625
274
“Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/78rhz7/this_startup_asked_me_to_do_a_project_for_an/
8 years ago
623
249
Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/26/559733837/monsanto-and-the-weed-scientists-not-a-love-story
457
115
Georgia election server wiped after lawsuit filed
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/26/georgia-election-server-wiped-after-lawsuit-filed/
450
564
New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy-property-ban-coalition-talks-prime-minister-jacinda-arden-a8017261.html
430
277
Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects
http://www.nature.com/news/many-junior-scientists-need-to-take-a-hard-look-at-their-job-prospects-1.22879
427
193
Alan Kay on Lisp
https://www.quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-mean-by-Lisp-is-the-greatest-single-programming-language-ever-designed/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
354
316
Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-store-robot-program-expands-2017-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29
285
225
Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/opinion/work-culture-video-games-crunch.html
272
131
Suicide Linux
https://qntm.org/suicide
271
148
Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/index.html
267
39
Learning a hierarchy
https://blog.openai.com/learning-a-hierarchy/
247
99
First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/small-asteroid-or-comet-visits-from-beyond-the-solar-system
237
23
The Drive Home
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfBRX
223
226
Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-jump-idUSKBN1CV1JP
217
95
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales Up 34% to $43.7B
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2311821
214
96
Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/introducing-amazon-ec2-p3-instances/
208
291
Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/rising-rents-are-pushing-more-tenants-past-the-breaking-point
206
108
Vitamin B6 and B12 Supplements Appear to Cause Cancer in Men
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/b12-energy/537654?single_page=true
190
65
CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s More Precise
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609203/crispr-20-is-here-and-its-way-more-precise/
180
312
Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/Announcement-RT-and-Sputnik-Advertising.html
CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s More Precise