687
757
Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
https://blog.zulip.com/2022/08/26/why-slacks-free-plan-change-is-causing-an-exodus/
4 years ago
633
150
Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute
https://cv6.poinsignon.org/
621
472
SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-and-t-mobile-to-connect-starlink-satellites-to-cellphones-in-remote-parts-of-u-s-11661473520
509
516
Why no Roman industrial revolution?
https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/
386
185
Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without the user’s permission
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614037
379
504
Finnish as a world language?
https://www.hagen-schmidt.de/suomi/worldlanguage.html
348
674
Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532
341
39
The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)
https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
340
140
Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
https://it.digitaino.com/use-touchid-to-authenticate-sudo-on-macos/
144
Ghana bans a Delta Boeing 767 (yes, just one)
https://onemileatatime.com/news/ghana-bans-delta-boeing-767/
330
448
Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32611247
301
163
The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved
https://www.fast.ai/2022/08/25/jupyter-git/
297
86
Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-azidoazide-azides-more-or-less
281
131
Tell HN: Spammed by a Hacker News Enthusiast
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605784
273
102
Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3400 Years Ago
https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/hear-the-worlds-oldest-known-song-hurrian-hymn-no-6-written-3400-years-ago.html
263
104
We disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing
https://kurtgessler.medium.com/what-happened-when-we-disabled-google-amp-at-tribune-publishing-2fa65a2f2a40
259
2
White House requires public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025
https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-requires-immediate-public-access-all-u-s--funded-research-papers-2025
249
167
The culture of rejection in computer science publications
https://sigbed.org/2022/08/22/the-toxic-culture-of-rejection-in-computer-science/
233
106
The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)
https://archive.org/details/UnixProgrammingEnviornment
225
143
Oberon (2009)
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/
223
444
German digital signage ban prompts confusion
https://www.avinteractive.com/news/digital-signage/german-display-ban-prompts-confusion-about-exceptions-25-08-2022/
221
236
Ask HN: Contractors, what is your hourly rate?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606348
210
125
Amid chip shortages, companies bet on RISC-V
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/amid-chip-shortages-companies-bet-on-risc-v/
209
Remote scan of student’s room before test violated his privacy, judge rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/us/remote-testing-student-home-scan-privacy.html
204
73
How discord stores billions of messages (2017)
https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages
189
57
Search over 5M+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts
https://lexica.art
20
Unstripping Stripped Binaries
http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/symbols.html
183
162
I Love My PinePhone
https://jakob.space/blog/i-love-my-pinephone.html
182
112
GitHub-Next
https://githubnext.com/
159
103
USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in 2023
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/04/28/2022-09027/filing-patent-applications-in-docx-format
153
Why aren't there C conferences? (2018)
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/11/21/
149
31
Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
https://www.quantamagazine.org/old-problem-about-algebraic-curves-falls-to-young-mathematicians-20220825/
148
5
Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources
https://www.thegamer.com/amazon-reportedly-makes-offer-acquire-electronic-arts/
145
32
Hooking Go from Rust
https://metalbear.co/blog/hooking-go-from-rust-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-go-laxy/
136
Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/05/who-killed-nuclear-energy-and-how-to-revive-it/
130
60
Why Xen Wasn't Hit by RETBleed on Intel CPUs
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/08/26/why-xen-wasnt-hit-by-retbleed-on-intel-cpus/
128
NumWorks: An open-source graphing calculator (with Python and Rust support)
https://www.numworks.com/
115
Psychedelic drugs take on depression
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02205-w
68
The Penguin Random House trial
https://shush.substack.com/p/the-biggest-story-in-books
124
195
Americans will soon be able to renew passports online
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/americans-will-soon-be-able-to-renew-passports-online
123
199
Reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming
https://www.state.gov/dipnote-u-s-department-of-state-official-blog/five_things_to_know_about_cop26
122
90
Mudge's redacted Twitter whistleblower disclosure [pdf]
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683/twitter-whistleblower-disclosure.pdf
116
26
Classic HN Links
https://posobin.com/hn_classics/
45
OpenCore Legacy Patcher
https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/START.html
6
Depending in Common Lisp
https://stevelosh.com/blog/2022/08/depending-in-common-lisp/
41
Espanso Cross-Platform Text Expander
https://espanso.org/
146
Jonathan Blow on Societal Collapse (2019)
https://gist.github.com/clumma/4c5016f808adde034a575f1dd7d401a8
What are Magnus Carlsen's chances of reaching 2900?
https://new.chess24.com/wall/news/what-are-magnus-carlsen-s-chances-of-reaching-2900
40
The rise of workplace surveillance [audio]
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/podcasts/the-daily/workplace-surveillance-productivity-tracking.html
101
76
Two research teams grew synthetic mouse embryos using stem cells
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02334-2
96
56
Why Is a British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws?
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/25/why-is-a-british-baroness-drafting-california-censorship-laws/
94
66
Ask HN: Chip startups?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32610780
92
21
DOE to invest up to $165M to advance domestic geothermal energy
https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-invest-165-million-advance-domestic-geothermal-energy-deployment
67
13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment
https://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/2022/03/28/13-months-the-kodak-calendar-experiment/
15
Unifying fold left and fold right in Prolog
https://gopiandcode.uk/logs/log-unifying-folds.html
63
Fruit eating possibly linked to primates' large brain evolution (2017)
https://www.science.org/content/article/fruit-eating-responsible-big-brains
50
O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want
https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster
88
The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective (2005) [pdf]
https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf
83
33
Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic
https://segue.co/subreddit/
81
205
Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money
https://mleverything.substack.com/p/cancelling-student-debt-is-essentially
The Signal State – Modular Synth Logic Puzzle Game
https://signalstate.io/
80
53
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
https://splasho.com/upgoer5/
79
The Best Books on the Great Divergence
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/great-divergence-davis-kedrosky/
77
42
Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content
https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-supports-microsofts-indexnow-in-helping-users-find-new-content/
75
Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32602181
Battery made of aluminum, sulfur and salt proves fast, safe and low-cost
https://newatlas.com/energy/aluminum-sulfur-salt-battery-fast-safe-low-cost/
27
MIT scientists discover neurons that light up whenever we see images of food
https://news.mit.edu/2022/food-neurons-visual-cortex-0825
74
17
Walmart lists a 30TB portable SSD for $39. It is, naturally, a scam
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/walmart-lists-a-30tb-portable-ssd-for-39-it-is-naturally-a-scam/
89
The slow death of the traditional business card
https://www.wsj.com/articles/business-cards-qr-codes-nfc-chip-11660925124
254
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1563136384059285505
ValueObject (2016)
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ValueObject.html
65
SpaceX and T-Mobile to Connect Starlink Satellites to Cellphones in Remote U.S.
64
0
Beginners-TypeScript: 18 ineractive exercises for TypeScript beginners
https://github.com/total-typescript/beginners-typescript