927
936
AirPods don't “just work”
https://philip.design/blog/airpods-dont-just-work/
3 years ago
813
392
A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/LinuxDevice.html
686
323
Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-investigation-shuts-down-amazon-price-fixing-program-nationwide
569
316
Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083783
547
249
Google rewrites many page titles
https://zyppy.com/blog/google-title-rewrite-study/
491
484
Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car
https://fullstackeconomics.com/why-agatha-christie-could-afford-a-maid-and-a-nanny-but-not-a-car/
458
490
Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/two-weeks-after-his-operation-david-bennett-is-alive-his-pig-s-heart-beating-soundly-1.4783776
429
213
To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/whats-left-for-the-webb-telescope-now-waggling-mirrors-turning-on-instruments/
413
576
Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
https://on.substack.com/p/society-has-a-trust-problem-more
400
1209
Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
https://ntdca.com/pfizer-board-member-suggests-end-to-mask-vaccine-mandates/
383
141
Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright
363
165
Zim – A Desktop Wiki
https://zim-wiki.org/
343
140
Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download
https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1486120144141123584
341
205
Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11k per article
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00995-2
336
446
In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/gang-chen-mit-china.html
334
973
Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/26/spotify-neil-young-joe-rogan/
328
39
The Internals of PostgreSQL
https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
322
319
UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ubs-buy-us-wealth-management-specialist-wealthfront-14-bln-2022-01-26/
274
83
How the Soviets put a lander on Venus
https://asianometry.substack.com/p/how-the-soviets-put-a-lander-on-venus
92
Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH
https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide
269
113
Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
https://fly.io/blog/run-ordinary-rails-apps-globally/
267
1052
The case against masks at school
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/kids-masks-schools-weak-science/621133/
264
168
Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30082234
258
95
Stop Brainstorming
https://matthewstrom.com/writing/stop-brainstorming/
246
106
Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far
https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/
231
37
Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases
https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/01/26/electric-tables/
221
311
The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1485971823288328193
200
107
About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.2
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213054
190
109
Vim Galore: everything you need to know about Vim
https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore
186
148
Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/01/26/facebooks-libra-is-still-dead-diem-to-be-sold-off-for-spare-parts/
181
41
Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec
https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt
172
105
Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-019-0055-z
164
161
Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Health-Care/Myopia-correcting-smart-glasses-from-Japan-to-be-sold-across-Asia
89
Issue with TLS-ALPN-01 Validation Method
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2022-01-25-issue-with-tls-alpn-01-validation-method/170450
33
The Polygons of Éric's Chahi Another World
https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/index.html
156
162
13 years sailing around the world
http://blog.mailasail.com/wildfox
154
73
A prisoner who worked out how to input Chinese characters into a machine
https://www.wired.com/story/kingdom-of-characters-jing-tsu-china-language-information/
152
64
Rancher Desktop 1.0
https://www.suse.com/c/rancher_blog/rancher-desktop-1-0-0-has-arrived/
145
120
Windows Subsystem for Android
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/
144
179
Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/25/malls-adding-apartments-to-offset-dwindling-numbers-of-shoppers/
142
31
How Claude Shannon helped kick-start machine learning
https://spectrum.ieee.org/claude-shannon-information-theory
131
35
An embeddable Prolog scripting language for Go
https://github.com/ichiban/prolog
122
59
Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (2014)
https://www.haskellforall.com/2014/04/worst-practices-are-viral-for-wrong.html
121
28
Show HN: Infracost (YC W21) – Open-source cloud cost policies
https://github.com/infracost/infracost
117
65
Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04281-w
163
Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco
https://tnc.news/2022/01/24/quebec-bans-unvaccinated-from-buying-groceries-at-walmart-costco/
111
49
Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript
https://arhamjain.com/hyperwordle/
110
38
Panwriter – Distraction-free Markdown editor with pandoc integration
https://panwriter.com/
70
Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)
https://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html
102
123
Court rejects $1.2B EU antitrust fine against Intel
https://www.reuters.com/technology/court-rejects-12-bln-eu-antitrust-fine-against-intel-2022-01-26/
97
North Korean internet downed by suspected cyber attacks
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorean-internet-downed-by-suspected-cyber-attacks-researchers-2022-01-26/
94
150
Why don't we use the math we learn in school?
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/01/24/why-dont-we-use-the-math-we-learn-in-school/
90
77
Xcode Through the Years
https://martiancraft.com/blog/2022/01/xcode-through-the-years/
29
Vintage radio broadcasting equipment
https://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/