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newsfeed for busy web developers
FAA investigating controversial crash video

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/plane-crash-video-sparks-online-backlash/

540
414
“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs

https://paulbutler.org/2021/play-to-earn-and-bullshit-jobs/

1222
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Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life

https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/

632
267
Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

https://github.com/microsoft/grpc_bench/commit/04c7143a39a0bb243369e31f3b3b797449468fdb

1326
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Wish HN: Happy Holidays

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw?cp=e30.

1139
252
Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286

863
614
Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers

https://jahed.dev/2021/12/19/hidden-networks-in-tp-link-routers/

614
223
Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B001%2718.5%22N+93%C2%B035%2740.5%22W/@39.0219215,-93.5946774,253m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xd87af7588b9c362e!8m2!3d39.0218056!4d-93.5945833

2244
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Internet addiction and the habit of book reading

https://benwajdi.com/2021/12/18/is-internet-addiction-eradicating-the-habit-of-reading/

760
370
Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80

1599
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A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html

1005
341
I started a paper website business

https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website

1511
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Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/

876
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PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/rdaz50/ysk_ublock_and_other_adblocks_in_chrome_will_lose/

571
315
Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

https://www.livescience.com/little-known-sleep-stage-may-be-creative-sweet-spot

737
238
Log4j RCE Found

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/

1385
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Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secret-deal-with-china/

1209
707
Apple broke up with me

https://merecivilian.com/apple-broke-up-with-me/

985
682
Apache Guacamole

https://guacamole.apache.org/

503
116
U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-state-department-phones-hacked-with-israeli-company-spyware-sources-2021-12-03/

1093
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This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/this-shouldnt-have-happened.html

938
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I resigned from Twitter

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720

1692
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Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus

https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-people-promoting-it-are-scammers/

786
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Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338155

1098
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QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time

https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/11/qoi-fast-lossless-image-compression

1057
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Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-group-to-curb-the-abuse-of-state-sponsored-spyware/

1122
449
Rust Moderation Team Resigns

https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671

914
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Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

https://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/

628
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“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/the-end-of-click-to-subscribe-call-to-cancel-one-of-the-news-industrys-favorite-retention-tactics-is-illegal-ftc-says/

3192
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Individuals Matter

https://danluu.com/people-matter/

774
398
The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

https://hackaday.com/2021/11/14/those-bullet-effects-in-terminator-2-werent-cgi/

899
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Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/ssh_signatures

637
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Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/

876
615
I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

https://twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/status/1458117496087748618

1356
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Making the dislike count private across YouTube

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-to-youtube-dislike-counts?hl=en

1439
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Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slingshot-effect/id1537916631

985
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What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

https://scribe.rip/telecom-expert/what-is-at-t-doing-at-1111340002-c418876c212c

1185
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Don’t be spooky

https://therealadam.com/2021/11/01/dont-be-spooky/

556
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An oral history of Bank Python

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html

864
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Thank you, GitHub

https://github.blog/2021-11-03-thank-you-github/

1044
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Report on Stablecoins [pdf]

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_Nov1_508.pdf

654
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Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

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

630
227
55 GiB/s FizzBuzz

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215216/high-throughput-fizz-buzz/236630#236630

1260
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This word does not exist

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

1184
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The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vqkv/how-fbi-gets-phone-data-att-tmobile-verizon

818
265
RSS is wonderful

https://quakkels.com/posts/rss-is-wonderful/

812
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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/john-carmack-pushes-out-unlocked-os-for-defunct-oculus-go-headset/

817
304
Vscode.dev

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev

803
260
Overly analytical guide to escorting

https://knowingless.com/2021/10/19/becoming-a-whorelord-the-overly-analytical-guide-to-escorting/

826
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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/canon-sued-for-disabling-scanner-when-printers-run-out-of-ink/

970
470
A viable solution for Python concurrency

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/872869/0e62bba2db51ec7a/

841
358
Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-vows-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-who-found-flaw-in-state-website/

1300
678
Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-silently-fixes-ios-zero-day-asks-bug-reporter-to-keep-quiet/

600
246
IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick

1912
383
Open Source Tractor

https://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/LifeTrac

887
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EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=247056&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=6413406

938
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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/

1605
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Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest

748
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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/

1271
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Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistleblower-renewing-scrutiny-of-social-media-giant

1143
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Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-biggest-ever-leak-of-offshore-data-exposes-financial-secrets-of-rich-and-powerful

1312
594
Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account

https://medium.com/@sixacegames/how-google-destroyed-our-startup-by-terminating-our-google-play-developer-account-6a8cca09ea88

499
303
NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites

https://every.to/napkin-math/nft-projects-are-just-mlms-for-tech-elites

817
658
PostgreSQL 14

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-14-released-2318/

950
286
YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/youtube-ban-joseph-mercola/

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What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

https://blog.immersed.team/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d385

1040
448
Something weird is happening on Facebook

https://www.politicalorphans.com/something-weird-is-happening-on-facebook/

741
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Moiré No More

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/moire-no-more-688319

1002
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The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen

https://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/1441497498573545478

415
167
Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/127021326/google-has-locked-my-account-for-sharing-a-historical-archive-they-labeled-as-terrorist-activity?hl=en

1595
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The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-different

2666
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Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-time/page/0/0

1359
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Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2021.pdf

707
293
Gitlab S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828021018818/gitlab-sx1.htm

942
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Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/apple-blocked-the-flicktype-watch-keyboard-then-announced-a-clone-of-it

1003
291
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739

1069
638
I refuse to let Amazon define Rust

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437441118745071617

1193
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Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-ruling-injunction-judge-court-app-store

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MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908

915
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Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates

https://www.xda-developers.com/germany-smartphone-makers-7-years-software-updates/

718
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Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/delays-arent-good-enough-apple-must-abandon-its-surveillance-plans

1236
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Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/

1401
838
O.mg Cable

https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable-usb-a

1690
538
Linux on the Framework Laptop

https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop

579
256
Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22643800/apple-google-south-korea-app-store-payment-legislation-passes

1354
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China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rolls-out-new-rules-minors-online-gaming-xinhua-2021-08-30/

1030
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The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/28/onlyfans-scandal-platforms-banks-ban-sexual-content-sex-workers

675
346
Arm China Has Gone Rogue

https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century

995
639
Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”

https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1428415192480698371

643
15
Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card

https://codewriteplay.com/2021/08/20/a-facebook-hacker-beat-my-2fa-bricked-my-oculus-quest-and-hit-the-company-credit-card/

962
366
OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october

1147
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Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX/issues/1

1389
696
Introducing the PineNote

https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/

586
111
Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021

https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/

596
183
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-apples-child-protection-features-spark-concern-within-its-own-ranks-2021-08-12/

1778
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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-moved-codespaces/

861
679
TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/TikTok-overtakes-Facebook-as-world-s-most-downloaded-app

1007
679
One Bad Apple

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-One-Bad-Apple.html

1484
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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life

2260
824
The surreal experience of my first developer job

https://bennuttall.com/the-surreal-experience-of-my-first-developer-job/

743
261
NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/03/2002820425/-1/-1/1/CTR_KUBERNETES%20HARDENING%20GUIDANCE.PDF

635
165
The rise of never-ending job interviews

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210727-the-rise-of-never-ending-job-interviews

967
1169
New in Git: switch and restore

https://www.banterly.net/2021/07/31/new-in-git-switch-and-restore/

872
543
Who Owns My Name?

https://amandamarieknox.medium.com/who-owns-my-name-93561f83e502

908
267
How Dwarf Fortress is built

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/

1130
388
IPv4 pricing

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/ipv4-pricing/

533
530
Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix

809
339
The Insecurity Industry

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal

743
368
Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/anna-kiesenhofer-mathematician-amateur-cyclist-olympic-champion/

674
169
Self hosting is important

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-23-why-selfhosting-is-important.html

566
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The Framework Laptop is now shipping

https://frame.work/blog/the-framework-laptop-is-now-shipping-and-press-reviews

1502
762
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/

521
328
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/

626
84
Our lawsuit against ChessBase

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-chessbase/

677
253
Assange case: Key witness admits he lied

https://thewire.in/rights/julian-assange-case-key-witness-lied

875
281
What Went Wrong?

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3475967

405
145
Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Cmisleading-content

1330
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Valve Steam Deck

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/

2517
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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-just-showing-up-everyday/

2075
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The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950

763
477
Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters

https://www.thedrive.com/news/41493/teslas-16000-quote-for-a-700-fix-is-why-right-to-repair-matters

907
539
EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-piracy-no-sales-impact.html

987
351
“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”

https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2021-07/thai-cave-rescue-thailand-tham-luang-2018-diver-mikko-paasi

694
272
NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/nda-expired-lets-spill-the-beans-on-a-weird-startup/

1328
447
All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot

https://twitter.com/NoraDotCodes/status/1412741339771461635

1017
707
Npm Audit: broken by design?

https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/

872
259
European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parliament-approves-mass-surveillance-of-private-communications/

938
415
Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-the-pirate-queen-of-scientific-publishing-in-real-trouble-this-time

665
374
The most precious resource is agency

https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency

701
325
The 'Fuck You' Pattern

https://cedwards.xyz/the-fuck-you-pattern/

1202
594
Reddit’s disrespectful design

https://ognjen.io/reddits-disrespectful-design/

1278
496
WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/

1279
672
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

https://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/

1208
277
Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210619/p2g/00m/0na/014000c

881
502
Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1281540/amazon-lethal-for-career-think-100-times-before-you-join-amazon

962
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Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3&showAllReviews=true

711
383
80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/16/cybereason-80-of-orgs-that-paid-the-ransom-were-hit-again/

736
373
Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2021-June/037144.html

898
398
Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/15-universities-have-formed-company-looks-lot-patent-troll

815
232
Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/02/04/redis-postgresql/

841
472
iOS 15 Humane

https://potential.app/ios-15-humane

1241
477
If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-the-buyer-might-be-a-pension-fund-11617544801

671
1082
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

https://usa.oceana.org/publications/reports/oceana-finds-hundreds-vessels-vanishing-along-argentinas-waters#

1210
592
An Unbelievable Demo

https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html

2339
463
The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins

1426
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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400

2330
846
Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home

1023
856
Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/

623
595
Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/drunk_post_things_ive_learned_as_a_sr_engineer/

1086
494
Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

https://dental.washington.edu/trials-begin-on-lozenge-that-rebuilds-tooth-enamel/

1189
347
I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

https://awesomekling.github.io/I-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-SerenityOS-full-time/

1644
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Stripe Payment Links

https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links

988
312
DOOM Captcha

https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/

670
173
One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

https://columbianewsservice.com/2021/05/21/one-mans-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-broken-macbooks/

1331
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A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more

https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/a-new-replication-crisis-research-that-is-less-likely-be-true-is-cited-more

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319
Sublime Text 4

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4

1436
631
Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning

https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning-one-point-two-million/

976
145
A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work

https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-actual

1464
254
Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/

1661
1690
Observing my cellphone switch towers

https://fabiensanglard.net/lte/index.html

800
132
Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)

https://turriate.com/articles/modern-javascript-everything-you-missed-over-10-years

1256
728
A URL Lengthener

https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/

1204
294
Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ng8x/pentagon-americans-surveillance-without-warrant-internet-browsing

699
247
Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-Canvas-Based-Rendering-Update.html

1167
930
Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns

https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/11/germany-bans-facebook-from-handling-whatsapp-data-over-privacy-concerns

709
185
The Animal Is Tired

http://www.robinhobb.com/blog/posts/38429

1299
426
I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/16/experience-ive-had-the-same-supper-for-10-years

888
749
LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

https://techstartups.com/2021/05/05/liveleak-shuts-15-years-online/

1016
676
Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see

1235
177
Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

https://twitter.com/EricLengyel/status/1389106103179378689

722
214
Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/

1812
244
Internal Combustion Engine

https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

2333
392
Yayagram

https://twitter.com/mrcatacroquer/status/1386318806411325440

1265
175
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/509599284/forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dies

1252
180
My Current HTML Boilerplate

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/html-boilerplate/

1194
276
Changes at Basecamp

https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5

883
792
Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)

https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html?repostindays=413

915
276
Dan Kaminsky has died

https://twitter.com/marcwrogers/status/1385961838735597572

1414
176
Why Lichess will always be free

https://lichess.org/blog/YF-ZORQAACAA89PI/why-lichess-will-always-be-free.

1524
446
“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH+zwQgBBGUJdiVK@unreal/

3025
1912
Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/microsoft-says-mandatory-password-changing-is-ancient-and-obsolete/

797
424
Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

https://madned.substack.com/p/thanks-for-the-bonus-i-quit

1245
656
SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/16/nasa-lunar-lander-contract-spacex/

658
343
Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

https://blog.google/products/earth/timelapse-in-google-earth/

1209
415
Just Be Rich

https://keenen.xyz/just-be-rich/

1875
1084
Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee

https://twitter.com/MRDADDGUY/status/1381628427246039045

817
587
Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale

https://margint.blog/2021/04/05/creating-software-at-scale/

546
379
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

1595
509
The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/one-man-saas-architecture/

1330
320
I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/i-refused-to-become-an-fbi-informant-and-the-government-put-me-on-the-no-fly-list/

1206
487
Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf

4103
932
533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4

1296
496
Microsoft Coffee

https://www.microsoftcoffee.org/

1558
371
Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust

https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/latest-emdrive-tests-at-dresden-university-shows-impossible-engine-does-not-develop-any-thrust20210321/

534
296
Inside a viral website

https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-website

787
294
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/

1944
785
Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding-mRNA-sequences-for-vaccines-BNT-162b2-and-mRNA-1273/blob/main/Assemblies%20of%20putative%20SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding%20mRNA%20sequences%20for%20vaccines%20BNT-162b2%20and%20mRNA-1273.docx.pdf

1248
367
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864

1055
427
Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed

https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/why-covid-lab-leak-theory-wuhan-shouldnt-dismissed-column/4765985001/

1167
985
Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF

http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/richard-stallman-is-coming-back-to-the-board-of-the-free-software-foundation-founded-by-himself-35-years-ago/

844
856
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany

http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2021/03/20/demoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-germany/

1107
136
Click

https://clickclickclick.click/

1100
243
GitHub, fuck your name change

https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe

3353
2007
We Don’t Use Docker

https://launchyourapp.meezeeworkouts.com/2021/03/why-we-dont-use-docker-we-dont-need-it.html?m=1

529
537
Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming

https://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-thanks-gta-online-player-who-fixed-poor-load-times-official-update-coming/

1032
321
Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0003457.html

1012
221
I want a computer that I own

http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/computer-i-own.html

994
655
“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1368637789248626699

1010
312
30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/at-least-30000-u-s-organizations-newly-hacked-via-holes-in-microsofts-email-software/

1038
437
It Can Happen to You

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2021-03-01-happen/

1683
403
Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut

https://agfundernews.com/beyond-meat-signs-global-supply-deals-with-mcdonalds-yum-brands.html

1105
910
Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)

https://palant.info/2020/05/04/are-xiaomi-browsers-spyware-yes-they-are.../

1215
487
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

3883
699
A Vim Guide for Advanced Users

https://thevaluable.dev/vim-advanced/

603
172
The Framework Laptop

https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop

2563
991
My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies

https://daliaawad28.medium.com/my-experience-as-a-gazan-girl-getting-into-silicon-valley-companies-488062d769a1

1723
460
Total Cookie Protection

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/

1527
427
Daft Punk Break Up

https://pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-call-it-quits/

1108
432
What I Worked On

http://paulgraham.com/worked.html

986
398
SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-microsoft-idUSKBN2AF03R

471
275
Statement on New York Times Article

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times-article

866
411
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

789
460
“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

https://twitter.com/LucaBongiorni/status/1359560585990537216

1168
455
Architecture.md

https://matklad.github.io//2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html

1349
153
Homebrew 3.0

https://brew.sh/2021/02/05/homebrew-3.0.0/

859
490
Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/

1171
388
I Still Use RSS

https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html

1033
357
Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees

1941
1008
VideoLAN is 20 years old today

https://www.videolan.org/press/videolan-20.html

1337
316
CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/

1167
654
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/

1569
760
Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/time-lapse-film-shows-salamander-development/

911
292
Software engineering topics I changed my mind on

https://chriskiehl.com/article/thoughts-after-6-years

1164
686
I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them

https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/i-bought-200-raspberry-pi-model-bs-and-im-going-to-fix-them-part-1/

472
155
Brad Cox has died

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/scnow/name/brad-cox-obituary?pid=197454225

884
190
I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

https://tjcx.me/p/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-idea

851
385
BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass

https://secret.club/2021/01/15/bitlocker-bypass.html

571
124
Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d

1714
543
Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1349488392732491776

804
347
Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice

https://community.signalusers.org/t/reminder-please-be-nice/21217

1149
431
How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic

1060
1795
Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/

1245
194
GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbnails-in-the-file-picker.html

1505
724
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pfizer-biontech-vaccine-appears-effective-against-mutation-in-new-coronavirus-variants-study-suggests-1.5865885

661
231
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html

1961
1950
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/

2254
1148
GitHub is fully available in Iran

https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/

1727
483
A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22212347/google-employees-contractors-announce-union-cwa-alphabet

1643
1344
A half-hour to learn Rust

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

1444
330
My Experience at Apple

https://ex-apple-engineer.medium.com/my-experience-apple-5d8b6205cb56

1602
778