I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun (kevinlynagh.com)
Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989) (amasci.com)
NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap (seths.blog)
Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims (www.wired.com)
Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen (pmigdal.medium.com)
Nodes.io – a new way to create with code (nodes.io)
The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (2015) (www.bbc.co.uk)
Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco (www.latimes.com)
FFMPEG from Zero to Hero (ffmpegfromzerotohero.com)
Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres (www.citusdata.com)
Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge (github.com)
What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN? (news.ycombinator.com)
Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)
Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site (www.uploader.win)
Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code (archive.vn)
Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia? (news.ycombinator.com)
Turntable.fm is back from the dead – and now there are two (www.theverge.com)
Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 1: Color CRTs) (int10h.org)
L.A. startup is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors (www.latimes.com)
Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name (twitter.com)
Burned House Horizon (en.wikipedia.org)
Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad (relocate.me)
How do I learn drawing? (news.ycombinator.com)
Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence (dl.acm.org)
Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM (caramel.run)
An update on Android's audio latency (android-developers.googleblog.com)
Data Transfer Project by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. (datatransferproject.dev)
Student passes 3 classes in 4 years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA (foxbaltimore.com)
Coursera S-1 IPO (www.sec.gov)
The reason Okta spent $6.5B on Auth0 (supertokens.io)
30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server (krebsonsecurity.com)
Wing Commander III (www.filfre.net)
Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI (github.com)
Fusion startup plans reactor with small but powerful superconducting magnets (www.sciencemag.org)
Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary (www.getzola.org)
Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers (www.oaklandca.gov)
Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy (www.nature.com)
Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization (cacm.acm.org)
Symbolics.jl: A Modern Computer Algebra System for a Modern Language (discourse.julialang.org)
Voith Schneider Propeller (en.wikipedia.org)
Girl and Computer: Reflecting on the journey that got me to where I am today (rmurphey.medium.com)
'Floating ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker (www.bbc.co.uk)
Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal (www.nytimes.com)
Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux (boilingsteam.com)
A warning about 5.12-rc1 (lwn.net)
Bring Your Own Client (www.geoffreylitt.com)
PyTorch 1.8, with AMD ROCm support (github.com)
Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident (www.bbc.co.uk)
Iceberg simulator – draw an iceberg and see how it floats and melts (engaging-data.com)
Apache Age: A Graph Extension for PostgreSQL (age.apache.org)
Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving (www.thedrive.com)
An Introduction to Lockless Algorithms (lwn.net)
US health agency will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid' (www.nature.com)
Open source projects should run office hours (simonwillison.net)
Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery? (news.ycombinator.com)
AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique (github.com)
Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay (www.wsj.com)
DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results (help.duckduckgo.com)
100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say (arstechnica.com)
Git's list of banned C functions (github.com)
The lessons of Fukushima – Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched (www.economist.com)
“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” (medium.com)
Female Founder Secrets: Fertility (femfosec.com)
Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back (quuxplusone.github.io)
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea (www.eff.org)
Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos (support.apple.com)
That Is Not How Your Brain Works (nautil.us)
We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US (www.nytimes.com)
Joan Fons hired to work on Godot's rendering (godotengine.org)
TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife (docs.google.com)
HTTPWTF (httptoolkit.tech)
Lion: A formally verified, 5-stage pipeline RISC-V core (github.com)
US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up (www.theverge.com)
Twin sisters worth millions thanks to female gamers (www.bbc.com)
Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++ (arxiv.org)
India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws will harm the internet (blog.mozilla.org)
A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics [video] (www.youtube.com)
How to Operate an Airport in Antarctica (www.flightradar24.com)
Bitsquatting Windows.com (remyhax.xyz)
Every $1 of BTC value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US (www.sciencedirect.com)
Goat Ops (www.goatops.com)
Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Gab Has Been Breached (www.troyhunt.com)
Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation (github.com)
Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (www.quantamagazine.org)
It Can Happen to You (www.mattkeeter.com)
Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech (techcrunch.com)
M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU (jott.live)
Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video] (twitter.com)
Every Google Cloud service described in 4 words (2021 update) (cloud.google.com)
The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber (www.thedrive.com)
Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors (sweis.medium.com)
Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B (www.cnbc.com)
Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B (investor.okta.com)
How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success (aws.amazon.com)
Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models (www.foundingfuel.com)
Schnorr confirms paper is his, claims it “destroys RSA cryptosystem” (twitter.com)
Flutter 2 (developers.googleblog.com)
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed for Human Children (www.sciencealert.com)
Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011) (torrentfreak.com)
Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing (www.wsj.com)
Killing TurboTax (kunle.app)
Robinhood is facing nearly 50 lawsuits over GameStop frenzy (www.nytimes.com)
Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling (www.theregister.com)
Google no longer wanted to sponsor the AI ethics conference (www.heise.de)
PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus (lwn.net)
Icons – Google Fonts (fonts.google.com)
Möbius Printing Helper (shreevatsa.net)
Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly (localpdf.tech)
DJI FPV (www.dji.com)
Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice (gist.github.com)
ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’ (torrentfreak.com)
Microsoft Power-Fx: a low-code general purpose programming language (github.com)
Dieter Rams Palettes (blog.presentandcorrect.com)
Giving Ada a Chance (ajxs.me)
Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, and much more (deno.land)
NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images (www.bbc.com)
Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch (spectrum.ieee.org)
Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO (arstechnica.com)
How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fan (chiragswadia.medium.com)
Physicists have filmed the oscillation of a time crystal (www.sciencealert.com)
“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem” (eprint.iacr.org)
MIT Press has granted full access to all its journals (www.mitpressjournals.org)
Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem (www.quantamagazine.org)
Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two distinct markets (www.bloomberg.com)
Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut (agfundernews.com)
jQuery 3.6.0 (blog.jquery.com)
Almost 40% of U.S. Consumers Trust Online Reviews Less Than They Did 5 Years Ago (www.reviews.com)
Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research (news.ycombinator.com)
Trust: The Need for Public Understanding of How Science Works (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Using Ghidra to Reverse Engineer Super Monkey Ball for GameCube (www.smokingonabike.com)
Bitcoin Is Time (dergigi.com)
ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis (pixeljets.com)
SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard (fly.io)
Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home (element.io)
LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it (reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org)
How to Read Assembly Language (wolchok.org)
Speed Is the Killer Feature (bdickason.com)
WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (github.com)
Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked (arstechnica.com)
Internet Archive Infrastructure (archive.org)
Publisher Nacon Cracked and Pirated Our Game: The Sinking City (frogwares.com)
U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Why does an A note sound different across instruments? (omarshehata.me)
Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web (orbitdb.org)
Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant Runtime for Rust (github.com)
Foundational Distributed Systems Papers (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
Low Earth Orbit Visualization (platform.leolabs.space)
Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed (fs.blog)
Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts (dcurt.is)
Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate (www.cnx-software.com)
NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts (donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com)
Spectre exploits in the "wild" (dustri.org)
OMU – “One Man Unix” (www.pix.net)
If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts (twitter.com)
Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020) (palant.info)
Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket (www.rocketlabusa.com)
Generate Flowcharts from Text (flowchart.fun)
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear' (www.bbc.com)
Who is hiring? (March 2021) (news.ycombinator.com)
Why Learn Haskell? (crypto.stanford.edu)
Fish Shell 3.2 (github.com)
Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg (mattj.io)
Wikinews mourns loss of volunteer John Shutt (en.wikinews.org)
Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf (github.com)
Build a Business, Not an Audience (jakobgreenfeld.com)
Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac (davidwalsh.name)
The Hijacking of Perl.com (www.perl.com)
On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't (residentcontrarian.substack.com)
152kb WebAssembly interpreter that runs on six OSs with Cosmopolitan (github.com)
I built a 5K iMac Display on my own (twitter.com)
The Last Message Sent on Aim (justanman.org)
JSON parser written in 6502 assembly language (github.com)
Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes (atodorov.me)
Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes (www.wgbh.org)
Get a Life (crypto.stanford.edu)
Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play (medium.com)
Not Lisp again (2009) (funcall.blogspot.com)
Little League wants all your information (honeypot.net)
RIP Flynn.io (github.com)
A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm (github.com)
Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System (eclecticlight.co)
Spaceprob.es catalogues all the probes that still communicate with Earth (spaceprob.es)
Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python (github.com)
Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with (blog.yossarian.net)
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (nee.lv)
Police misconduct settlements (github.com)
The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly (www.universetoday.com)
Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent (libcinder.org)
TLD Graveyard (dzdb.caida.org)
A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii (www.npr.org)