1232
738
Inside the longest Atlassian outage
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian
4 years ago
659
295
U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html
616
262
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
https://news.mit.edu/2022/thermal-heat-engine-0413
549
273
Git security vulnerability announced
https://github.blog/2022-04-12-git-security-vulnerability-announced/
527
345
Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel
https://www.surgehq.ai//blog/google-search-is-falling-behind
478
344
You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off
https://news.wisc.edu/youre-muted-or-are-you-videoconferencing-apps-may-listen-even-when-mic-is-off/
477
333
Insider Trading at Coinbase
https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1513874972552355846
423
651
Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31018836
413
107
Youtube.js – full-featured wrapper around YouTube's private API
https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js
380
123
Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished
https://grapee.jp/en/199026
379
134
Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
https://lexical.dev/
375
39
Create hand-drawn GIFs on paper
https://www.eatmy.art/
350
557
US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-expert-jailed-north-korea-blockchain-research-justice-department-2022-4
316
Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations
287
165
Apple's M1 Ultra comes with a 32MB TLB bottleneck
https://twitter.com/VadimYuryev/status/1514295682777059329
278
119
Why I quit this battle
https://badmodems.com/Why.htm
252
115
Abandoned railroad routes in North America
https://www.abandonedrails.com/
251
138
The most popular chess streamer on Twitch
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-most-popular-chess-streamer-on-twitch
249
159
Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apple-unveils-the-best-photos-from-the-shot-on-iphone-macro-challenge/
244
192
Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms
https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-warning-for-europe-over-risks-of-using-algorithms/
238
35
Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
https://letsencrypt.org/2022/04/13/receiving-the-levchin-prize.html
233
90
What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla
https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2022/04/13/this-week-in-glean-what-flips-your-bit/
223
36
OpenMower – Open-source robot lawn mower [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSF04i3zNGw
220
190
Web3: A VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/04/11/web3-a-vc-funded-gig-economy-of-securities-violations/
219
148
Why is selling software so weird?
https://www.zeptonaut.com/posts/selling-software-is-weird/
203
228
Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Solaris-11.4-CBE
196
200
Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread
https://halfloafnear.me/
176
181
Study suggests mechanism through which psychedelics may alleviate depression
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/04/422606/psilocybin-rewires-brain-people-depression
172
89
Hetzner Cloud – Data loss incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015840
166
46
A modern self-referential weight matrix that learns to modify itself
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05780
153
74
DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content
https://stratechery.com/2022/dall-e-the-metaverse-and-zero-marginal-content/
136
191
China has pioneered a law to empower people over algorithms?
https://onezero.medium.com/china-has-pioneered-a-law-to-empower-people-over-algorithms-70b29ba6285f
78
What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00997-5
132
87
Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers
https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-update
130
File transfers via the parallel port on DOS using LapLink
https://www.cambus.net/file-transfers-via-the-parallel-port-on-dos-using-laplink/
28
Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]
https://grugq.github.io/resources/Dulles%20on%20Tradecraft.pdf
121
Linux Hardware Database
http://linux-hardware.org/
118
37
K-Nearest Neighbors
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/k-nearest-neighbor/
80
Show HN: Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience
https://www.stacktape.com/
113
Iron Cycle based energy storage and generation
https://teamsolid.org/
112
Ana is a Python, PHP, and C inspired dynamically typed scripting language
https://github.com/analang/ana
108
91
She was missing a chunk of her brain – it didn’t matter
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/she-was-missing-a-chunk-of-her-brain-it-didnt-matter
13
Ninjam is open source software to allow people to make real music together
https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/
106
15
Ngrok 3.0
https://ngrok.com/next-generation
31
Zuo: A Tiny Racket for Scripting
https://github.com/racket/zuo
96
102
An accidental experiment that saved 700 lives
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/04/13/the-accidental-experiment-that-saved-700-lives/
92
51
Ask HN: What happened to Apple's self service repair program?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31014998
55
Concatenative Language
https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language
Jimmy Carter's White House Solar Panels (2019)
https://www.powerhome.com/the-journey-of-jimmy-carters-solar-panels/
88
17
Lexical is now open-source (web text-editor)
https://github.com/facebook/lexical
86
49
A man bought a cruise ship on Craigslist
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/the-man-who-bought-a-cruise-ship-on-craigslist/index.html
82
19
Show HN: Program Synthesis for Ruby
https://github.com/ngsankha/rbsyn
81
Taiwan should destroy TSMC if invaded, suggests US military paper
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/taiwan-should-adopt-a-broken-nest-policy-and-destroy-tsmc-in-wake-of-any-chinese-invasion-suggests-us-military-paper/
WebP is such a goated format
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/webp/
California's Vanished Dream, by the Numbers
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/04/13/californias_vanished_dream_by_the_numbers_826300.html
SoCal man says computer on his Tesla froze, causing it to be stuck at 83 MPH
https://abc7.com/tesla-model-3-car-freezes-while-driving-la-drivers-freezing/11743278/
77
59
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust
76
44
Tailscale Authentication for Minecraft
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-auth-minecraft/
75
18
Logarithms yearning to be free
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/04/13/logarithms-yearning-to-be-free/
16
Rust on Nails: A full stack architecture for Rust web applications
https://cloak.software/blog/rust-on-nails/
4
How to speed up the Rust compiler in April 2022
https://nnethercote.github.io/2022/04/12/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-april-2022.html
70
47
Russian trolls tried to distract voters with music tweets in 2016
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/04/russian-trolls-tried-distract-voters-music-tweets-2016-0
69
52
How to balance between delete compliance and backups
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012219
68
Due dates are a lazy way to gain commitment
https://tristanhood.substack.com/p/due-dates-are-a-lazy-way-to-gain
66
97
Ask HN: Are the 2020s the decade of peak homogenisation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31014508
63
145
Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31017134