882
729
Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year
https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1577880638044020736
4 years ago
630
585
Mastodon.technology Shutdown
https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/
629
258
Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
https://www.nber.org/papers/w29874
584
600
Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
https://onemileatatime.com/news/lufthansa-bans-airtags/
527
254
Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.0.0-beta.1
444
479
School vs. Wikipedia
http://ratfactor.com/rss-club/school-vs-wikipedia
390
139
My Favourite Computer, an Old Mac
http://muezza.ca/thoughts/favourite_computer/
362
149
Mortal Kombat+
https://mortalkombat.plus
350
201
JetBrains Ring UI
https://jetbrains.github.io/ring-ui/master/index.html
312
279
Reality is just a game now
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
298
202
Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)
https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html
295
270
AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing
https://www.noahlebovic.com/aws-doesnt-make-sense-for-scientific-computing/
292
212
Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB
https://twitter.com/erickramirezau/status/1578063811495477248
76
On AlphaTensor’s new matrix multiplication algorithms
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/on-alphatensors-new-matrix-multiplication-algorithms/
271
118
Patients can now access all their health records digitally
https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/06/health-data-information-blocking-records/
260
544
Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33118584
251
252
Banks are not repaying victims of Zelle scams
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/report-big-u-s-banks-are-stiffing-account-takeover-victims/
228
165
Study links omega-3s to improved brain structure, cognition at midlife
https://news.uthscsa.edu/study-links-omega-3s-to-improved-brain-structure-cognition-at-midlife/
226
151
QNX DEMO disk (1999)
http://qnx.puslapiai.lt/qnxdemo/qnx_demo_disk.htm
59
WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale
https://leaningtech.com/webvm-virtual-machine-with-networking-via-tailscale/
220
108
Expectations of professional software engineers
https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/06/17/mike-actons-expectations-of-professional-software-engineers/
200
Signal is secure, as proven by hackers
https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/blog/signal-hacked-but-still-secure/24864/
187
291
Ask HN: 10k hours rule to master anything. Could I switch career when I am 43?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33119347
184
96
4x4 ASCII Font (2016)
https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4.html
176
110
Why doesn't Bash’s ‘set -e’ do what I expected? (2021)
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
172
38
Vectors are over, hashes are the future
https://www.algolia.com/blog/ai/vectors-vs-hashes/
170
120
The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive (2019)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmp8gy/the-forgotten-operating-system-that-keeps-the-nyc-subway-system-alive
166
42
Gcloud storage: Faster data transfers for Cloud Storage
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/new-gcloud-storage-cli-for-your-data-transfers
159
46
Researchers develop thermoformable ceramics, 'a new frontier in materials'
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-thermoformable-ceramics-frontier-materials.html
87
Ugliest Airplane Ever Built Predicted the Future
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/ugliest-airplane-ever-built-predicted-the-future/
156
113
$570M worth of Binance’s BNB token stolen
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/07/more-than-100-million-worth-of-binances-bnb-token-stolen-in-another-major-crypto-hack.html
153
82
Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog
https://datanarratives.com/blog/notion-headless-cms/
148
78
Celsius exposes the names of all customers
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/celsius-exposes-the-names-of-all-customers-and-their-recent-transactions-in-court-filing--including-their-execs
48
Penetration testing wireless keyboards
http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1701492&dswid=-5022
147
80
Why Is The Guitar Tuned Like It Is?
https://library.kiwix.org/music.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-05/questions/1723/why-is-the-guitar-tuned-like-it-is
146
133
Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61811535
85
The AI Scaling Hypothesis
https://lastweekin.ai/p/the-ai-scaling-hypothesis
144
168
How to distort Scrum until it no longer works
https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/10/04/distorting-scrum.html
136
91
Jewish Calendar Demystified (2007)
https://stevemorse.org/hebrewcalendar/hebrewcalendar.htm
132
68
Artificial superstrong silkworm silk surpasses natural spider silks
https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00517-3
129
49
The struggles of building a feed reader
https://jackevansevo.github.io/posts/struggles-of-building-an-rss-feed-reader/
126
25
Stateless – Evolving the architecture of Elasticsearch to simplify deployment
https://www.elastic.co/blog/stateless-your-new-state-of-find-with-elasticsearch
123
61
Calculus with types
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9190352/abusing-the-algebra-of-algebraic-data-types-why-does-this-work/41418365#41418365
307
U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (2009)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-laundry-idUSTRE5AH3JQ20091118
121
20
I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet (2020)
https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet
116
203
Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10864
162
Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable Forms
https://singularityhub.com/2022/10/06/this-startup-builds-houses-by-pumping-concrete-into-inflatable-forms/
60
Nuclear Close Calls: Able Archer 83 (2018)
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/nuclear-close-calls-able-archer-83
39
Apache Pegasus - A horizontally scalable, high-performance key-value store
https://github.com/apache/incubator-pegasus
107
77
Mercenaries Were More Common in Greek Warfare Than Ancient Historians Let On
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mercenary-soldiers-were-more-common-in-greek-battles-than-historians-let-on-180980902/
67
JEP draft: 64 bit object headers
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8294992
95
33
Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part III: Constructivisting a Kingdom
https://acoup.blog/2022/10/07/collections-teaching-paradox-crusader-kings-iii-part-iii-constructivisting-a-kingdom/
94
57
RIAA Thwarts Yout’s Attempt to Declare YouTube-Ripping Legal
https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-thwarts-youts-attempt-to-declare-youtube-ripping-legal-221002/
93
41
Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)
http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
117
Ukraine officially recognized the Northern Territories as part of Japan
https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/6922022-44369
89
Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/papa_johns_spying_lawsuit/
81
43
Overzealous Destructuring
https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/overzealous-destructuring/
6
Retinoid restores eye-specific brain responses in mice with retinal degeneration
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01449-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS096098222201449X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
3
Xkcd: Easy or Hard
https://xkcd.com/2682/
32
Assyrian Soft Power
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/489-2211/digs/10899-digs-turkey-assyrian-relief
74
31
What Is Bayesian/Frequentist Inference? (2012)
https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/what-is-bayesianfrequentist-inference/
73
16
Ask HN: Have you noticed an increase in the number of Stripe Disputes lately?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123756
72
51
Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
https://undark.org/2022/10/07/interview-why-mastering-language-is-so-difficult-for-ai/
71
Finding the Joy in Feeling Tired
https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/finding-the-joy-in-feeling-tired
