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Happy New Year HN

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595865

986
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Just Wanted to Say Thanks

github.com/compumike/hairpin-proxy/issues/5

1244
241
Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%

fuelcellsworks.com/news/photocatalyst-that-can-split-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen-at-a-quantum-efficiency-close-to-100

570
284
Ruby 3.0

ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-released

779
281
Tips for a Better Life

ideopunk.com/2020/12/22/100-tips-for-a-better-life

1271
463
Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

brandons.me/blog/write-code-not-too-much-mostly-functions

825
352
All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/change-your-life-sit-down-and-think

826
446
Being kind to others is good for your health

bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health

690
254
Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/czech-startup-founders-turn-billionaires-without-vc-help

1245
514
No Cookie for You

github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you

2941
609
Firefox Was Always Enough

ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-enough.html

1000
586
Google outage – resolved

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989

2316
827
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2020fa/self-guided

827
232
Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/facebook-hit-with-antitrust-probe-for-tying-oculus-use-to-facebook-accounts

752
237
Cameras and Lenses

ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses

2132
212
AirPods Max

apple.com/newsroom/2020/12/apple-introduces-airpods-max-the-magic-of-airpods-in-a-stunning-over-ear-design

996
1831
Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

755
455
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges

theverge.com/2020/12/2/22047383/google-spied-workers-before-firing-labor-complaint

933
740
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps

1091
481
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology

1473
1
Tony Hsieh has died

yahoo.com/lifestyle/tony-hsieh-zappos-luminary-revolutionized-045239863.html

1598
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Tell HN: Thank You Dang

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225775

2363
249
I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

delu.medium.com/i-spent-11-years-working-on-this-line-rider-track-96742fc0b709

1080
149
macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years

eclecticlight.co/2020/11/25/macos-has-checked-app-signatures-online-for-over-2-years

614
430
Building Your Color Palette

refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette

1019
189
Cover Your Tracks

eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/introducing-cover-your-tracks

694
256
Beirut Port Explosion

forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion

1215
199
Servo’s new home

blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home

1025
309
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back

2636
658
Intel's disruption is now complete

jamesallworth.medium.com/intels-disruption-is-now-complete-d4fa771f0f2c

894
627
Your Computer Isn't Yours

sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours

1514
741
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/1326990296412991489

2603
1278
An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall

alexanderklopping.medium.com/an-updated-daily-front-page-of-the-new-york-times-as-artwork-on-your-wall-3b28c3261478

783
256
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-users-about-end-to-end-encryption-for-years-ftc-says

1616
425
EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]

statewatch.org/media/1434/eu-council-draft-declaration-against-encryption-12143-20.pdf

1530
752
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9

3089
4576
GitHub Source Code Leak

resynth1943.net/articles/github-source-code-leak

1013
403
Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points

chadscira.com/post/5fa269d46142ac544e013d6e/DISCLOSURE-Unlimited-Chase-Ultimate-Rewards-Points

1181
252
A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

wired.com/story/nameless-hiker-mostly-harmless-internet-mystery

624
341
GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions

bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?can=2&cells=ids&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Owner+Summary&id=2070&q=

624
145
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc

2594
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Sean Connery has died

bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54761824

633
240
From McDonald's to Google

protocol.com/kelsey-hightower-google-cloud

603
151
My Resignation from the Intercept

greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept

1441
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Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation

889
390
RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027

772
276
How journalists use youtube-dl

freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool

1651
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YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f

1098
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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

4240
1443
Facebook Container for Firefox

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer

1457
425
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

nytimes.com/2020/10/20/technology/google-antitrust.html

1572
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We deleted the production database by accident

keepthescore.co/blog/posts/deleting_the_production_database

446
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A warning about Glassdoor

reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/jbod57/a_warning_about_glassdoor

1262
329
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-room-temperature-superconductor-20201014

1235
354
ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

techspot.com/news/87043-protonmail-ceo-calls-apple-forced-app-purchases-mafia.html

681
370
French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs

privateinternetaccess.com/blog/french-bar-owners-arrested-for-offering-free-wifi-but-not-keeping-logs

714
330
Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/honda-shocks-f1-says-it-will-quit-the-sport-after-2021

777
389
One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

787
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CRDTs are the future

josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future

1181
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Someone has stolen my Instagram account

twitter.com/dannyjhall/status/1310231730591346689

976
333
Ask HN: How to learn sales?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601579

865
231
Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-or-choose-another-viewer

1093
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On the Use of a Life

daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-life.html

1275
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87

1738
1452
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

2326
340
Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke

1336
836
Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for-40-billion-creating-worlds-premier-computing-company-for-the-age-of-ai

2122
752
Security by obscurity is underrated

utkusen.com/blog/security-by-obscurity-is-underrated.html

939
510
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

blog.ltse.com/the-long-term-stock-exchange-opens-for-business-38b13f51e87b

896
535
Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

hawaiigentech.com/post/commentary/why-i-link-to-waybackmachine-instead

578
248
BitTorrent v2

blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2

1227
560
Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

androidpolice.com/2020/09/02/reddit-gets-its-app-to-50-million-play-store-downloads-mostly-by-making-the-mobile-web-experience-miserable

710
609
David Graeber has died

theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/03/david-graeber-anthropologist-and-author-of-bullshit-jobs-dies-aged-59

749
263
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727

1722
472
Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36096/airline-pilots-landing-at-lax-report-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on

900
473
Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust

lwn.net/SubscriberLink/829858/281103f9c6fd0dc2

648
354
Level 3 Global Outage

puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187.html

914
368
American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

aasm.org/american-academy-of-sleep-medicine-calls-for-elimination-of-daylight-saving-time

1600
486
Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests

latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests

824
530
New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others

cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5146761/new-academic-journal-only-publishes-unsurprising-research-rejected-by-others-1.5146765

884
202
Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features

1858
1025
Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court

californiaglobe.com/section-2/amazon-liable-for-defective-third-party-products-rules-ca-appelate-court

716
369
Factorio 1.0

factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360

1878
615
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-violations-epic-payments

1704
1432
Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees

theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362460/uber-lyft-drivers-employees-california-court-ruling

769
747
US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-China-tensions/Trump-to-ban-transactions-with-ByteDance-and-Tencent-in-45-days

734
1265
Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

msn.com/en-us/news/technology/germany-plans-to-dim-lights-at-night-to-save-insects/ar-BB17BlkR

1194
469
Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today

1043
400
Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi

ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi

967
230
Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/nvidia-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-softbank-s-chip-company-arm

1106
674
Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288625617873694721

1594
351
One hour of slow breathing changed my life

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/every-breath-you-take-the-lost-art-of-breathing

550
321
New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases

bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-meow-attack-has-deleted-almost-4-000-unsecured-databases

841
519
Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns

653
413
Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249

1125
351
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners

robertheaton.com/2020/04/06/systems-design-for-advanced-beginners

945
110
Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare

972
385
Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs

cookieplmonster.github.io/2020/07/19/silentpatch-mass-effect

562
178
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager

1074
367
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

coindesk.com/hackers-take-over-prominent-crypto-twitter-accounts-in-simultaneous-attack

2595
1349
Grant Imahara Has Died

hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101

1963
255
Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

lettersofnote.com/2015/10/23/do-not-remain-nameless-to-yourself

782
122
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

reuters.com/article/usa-court-oklahoma/us-supreme-court-deems-half-of-oklahoma-a-native-american-reservation-idUSKBN24A2BE

1489
1225
Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe

1106
523
The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

654
240
Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

theinternetbytes.com/2020/07/03/where-am-i

1130
355
Oppose the Earn IT Act

foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/oppose-earn-it-act

2229
543
India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/india-bans-tiktok-dozens-of-other-chinese-apps

1483
795
Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first

reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-tech-trfn/california-city-bans-predictive-policing-in-u-s-first-idUSKBN23V2XC

836
605
When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

facebook.com/story.php?id=501751993&story_fbid=10157161487396994

1039
425
I Am Deleting the Blog

slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog

2450
1515
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

theverge.com/2020/6/22/21295475/apple-mac-processors-arm-silicon-chips-wwdc-2020

1869
1436
Why Figma Wins

kwokchain.com/2020/06/19/why-figma-wins

385
181
Mozilla VPN

blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn

1363
504
Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

androidpolice.com/2020/06/12/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary

869
698
Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request

npr.org/2020/06/12/876351501/zoom-acknowledges-it-suspended-activists-accounts-at-china-s-request

1069
371
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations

news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611

1104
263
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event

axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html

2003
517
Most tech content is bullshit

aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer

709
461
New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie

kqed.org/arts/13881451/the-golden-gate-bridge-sounds-like-a-david-lynch-movie-now

952
332
SimRefinery Recovered

obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered

723
139
Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

niemanlab.org/2020/06/well-try-to-help-you-follow-the-police-attacks-on-journalists-across-the-country

1125
768
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit

nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon

2856
798
Product Marketing for Engineers

github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers

688
84
MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design

2031
998
Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?

nullsweep.com/why-is-this-website-port-scanning-me

1294
430
New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

axios.com/new-york-times-advertising-792b3cd6-4bdb-47c3-9817-36601211a79d.html

1237
549
It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

danielmiessler.com/blog/its-time-to-get-back-into-rss

798
365
If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

tttthis.com/blog/if-i-could-bring-one-thing-back-to-the-internet-it-would-be-blogs

1186
615
A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub

saddlebackbbq.com/how-google-doordash-grubhub-conspire-screw-local-restaurants

975
420
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-will-allow-employees-to-work-at-home-forever

2953
1339
We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology

saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-company-switched-to-hyped-technology

1224
200
Write Libraries, Not Frameworks

brandons.me/blog/libraries-not-frameworks

1044
327
We Chat, They Watch

citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch

1417
512
Zoom Acquires Keybase

keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom

1879
711
GitHub Codespaces

github.com/features/codespaces

1769
601
Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

techcrunch.com/2020/05/05/citing-revenue-declines-airbnb-cuts-1900-jobs-or-around-25-of-its-global-workforce

791
901
Bye, Amazon

tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon

3816
1097
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry

icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir

1464
247
Rules of thumb for a 1x developer

muldoon.cloud/programming/2020/04/17/programming-rules-thumb.html

727
481
“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”

sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-is-holding-over-4-2-million-dollars-during-a-pandemic-suffocating-our-business/611187

711
194
In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270RX

785
603
Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015

1350
692
Things I wished more developers knew about databases

medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78

1011
445
Shirt Without Stripes

github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

1676
617
It’s Time to Build

a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build

1820
1008
Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

axios.com/stripe-fundraising-600-million-1f1f38b6-fde6-4316-b111-2f3b0e868ab7.html

721
444
New iPhone SE

apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/iphone-se-a-powerful-new-smartphone-in-a-popular-design

1539
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GitHub is now free for teams

github.blog/2020-04-14-github-is-now-free-for-teams

2589
622
John Conway has died

twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249038195880341505

2305
178
Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology

apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology

823
456
Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

uk.pcmag.com/security-5/125569/messaging-app-signal-threatens-to-dump-us-market-if-anti-encryption-bill-passes

862
343
Apple Faceshield

support.apple.com/faceshield

1170
623
Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

nytimes.com/2020/04/01/technology/virus-start-ups-pummeled-layoffs-unwinding.html

496
421
Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings

1248
302
Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/honda-bucks-industry-trend-removing-touchscreen-controls

1922
743
WireGuard 1.0

lore.kernel.org/wireguard/CAHmME9qOpDeraWo5rM31EWQW574KEduRBTL-+0A2ZyqBNDeYkg@mail.gmail.com/T

821
2
New Grad vs. Senior Dev

ericlippert.com/2020/03/27/new-grad-vs-senior-dev

788
379
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account

1433
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Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

andregarzia.com/2020/03/private-client-side-only-pwas-are-hard-but-now-apple-made-them-impossible.html

963
896
Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang

andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html

831
288
Technical Writing Courses

developers.google.com/tech-writing

571
73
MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions

mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/a-special-announcement-about-sat-subject-tests

427
453
TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor

theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination

790
341
NPM Is Joining GitHub

github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github

1829
557
Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

left.it/2020/03/13/covid_19-open-letter-from-italy-to-the-international-scientific-community

1095
693
Linux Kernel Teaching

linux-kernel-labs.github.io/refs/heads/master/index.html

757
78
U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days

nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-make-prime-time-address-coronavirus-wednesday-night-n1155941

920
866
Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says

1243
1038
MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

web.mit.edu/covid19/update-from-president-l-rafael-reif-to-the-mit-community

1027
586
Do whatever you can't stop thinking about

shime.sh/do-whatever-you-can't-stop-thinking-about

516
219
I have seen things

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2020/03/i-have-seen-things.html

577
315
DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

bitlog.com/2020/03/06/duckduckgo-is-good-enough-for-regular-use

1158
476
Using Anki to remember what you read

superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learning-machine

901
304
Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees

courdecassation.fr/IMG/20200304_arret_uber_communique_eng.pdf

786
588
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years

1216
343
Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

theverge.com/tech/2020/2/26/21153525/firefox-dns-encryption-amazon-go-browsing-shopping-privacy

854
330
A half-hour to learn Rust

fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust

927
148
Freeman Dyson Has Died

nytimes.com/2020/02/28/science/freeman-dyson-dead.html

1238
248
Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

letsencrypt.org/2020/02/27/one-billion-certs.html

1160
258
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-releases-28-million-images-public-domain-180974263

1115
123
“We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”

cybernews.com/security/we-found-6-critical-paypal-vulnerabilities-and-paypal-punished-us

980
328
Does memory leak? (1995)

groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ

503
279
More bosses give four-day workweek a try

npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try

934
388
Larry Tesler Has Died

gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408

1346
149
Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads

krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/pay-up-or-well-make-google-ban-your-ads

831
297
1-on-1 meeting questions

github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions

1030
296
The dystopian world of software engineering interviews

jarednelsen.dev/posts/The-horrifically-dystopian-world-of-software-engineering-interviews

1027
811
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream

631
392
I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html

1564
437
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage

962
330
Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-begins-showing-an-anti-firefox-ad-in-the-windows-10-start-menu-529137.shtml

1047
559
Reasons not to become famous

tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous

850
408
Python dicts are now ordered

softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2020/02/05/dicts-ordered/en

734
436
Wacom tablets track every app you open

robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open

1594
449
Google Maps Hacks

simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html

1410
382
Not everyone has an internal monologue

ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/today-i-learned-that-not-everyone-has-an-internal-monologue-and-it-has-ruined-my-day

1225
875
Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping-and-technically-prohibited-it

1057
388
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_10

624
602
Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/15/access-to-wikipedia-restored-in-turkey-after-more-than-two-and-a-half-years

662
258
Google backtracks on search results design

techcrunch.com/2020/01/24/google-backtracks-on-search-results-design

605
343
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec

748
209
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

bbc.com/worklife/article/20200121-why-procrastination-is-about-managing-emotions-not-time

1375
361
Every Google result now looks like an ad

twitter.com/craigmod/status/1219644556003565568

3592
972
Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

thedrive.com/tech/31816/key-volkswagen-exec-admits-level-5-autonomous-cars-may-never-happen

486
897
A Sad Day for Rust

words.steveklabnik.com/a-sad-day-for-rust

1243
991
Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]

media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA-WINDOWS-10-CRYPT-LIB-20190114.PDF

714
228
iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry

appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/13/app-tracking-alert-in-ios-13-has-dramatically-cut-location-data-flow-to-ad-industry

781
451
Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

alexolivier.me/posts/deploy-container-stateless-cheap-google-cloud-run-serverless

722
380
Goodbye, Clean Code

overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code

1678
575
How to Exit Vim

github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/blob/master/README.md

1111
395
Products I Wish Existed

blog.eladgil.com/2020/01/products-i-wish-existed-2020-edition.html

798
419
Which Emoji Scissors Close?

wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

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126