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
2 years 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
847
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
163
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
165
53
Folk Computer
https://folk.computer/
160
46
Designer News is dead
https://solomon.io/designer-news-is-dead/
154
129
Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/02/03/cork-sustainable-material/
152
AT&T applies to end obligation to service landlines in California
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/at-t-applies-to-end-obligation-to-service-landlines/
133
94
VueJS turns 10 years old
https://twitter.com/vuejs/status/1753678155444101385
132
21
MAME Debugging
https://mattgreer.dev/blog/mame-debugging/
131
117
The decline of hardware knowledge in the era of cloud native compute
https://www.magesguild.io/the-decline-of-hardware-knowledge-in-the-era-of-cloud-native-compute/
111
Paris Vote Targets SUV Drivers with Parking Fees Set to Triple
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-03/paris-vote-targets-suv-drivers-with-parking-fees-set-to-triple
130
80
Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/03/ofsted-inspectors-make-up-evidence-about-a-schools-performance-when-it-fails
128
17
Compiling Pattern Matching
https://compiler.club/compiling-pattern-matching/
127
38
Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/anfractuosity/ramrecovery
125
47
How to write a novel using the snowflake method (2013)
https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/
149
Apple Vision Pro and ADHD
https://dansalva.to/apple-vision-pro-and-adhd/
124
85
Researchers taking on fraudulent science
https://www.analystnews.org/posts/plagiarism-paper-mills-and-profit-these-scientists-are-fighting-the-epidemic-of-fraudulent-science-research
106
.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
https://two-wrongs.com/dotnet-on-linux-update.html
116
96
Let futures be futures
https://without.boats/blog/let-futures-be-futures/
69
Breaking Bitlocker – Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTl4vEednkQ
107
56
Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird
https://linuxiac.com/thunderbirds-devs-rust-is-coming/
103
48
Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2414826-dance-mat-style-game-helps-stop-older-people-falling/
115
Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us
https://medium.com/@mkremer_75412/why-postgres-rds-didnt-work-for-us-and-why-it-won-t-work-for-you-if-you-re-implementing-a-big-6c4fff5a8644
100
63
History of Vietnamese Typography
https://vietnamesetypography.com/history/
98
2
Over the Edge – Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice [pdf]
https://research.mozilla.org/files/2024/01/Over-the-Edge-Report-January-2024.pdf
36
Ede – An Fltk based desktop environment (2014)
https://edeproject.org/
4
Space Station Demo
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=94322#p
91
16
YDB – an open source distributed SQL database
https://ydb.tech/
86
58
The King of Curcumin: a case study in consequences of large-scale research fraud
https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/01/30/the-king-of-curcumin-a-case-study-in-the-consequences-of-large-scale-research-fraud/
12
Goal: Embeddable array programming language with a bytecode interpreter in Go
https://anaseto.codeberg.page/goal/chap-intro.html
82
25
Google's CEO faces employee questions about layoffs
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/2/24059902/google-sundar-pichai-layoffs-tgif-employee-morale
78
9
MIT and IBM Find Clever AI Ways Around Brute-Force Math
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mathematical-model-ai
77
60-Bit Computing (2022)
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/60-bit-computing
72
A minimal, complete, and correct ELF file
https://scratchpad.avikdas.com/elf-explanation/elf-explanation.html
71
30
Thou shalt follow these vintage computing commandments
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/02/thou-shalt-follow-these-vintage.html
70
43
Amelia Didn't Know Radio (1993)
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1993/december/amelia-didnt-know-radio
It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars
https://electrek.co/2024/02/02/it-begins-ethiopia-set-to-become-first-country-to-ban-internal-combustion-cars/
67
French Bulldog puppy spontaneously regrows jaw that was removed due to cancer
https://www.earth.com/news/french-bulldog-puppy-spontaneously-regrows-jaw-that-was-removed-due-to-cancer/
62
40
UPSes suck and need to be disrupted
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7839
59
39
My husband went through the Amazon Pivot process. It was crushing
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pivot-performance-management-watched-husband-cry-over-losing-job-2024-2
37
Apple Vision Pro: What About Comic Books?
https://digitalcomposting.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/apple-vision-pro-what-about-comic-books/
65
Current Software Engineers Have No Deep Knowledge (Jonathan Blow) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0SJNkzOiq4
57
The economics of fertility: a new era (2023) [pdf]
https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/mdo738/research/Doepke_Hannusch_Kindermann_Tertilt_Handbook_23.pdf
