MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908
MIT News
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
For the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created. The demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build…
Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-ruling-injunction-judge-court-app-store
The Verge
Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
The app store model on trial.
A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design https://search.marginalia.nu/
A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
Nature
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead…
Scientific Reports - RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-different
Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu https://waydro.id/
Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities https://habr.com/en/post/579714/
Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/FAQ-Modern-Standby/td-p/7514448
Downsides of Offline First https://rxdb.info/downsides-of-offline-first.html
Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/
VGC
The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked
Source codes and user payouts among the data released in a 128GB torrent…
Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/
Simple Thread
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with…
Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf
Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices https://github.com/basti564/Oculess
GitHub
GitHub - ptrpaws/Oculess: Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices - ptrpaws/Oculess
Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/09/dislike-button-would-improve-spotifys-recommendations
Cornell Chronicle
‘Dislike’ button would improve Spotify’s recommendations | Cornell Chronicle
Researchers developed an algorithm that shows just how much more effective Spotify would be if it incorporated both likes and dislikes, in the style of platforms like Pandora.
The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video] https://twitter.com/nickdale/status/1450617359375343617
Twitter
Nick Dale
If you haven't yet seen the 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964), prepare to have your day made.
Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface/
emacsair.me
Emacsair! Magit, the magical Git interface
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
RSS is wonderful https://quakkels.com/posts/rss-is-wonderful/
Quakkels.com
RSS is Wonderful · Quakkels.com
Inspired by Web Rings from the 90s, I created a tool for serendipitous discovery of blogs called RSS Discovery Engine. Similar to how web rings work, I make the assumption that interesting blogs will tend to link to other related blogs, and therefore, linked…
I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own https://codeamigo.dev?ref=HN
codeamigo.dev
codeamigo - Learn by doing
Byte-sized interactive coding tutorials