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newsfeed for busy web developers
Happy New Year HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595865

986
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Do You Love Me? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw

1218
452
Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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

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

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

570
284
Ruby 3.0

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

779
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Tips for a Better Life

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

1271
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Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

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

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

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

826
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Being kind to others is good for your health

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

690
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Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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

1245
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No Cookie for You

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

2941
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Firefox Was Always Enough

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

1000
586
Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH

657
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Google outage – resolved

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989

2316
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I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

https://alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-hacked-facebook-part-one/

669
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Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

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

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

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

752
237
Cameras and Lenses

https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/

2132
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AirPods Max

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

996
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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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

755
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Stripe Treasury

https://stripe.com/treasury

918
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges

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

933
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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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

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

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

1473
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Tony Hsieh has died

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

1598
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Tell HN: Thank You Dang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225775

2363
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I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

https://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

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

614
430
Email a Dumpster Fire

https://hey.science/dumpster-fire/

1049
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Building Your Color Palette

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

1019
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Cover Your Tracks

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

694
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Dev Fonts

https://devfonts.gafi.dev/

642
333
Beirut Port Explosion

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

1215
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DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster

https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/

993
279
Servo’s new home

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

1025
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YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

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

2636
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Intel's disruption is now complete

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

894
627
Your Computer Isn't Yours

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

1514
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macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/1326990296412991489

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

https://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

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

1616
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EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]

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

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

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

3089
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GitHub Source Code Leak

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

1013
403
Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points

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

1181
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GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2070&can=2&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary&cells=ids

624
145
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

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

2594
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Sean Connery has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54761824

633
240
From McDonald's to Google

https://www.protocol.com/kelsey-hightower-google-cloud

603
151
My Resignation from the Intercept

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

1441
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Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome

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

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

772
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How journalists use youtube-dl

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

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

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

1098
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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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

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I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624

845
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Facebook Container for Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer/

1457
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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

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

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This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine

https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

952
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We deleted the production database by accident

https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/deleting_the_production_database/

446
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AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050

1466
637
A warning about Glassdoor

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/jbod57/a_warning_about_glassdoor/

1262
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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

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

1235
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2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pky7km/usenet-archive-utzoo-online

614
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The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

https://www.infoq.com/articles/serverless-stalled/

575
648
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-AMDGPU-Stats

707
462
ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

https://www.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

https://www.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

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

777
389
One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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

787
480
My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison

https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/status/1311349439479463937

1040
622
CRDTs are the future

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

1181
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Someone has stolen my Instagram account

https://twitter.com/dannyjhall/status/1310231730591346689

976
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Ask HN: How to learn sales?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601579

865
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Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1PHhxBxSehQ

865
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Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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

1093
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I no longer build software

https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477

1287
856
On the Use of a Life

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

1275
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

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

1738
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This electrical transmission tower has a problem

https://twitter.com/tubetimeus/status/1306359385656946688

1666
460
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

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

2326
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Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/#2d2d3103a2aa

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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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

2122
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Security by obscurity is underrated

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

939
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

https://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

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

578
248
BitTorrent v2

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

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

https://www.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

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

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

https://www.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

https://www.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

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/829858/281103f9c6fd0dc2/

648
354
Level 3 Global Outage

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

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

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

1600
486
Africa declared free of wild polio

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53887947

1387
241
Being OK with not being extraordinary

https://www.tiffanymatthe.com/not-extraordinary

830
382
Persisting as a solo founder

https://vishnu.tech/posts/persistence/

699
257
Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests

https://www.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

https://www.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

https://www.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

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

716
369
Factorio 1.0

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360

1878
615
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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

1704
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/

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

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

769
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Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/

771
333
US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

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

734
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Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

https://www.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

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today/

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

https://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

https://www.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

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288625617873694721

1594
351
One hour of slow breathing changed my life

https://www.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

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

841
519
LSD chemist William Pickard to be released from prison

https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/william-leonard-pickard-lsd/

515
375
Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

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

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

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

1125
351
Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917131

738
614
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners

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

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

https://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

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

562
178
Cloudflare was down

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?hn=2020

926
476
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

https://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

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

2595
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Grant Imahara Has Died

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

1963
255
Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

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

782
122
How to Understand Things

https://nabeelqu.co/understanding

816
116
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

https://www.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

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe/

1106
523
The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

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

654
240
Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

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

1130
355
Oppose the Earn IT Act

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

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

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

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

https://www.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

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

1039
425
I Am Deleting the Blog

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

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

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

1869
1436
Why Figma Wins

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

385
181
Mozilla VPN

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

1363
504
Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

906
501
Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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

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

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

1069
371
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations

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

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

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

2003
517
Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

https://blog.coinbase.com/container-technologies-at-coinbase-d4ae118dcb6c

778
397
Most tech content is bullshit

https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer

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

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

952
332
SimRefinery Recovered

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/

723
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The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

https://prithu.xyz/posts/unix-pipeline/

649
374
Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

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

1125
768
This Website Will Self Destruct

https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com

589
125
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit

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

2856
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The Day AppGet Died

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

1930
535
AWS services explained in one line each

https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html

1668
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Product Marketing for Engineers

https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers

688
84
MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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

2031
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X

https://xkcd.com/2309/

896
128
Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?

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

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

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

1237
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It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

https://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

http://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

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

975
420
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

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

2953
1339
We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology

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

1224
200
Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

https://vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers

774
172
Write Libraries, Not Frameworks

https://www.brandons.me/blog/libraries-not-frameworks

1044
327
We Chat, They Watch

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

1417
512
Zoom Acquires Keybase

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom

1879
712
GitHub Codespaces

https://github.com/features/codespaces

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

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

791
901
Bye, Amazon

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

3816
1097
Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057411

666
222
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry

https://www.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

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

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

https://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

https://www.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
Seinfeld Adventure

https://www.seinfeldgame.com/

861
168
Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

https://www.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

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

1011
445
Shirt Without Stripes

https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

1676
617
It’s Time to Build

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

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

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

721
444
New iPhone SE

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

1539
1459
GitHub is now free for teams

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

2589
622
Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0rc1/

710
156
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208

629
516
John Conway has died

https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249038195880341505

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

https://www.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

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

862
343
Apple Faceshield

https://support.apple.com/faceshield

1170
623
Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

https://www.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

https://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

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

1922
743
WireGuard 1.0

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

821
2
How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure

https://mijailovic.net/2020/03/28/azure-money-burning/

699
397
New Grad vs. Senior Dev

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

788
379
Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/

1597
509
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

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

1433
360
Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

https://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

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

831
288
Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665398

1083
781
Technical Writing Courses

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

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

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

427
453
Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22618788

800
645
TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor

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

790
341
NPM Is Joining GitHub

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

1829
557
Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

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

1095
693
Linux Kernel Teaching

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

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

https://www.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

https://www.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

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

1027
586
Do whatever you can't stop thinking about

https://shime.sh/do-whatever-you-can%27t-stop-thinking-about

516
219
I have seen things

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

577
315
DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

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

1158
476
Using Anki to remember what you read

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

901
304
Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees

https://www.courdecassation.fr/IMG/20200304_arret_uber_communique_eng.pdf?

786
588
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

https://www.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

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

854
330
A half-hour to learn Rust

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

927
148
Freeman Dyson Has Died

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

1238
248
Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

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

1160
258
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

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

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

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

980
328
Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner

1232
210
Does memory leak? (1995)

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

503
279
More bosses give four-day workweek a try

https://www.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

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

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

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

831
297
1-on-1 meeting questions

https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions

1030
296
The dystopian world of software engineering interviews

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

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

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/

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

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

1564
437
Gears

https://ciechanow.ski/gears/

2760
222
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

https://www.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

https://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

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

850
408
Python dicts are now ordered

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

734
436
Wacom tablets track every app you open

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

1594
449
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/467#issuecomment-581944600

2292
615
Google Maps Hacks

http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html

1410
382
My Second Year as a Solo Developer

https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/

1066
374
Not everyone has an internal monologue

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

1225
876
Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

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

1057
388
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_10

624
602
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

https://bradfitz.com/2020/01/27/leaving-google

1012
271
Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

https://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

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

605
343
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec

748
209
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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

1375
361
DuckDuckGo Traffic

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

727
242
Every Google result now looks like an ad

https://twitter.com/craigmod/status/1219644556003565568

3592
972
My FOSS Story

https://blog.burntsushi.net/foss/

833
200
Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

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

486
897
A Sad Day for Rust

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

1243
991
Thank HN: You helped me get a new job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050802

2425
193
Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]

https://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

https://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

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

722
380
Goodbye, Clean Code

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/

1678
575
How to Exit Vim

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

1111
395
Products I Wish Existed

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

798
419
Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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

1545
126
Software Disenchantment (2018)

https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

934
488