753
285
A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-designed-a-motor-that-could-potentially-transform-the-electric-car-industry-180980550/
4 years ago
600
135
Mindustry – Open-Source Game
https://mindustrygame.github.io/
565
471
Is this the end of social networking?
https://reb00ted.org/tech/20220727-end-of-social-networking/
460
149
Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image
https://pub.towardsai.net/i-spent-15-in-dall-e-2-credits-creating-this-ai-image-and-heres-what-i-learned-52f352912025
455
98
Redis explained
https://architecturenotes.co/redis/
354
420
Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/promotions/product-announcement-retirement-of-amazon-mobi-ebook-142421
334
189
Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02161-5
325
258
Rust 1.63
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/11/Rust-1.63.0.html
324
366
Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180827160401/https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
298
37
From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2022-08-11-udp/
286
79
Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews
https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/algorithms-you-should-know-before
282
302
Hetzner Price Adjustment
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/price-adjustment/
270
136
Things I learnt doing stand-up comedy
https://michaelgv.uk/posts/2022/08/seven-things-i-learnt-doing-stand-up-comedy/
101
Podman 4.2.0
https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.2.0
260
223
IRS audits poorest families at five times the rate for everyone else
https://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/latest/679/
254
72
Click the Paw
https://www.google.com/search?q=cat
253
55
System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces
https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/
230
239
Hollywood’s visual effects crisis
https://defector.com/inside-hollywoods-visual-effects-crisis/
229
391
GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-makes-1500-onstar-subscription-mandatory-on-gmc-buick-cadillac-models
212
Google’s caste-bias problem
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/googles-caste-bias-problem
192
77
Multiple sclerosis has a common viral culprit, opening doors to new approaches
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/multiple-sclerosis-epstein-barr-virus-vaccines-treatments
190
44
Fully Dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment
https://github.com/0xricksanchez/like-dbg
178
389
Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irishman-arrested-uk-causing-anxiety-27639423
173
394
The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger
https://toddofmischief.blogspot.com/2022/05/why-are-trucks-getting-bigger.html
186
Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag for entitled users
https://dissociatedpress.net/2022/08/10/give-nothing-expect-nothing-gitlabs-the-latest-punching-bag-for-entitled-users/
172
311
Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/ethereum-goerli-testnet-merge-goes-live-before-move-to-proof-of-stake.html
168
96
Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
https://samgerstenzang.substack.com/p/operating-well-what-i-learned-at
162
FTC explores rules cracking down on commercial surveillance and lax security
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/08/ftc-explores-rules-cracking-down-commercial-surveillance-lax-data-security-practices
157
122
Walking Tokyo for Seven Days
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/146/
155
27
The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs
https://www.metaplane.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-data-observability
Xbox has accused Sony of paying Game Pass 'block fees' to developers
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-has-accused-sony-of-paying-developers-game-pass-block-fees/
146
86
Using satellites to uncover large methane emissions from landfills
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn9683
141
200
Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/08/10/will-low-and-no-code-tools-ever-truly-disrupt-tech-development/
140
60
IPFS and Their Gateways
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/08/10/ipfs-and-their-gateways/
139
196
There aren't that many uses for blockchains
https://calpaterson.com/blockchain.html
1
Ethereum merge on schedule after successful Goerli test merge
https://cryptowiky.com/ethereum-merge-on-schedule-after-successful-goerli-test-merge/
116
Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
2
GM gives customers no choice to opt out of $1500 onstar subscription
https://www.theautopian.com/gm-gives-buick-gmc-and-cadillac-escalade-customers-no-choice-to-opt-out-of-1500-onstar-subscription/
134
24
MySQL Raytracer
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222
129
7
Bioengineered cornea restores sight to the blind and visually impaired
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-bioengineered-cornea-sight-visually-impaired.html
127
107
Satellite images of damage done to Saki airfield in Crimea
https://twitter.com/IntelArrow/status/1557449807345733635
126
39
So you have decided to start a free software consultancy
https://ariadne.space/2022/08/11/so-youve-decided-to-start-a-free-software-consultancy.../
120
29
Programming and Writing
http://antirez.com/news/135
Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch
https://medium.com/artificialis/writing-snake-in-12-lines-of-pytorch-f7b21ce42a66
114
43
No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]
http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
112
163
Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs
https://theconversation.com/backyard-hens-eggs-contain-40-times-more-lead-on-average-than-shop-eggs-research-finds-187442
109
A software engineer's circuitous journey to calculate eigenvalues
https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/eigenvalues/
106
117
What is quantum field theory and why is it incomplete?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-quantum-field-theory-and-why-is-it-incomplete-20220810/
105
99
PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) Beta Launch
https://invisv.com/articles/pretty-good-phone-privacy.html
Qt signal is ten times slower than a virtual function
https://developernote.com/2022/08/qt-signal-is-ten-times-slower-than-a-virtual-function/
50
NetBSD improves support for the Commodore Amiga
https://thenewstrace.com/netbsd-an-operating-system-that-is-serious-about-being-cross-platform-now-improves-its-support-for-the-commodore-amiga-1985/243892/
97
40
Launch HN: AccessOwl (YC S22) – Automating SaaS Provisioning and Permissioning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422871
59
I wish I could organize my thoughts
https://drewdevault.com/2022/08/10/Organizing-my-thoughts.html
36
How to learn hard things in tech
https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/how-to-learn-hard-things-in-tech
93
23
A model for journalistic copypasta
https://dynomight.net/copypasta/
90
Engine Simulator: produce realistic sounds from various engine parameters
https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim
64
Photos of trains in the American West (2017)
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/trains-western-us-photo-book/index.html
81
Work, Work, Work – So a Few Can Be Rich
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/09/work-work-work-so-a-few-can-be-rich/
74
10
Design of a Modern Cache (2016)
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/25/design-of-a-modern-cache.html
75
Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned from working in tech
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430770
71
33
Katskhi pillar in Georgia: One of the world's most isolated churches
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/katskhi-pillar-georgia/index.html
69
53
A Tale of Running Modern Linux on Hardware from 1997
https://sahajsarup.com/a-tale-of-running-modern-linux-on-hardware-from-1997/
68
95
CEO's LinkedIn crying selfie about layoffs met with backlash
https://www.newsweek.com/ceos-linkedin-crying-selfie-about-layoffs-backlash-1732677
67
41
Curio – Notebook application for note-taking and research
https://www.zengobi.com/curio/
62
0
Open Source Game Clones
https://osgameclones.com/
21
Python F-Strings Number Formatting Cheat Sheet
https://cheatography.com/brianallan/cheat-sheets/python-f-strings-number-formatting/
76
Don't Pickle Your Data
https://www.benfrederickson.com/dont-pickle-your-data/
58
15
Nearby star’s midlife crisis illuminates the future of our own Sun
https://www.science.org/content/article/nearby-star-midlife-crisis-suggests-our-own-sun-may-lose-its-spots-again-decades
32
Advanced Metaprogramming in C: A select statement
https://250bpm.com/blog:56/index.html
57
Starlink maritime coverage map [pdf]
https://api.starlink.com/public-files/maritime-coverage-map.pdf
Immune cells acquire genomic scars in a lifetime defending against infection
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-immune-cells-genomic-scars-lifetime.html
12
Superlattices Could Make Bulky Capacitors Obsolete
https://spectrum.ieee.org/antiferroelectric
56
Open to a fault: On the passive compromise of TLS keys via transient errors [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22-sullivan.pdf
