1258
449
Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook-can-track-anything-you-do-on-any-website-in-their-in-app-browser
4 years ago
1135
427
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/
730
1104
'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/too-many-employees-but-few-work-pichai-zuckerberg-sound-the-alarm-122080801425_1.html
541
323
OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits
https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/onlyfans-bribed-meta-to-put-thousands-of-porn-stars-on-terror-watchlist-suits-claim/
517
152
The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN
https://www.ladbible.com/sport/world-excel-championship-that-is-getting-national-tv-coverage-20220809
481
163
Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone
http://www.freeciv.org/
430
153
Let websites framebust out of native apps
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/framebust-native-apps/
351
78
How SQLite Helps You Do ACID
https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-internals-rollback-journal/
348
492
Why aren't smart people happier?
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
320
839
U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_08102022.htm
313
151
Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32409632
291
231
Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
https://thenewleafjournal.com/review-of-e-an-android-alternative-for-mobile-phones/
276
271
U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it attempts to prevent
https://reason.com/2022/08/10/u-k-s-online-censorship-bill-causes-far-more-harm-than-it-attempts-to-prevent/
266
84
How to present to executives (2021)
https://lethain.com/present-to-executives/
254
130
The semantic web is dead – Long live the semantic web
https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/blog/blob/main/entries/semantic_future.md
249
496
“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”
https://the.scapegoat.dev/autistic-people-cant-acknowledge-when-they-are-wrong/
246
332
FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/fcc-rejects-starlinks-886-million-grant-says-spacex-proposal-too-risky/
245
147
The strength of the strong force
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-strength-strong.html
242
139
Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside
https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2022/8/9/faster-ruby-thoughts-from-the-outside
238
143
Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-five-tools-of-hedonic-design
232
98
Ask HN: Exercises to think, then speak, more clearly?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411586
128
Show HN: State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++
https://github.com/DeutscheKI/tevr-asr-tool
226
76
New study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0810-color-perception
220
388
Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
https://iai.tv/articles/dark-matter-doesnt-exist-auid-2180
211
145
Essential Climbing Knots
https://www.climbing.com/skills/essential-climbing-knots-complete-guide/
206
247
Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/
193
149
Stringbike: Benefits (2020)
https://www.stringbike.com/stringbike_benefits.html
174
39
Stable Diffusion launch announcement
https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement
165
Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)
http://wet-dry-vac.com/wet-dry-vacuum-guide.html
162
30
Switcher (2004)
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Switcher.txt
156
131
Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/disney-surpasses-netflix-global-paid-subscribers
150
111
AppLovin bids $17.5B to acquire Unity
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/09/applovin-unity-video-game-consolidation
148
58
Research shows circadian clock influences metabolism, cell and tumor growth
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-reveals-circadian-clock-cell-growth.html
219
Why does anything exist?
https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
146
Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/
141
120
A History of Lua (2001)
https://www.lua.org/history.html
134
61
How to choose the right Python concurrency API
https://superfastpython.com/python-concurrency-choose-api/
133
223
Nepal's Kusunda language has no words for "yes" or "no"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-kusunda-the-language-isolate-with-no-word-for-no
10
Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything
http://angg.twu.net/eev-article.html
70
The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it
https://blog.cloudflare.com/2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks
129
64
How to market to developers on Twitter: Learnings from 4 months of Supabase feed
https://www.developermarkepear.com/blog/developer-marketing-on-social-media-twitter-supabase
125
65
JNumPy: Writing high-performance C extensions for Python in minutes
https://github.com/Suzhou-Tongyuan/jnumpy
121
47
Launch HN: Sematic (YC S22) – Open-source framework to build ML pipelines faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32413070
112
72
Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing
https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-synapses
110
4
Mental Model Practices
https://mmpractices.com/
109
75
Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-google-fiber-plans-5-state-growth-spurt-biggest-since-2015-2022-08-10/
102
319
The Case for Degrowth
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
97
23
Nip2: A spreadsheet-like GUI for the libvips image processing library
https://github.com/libvips/nip2
92
77
Facebook gives data to Nebraska police prosecuting teenager for abortion
https://thebrag.com/facebook-gives-data-to-nebraska-police-prosecuting-teenager-for-abortion/
91
1
FCC rejects LTD Broadband, Starlink RDOF bids
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/fcc-rejects-ltd-broadband-starlink-rdof-bids
90
24
Oscar winning PARASITE was edited with a 10 year old copy of Final Cut Pro 7
https://twitter.com/noamkroll/status/1556755415353925642
89
6
We thank Miss Mary Tsingou (2020)
https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security-science/2020-winter/mary-tsingou.shtml
87
82
Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity
https://getlumina.com/desk
29
The many derivatives of CP/M
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/the_many_derivatives_of_cpm/
85
104
IPv4 Address Auctions
https://auctions.ipv4.global/
Mozart Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect
83
25
The Dymaxion car: Buckminster Fuller’s failed automobile
https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/the-dymaxion-car-the-true-history-of-buckminster-fullers-failed-automobile.html
38
Making a Video of a Single Window
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/making_a_video_of_a_single_window.html
Unprecedented 100% of First 14 Patients with Cancer Respond to Dostarlimab
https://ascopost.com/news/june-2022/unprecedented-100-of-first-14-untreated-patients-with-rectal-cancer-respond-to-pd-1-blocker-dostarlimab-gxly/
16
Levitator 1: copter flys from the tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfP7955XipY
69
Celsius Network Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
https://dfr.vermont.gov/consumer-alert/celsius-network-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy
74
80
Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/elon-musk-sells-nearly-7-billion-tesla-stock
73
19
Descriptors Are Hard
https://www.jlekstrand.net/jason/blog/2022/08/descriptors-are-hard/
Mathematicians crack a simple but stubborn class of equations
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ancient-equations-offer-new-look-at-number-groups-20220810/