733
829
Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
https://decripto.org/en/arrest-of-pavel-durov-charges-of-terrorism-fraud-and-child-pornography-he-did-not-cooperate-with-the-authorities-he-risks-20-years-in-prison/
2 years ago
596
583
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/
453
407
Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311
433
265
Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)
https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381
421
107
Strandbeest
https://www.strandbeest.com/
393
223
Writing a Rust compiler in C
https://notgull.net/announcing-dozer/
367
170
Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this
https://gregsramblings.com/stupid-but-useful-ai-tricks-creating-calendar-entries-from-an-image-using-anthropic-claude-35
351
86
Vim Racer
https://vim-racer.com/
340
166
Linux Pipes Are Slow
https://qsantos.fr/2024/08/25/linux-pipes-are-slow/
328
182
Google's new pipe syntax in SQL
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/24/pipe-syntax-in-sql/
310
111
TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
https://ntietz.com/blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/
294
127
Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/
234
30
Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes
https://github.com/flxzt/rnote
232
146
Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off
https://reason.com/2024/08/23/albuquerques-police-chief-thinks-cops-have-a-5th-amendment-right-to-leave-their-body-cameras-off/
227
165
Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html
197
282
The art of programming and why I won't use LLM
https://kennethnym.com/blog/why-i-still-wont-use-llm/
183
187
Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5028551/insurance-therapy-therapist-mental-health-coverage
181
55
Ruby in Jupyter Notebook
https://nbviewer.org/github/SciRuby/sciruby-notebooks/blob/master/getting_started.ipynb
178
34
Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown
http://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2024/08/pi-pico-2-extreme-teardown.html
167
69
Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example
https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Stripe-Data-vs-Open%E2%80%90Source-Alternatives:-a-MRR-example
163
36
Rescuing songs that record labels forgot existed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl7ld1glk3o
160
26
Neurotechnology numbers worth knowing (2022)
https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/neurotechnology_numbers_worth_knowing/
158
143
Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/08/looming-liability-machines.html
156
120
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/if-your-world-is-not-enchanted-youre
155
39
Postgres as a Search Engine
https://anyblockers.com/posts/postgres-as-a-search-engine
149
104
Ruby's official documentation just got a new look
https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/
142
117
Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368538/medicare-drug-prices-pharma-negotiations-innovation
140
42
Olivetti Programma 101: At the Origins of the Personal Computer
https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/olivetti-programma-101-at-the-origins-of-the-personal-computer/
138
50
All text in Brooklyn
https://brooklyn.alltexts.nyc/
136
116
How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
https://kevinboone.me/lineageos-degoogled.html
131
135
Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act
https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1827787345367834772
Why Does Elisp Suck
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhyDoesElispSuck
112
84
Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00227.x
23
Programming terrain from scratch using C++ and OpenGL by Shamus Young (2006)
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=141
106
53
The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)
https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/08/05/the-tao-of-unicode-sparklines/
103
2
From Datalog to SVG
https://inconvergent.net/2023/datalog-to-svg/
101
91
Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s (2023)
https://www.triathlete.com/culture/7-things-i-learned-doing-triathlon-in-my-70s/
100
32
Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why?
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/104642/sticker-on-caption-phone-says-that-using-the-captions-can-be-illegal-why
94
92
European iPhones are more fun now
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/24/24226946/iphone-eu-regulation-app-stores-fortnite
Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/09/nsa_surveillance_a_g.html
51
Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released
https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/08/01/serpent-os-prealpha0-released/
14
Can you convert a video to pure CSS?
https://dgerrells.com/blog/can-you-convert-a-video-to-pure-css
Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive
https://thomasw.dev/post/mac-floppy-emu/
90
15
An AWS IAM Security Tooling Reference
https://ramimac.me/aws-iam-tools-2024
89
119
How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
31
BuffDB is a Rust library to simplify multi-plexing on edge devices
https://github.com/buffdb/buffdb
83
25
Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache
https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-08-25-speeding-up-your-website-using-cloudflare-cache
82
Pavel Durov and the Blackberry Ratchet
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2024/08/25/pavel-durov-and-the-blackberry-ratchet/
76
113
In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-heated-highly-political-roof-war-that-captivated-berlin-before-world-war-ii
Transferring energy from nitrogen to argon enables 2-way cascaded lasing in air
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-mechanism-energy-nitrogen-argon-enables.html
73
A Technical Look at BitMessage: Learning From a Dead Project
https://zolagonano.github.io/blog/posts/a-very-technical-look-at-bitmessage
72
102
Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics
https://theconversation.com/los-angeles-is-in-a-4-year-sprint-to-deliver-a-car-free-2028-olympics-236925
18
A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival
https://mssv.net/2024/08/21/a-weekend-at-the-immersion-larp-festival/
