949
559
A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html
4 years ago
666
966
Nobody wants to teach anymore
https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/nobody-wants-to-teach-anymore-66f09b877b11
585
147
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs
500
131
Hacker News Official API
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
438
229
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
347
71
Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database
https://univalence.me/posts/mvsqlite
298
321
Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
https://blog.yossarian.net/2022/08/20/Why-dont-we-do-email-verification-in-reverse
286
143
LibGen's Bloat Problem
https://liberalgeneral.neocities.org/libgens-bloat-problem/
259
258
Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32544315
250
95
The Church of Interruption (2018)
https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
245
49
The Making of Prince of Persia [pdf]
https://www.jordanmechner.com/downloads/MOPOP-sample.pdf
290
HBO Max pulls nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ episodes
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/arts/television/sesame-street-hbo-max.html
230
395
Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/silent-crisis-soaring-excess-deaths-203000290.html
220
167
Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/21/apple-advertising-privacy-tracking-iphone
208
90
Got a rejection for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not
https://twitter.com/eternalstorms/status/1559794943673122818
205
I Reached $4k/Mo. But How Many Great Startup Ideas Have Died?
https://microfounder.com/blog/no
185
An opinionated approach to GNU Make
https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/make/
169
94
New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/new-evidence-shows-water-separates-into-two-different-liquids-at-low-temperatures
161
37
iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for years, researcher claims
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/ios-vpns-still-leak-traffic-more-than-2-years-later-researcher-claims/
153
74
Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq
https://github.com/itchyny/gojq
145
27
Libgen-text: complete Library Genesis, re-packaged as text only (1.2TB)
https://www.offlineos.com/
141
64
The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
https://s-macke.github.io/FSHistory/
139
30
Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/21/scotrail/
136
25
The Excellent Schemer
https://code-magazine.com/Article/2207071/The-Excellent-Schemer
130
19
Adam74: A terminal for a small 8-bit computer
https://www.engineersneedart.com/adam74/adam74.html
121
105
Offline-First Apps: Why Should Apps Be Made to Work in an Offline State?
https://www.dewsolutions.in/offline-first-apps/
91
Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies
https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme
120
63
Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (2015)
https://www.lawfareblog.com/cybersecurity-1989-looking-back-cliff-stolls-classic-cuckoos-egg
117
118
Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-2022-08-21/
115
261
The Google Pixel 6a highlights the problem with the U.S. phone market
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-6a-us-market-editorial/
114
163
Religion as an Ego-modulator
https://superbowl.substack.com/p/religion-as-an-ego-modulator
112
83
Flight Simulator 2022: Ultra Realism on RTX 3090 with $100 Graphics Mods [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIqHC6kbX0
111
52
Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (1999)
http://wesclark.com/jw/sound_propagation.html
110
There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one
https://mashable.com/article/project-cybersyn-chile-kernel-panic
106
69
Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says
https://hyperallergic.com/742789/over-90-of-medieval-manuscripts-have-been-lost-study-says/
103
Ask HN: Anyone else feel trapped in FANG? How did you get out?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32537004
102
149
Can We Throw Satellites to Space? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc632oilWo
101
Stanford engineers present new chip that ramps up AI computing efficiency
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/08/18/new-chip-ramps-ai-computing-efficiency/
85
75
Ask HN: Our users don't want to pay taxes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32545466
81
26
All Algorithms Implemented in Rust
https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust
80
42
How far can you go by train in 5h?
https://www.chronotrains.com/
58
I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/10-reasons-why-im-publishing-my-next
70
89
Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism
https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/beyond-hyperanthropomorphism
67
33
JBIG2 Undetectable Data Corruption: Destroying Our Past, One Character at a Time
https://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/resources/texts/jb2-jbig2/index.html