1981
338
Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/05/how-to-accidentally-stop-a-global-cyber-attacks.html
9 years ago
662
385
Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/noncompete-clauses.html?_r=0
522
72
Rejection Letter
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/05/rejection-letter.html
383
380
I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour
http://www.breakit.se/artikel/7599/i-spent-two-weeks-delivering-for-uber-eats-and-made-4-4-per-hour
348
69
The Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
https://hbr.org/2017/05/your-brain-can-only-take-so-much-focus?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
306
59
Computer Games That Teach Assembly Language
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/three-computer-games-that-make-assembly-language-fun
273
34
Reverse-Engineering the Intel Management Engine
https://puri.sm/posts/reverse-engineering-the-intel-management-engine-romp-module/
266
209
Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/05/microsoft-issues-wanacrypt-patch-for-windows-8-xp/
234
79
The Right to Read (1997)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
199
47
Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around
https://github.com/schollz/howmanypeoplearearound
★ 7kPythonMIT–9 years ago
196
27
Linear Algebra Done Right Video Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHp0WNe3OaSXAr1C_Oi0AQ/videos
189
186
China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/china-railway-one-belt-one-road-1-trillion-plan.html
170
87
Proton.B: What this Mac malware does
https://www.cybereason.com/labs-proton-b-what-this-mac-malware-actually-does/
160
56
Happy nations don't focus on growth
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-20/happy-nations-don-t-focus-on-growth
159
A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf]
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
154
140
Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?
http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder
147
25
Show HN: Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos
https://gitorials.com/
146
15
Fuzzing Irssi
https://irssi.org/2017/05/12/fuzzing-irssi/
143
40
Chaos Communication Congress is moving to Leipzig
http://ccc.de/en/updates/2017/34C3-in-leipzig
138
167
Google is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
137
51
Startup School 12: Alan Kay, Part II [video]
https://www.startupschool.org/videos/12
136
58
Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014)
https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/
133
11
Animated Algorithms
http://www.algomation.com/
131
Writing Performance Sensitive OCaml Code
https://janestreet.github.io/ocaml-perf-notes.html
130
Isdal Woman: A mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39369429
128
9
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to D3.js
https://medium.com/@enjalot/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-d3-js-a8552174733a
126
57
Petition against UK Home Office plans for surveillance and encryption backdoors
https://act.openmedia.org/saveoursecurityuk
120
24
Your tl;dr by an ai: a deep reinforced model for abstractive summarization
https://metamind.io/research/your-tldr-by-an-ai-a-deep-reinforced-model-for-abstractive-summarization
113
37
The Tools We Use To Stay Afloat
https://colloq.io/blog/the-tools-we-use-to-stay-afloat
26
Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)
https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up
112
8
Video Solves Mystery of How Narwhals Use Their Tusks
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/drone-footage-narwhal-tusk-mystery/
96
20
Emulating the Rust borrow checker with C++ move-only types
http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2017/05/emulating-rust-borrow-checker-with-c.html
93
95
Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3196080/data-center/intels-itanium-once-destined-to-replace-x86-in-pcs-hits-end-of-line.html
83
I Don’t Believe in Blockchain
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/05/13/Not-Believing-in-Blockchain
81
31
What Does Perlin Noise Sound Like?
http://gpfault.net/posts/perlin-sound.txt.html
80
16
Fractals Made from Shape Languages and Fancy Geometry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329548
78
Airbus A380 – $6.1B in additional costs due to project delays
http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700
Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014)