ASCII Play (play.ertdfgcvb.xyz)
I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write (www.bbc.co.uk)
My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry (mike.zwobble.org)
Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating (ea.rna.nl)
New in Git: switch and restore (www.banterly.net)
As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession” (www.economist.com)
Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) (www.bbc.com)
Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years (www.pcgamer.com)
Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases (www.amazon.com)
Where has all the productivity gone? (www.johndcook.com)
Lumen: Alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly (github.com)
Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011) (gingerybookstore.com)
Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend (github.com)
Six corporations control 90% of America media (techstartups.com)
Cy384/ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9 (github.com)
Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly? (news.ycombinator.com)
Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX (arstechnica.com)
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FBI probe shows nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of shipment (www.reuters.com)
Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? (www.bbc.co.uk)
I Am Parting with My Crypto Library (www.schneier.com)
Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C (twitter.com)
Cory Doctorow: Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) (locusmag.com)
We Still Don’t Get Things Done (www.wired.com)
The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure (www.reuters.com)
strcpy: A niche function you don't need (nullprogram.com)
Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits (www.vice.com)
The dark side of entrepreneurship (journals.aom.org)
“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not (twitter.com)
Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 (data.firefox.com)
Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization (josephg.com)
Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment (cosmosmagazine.com)
Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (phiresky.netlify.app)
Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe (www.bbc.com)
PM orders internet blocked for anyone spreading info that might frighten people (chiangmaione.com)
Yarn 3.0 (github.com)
Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby (sorbet.org)
Safari Extension Rejected Because Developer Not “Reputable” (mjtsai.com)
Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Drone Documents (thedissenter.org)
Consider listing your contact details (news.ycombinator.com)
My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared? (news.ycombinator.com)
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs (alinpanaitiu.com)
Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file (static.wiki)
Why does “Turn! Turn! Turn!” equal 241217.524881? (math.stackexchange.com)
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Oracle loses bid to upend HP’s $3B win (www.reuters.com)
Research found bronze medalists appeared happier than silver medalists (twin-cities.umn.edu)
1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee (www.businessinsider.com)
New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN (phys.org)
The fig is an ecological marvel (nautil.us)
Some career advice (2019) (lethain.com)
B-tree Path Hints (github.com)
Open Terms Archive – Follow changes to terms of service (www.opentermsarchive.org)
The Inter typeface family (rsms.me)
How I store my files (www.unixsheikh.com)
Whistleblower Craig Murray Will Surrender Himself for Prison (thedissenter.org)
The Itanic Has Sunk (honeypot.net)
Who Owns My Name? (amandamarieknox.medium.com)
Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations (www.bloomberg.com)
A critique of Safari's influence on the web (httptoolkit.tech)
Classic Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS (www.bryanbraun.com)
Billions in 'unknown' funds flowing into Canada's housing market [video] (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities (us-cert.cisa.gov)
Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish (www.google.com)
Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors (github.com)
38% of remote workers work from bed (www.axios.com)
DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components (daisyui.com)
One Tenth of a Second (studio.ribbonfarm.com)
So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming (css-tricks.com)
UsTaxes – open-source tax filing web application (ustaxes.org)
Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations (arxiv.org)
ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking (twitter.com)
Low level is easy (2008) (yosefk.com)
Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views (www.youtube.com)
The Playdate store is now open (shop.play.date)
Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir (elixir-lang.org)
What I know about cleaning and seasoning cast-iron skillets (www.americastestkitchen.com)
Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information” (i.postimg.cc)
“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*” (twitter.com)
Amazon's Older Kindles Will Start to Lose Their Internet Access in December (www.theverge.com)
FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot (www.fsf.org)
An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings (github.com)
Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale (www.promethean.news)
700k lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built (stackoverflow.blog)
Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database (news.err.ee)
Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud (www.cnbc.com)
Crafting Interpreters is available in print (craftinginterpreters.com)
The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU (kingsley.sh)
Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it (mdolon.com)
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017) (unix.stackexchange.com)
IPv6 Watch (ipv6.watch)
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Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO (www.reuters.com)
Command line tools for productive programmers (earthly.dev)
Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda (ez.substack.com)
Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices (www.npr.org)
A web-based matrix client: Cinny (github.com)
Activision Blizzard employees walk out over harassment and ‘frat boy’ culture (www.theguardian.com)
Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (ldpreload.com)
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009) (www.paulgraham.com)
First detection of light from behind a black hole (news.stanford.edu)
Calculus Made Easy (calculusmadeeasy.org)
The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway (alexskra.com)
Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring (aws.amazon.com)
'Arthur,' the Longest-Running Kids Animated Series in History, Is Ending (text.npr.org)
NSA Mobile Device Best Practices (www.documentcloud.org)
Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers (www.ethicalads.io)
The Human Side of Elixir (akoutmos.com)
Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) (yosefk.com)
From stolen laptop to inside the company network (dolosgroup.io)
Unleaded Avgas Approved (www.avweb.com)
The House That Vanished (www.bbc.co.uk)
Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines (www.axios.com)
Rio Tinto blew up 46,000-year-old Aboriginal caves in Western Australia (2020) (www.bbc.com)
Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks (www.openai.com)
We should build for wildlife as well as people (www.bbc.com)
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013) (slate.com)
APSE – A Personal Search Engine (apse.io)
External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now in General Availability (cloud.google.com)
Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code (www.techdirt.com)
Harvey’s Casino Bomb (www.fbi.gov)
Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen (arstechnica.com)
Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9B fund–new FCC boss starts “cleanup” (arstechnica.com)
Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It (theapeiron.co.uk)
France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes (www.sciencemag.org)
IPv4 pricing (docs.hetzner.com)
Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source (www.orbiter-forum.com)
No-code startup Bubble raises $100M (www.reuters.com)
I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key (www.theregister.com)
Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development (www.gimp.org)
Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say (www.cbc.ca)
Coding with Character (realdougwilson.com)
Columbo: an origin story (2018) (columbophile.com)
Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020) (www.nerd-quickies.net)
In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games (waywardstrategy.com)
I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it (www.reddit.com)
A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change (www.quantamagazine.org)
FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia (forums.fast.ai)
Windows 96 (windows96.net)
Functional Programming in OCaml (www.cs.cornell.edu)
Live Starlink Satellite Map (satellitemap.space)
Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage (news.ycombinator.com)
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Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign (www.reuters.com)
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Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine (en.wikipedia.org)
Netcat – All you need to know (blog.ikuamike.io)
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WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance (www.reuters.com)
Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play (deepmind.com)
TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Discord Launches Threads (blog.discord.com)
Naval Architecture (ciechanow.ski)
Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake (2018) (yurideigin.medium.com)
Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday (www.axios.com)
It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it (groundtruthautonomy.com)
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Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database (blog.crunchydata.com)
Lets rise personal blogs again: curated list of personal blogs (refined.blog)
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Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk (www.reuters.com)
Google launches new vulnerability reward platform (security.googleblog.com)
Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo (candidegardening.com)
What time-weighted averages are and why you should care (blog.timescale.com)
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (blog.kowalczyk.info)
Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf (nicole.express)
Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies (www.theverge.com)
Element raises $30M to boost Matrix (matrix.org)
Autofill in password managers can allow login credentials to be stolen (marektoth.com)
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich [pdf] (eprints.lse.ac.uk)
For developers, Apple’s Safari is crap and outdated (blog.perrysun.com)
Debian for Mobile (mobian-project.org)
Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (2008) (blog.gatunka.com)
Israeli Defense unit recovered 80% of Miami collapse remains (www.palmbeachpost.com)
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Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025 (www.reuters.com)
Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born (news.yale.edu)
The Insecurity Industry (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
Launch HN: InstaKin (YC S21) - Help immigrants to manage tasks in home countries (news.ycombinator.com)
Git-blame-someone-else (github.com)
Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code (0x41.cf)
Apple fixes an in-the-wild exploited 0-day (iOS 14.7.1) (support.apple.com)
BLAKE3 1.0 (github.com)
Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science (asia.nikkei.com)
Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI (www.vice.com)
Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others (randomascii.wordpress.com)
A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint (github.com)
What's bad about Julia? (viralinstruction.com)
Becoming a Chess Grandmaster (nextlevelchess.blog)
Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles (www.theverge.com)
Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants (iopscience.iop.org)
Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics? (mleverything.substack.com)
Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud (www.bloomberg.com)
Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming (www.nytimes.com)
Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent (github.com)
Haiku Beta 3 (www.haiku-os.org)
Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel (twitter.com)
Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Containers (www.micahlerner.com)
Sheriff’s Office letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’ (www.tampabay.com)
TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant (asia.nikkei.com)
Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep (fasterthanli.me)
Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research (twitter.com)
My First CSS (engineering.kablamo.com.au)
Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers (github.com)
Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim (www.theguardian.com)
PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption (www.dell.com)
Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it's downright lethal (teslamotorsclub.com)
Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades (www.pnas.org)
Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam (daniel.is-a.dev)
16/30 Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities (waritschlager.de)
Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool (github.com)
The Assange Case Is Collapsing – But It Remains a Travesty of Justice (tribunemag.co.uk)
Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes (davidar.io)
Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore an Ancient City's Byzantine Basements (www.npr.org)
The SaaS Org Chart (sacks.substack.com)
Hacking Is the Opposite of Marketing (macwright.com)
Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about (ez.substack.com)
Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked (blog.frontiersin.org)
I was sick, tired and had lost myself – until I began lifting weights at 71 (www.theguardian.com)
Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks (ubuntu.com)
Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts (github.com)
Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy (dev.yorhel.nl)
Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion (www.cyclingnews.com)
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need (scoop.me)
Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States (jacobinmag.com)
A Linux distro with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more (kisslinux.org)