My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (jcs.org)
Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019) (www.web3us.com)
Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017) (www.emilydamstra.com)
PinePhone - A Phone That Out Of The Box Runs Other Operating Systems (www.pine64.org)
Inserting 130M SQLite rows per minute from a scripting language (blog.metaobject.com)
Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in bash (github.com)
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA's Europa Clipper to icy Jupiter moon (www.space.com)
Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion (www.simplethread.com)
Steven Weinberg has died (www.math.columbia.edu)
Half of US states now using facial recognition to vet unemployment claims (www.cnn.com)
China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul (www.bloombergquint.com)
The Highest Forms of Wealth (www.collaborativefund.com)
Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery (www.rechargenews.com)
To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook (www.damninteresting.com)
Mixed Reality with Passthrough (developer.oculus.com)
Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after factory reset (www.cpomagazine.com)
Steven Weinberg Has Died (twitter.com)
Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Fun with Unix domain sockets (simonwillison.net)
Rust for Linux redux (lwn.net)
Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers (www.npr.org)
Empty storefronts are killing neighbourhoods (thewalrus.ca)
Electromagnetism is a property of the spacetime itself (sciencex.com)
Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed (insidemedicine.bulletin.com)
K-9 Mail is back (k9mail.app)
HiveNightmare a.k.a. SeriousSAM – anybody can read the registry in Windows 10 (doublepulsar.com)
How the Python import system works (tenthousandmeters.com)
Is Norway the New East India Company? (branko2f7.substack.com)
A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale (twitter.com)
Tylr: Demo of tile-based editing, a new kind of structure editing (twitter.com)
Choose whether Search can show you personal results based on your Google Account (www.google.com)
Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended (twitter.com)
Why self hosting is important (dataswamp.org)
Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19 (www.thelancet.com)
CudaText: Cross-platform code editor (cudatext.github.io)
How to spot a good fake ID (trevorklee.com)
Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (mazzo.li)
Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria (arstechnica.com)
My Steam Game Revenue Stats (donislawdev.com)
Released from a gag order regarding a federal investigation into a silly comment (www.techdirt.com)
The value of doing a little (trms.me)
A 3°C world has no safe place (www.economist.com)
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ (www.theverge.com)
Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase (www.theverge.com)
Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel (news.ycombinator.com)
Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? (www.theatlantic.com)
Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company (blog.x.company)
Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store (www.macrumors.com)
GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community (github.blog)
Can we survive technology? John von Neumann 1955 [pdf] (drive.google.com)
If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002) (sellsbrothers.com)
Website changes design each time you blink (realless.glitch.me)
Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result (searchengineland.com)
AWS's Egregious Egress (blog.cloudflare.com)
We’d Rather Have the Iceberg Than the Ship (www.granolashotgun.com)
Syncthing: Syncing All the Things (lwn.net)
Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code (george.mand.is)
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) (www.mcmillen.dev)
BirdNet – The Easiest Way to Identify Birds by Sound (birdnet.cornell.edu)
A priest was outed for using Grindr, experts say it’s a warning sign for privacy (slate.com)
RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% (www.nature.com)
Zip – How not to design a file format (games.greggman.com)
The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video] (www.youtube.com)
The economic value of targeting aging (www.nature.com)
0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (2011) (pvk.ca)
SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners (wwwnc.cdc.gov)
Hacker News in the Style of Teletext (glynnbird.github.io)
It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate (simonwillison.net)
The Framework Laptop is now shipping (frame.work)
iDOS 2 will be gone soon (litchie.com)
Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp (www.hashicorp.com)
The Tyranny of Spreadsheets (timharford.com)
Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS (arstechnica.com)
Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow (www.stochasticlifestyle.com)
California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment (www.npr.org)
Launch HN: Epsilon3 (YC S21) – Software for spacecraft and complex operations (news.ycombinator.com)
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 (engineering.fb.com)
Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself (www.persuasion.community)
UK wants to reform Official Secrets law by pretending journalism doesn't exist (davidallengreen.com)
The LaTeX Font Catalogue (tug.org)
My app failed: Lessons learned (rithm.app)
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (alphafold.ebi.ac.uk)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976) (en.wikipedia.org)
Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study (www.cnn.com)
The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist (www.theregister.com)
Akamai Edge DNS Down (edgedns.status.akamai.com)
Even if you’re paying, you’re still the product (odysee.com)
SpaceX’s Starlink Review – Four months in (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Implement unprivileged chroot (cgit.freebsd.org)
Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons (techcrunch.com)
I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say (www.bostonglobe.com)
How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance? (www.debugbear.com)
MS Windows Defender and DeCSS (www.arch13.com)
MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT (microk8s.io)
Open Source Alternatives to Popular B2B Tools (www.btw.so)
PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires (www.npr.org)
A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)
Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 (blog.archive.org)
Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data (www.theguardian.com)
Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages (bozhobg.medium.com)
I built my first serverless robot and won $1000 (towardsdev.com)
A YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech (www.wired.com)
AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance (aws.amazon.com)
Programmatic Video Editing with Python (github.com)
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair (www.wired.com)
Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out (www.euronews.com)
Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat (www.independent.co.uk)
Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres (www.cnn.com)
Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust (web.dev)
Spanish police seize large drone used to carry drugs from Morocco (english.elpais.com)
Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches (www.sciencemag.org)
Kubernetes is our generation's Multics (www.oilshell.org)
Enough is enough (www.nsogroup.com)
Planning and estimating large-scale software projects (tomrussell.co.uk)
BBEdit 14 (www.barebones.com)
The Colorado River is shrinking (www.sciencemag.org)
Pelosi and a lifetime of trading (unusualwhales.com)
Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication (matrix.org)
Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack (slack.com)
Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone (www.linkedin.com)
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Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year (www.reuters.com)
Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons (www.moll.dev)
THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief (www.dw.com)
Crystal 1.1.0 (crystal-lang.org)
Twike (en.wikipedia.org)
Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program (www.nytimes.com)
Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued (lichess.org)
NSO Group Hacked (www.schneier.com)
A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew (github.com)
Launch HN: Bedrock AI (YC S21) – Using ML to identify red flags in SEC filings (news.ycombinator.com)
EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable (www.bbc.com)
Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games (writtenrealms.com)
Support for team members who are mistreated in their country (gitlab.com)
Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle (www.techspot.com)
GPU Architecture Types Explained (rastergrid.com)
Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app (news.ycombinator.com)
Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data (www.theguardian.com)
MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill (maps.org)
A case against security nihilism (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real (www.quantamagazine.org)
Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms (www.nature.com)
Megaverse: Simulating Embodied Agents at One Million Experiences per Second (www.megaverse.info)
Restaurant workers quit at record rate (www.npr.org)
Node-RED 2.0 (nodered.org)
SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (www.sqlite.org)
Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents (sioyek.info)
Our lawsuit against ChessBase – Stockfish – open-source Chess Engine (stockfishchess.org)
Software research is a train wreck (buttondown.email)
T-10 to Blue Origin flight (www.blueorigin.com)
size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer (www.openwall.com)
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China unveils 600 kph maglev train (www.reuters.com)
Square Banking (squareup.com)
Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs (github.com)
Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund (www.blender.org)
We don’t use Kubernetes (ably.com)
C++ Dev Ecosystem 2021 (www.jetbrains.com)
Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards (artbma.org)
RAWGraphs: missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization (rawgraphs.io)
Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse? (www.fast.ai)
AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle (www.blopig.com)
Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless (stonemaiergames.com)
Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS (nebulus.dev)
My Mindfulness Practice Led Me to Meltdown (danlawton.substack.com)
Ten Papers Every Developer Should Read At Least Twice (michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)
Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus (telex.hu)
Under the skin of OnlyFans (www.bbc.com)
Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts (www.amazon.com)
A GPIO Driver in Rust (lwn.net)
Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator (shouldigetahouse.com)
New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry (www.quantamagazine.org)
“We're Shutting Down Our 3G Network” (benergize.com)
Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser (github.com)
Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups (krebsonsecurity.com)
Bouba/Kiki Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor (www.cnx-software.com)
Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations (www.theguardian.com)
How to Learn Stuff Quickly (www.joshwcomeau.com)
Piper: GTK application to configure gaming mice (github.com)
Thread Pools on the JVM (gist.github.com)
Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise? (blogs.bmj.com)
Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] (www.imaginary.org)
Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint (culturehustle.com)
The History of the Dot Com Era (joshelman.medium.com)
Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client (www.theguardian.com)
I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) (dewitters.com)
Magic Mushroom Map (www.magicmushroommap.com)
The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect (www.messynessychic.com)
Julia Computing raises $24M Series A (www.hpcwire.com)
Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV (gizmodo.com)
Senet (en.wikipedia.org)
iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones (appleinsider.com)
Habits of Expert Software Designers (2019) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
This beach does not exist (thisbeachdoesnotexist.com)
Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks (www.bbc.com)
U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks (www.axios.com)
Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure (www.vice.com)
We are drowning in churn and noise. I am fighting by switching this site to PDF (lab6.com)
Torvalds wants new NTFS driver in kernel (lore.kernel.org)
NIL (www.lispworks.com)
Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees (www.phoronix.com)
Tesseract OCR (github.com)
Data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance (www.theguardian.com)
Julian Assange Case: Keystone Witness Admits He Lied, US Media Ignores (thewire.in)
How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids (news.berkeley.edu)
Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture (www.calvertjournal.com)
Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs (github.com)
Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia (www.vice.com)
Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech (www.theregister.com)
Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs (news.ycombinator.com)
“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis (www.ucsf.edu)
NYC Mesh Community Internet (www.nytimes.com)
What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2) (www.simplanations.in)
iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus (twitter.com)
How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists (www.haaretz.com)
ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust (github.com)
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones (www.eff.org)
An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up (fanfan.rambo.codes)
Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship [Cory Doctorow] (www.eff.org)
The Perils of M1 Ownership (eclecticlight.co)
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists (www.washingtonpost.com)
The new ProtonMail has passed its independent security audit (protonmail.com)
Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol (www.cyberscoop.com)
Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon (www.theguardian.com)
Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020) (andrewkelley.me)