550
193
A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data
a year ago
453
319
Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice
https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/over-the-edge-the-use-of-design-tactics-to-undermine-browser-choice/
442
261
How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/14383/how-much-bigger-could-earth-be-before-rockets-wouldnt-work
433
7
Apple releases Pkl – configuration as code language
https://pkl-lang.org/index.html
369
403
How Quora died
https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/quora-what-happened-ai-decline.html
317
254
JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/01/jetbrains_unremovable_ai_assistant/
286
490
Goodbye non-KISS appliances
https://willbush.dev/blog/complex-appliances/
285
843
Car insurance in America is too cheap
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/01/18/why-car-insurance-in-america-is-actually-too-cheap
272
162
The underground world of hobby tunneling
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-03/dig-if-you-will-the-underground-world-of-hobby-tunneling
243
114
A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/1/35/7172075
237
484
Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economics/64492/the-end-of-money-cashless-society
232
170
Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]
https://wlmager.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Budget-The-Village-Shyamalan-copy.pdf
214
109
A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts
https://bhupesh.me/publishing-my-first-ever-dockerfile-optimization-ugit/
211
102
DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019)
https://chrisstoneman.medium.com/diy-mba-my-reading-list-f7699bd7d0c6
209
31
The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019)
https://alexharri.com/blog/vector-networks
207
248
Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/microsoft_seeks_rust_developers/
186
20
FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/streaming/
182
166
The worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons
https://andrewchen.com/worst-users-referral-trials-coupons-gamification/
173
50
TCC RISC-V Compiler Runs in the Web Browser (Thanks to Zig Compiler)
https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/tcc.html
73
Low-Power Wi-Fi Extends Signals Up to 3 Kilometers
https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-halow
