736
327
Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act
4 years ago
547
207
Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-and-heinrich-newly-declassified-documents-reveal-previously-secret-cia-bulk-collection-problems-with-cia-handling-of-americans-information
468
507
Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
464
349
The Factorio Mindset
https://www.thediff.co/p/the-factorio-mindset
412
150
Feynman on group decision-making at Los Alamos (1985)
https://cs.au.dk/~danvy/lafb.html
403
671
Why won’t anyone teach me math?
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/02/stem-intro-courses-humanites-exploration
278
Booking.com is moving its customer service staff to an outsourcing company
https://reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/sp2e0g/bookingcom_just_fired_thousands_of_people_around/
308
80
YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is possible
https://ysflight.org/
303
312
How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers
https://blog.kuperate.com/how-fresh-grads-who-have-never-coded-anything-of-significance-get-sold-as-senior-engineers/
283
167
Nike.com's robots.txt
https://www.nike.com/robots.txt
271
39
Testing Distributed Systems
https://asatarin.github.io/testing-distributed-systems/
265
47
SNES Development Part 1: Getting Started
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/snes-dev-1-getting-started
253
96
Building an Intelligent Emacs
https://ianyepan.github.io/posts/emacs-ide/
236
50
Core War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
234
280
Privacy preserving attribution for advertising
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/
231
311
I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/technology/airtags-gps-surveillance.html
339
Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00400-3
225
62
Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
https://acoup.blog/2022/02/11/collections-rome-decline-and-fall-part-iii-things/
204
336
Starship Update [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N7L8Xhkzqo
198
Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs
https://github.com/CZ-NIC/pz
190
201
How to know if you’re addicted
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-know-if-youre-addicted-to-alcohol-or-drugs
179
111
How Einstein arrived at his theory of general relativity
https://lithub.com/how-einstein-arrived-at-his-theory-of-general-relativity/
175
216
I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1491803929801150471
17
An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]
https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf
173
102
A new programming language for high-performance computers
https://news.mit.edu/2022/new-programming-language-high-performance-computers-0207
168
112
Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
https://intellisec.de/research/lasershark/
162
68
Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source
https://github.com/Roznoshchik/Lurnby
160
64
Chess Minigames for Enjoyable Learning [pdf]
https://andytrattner.com/img/pdf/enjoy-chess.pdf
157
118
Binance is taking a $200M stake in Forbes
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/10/forbes-spac-binance-led-by-the-worlds-richest-crypto-billionaire-is-taking-a-200-million-stake-in-forbes-.html
155
41
A Hairy PostgreSQL Incident
https://ardentperf.com/2022/02/10/a-hairy-postgresql-incident/
152
89
Analog: A simple productivity system
https://ugmonk.com/blogs/journal/analog-the-simplest-productivity-system
148
154
Launch HN: Anja Health (YC W22) – Freezing stem cells at birth for future health
https://anjahealth.com
147
25
Csv.vim: A Filetype plugin for CSV files
https://github.com/chrisbra/csv.vim
146
43
Show HN: LiveViewJS – TypeScript back end for LiveView Apps (Phoenix LiveView)
https://github.com/floodfx/liveviewjs
142
New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
https://news.mit.edu/2022/plant-derived-composite-0210
140
235
Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
https://about.fb.com/news/2022/02/meta-is-absolutely-not-threatening-to-leave-europe/
138
26
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
https://danluu.com/cache-incidents/
132
Running C unit tests with Pytest
https://p403n1x87.github.io/running-c-unit-tests-with-pytest.html
131
115
Lock the doors: Remembering Columbia's final homecoming (2020)
https://www.americaspace.com/2020/02/01/lock-the-doors-remembering-columbias-final-homecoming-otd-in-2003/
Police hacking with Pegasus of key Netanyahu trial witness explodes into scandal
https://www.debka.com/police-hacking-of-key-netanyahu-trial-witness-explodes-into-full-blown-scandal/
128
Phone number has been used too many times
https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/27577851/this-phone-number-has-been-used-too-many-times?hl=en
127
63
Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-disables-macros-default-security-phishing/
119
54
The Scientific Virtues: Stupidity, Arrogance, Laziness
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtues/
117
Blade Runner 2099 Sequel Series Coming from Ridley Scott
https://consequence.net/2022/02/ridley-scott-blade-runner-2099/
34
CVE-2022-0435: A Remote Stack Overflow in the Linux Kernel
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/10/1
110
40
Show HN: Windi – knowledge management and sharing platform based on short notes
https://windi.app/
105
81
Language homogenization at Harvard
https://inteoryx.com/htmls/LanguageHomog.html
103
A Big Week for RISC-V
https://www.eetimes.com/a-big-week-for-risc-v/
101
65
Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Workers Sites for 2x Performance (2020)
https://brianli.com/migrating-from-netlify-to-cloudflare-workers-sites-for-2x-performance/
94
221
Does the human lifespan have a limit?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00070-1
93
59
Twitter Problems?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30304053
92
42
Ask HN: Hacker News is for tech, as X is for Y?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30307778
58
SixtyFPS Becomes Slint
https://slint-ui.com/blog/sixtyfps-becomes-slint.html
Osmf: A simple command-line tool to explore OSM data (2020)
https://github.com/codesoap/osmf
91
1
Rust API for the Firefox Profiler
https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2022/02/08/rust-api-for-the-firefox-profiler/
21
Show HN: The BLAKE3 hash function running on a 6502 microprocessor
https://github.com/oconnor663/blake3-6502
87
120
Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those in gay men for first time in a decade
https://www.tht.org.uk/news/heterosexual-hiv-diagnoses-overtake-those-gay-men-first-time-decade
85
75
IBM Plex Typeface (2018)
https://www.ibm.com/plex/
84
197
Long-standing literary magazines are struggling to stay afloat
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/the-believer-literary-magazines-closing-down-struggling-cec/index.html
82
An Introduction to Deno: Is It Better Than Node.js?
https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/02/09/an-introduction-to-deno-is-it-better-than-nodejs.html
31
Kimchi: The latest update to Mina’s proof system
https://minaprotocol.com/blog/kimchi-the-latest-update-to-minas-proof-system
11
An Optimization Story
https://tinkering.xyz/fmo-optimization-story/
53
Switching Rich Text Editors, Part 1: Picking Tiptap
https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/company/tiptap-part-1
79
28
Code execution as root via AT commands on the Quectel EG25-G modem (2021)
https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/03/modem-rce.html
72
48
Tim O'Reilly on Web3
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/web3-cryptocurrency-nft-tim-oreilly/
71
Little Sound Dj
https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php
App can vibrate a single drop of blood to determine how well it clots
https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/02/11/smartphone-app-vibrate-single-drop-of-blood-determine-how-well-clots/
24
Crashes caused by Tesla Autopilot are piling up, and there are consequences
https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/tesla-investigations
22
Show HN: Yode-Nvim – Focused Code Editing for Neovim
https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim
12
Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis
https://waymo.com/research/block-nerf/
49
The Invention of Battlezone (1982)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/battlezone
Palm Portable Keyboard Bluetooth Adapter
https://github.com/pymo/ppk_bluetooth
Biohybrid fish made from human cardiac cells swims like the heart beats
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2022/02/biohybrid-fish-made-human-cardiac-cells-swims-heart-beats
Hertz accuses thousands of its customers of crimes, court papers show
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-02-10/hertz-renters-car-theft
60
2
Postgres – Don't Do This
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This
MirageOS 3.0 (2017)
https://mirage.io/blog/announcing-mirage-30-release
57
46” woven display with integrated smart sensors and energy harvesting
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-develop-fully-woven-smart-display
56
19
Google's advertising tech targeted in European publishers' complaint
https://www.reuters.com/technology/googles-advertising-tech-targeted-european-publishers-complaint-2022-02-11/
Ask HN: Why do I get robocalls from recently-called area codes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30307425