1040
237
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
4 years ago
804
394
TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/turbotax-free-file-online-ftc.html
699
260
Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
691
353
UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/uk-government-officials-targeted-pegasus/
555
247
James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-james-webb-telescope-coldest-instrument.html
490
252
Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
https://rebeccastrong.substack.com/p/big-media-big-conflicts-of-interest
468
88
BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking
https://birdnetpi.com/
466
283
Mental speed is high until age sixty
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01282-7
448
248
‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania
https://pahouse.com/InTheNews/NewsRelease/?id=124404
384
212
The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-your-fancy-algorithm
367
239
CatalanGate: Spyware operation against Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru
https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/
316
162
Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off
https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/europes-lost-world-and-the-megaflood
309
396
Americans are drowning in spam
https://www.axios.com/spam-texts-calls-email-social-media-2af7cd73-6d7a-4f80-8026-1e5706cf3854.html
303
97
Cytopia: Open-source city simulator with pixel-art graphics
https://github.com/CytopiaTeam/Cytopia
285
60
Exponentially Better Rotations
https://thenumbat.github.io/Exponential-Rotations/
272
318
M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2
https://eclecticlight.co/2022/04/18/m1-thunderbolt-ports-dont-fully-support-usb-3-1-gen-2/
102
Introducing a16z START
https://a16z.com/2022/04/18/introducing-a6z-start/
113
No one knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system works
https://twitter.com/lougrims/status/1516013489722216450
398
Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/04/17/twitter-takeover-musk-dorsey-board-tweets/
236
202
1x Programming
https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/667318290442600448/1x-programming
227
62
7-Zip up to 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution
https://github.com/kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072
225
284
Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive
https://www.the-scientist.com/magazine-issue/opinion-another-species-of-hominin-may-still-be-alive-69869
222
76
Pounce: A multiplayer stealth game about hunting / tracking
https://www.pounce.sh
218
127
What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to computing? (2011)
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31430/what-is-the-origin-of-daemon-with-regards-to-computing
211
268
The case for LineageOS and the PinePhone
https://jleightcap.srht.site/blog/openphone.html
206
437
Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074881
194
126
When you get locked out of your Google account, what do you do? (2021)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-you-get-locked-out-your-google-account-what-do-desirea-calvillo
191
64
Take the pain out of Git conflict resolution: use diff3 (2017)
https://blog.nilbus.com/take-the-pain-out-of-git-conflict-resolution-use-diff3/
176
306
College became the default – Let's rethink that
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opinion/college-high-school.html
175
166
The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220418-00/?p=106489
173
23
Automation is the serialization of understanding
https://changelog.com/posts/automation-is-the-serialization-of-understanding
172
38
Where Linux's load average comes from in the kernel
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LoadAverageWhereFrom
169
254
Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jack-dorsey-nft-sale-1234625508/
163
151
Why the Arrest of a Lebanese Doctor Should Terrify Every Visitor to the UAE
https://insidearabia.com/why-the-arrest-of-a-lebanese-doctor-should-terrify-every-visitor-to-the-uae/
200
Beanstalk cryptocurrency loses $182M of reserves in flash ‘attack’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/18/beanstalk-cryptocurrency-loses-182m-of-reserves-in-flash-attack
159
46
SDF Public Access Unix System
https://sdf.org
152
77
Arbitrary file write vulnerability in GNU gzip's zgrep utility
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-1271
146
44
Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31073922
145
107
Mastodon for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android&hl=en_US&gl=US
142
89
Analyzing iMessage with SQL
https://arctype.com/blog/search-imessage/
136
37
Types of Deceptive Design
https://www.deceptive.design/types
132
103
The Learjet era ends with a final delivery
https://www.flyingmag.com/the-learjet-era-ends-with-a-final-delivery/
130
31
The voice in the soot: Humanity's earliest known recording
https://www.tremblingsandwarblings.com/2017/01/the-voice-in-the-soot/
128
30
Highlights from Git 2.36
https://github.blog/2022-04-18-highlights-from-git-2-36/
42
SVG passthrough precision
https://bjango.com/articles/svgpassthroughprecision/
122
79
A helicopter will try to catch a rocket booster mid-air
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rocket-booster-rocket-lab
121
45
Security experts declare all Proton apps secure after security audit
https://protonmail.com/blog/security-audit-all-proton-apps/
101
On leaving Turkey (2021)
https://ahmetomer.net/on-leaving-turkey/
117
Subvert network effects and encourage adversarial interoperability
https://www.promarket.org/2022/04/15/seize-the-means-of-computation/
116
49
The Musl Preprocessor Debate
https://catfox.life/2022/04/16/the-musl-preprocessor-debate/
115
33
Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-04-18-openbsd-vs-nixos.html
114
South Africa is running out of Marmite
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/04/16/why-south-africa-is-running-out-of-marmite
72
The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500602
100
63
InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-us-court-2022-04-18/
99
87
Ask HN: How does Apple achieve both secrecy and quality for a release?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31073754
98
24
Space Math
https://aimath.org/~farmer/spacemath/
96
48
Workers at Apple's NYC store have started collecting signatures to form a union
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-store-workers-unionizing-grand-central-2022-4
94
82
Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065876
90
52
The FBI has tied the recent Axie Infinity Ronin sidechain hack to North Korea
https://www.thismorningonchain.com/articles/defi/north-korea-diversifies-crypto-portfolio-via-largest-crypto-hack/
Penmanship
https://jaredgorski.org/writing/penmanship/
85
78
Ask HN: I burned out but I don't want to let my team down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31072465
84
1
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracies-spy-on-their-citizens