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How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/chrome-adblocker
8 years ago
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Video editing with Python
https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy
★ 14.5kPythonMIT–8 years ago
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Best practices for user account, authorization and password management
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/01/12-best-practices-for-user-account.html
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“Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)
http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html?utm=email
263
42
XXY Oscilloscope
https://dood.al/oscilloscope/
240
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HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board
https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/
217
211
The Shallowness of Google Translate
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/?single_page=true
202
33
Progressing from Tech to Leadership
https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2018/02/on-leadership.html
201
30
Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2017
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Q2soXY2Zi9OhoVQBXYFIZywZXCPl4M_
193
69
Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years on an idea many other scientists dismissed
https://torontolife.com/tech/ai-superstars-google-facebook-apple-studied-guy
188
47
Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299125
183
109
ECMAScript 2018: final feature set
http://2ality.com/2017/02/ecmascript-2018.html
177
136
Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16296200
164
120
Safari Password Generation
https://twitter.com/_inside/status/959549503920660480
157
172
Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/science/plants-consciousness-anesthesia.html
150
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FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets
https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=22494&omniRss=press_releasesAoc&cid=102_P_R
148
46
The Origin of the word Daemon (2002)
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html
138
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The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West
https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21732706-britain-and-china-see-each-other-through-narcotic-haze-opium-wars-still-shape
131
105
Switch to Windows 95
https://blog.krnl386.com/index.php?post/2018/02/03/Switch-to-Windows-95
127
19
Japan’s SS-520 CubeSat Launch Vehicle Achieves Success on Second Try
http://spaceflight101.com/japan-ss-520-5-launch-success/
125
13
Modernish: a shell moderniser library
https://github.com/modernish/modernish#modernish-a-shell-moderniser-library
★ 937ShellISC–8 years ago
124
130
Turning a Job Opening into a Dream Job for Top Talent
https://medium.com/javascript-scene/how-to-turn-a-job-opening-into-a-dream-job-for-top-talent-14b63f03146d
114
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The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Office in 2018
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/entry/science-candidates_us_5a74fffde4b06ee97af2ae60
113
107
Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonomous car
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/why-self-driving-cars-may-be-heaven-for-investigating-crimes-and-accidents/
56
The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html
112
JITing PostgreSQL using LLVM [pdf]
http://anarazel.de/talks/fosdem-2018-02-03/jit.pdf
iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review
http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180202/
25
How it works: Compiler Explorer
https://xania.org/201609/how-compiler-explorer-runs-on-amazon
102
Slack: Other browsers require significant effort so we're focused on Chrome
https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800
101
68
How Backblaze Got Started (2017)
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-backblaze-got-started/?hn=1
100
17
Amazon Aurora Postgres: First Thoughts
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazon-aurora-postgres-first-thoughts-eric-green/
96
16
Standard SQL features where PostgreSQL beats its competitors
https://www.slideshare.net/MarkusWinand/standard-sql-features-where-postgresql-beats-its-competitors
92
The Story of Tetris [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8
86
23
Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed hunting
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/amon-cie020218.php
82
12
FOSDEM 2018 – Live Streaming
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/streaming/
81
In Praise of Theory in Design Research: How Levi-Strauss Redefined Workflow
https://www.epicpeople.org/theory-in-design-research/
80
58
Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoline engine
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a15915023/mazda-skyactiv-3-gas-clean-as-ev/
9
Simple blood test spots dementia protein
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01466-8
78
Sequoia Capital plans $8B global fund, eyes China investors
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sequoia-fundraising/sequoia-capital-plans-8-billion-global-fund-eyes-china-investors-sources-idUSKBN1FK0G3
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Detecting Consciousness (2017) [pdf]
https://www.alleninstitute.org/media/filer_public/3e/7a/3e7aabb0-5da7-4915-b4b6-2aa896c8faee/2017_11_howtomakeaconsciousnessmeter.pdf
98
With ePrivacy looming, German publishers scramble to get users logged in
https://digiday.com/media/eprivacy-looming-german-publishers-scramble-get-users-logged/
72
Parallel C++ on AWS Lambda for CRISPR
https://benchling.engineering/powering-crispr-with-aws-lambda-f22c151a1ffc
Catalog of Missing Devices: Gadgets that could exist if not for copyright laws
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/catalog-missing-devices-illustrates-gadgets-could-and-should-exist
61
Smart homes and vegetable peelers
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/1/4/smart-homes-and-vegetable-peelers
Hiring Developers: look for the ability to abstract and not for experience
https://blog.rinatussenov.com/hiring-software-developers-look-for-the-ability-to-abstract-and-not-for-experience-24ac483cc1ea
66
29
How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter
https://medium.com/javascript-scene/how-one-jira-ticket-made-my-employer-1mm-month-7-metrics-that-actually-matter-ffb5b2376a6b
65
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Memory Safety in Rust: A Case Study with C
http://willcrichton.net/notes/rust-memory-safety/
Best practices for user account, authorization and password management