1854
656
Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/04628.html
8 years ago
1224
153
Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/370133-montana-becomes-first-state-to-implement-net-neutrality-rules-following-fcc
621
207
“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/01/get-jail-free-cards.html
510
130
Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine
https://cloud.google.com/elixir/
351
313
Netflix is now worth more than $100B
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/22/netflix-is-now-worth-more-than-100b/
338
222
SpaceX can't test fire its Falcon Heavy rocket due to the government shutdown
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2018/01/21/spacex-unable-test-fire-falcon-heavy-rocket-ksc-due-government-shutdown/1052438001/
337
58
How to Study: A Brief Guide
https://www.cse.buffalo.edu//~rapaport/howtostudy.html
328
310
Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/12/8768827/seniors-aging-car-driving
321
186
Thousands of Turks accused of using Bylock app despite never having used it
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/terrifying-how-a-single-line-of-computer-code-put-thousands-of-innocent-turks-in-jail-1.4495021
309
254
Why is Rust difficult?
https://vorner.github.io/difficult.html
307
19
20 Years of LWN
https://lwn.net/Articles/744730/
306
42
PyTorch, a year in
http://pytorch.org/2018/01/19/a-year-in.html?utm_campaign=Revue%20newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=The%20Wild%20Week%20in%20AI
298
110
219 days of postmarketOS
https://www.postmarketos.org/blog/2017/12/31/219-days-of-postmarketOS/
291
112
Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck
https://bringatrailer.com/2018/01/20/worked-for-52-years-still-running-1912-c-t-4wd-electric-truck/
285
225
Turning Down a Blockchain Job Offer
https://hookrace.net/blog/turning-down-blockchain/?
259
221
One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month
https://www.dvhardware.net/article68109.html
256
88
BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access
https://thenewstack.io/beyondcorp-google-ditched-virtual-private-networking-internal-applications/?_lrsc=736ef0f1-9e4b-4970-81fc-82957c3e6c0f
249
245
Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page
https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/2010/files
★ 1.7k HTML – 8 years ago
243
132
German Union Steps Up Fight for ‘Modern’ 28-Hour Workweek
http://www.industryweek.com/labor-employment-policy/german-union-steps-fight-modern-28-hour-workweek
233
120
China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-unhampered-by-rules-races-ahead-in-gene-editing-trials-1516562360
229
97
Y Combinator is accepting applications for S18
http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/#Summer2018
223
102
New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-22/new-zealand-successfully-launches-first-rocket-into-space/9347886
218
49
What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?
https://anniecherkaev.com/grep-your-way-to-freedom
211
67
Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report
210
180
The U.S. will impose duties on solar equipment and washing machines made abroad
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/trump-taxes-solar-imports-in-biggest-blow-to-clean-energy-yet
89
Blizzard games were vulnerable to DNS rebinding attack
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1471&desc=2
203
65
Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance
https://jb-rubinovitz.ghost.io/dark-ux-and-health-insurance/
194
162
How to tame the tech titans
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21735021-dominance-google-facebook-and-amazon-bad-consumers-and-competition-how-tame
191
53
Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++
https://github.com/OculusVR/Flicks
★ 1.3k C++ – 8 years ago
174
36
Fourier transforms of images (2017)
https://plus.maths.org/content/fourier-transforms-images
167
51
Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
https://gravitational.com/blog/running-postgresql-on-kubernetes/
154
59
Private landowners blocking access to public lands in the American West
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/21/public-land-battle-private-landowners-montana
145
My Forgotten Language: the brain can lose and reclaim an abandoned mother tongue
http://discovermagazine.com/2017/nov/my-forgotten-language
133
23
Decades of movie poster history go online
http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2018/01/18/decades-of-movie-poster-history-goes-online/
127
Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off
https://www.recode.net/2018/1/22/16911692/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-trading-coinbase-revenue-secondary
121
17
Universities Are Becoming Hedge Funds with Schools Attached (2016)
https://www.thenation.com/article/universities-are-becoming-billion-dollar-hedge-funds-with-schools-attached/
107
Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (2014)
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract
115
84
Scammers Using Fake News to Screw with Bitcoin Investors
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/heres-how-scammers-are-using-fake-news-to-screw-with-bitcoin?utm_term=.hudE0Br1Z1#.buz6Np54A4
113
10
Faster R-CNN: Down the rabbit hole of modern object detection
https://tryolabs.com/blog/2018/01/18/faster-r-cnn-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-modern-object-detection/
117
Microsoft’s PowerShell Core Offers Cross-Platform Automation
https://thenewstack.io/cross-platform-open-source-powershell-goes-net-core-runs/
109
Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/your-candy-wrappers-are-listening
108
41
Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/22/nan-goldin-interview-us-opioid-epidemic-heroin-addict-oxycontin-sackler-family
226
Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/technology/facebook-news-feed.html
105
35
The Evolution of Pleasure and Pain
http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/antonio-damasio-tells-us-why-pain-is-necessary
40
Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners/
104
77
Dr. Seuss’ arms race allegory
https://www.dailyfig.com/2016/08/15/dr-seuss-satrical-lesson-on-nuclear-armament-and-the-absurdity-of-war/
103
34
Objects larger than the wavelength of sound in an acoustic tractor beam
https://phys.org/news/2018-01-world-powerful-acoustic-tractor-pave.html
95
The Peterloo Massacre of 1819
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/04/peterloo-massacre-bloody-clash-that-changed-britain