866
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Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/conservation/why-we-must-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-our-electronics
9 years ago
771
522
I have no side code projects to show you
https://www.codementor.io/ezekielbuchheit/no-i-have-no-side-code-projects-to-show-you-cz1tyhgdz
670
252
Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90147868/exclusive-microsoft-has-stopped-manufacturing-the-kinect
478
116
Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples
https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing/blob/master/gnu_awk.md
★ 10.1k Shell – 9 years ago
370
36
Scipy 1.0 released
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2017-October/037357.html
333
147
Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
https://slackhq.com/screen-sharing-in-slack-made-interactive-cf8816efaa01
317
161
How Unreal Renders a Frame
https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/how-unreal-renders-a-frame/
315
107
Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh
https://stratechery.com/2017/why-facebook-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-buy-tbh/
306
241
U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/business/senate-vote-wall-street-regulation.html
85
The Anti-Portfolio
https://www.bvp.com/portfolio/anti-portfolio
301
57
The geometry of Islamic art becomes a game
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/engare-review-spirographs-math-and-islamic-art-blend-for-quite-the-game/
280
149
Reverse engineering of competitor’s software cost company big
http://blog.internetcases.com/2017/10/24/reverse-engineering-of-competitors-software-cost-company-big/
265
108
ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver
https://github.com/lundman/zfsin
★ 1.2k C – 9 years ago
260
87
DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Five Users Over a Smiley Emoji Tweet
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171023/18275838465/doj-subpoenas-twitter-about-popehat-dissent-doe-others-over-smiley-emoji-tweet.shtml
237
73
Why Does the Neocortex Have Columns? A Theory of Learning Structure of the World [pdf]
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/09/28/162263.full.pdf
233
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The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land
223
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Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16538834/amazon-key-in-home-delivery-unlock-door-prime-cloud-cam-smart-lock
211
134
China temporarily shuts down thousands of factories in pollution crackdown
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-shuts-down-tens-of-thousands-of-factories-in-widespread-pollution-crackdown/ar-AAtZIqD
199
46
Node v8.8.0
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.8.0/
196
Anti-aging stem cell treatment proves successful in early human trials
https://newatlas.com/aging-frailty-stem-cell-treatment-human-trials/51867/
192
238
An Open Letter to Patreon
http://www.openlettertopatreon.com
186
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Most US jobs created since 2005 are not conventional full-time work
https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created-since-2005-are-temporary/
180
72
TileDB: Storing massive dense and sparse multi-dimensional array data
http://www.tiledb.io/
178
A README maturity model
https://github.com/LappleApple/feedmereadmes/blob/master/README-maturity-model.md
93
Show HN: US Stock Screener
https://stockrow.com/screener
170
Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014)
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/
164
34
Apollo Client 2.0
https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-client-2-0-5c8d0affcec7
163
60
Launch HN: Solugen (YC W17) – Plant Sugars to Hydrogen Peroxide
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15553285
160
177
Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/25/tesla-firings-spread-across-solarcity-employees-blindsided.html
153
71
Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation
https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-aggressive-moves-on-startups-threaten-innovation/
148
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The Downside of Full Pay Transparency
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-downside-of-full-pay-transparency-1502676360
131
Square Could Pass Twitter in Value
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/technology/jack-dorsey-twitter-square.html
141
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Thruster for Mars mission breaks records
http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/25192-thruster-for-mars-mission-breaks-records
138
55
Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders
https://hyperallergic.com/397995/wax-cylinder-optical-scanning-uc-berkeley/
136
GraphQL Fragments Are the Best Match for UI Components
https://blog.manifold.co/graphql-fragments-are-the-best-match-for-ui-components-72b8f61c20fe
133
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Why we’re closing Walnut
https://medium.com/@nickbkim/why-were-closing-walnut-a452225e7127
22
David Eppstein's Wikipedia Gallery Contributions
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:David_Eppstein/Gallery
132
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Colliding neutron stars falsify some theories of gravity
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/colliding-neutron-stars-decapitate-zombie-theory-of-gravity/
66
I practiced Ben Franklin's 13 virtue system for 3 years
https://medium.com/the-mission/this-300-year-old-system-will-help-you-become-the-best-version-of-yourself-1c0d3601ae68
125
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Congress votes to disallow consumers from suing Equifax
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/congress-votes-to-disallow-consumers-from-suing-equifax-and-other-companies-with-arbitration-agreements/
51
Atlantic salmon swim far and wide after fish farm collapse
http://kuow.org/post/atlantic-salmon-swim-far-and-wide-after-fish-farm-collapse
120
31
Build your own Terminal using Qt
https://donniewest.com/build-your-own-minimal-and-scriptable-terminal
171
Apple’s Struggle to Get the iPhone X to Market on Time
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/inside-apple-s-struggle-to-get-the-iphone-x-to-market-on-time
118
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/
114
Why scientists are redefining the kilogram
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/24/why-scientists-are-redefining-the-kilogram/
105
21
How we moved to Google Cloud using Consul and ZeroTier with zero downtime
https://tech.channable.com/posts/2017-10-25-how-we-moved-to-google-cloud-using-consul-and-zerotier.html
No, of that I'm innocent
https://scobleizer.blog/2017/10/25/no-of-that-im-innocent-sexual-harassment-assault-accusations/
95
18
CineForm Goes Open Source
http://cineform.blogspot.com/2017/10/cineform-goes-open-source.html
94
65
Lemon – An embeddable, lightweight programming language in ANSI C
https://github.com/lemon-lang/lemon
★ 501 C MIT– 9 years ago
Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security and Security Research
https://systemoverlord.com/2017/10/24/building-a-home-lab-for-offensive-security-basics.html
91
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Uncaptcha: Defeating Google's audio reCaptcha with 85% accuracy
https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha
★ 2.8k Python MIT– 9 years ago
38
How many URLs/Websites are blocked in India? Government gives different answers
https://factly.in/many-urlswebsites-blocked-india-government-two-different-answers/
90
24
Recursion, Tail Calls and Trampolines in JavaScript (2015)
http://www.datchley.name/recursion-tail-calls-and-trampolines/
37
DxO acquires Nik Collection assets from Google
https://nikcollection.dxo.com/
12
V8 Release 6.3
https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/10/v8-release-63.html
40
Capital-As-a-Service: A New Operating System for Early Stage Investing
https://medium.com/social-capital/capital-as-a-service-a-new-operating-system-for-early-stage-investing-6d001416c0df
86
15
Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/bringing-datacenter-scale-hardware-software-co-design-to-the-cloud-with-firesim-and-amazon-ec2-f1-instances/
28
Google soft launches collaborative Jupyter-like notebook
https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=/v2/external/notebooks/welcome.ipynb&recent=true&forceEdit=true&sandboxMode=true&scrollTo=9J7p406abzgl
82
76
China's Silk Road Illusions
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/10/25/chinas-silk-road-illusions/
78
Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Movement
https://medium.com/swlh/dont-build-a-startup-build-a-movement-15c31213168
42
Update the UK Traffic Signs Regulations to a Geometrically Correct Football
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/202305?reveal_response=yes
