101
3
Activision Blizzard fires 3 dozen people in sexual harassment probe
https://www.reuters.com/business/activision-blizzard-fires-more-people-sexual-harassment-probe-report-says-2022-01-17/
100
70
Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (1990)
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9
98
180
The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/the-rise-of-ai-fighter-pilots
97
140
Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983542
33
The Mesa Programming Language (1979) [pdf]
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-79-3_Mesa_Language_Manual_Version_5.0.pdf
96
81
Discovering Paxlovid
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/discovering-paxlovid
23
The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-big-business-of-uyghur-genocide-denial/
92
194
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec
90
67
No Hello (2013)
https://www.nohello.com/
29
Show HN: Stop Putting AWS Credentials in GitHub Secrets
https://github.com/saml-to/assume-aws-role-action
87
36
ID systems analysed: e-Estonia (X-Road)
https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/4737/id-systems-analysed-e-estonia-x-road
The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.786220/full
OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog