October 22, 2021
Tech News
Once again pardon the inconsistent posting of news.
This is news from most of the week. Enjoy.
HackerNews
These are links that I clicked upvote on on the previous day, either because they were good or to save for later reading:
- There is no 'printf' (comments)
- How to design in every language at once (comments)
- The Seven Rules of the Metaverse (comments)
- Show HN: Web component – Keyboard shortcuts interface for websites (comments)
- Beyond Smart (comments)
- Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition (comments)
- Yue – A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps (comments)
- NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised (comments)
- Internet Communities: Otters vs. Possums (2017) (comments)
- SuDump: Exploiting suid binaries through the kernel (comments)
- JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures (2018) (comments)
- Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon (comments)
- Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline (comments)
- YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku (comments)
- Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks (comments)
- Vinyl records are now outselling CDs (comments)
- The age of machine learning as code has arrived (comments)
- Predicting stock market returns from news photos (comments)
- Satellite IoT dreams are crashing into reality (comments)
- What do people want in a co-founder? (comments)
- Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) (comments)
- John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset (comments)
- Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? (comments)
- About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview (comments)
- 78% of the Web Powered by PHP (comments)
- A Meta-Scientific Perspective on Thinking: Fast and Slow (2020) (comments)
- Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD (comments)
- People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors (comments)
- Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013) (comments)
- Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting (comments)
- A pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human for the first time (comments)
- Goto (2007) (comments)
- Willingness to look stupid (comments)
- Hypertext Tools from the 80s (comments)
- U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillance of private citizens (comments)
- Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score (comments)
- Playstation 3 Architecture (comments)
- The tight-knit time zone data maintenance community (comments)
- Penguin is no longer the owner of the copyright to The Tao of Pooh (comments)
- Fable is a compiler that brings F# into the JavaScript ecosystem (comments)
- Five things we still don’t know about water (comments)
- Version Control for Structure Editing (comments)
- You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly (comments)
- Facebook Settles with U.S. Gov over Improperly Reserving Jobs for Immigrants (comments)
- Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined (comments)
- How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder (comments)
- High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers (comments)
- Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors (comments)
- Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) (comments)
- Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL (comments)
- AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go (comments)
- Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web (comments)
- How to get back into a hacked Facebook account (comments)
- Train riders held up phones as woman was raped, police say (comments)
- Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors (comments)
- Design for Yourself (Sometimes) (comments)
- Human History Gets a Rewrite (comments)
- I once killed a $125M deal by being “too honest” (comments)
- The SaaS Metrics That Matter (comments)
- Cognitive Warfare Project (comments)
- Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice (comments)
- Big Ball of Mud (1999) (comments)
- What does Google think minimum wage is? (comments)
- Was Google Earth Stolen? (comments)
- Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population (comments)
- Web Browser Engineering (comments)
- Spork: Peer-to-peer socket magic in the air (comments)
- How the brain navigates cities (comments)
- Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors (comments)
- A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems (comments)
- Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money (comments)
- Cue: A new language for data validation (comments)
- Is it time to rewrite the Operating System in Rust? (2018) [video] (comments)
- Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation (comments)
- Awesome-loginless: internet services that don't require registrations (comments)
- Issues we've encountered while building a Kafka based data processing pipeline (comments)
- How Time Series Databases Work, and Where They Don’t (comments)
- L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source (comments)
- Privacy Redirect: Redirects browser requests to privacy-friendly alternatives (comments)
- What software engineers should know about search (2017) (comments)
- Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020) (comments)
- NixOS on Framework Laptop (comments)
- A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Their Authority (comments)
- Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations (comments)
- Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing (comments)
- It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question (comments)
- Techmap: Find companies using technologies you love (comments)
- HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015) (comments)
- A 100 MHz Pin-Compatible 6502 Replacement (comments)
- Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do (comments)
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