Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software? (drewdevault.com)
Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices (sethrobertson.github.io)
A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead (www.theguardian.com)
Cosmic rays broke a Certificate Transparency log (groups.google.com)
Soviet Venus Images (mentallandscape.com)
What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The Growth Ponzi Scheme (www.strongtowns.org)
Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition (vaclavkosar.com)
Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more (old.reddit.com)
GPT-J “the open source cousin of GPT-3 everyone can use” (github.com)
Research recitation: A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions (docs.github.com)
Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship? (taibbi.substack.com)
What did ancient languages sound like? (antigonejournal.com)
How to add eBPF observability to your product (brendangregg.com)
Things I wish Git had: Commit groups (blog.danieljanus.pl)
Towards richer colors on the Web (darker.ink)
Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time (www.cnn.com)
GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you (twitter.com)
Abandoning GitHub (thelig.ht)
Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning (www.sfchronicle.com)
Darktable 3.6 (github.com)
Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack (www.wionews.com)
Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account (www.pcworld.com)
BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited (torrentfreak.com)
Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (historyofyesterday.com)
Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph (epilys.github.io)
Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm (www.electronicsweekly.com)
Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement (github.com)
“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s (www.righto.com)
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go (www.stripes.com)
Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf] (www.cs.utah.edu)
The Yoghurt Mafia (www.rnz.co.nz)
The Untold Story of SQLite with Richard Hipp (corecursive.com)
Back to the Future with RSS (ncase.me)
To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe (bellmar.medium.com)
Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser (www.napkin.io)
US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack (www.bbc.com)
The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan (www.technologyreview.com)
Image unshredding using a TSP solver (github.com)
Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs (github.com)
RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops (rateourcops.org)
Mise-En-Place for Knowledge Workers: Practices for Working Clean (fortelabs.co)
HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise medical bills (www.hhs.gov)
Neovim v0.5 (github.com)
Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President (newsroom.ibm.com)
Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users (krebsonsecurity.com)
The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago (www.theguardian.com)
Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle” (arstechnica.com)
The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019) (samoburja.com)
When Orcs Were Real (treeofwoe.substack.com)
First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta (sixcolors.com)
Leaky pipes can be better for moving water (www.nature.com)
Amazon Delivery Companies Revolt Against Amazon, Shut Down (www.vice.com)
Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene (ml.berkeley.edu)
Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying (www.medialens.org)
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) (web.archive.org)
Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price (www.migadu.com)
Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments (twitter.com)
Simple, solar-powered water desalination with efficiency of 385% (news.mit.edu)
Folk wisdom on visual programming (drossbucket.com)
Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email (purelymail.com)
Fortran adds conditional expressions (j3-fortran.org)
FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters (www.arrl.org)
REPL vs CLI: IDE wars (vlaaad.github.io)
Check If Email Exists (github.com)
IT Without Software (ndt.instedd.org)
The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles under his house (2015) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Robinhood S-1 IPO (www.sec.gov)
Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean? (kenstechtips.com)
Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups (stripe.com)
Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S. proposal (www.cnbc.com)
Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon (www.amazon.com)
Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses with Equifax (krebsonsecurity.com)
Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube (www.theverge.com)
Whistleblower thought he would get a big payout, but got nothing and went broke (www.wsj.com)
Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum in damages (www.bbc.co.uk)
Who is hiring? (July 2021) (news.ycombinator.com)
Servo Engine contributions this year (github.com)
PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language (arxiv.org)
Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39 (onlinedomain.com)
Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors (nagimov.me)
British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers (9to5mac.com)
Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time (news.mit.edu)
Treat Kubernetes clusters as cattle, not pets (zitadel.ch)
Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public (gizmodo.com)
Otter Browser (otter-browser.org)
Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams (jakearchibald.com)
An interactive visual history of Git development (git-history.jpalmer.dev)
Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy? (www.microprediction.com)
Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020) (www.retroreversing.com)
Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA (www.rainforestqa.com)
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources (www.theregister.com)
How Amazon, Google and Other Companies Exploit NDAs (www.nytimes.com)
Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download (www.macrumors.com)
The most precious resource is agency (simonsarris.substack.com)
Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’ (www.seattletimes.com)
SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll (www.sparkfun.com)
Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave (www.severe-weather.eu)
Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s (madned.substack.com)
Move fast, but understand the problem first (jacobobryant.com)
Globally Distributed Postgres (fly.io)
Bob's Game (en.wikipedia.org)
1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play (crpgaddict.blogspot.com)
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Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures' (www.reuters.com)
The Internet Is Rotting (www.theatlantic.com)
Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit (pluralistic.net)
Software Engineering principles to make teams better (principles.dev)
Software estimation is hard – do it anyway (jacobian.org)
A Philosophy of Software Design (2020) (johz.bearblog.dev)
‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect (www.cnbc.com)
49.6C (121.3F) in Lytton, British Columbia (www.bbc.com)
Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained (death.andgravity.com)
GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering? (twitter.com)
”Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements” (twitter.com)
Command Line Interface for Signal (github.com)
OpenStreetMap looks to relocate to EU due to Brexit limitations (www.theguardian.com)
Incremental note-taking (thesephist.com)
Beets: the music geek’s media organizer (beets.io)
Modular Homes for Under $50k (www.boxabl.com)
NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised (ddosecrets.substack.com)
A curated list of books on Software Architecture (github.com)
Pop!_OS 21.04 (blog.system76.com)
A foreign seller has hijacked Cliff Stoll's Amazon Klein bottle listing (kleinbottle.com)
I still use plain text for everything. (2016) (lifehacker.com)
Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests (asiatimes.com)
An Elixir adoption success story (www.thegreatcodeadventure.com)
Neeva Announces Public Availability of Its Ads Free, Private Search Engine (neeva.com)
Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine' (www.bbc.com)
What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t (blogs.sciencemag.org)
Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents (arstechnica.com)
An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing (nvidia-research-mingyuliu.com)
Walmart unveils low-price analog insulin amid rising diabetes drug costs (www.cnbc.com)
I loved jQuery, and still do (2019) (withblue.ink)
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity (www.nature.com)
Stepping Back from Speaking (martinfowler.com)
Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS (pawelurbanek.com)
Building a DIY Smart Doorbell (buzzert.net)
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices (arstechnica.com)
Do you self-host your database? (news.ycombinator.com)
How to Work Hard (paulgraham.com)
GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer (github.blog)
New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed (restoreprivacy.com)
MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U (news.mit.edu)
Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) (svelte.dev)
Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network (github.com)
The Lightness of Windows (stratechery.com)
Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM Takeover via DHCP Flood (github.com)
Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible (slate.com)
Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed damage in garage (www.miamiherald.com)
Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's (www.sciencealert.com)
You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change? (news.ycombinator.com)
Shorting Bitcoin (www.tbray.org)
A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf] (blog.frantovo.cz)
Duolingo S-1 IPO (www.sec.gov)
YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch (www.nbcnews.com)
A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database (blog.newsblur.com)
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996) (www.eff.org)
Mexico marijuana: Top court decriminalises recreational use of cannabis (www.bbc.co.uk)
Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers (arstechnica.com)
Judge dismisses FTC antitrust complaint against Facebook (www.cnbc.com)
Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks (www.frontpagetech.com)
Dr. Software: An unfinished journey starting from dirty code [pdf] (bitgloss.ro)
The 'Fuck You' Pattern (cedwards.xyz)
YouTube permanently bans Right Wing Watch (www.thedailybeast.com)
Google no longer requires AMP, but the replacement might be worse (www.theregister.com)
Biohackers Take Aim at Big Pharma’s Stranglehold on Insulin (www.freethink.com)
SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following $248,000 DeFi exploit on Polygon (cryptoslate.com)
Classified Ministry of Defence documents found at bus stop (www.bbc.com)
Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API (2ality.com)
China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover (www.bbc.com)
World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day (www.slashgear.com)
Tips for Better Signup / Login UX (learnui.design)
Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009) (gamesfromwithin.com)
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Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may embrace Bitcoin (www.reuters.com)
Why mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible (multilogin.com)
I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log into My Own PC (www.extremetech.com)
Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects (cacm.acm.org)
JavaScript Is Weird (jsisweird.com)
Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist (blog.dbmiller.org)
FCA bans largest crypto-currency exchange Binance (www.bbc.com)
Sriracha sauce hits $150M+/Y with no sales team, no trademark and $0 in ad spend (twitter.com)
The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died (www.nintendolife.com)
Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine (gizmodo.com)
Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010) (queue.acm.org)
How to learn how to sell? (news.ycombinator.com)
x86 Bare Metal Examples: Minimal operating systems, learn x86 system programming (github.com)
Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense (ssd.eff.org)
Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died (twitter.com)
Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 777X certification (www.seattletimes.com)
Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood (raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com)
Let's code a TCP/IP stack (www.saminiir.com)
Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash (nbailey.ca)
Vegetables have become far less nutritious (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Binance Crypto Exchange Banned from Doing Business in U.K (www.bloomberg.com)
Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers? (news.ycombinator.com)
Roblox on Linux with recent Wine 6.11 (roblox.fandom.com)
Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna (www.dw.com)
Why wood has gotten so dang expensive (constructionphysics.substack.com)
Unison Programming Language (www.unisonweb.org)
Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions (commonsware.com)
The economics of dollar stores (thehustle.co)