1273
301
US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open-this-link-on-your-phone-with-wifi-turned-off-9e0adb00d024
8 years ago
604
441
New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior
http://www.planetizen.com/features/95227-new-research-how-ride-hailing-impacts-travel-behavior
461
193
What is Nix and why you should try it
https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/what-and-why-nix/
413
147
My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of-software-development-methodologies/
373
293
Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/
291
55
Essential C
http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/
243
49
Predicting, Decrypting, and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper_vanhoef.pdf
191
152
The trouble with text-only email
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/735973/17bdb163fddd41ae/
176
41
Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead, but His Offspring Are All Right
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/jeremy-lefty-snail.html
117
As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/travel/747-airplane-jet-pilot.html
168
36
CryptoKitties: breedable cats on the blockchain – ETHWaterloo winner
https://alpha.cryptokitties.co/
159
Google Has Made a Mess of Robotics
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-12/google-has-made-a-mess-of-robotics
156
61
Death of the Nile
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/death_of_the_nile
142
95
Why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL
https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-better-mysql-1/
140
72
Switching from Common Lisp to Julia
https://tpapp.github.io/post/common-lisp-to-julia/
138
39
Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography
http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html
133
18
Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript suite
https://medium.com/@bluepnume/introducing-paypals-open-source-cross-domain-javascript-suite-95f991b2731d
129
58
A “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland
https://qz.com/1100221/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone/
128
21
Grafana: Postgres Data Source
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/d1c9760fa8520701ff56a07bbe89ae666783c40f
★ 73.4kTypeScriptAGPL-3.0–8 years ago
120
35
Calamine: Excel file reader, written in Rust
https://github.com/tafia/calamine
★ 2.2kRustMIT–8 years ago
114
Early Facebook Employees Regret the Monster They Created
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/early-facebook-employees-regret-the-monster-they-created
115
22
Evolution of GitHub's data centers
https://githubengineering.com/evolution-of-our-data-centers/
113
47
Unbalanced reads from SSDs in software RAID mirrors in Linux
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UnbalancedSSDMirrorReads
110
56
DAG Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand Is Bad
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/deputy-attorney-general-rosensteins-responsible-encryption-demand-bad-and-he
37
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human
https://mtlynch.io/human-code-reviews-1/
109
Cognitive Biases in Programming
https://medium.com/@evidanary/cognitive-biases-in-programming-5e937707c27b
104
12
An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969)
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html
99
83
Switzerland: How buying real-estate can kill you financially/reasons for stocks
https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/switzerland-how-buying-real-estate-can-kill-you-financially-and-two-reasons-to-go-for-stocks-79704213b229
28
A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-photon-reveals-quantum-entanglement-million.html
87
Nsjail – A light-weight process isolation tool for Linux
http://nsjail.com/
85
GNU UPC
http://www.gccupc.org/
82
3
Arithmetic Gas
https://mathematicalgarden.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/arithmetic-gas/
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