Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries(jaysbrickblog.com)

130 points by makeitdouble 10 months ago | 58 comments

Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%(mynintendonews.com)

461 points by _tk_ 3 months ago | 278 comments

A My Nintendo News article reporting that Nintendo has raised its employees' base salary by 10%.

Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)(bricknerd.com)

348 points by nkurz 3 years ago | 106 comments

BrickNerd guest article by Ryan Howerter cataloguing every type of plastic material LEGO has used in its bricks and elements.

Lego Ideas: Insect Collection – Botanicals meets animals(brothers-brick.com)

74 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 17 comments

GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime(gizmodo.com)

11 points by croes 1 year ago | 6 comments

Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors(kotaku.com)

285 points by stalfosknight 5 months ago | 210 comments

Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son(web3isgoinggreat.com)

321 points by pavel_lishin 9 months ago | 64 comments

A Web3 is Going Just Great entry reporting that the alleged thief of $90M in seized U.S.-government-controlled crypto is the son of a government crypto contractor.

Lego price per part over the years(brickinsights.com)

331 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 159 comments

Brick Insights statistics page charting the average price per part of Lego sets over the years.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

IMG_0001(walzr.com)

1750 points by walz 1 year ago | 278 comments

Riley Walz's project showcasing about 5 million unedited YouTube videos with default IMG_XXXX filenames uploaded from iPhones between 2009 and 2012, shown in random order.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.