720
218
Cap'n Proto 1.0
https://capnproto.org/news/2023-07-28-capnproto-1.0.html
3 years ago
653
256
Watch TV from the 90s and earlier
https://my90stv.com/
638
415
The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide
507
254
Why is DNS still hard to learn?
https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/
494
73
Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge
https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alexandra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/
478
352
Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
https://blockworks.co/news/worldcoin-privacy-concerns
499
Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional
https://discuss.python.org/t/a-steering-council-notice-about-pep-703-making-the-global-interpreter-lock-optional-in-cpython/30474
467
395
Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-play-deficit
423
269
California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
https://edsource.org/2023/california-moves-to-silence-stanford-researchers-who-got-state-data-to-study-education-issues/694920
79
“Web Environment Integrity” is an attack on the free Internet
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet
394
201
Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-27/free-calls-restore-inmates-ties-with-the-outside-can-they-reform-californias-prisons-too
353
1
No-GIL mode coming for Python
https://lwn.net/Articles/939568/
341
380
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it
https://www.engadget.com/tor-dark-web-privacy-secure-browser-anonymous-130048839.html
338
391
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908574
333
538
Threads users down by more than a half
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66336058
303
212
SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2023/07/23/spacex-punched-a-hole-in-the-ionosphere/
285
117
Environmental Discs of Tron Roadside Pickup
https://arcadeblogger.com/2023/07/22/environmental-discs-of-tron-roadside-pickup/
263
65
How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2Q9xH8e7M
249
86
Flash Museum
https://flashmuseum.org/
225
244
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news
224
775
US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-smartphone-shipments-q2-2023/
184
171
Cophone – Mobile work phones running in the cloud
https://cophone.io/
183
122
Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190424-the-english-vegetable-picked-by-candlelight
167
81
Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast
https://www.tremor.so/
162
83
An ultra-sensitive on-off switch helps axolotls regrow limbs
https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/07/26/how-an-ultra-sensitive-on-off-switch-helps-axolotls-regrow-limbs/
160
64
Pyro: A universal, probablistic programming language
https://pyro.ai/
158
2
Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Store API rules
https://www.engadget.com/apple-cracking-down-on-fingerprinting-with-new-app-store-api-rules-080007498.html
152
51
In 17th century, Leibniz dreamed of a machine that could calculate ideas (2019)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-the-17th-century-leibniz-dreamed-of-a-machine-that-could-calculate-ideas
150
118
Cities with their own psychological disorders
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cities-with-psychological-syndromes-stockholm
145
37
How to Roman Republic 101
https://acoup.blog/2023/07/21/collections-how-to-roman-republic-101-part-i-spqr/
142
17
SQLite-Utils
https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/index.html
140
26
The future of Clang-based tooling
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/07/28/the-future-of-clang-based-tooling/
139
45
Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (1997)
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/c.html
138
The Resilience of Costco (2018)
https://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2018/6/18/costco
128
109
On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LongTermSupportNoMoreFree
121
VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router)
https://blog.kroy.io/2020/05/04/vyos-from-scratch-edition-1/
120
5
Mess with DNS
https://messwithdns.net
116
9
Interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at Microsoft
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cryptographer-who-ensures-we-can-trust-our-computers-20230727/
112
135
Rain Panels: Harvesting the energy of falling raindrops
https://thedebrief.org/forget-solar-panels-here-come-rain-panels/
107
46
Fabricated data in research about honesty
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data
100
113
Why doctors hate their computers (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers
55
Observable API Proposal
https://github.com/domfarolino/observable
97
59
The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction
https://functionallyimperative.com/p/the-bigger-the-interface-the-weaker
92
131
Mindfulness-based programs show promise in reducing psychological distress
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00081-5
90
106
Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demo
https://www.perfectrec.com/posts/microsoft-ai-shopping-announcement-contains-hallucinations-in-the-demo
56
Real-time monitoring of aerosols generated from toilet flushing
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/acmi/10.1099/acmi.fis2019.po0192
89
Monetal – Free Expense Tracker
https://monetal.app/index_en.php
The moral character of cryptographic work (2015)
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral.html
126
After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
https://petapixel.com/2023/07/26/after-raising-235k-abode-remains-committed-to-taking-on-adobe/
85
Mozilla should call for the removal of Google from W3C because of WEI
https://mastodon.social/@tolmasky/110780599992085798
82
36
AWS Begins Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/breaking-aws-begins-charging-for-public-ipv4-addresses/
WebArena: A realistic web environment for building autonomous agents
https://webarena.dev/
77
13
The Fenland Black Oak Project
https://www.thefenlandblackoakproject.co.uk/our-story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66336058
76
Glass Dip Pens (2022)
https://neonaut.neocities.org/microblog/2022/glass-dip-pens
74
31
Death of the physical library
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/death-of-the-physical-library/
41
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/embrace-your-crookedness
6
Cecil Kelley criticality accident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accident
71
35
Tesla’s Dieselgate
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/
70
Why it's so important to figure out when a vital Atlantic current might collapse
https://text.npr.org/1190519762
69
Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm
https://selecta.ciaran.co.za/
68
The Wrath of Goodreads
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/goodreads-review-bombing-amazon-moderation/674811/
67
23
Show HN: Chie – a cross-platform, native, and extensible desktop client for LLMs
https://chie.app/posts/introduce-the-chie-app/
66
18
Web Dev Without Tools (2021)
https://danthedev.com/web-dev-without-tools/
Why no Roman industrial revolution?
https://rootsofprogress.org/why-no-roman-industrial-revolution
19
USC Optical Sound Effects Library
https://archive.org/details/usc-sound-effect-archive?tab=collection
Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi factory near Sao Paulo
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66264229
21
Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tesla-exaggerated-ev-range-so-much-that-drivers-thought-cars-were-broken/
63
System Design for Recommendations and Search
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/system-design-for-discovery/
62
11
CDC Finds 20 Infectious Agents in Unlicensed California Lab
https://gizmodo.com/cdc-20-infectious-agents-unlicensed-california-lab-1850685858
61
52
Ring is having a major outage
https://status.ring.com
