446
793
Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
https://www.fiod.nl/arrest-of-suspected-developer-of-tornado-cash/
4 years ago
433
394
Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
https://www.insider.com/study-confirms-link-between-forever-chemicals-and-liver-cancer-risk-2022-8
425
265
Goat Rental – Hire Goats
https://hiregoats.com/
415
136
CEO Shadow Program
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/shadow/
399
242
The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun
https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-internet-dish-hack/
376
253
Excel is pretty dang cool
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/excel-is-pretty-dang-cool/
365
278
Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Updates-to-the-Fusion-360-Simulation-Extension.html
315
162
Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/12/man-overcharged-20-rupees-for-india-train-ticket-wins-22-year-legal-battle
307
161
VLC media player banned in India
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/vlc-media-player-banned-in-india-website-and-vlc-download-link-blocked-1987361-2022-08-12
292
75
Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
https://benhoyt.com/writings/rob-pike-regex/
53
The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1ae8c0a9-660b-45b7-9ef6-030f387d6e29
267
456
Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437078
256
210
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
https://matt-rickard.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-makefiles
247
99
Cancer in the Cold
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/cancer-cold
237
269
Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater
236
190
A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/harvard-professor-believes-alien-tech-could-have-crashed-into-the-pacific-ocean-and-he-wants-to-find-it/2805992/
219
103
Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
https://zellij.dev/
216
39
Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move
https://acoup.blog/2022/08/12/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-iii-on-the-move/
203
159
Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal
https://restofworld.org/2022/nepals-historic-sites-banning-tiktok-creators/
194
157
The value of owning more books than you can read (2018)
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/do-i-own-too-many-books/
193
1
Starlink successfully hacked using $25 modchip
https://threatpost.com/starlink-hack/180389/
183
109
Google to pay $60M for misleading representations
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google-llc-to-pay-60-million-for-misleading-representations
178
61
JiraCLI
https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli
176
65
Asdf Performance
http://stratus3d.com/blog/2022/08/11/asdf-performance/
170
94
New Intel chips won't play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-intel-chips-wont-play-blu-ray-disks-due-to-sgx-deprecation/
60
PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero
https://blog.sonatype.com/pypi-package-secretslib-drops-fileless-linux-malware-to-mine-monero
168
74
Open-source tool to enforce privacy/security best-practices on Windows, macOS
https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy
163
187
My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google
https://daniloedu.medium.com/my-take-on-how-duckduckgo-can-outperform-google-e52191e49558
160
88
Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout
https://frankgrecojr.medium.com/focus-time-saved-me-from-burnout-88cff1829276
112
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-attacked-9eae99aea82cb0d39628851ecd42227a
158
67
Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%, record high for soybeans
https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/crop0822.txt
154
200
A shortage of Dijon mustard in France
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/08/09/why-there-is-a-shortage-of-dijon-mustard-in-france
150
47
Puppertino: A CSS framework based on Human Guidelines from Apple
https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino
143
95
BART’s excursion fare: Agency earns millions from passengers not riding trains
https://sf.streetsblog.org/2017/12/14/barts-excursion-fare-how-the-agency-earns-millions-from-passengers-not-riding-trains/
140
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
https://250bpm.com/blog:4/
31
Snakisms
https://pippinbarr.com/SNAKISMS/
139
152
Copyright infringement in AI art
https://www.technollama.co.uk/copyright-infringement-in-artificial-intelligence-art
138
Suckless.org – software that sucks less
https://suckless.org/
134
10
Machine Learning (1997)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mitchell/ftp/mlbook.html
133
196
Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437173
132
125
Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C
http://objective.st/
121
34
Reverse-engineering insect brains to make robots
https://www.eetimes.com/reverse-engineering-insect-brains-to-make-robots/
44
Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04
https://rep-lodsb.mataroa.blog/blog/intel-286-secrets-ice-mode-and-f1-0f-04/
108
NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012)
https://www.nerdylorrin.net/jerry/politics/Warrantless/WarrantlessINTRO.html
113
122
Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-signs-multi-million-dollar-contract-to-help-u-s-government-with-defense
48
GHC 9.4.1 is now available
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-4-1-is-now-available/4901
51
Glutamate buildup may be key factor in mental exhaustion
https://www.science.org/content/article/mentally-exhausted-study-blames-buildup-key-chemical-brain
15
Locking down your GitHub-hosted Domains
https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/locking-down-your-github-hosted-domains/
107
96
Kubernetes StatefulSets are Broken
https://www.plural.sh/blog/kubernetes-statefulsets-are-broken/
106
79
A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
https://news.mit.edu/2022/wind-farm-optimization-energy-flow-0811
68
Supabase Series B
https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-series-b
91
50
One more clue to the Moon’s origin
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2022/08/one-more-clue-to-the-moons-origin.html
The Calvine UFO photograph
https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2022/08/12/the-calvine-ufo-revealed/
83
90
Calling Git a blockchain to rebrand bad tech
https://rubenerd.com/please-stop-saying-git-is-a-blockchain/
58
Show HN: Markdown as web page/site
https://github.com/casualwriter/casual-markdown-page
4
Uniquely preserved medieval kitchen unearthed north of Moravia
https://english.radio.cz/uniquely-preserved-medieval-kitchen-unearthed-north-moravia-8758128
82
146
Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32444074
89
TruffleC: A C implementation on top of JVM (2014)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2647508.2647528
77
Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32438251
18
Custom Processing Unit: Hook, patch, and trace microcode at the software level
https://github.com/pietroborrello/CustomProcessingUnit
To reinvent the processor (2019)
https://medium.com/@veedrac/to-reinvent-the-processor-671139a4a034
Nanostructured fibers can impersonate human muscles
https://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/nanostructured-fibers-can-impersonate-human-muscles
71
120
BlackRock bitcoin private trust
https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/insights/bitcoin-private-trust
An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/12/23302850/tesla-full-self-driving-child-crash-open-letter
63
Ask HN: Why are distributed systems so polarizing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32439601
0
Correcting a widespread error in unification algorithms (1991) [pdf]
https://norvig.com/unify-bug.pdf
66
Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US Latino Focus
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437234
73
Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet, study says
https://www.ft.com/content/9bb32c6f-b3dc-46bd-944e-9e583407b866
8
Apple asked for a cut of Facebook’s ad sales years before it stifled Facebook
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/12/23303095/apple-meta-facebook-ad-sales-subscription
France risks winter blackouts as nuclear-power generation stalls
https://www.wsj.com/articles/france-risks-winter-blackouts-as-nuclear-power-generation-stalls-11660315467
64
Models are sucking the fun out of fun
https://www.wordimagedesign.com/sucking-the-fun-out-of-fun/
SQLite: Wal2 Mode Notes
https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md
20
Startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/12/a-startup-wants-to-democratize-the-tech-behind-dall-e-2-consequences-be-damned/
NAT still exists for IPv6
https://blogs.infoblox.com/ipv6-coe/you-thought-there-was-no-nat-for-ipv6-but-nat-still-exists/
52
Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/opinion_column_drop_windows_for_linux/
57
White House privately demanded Twitter ban me months before the company did so
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded