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AV1: A new general-purpose video codec
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/av1/demo1.shtml
8 years ago
563
54
Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs
http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/
532
200
Don't give away historic details about yourself
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/
380
161
ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401
★ 12.1kC–8 years ago
376
135
Android container in Chrome OS
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/master/arc/container-bundle/
351
169
Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage
https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-04-03-incident-post-mortem
350
119
Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
https://github.com/sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng/blob/master/README.md
★ 6.3kJavaScriptMIT–8 years ago
327
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Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Representatives [pdf]
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20180411/108090/HHRG-115-IF00-Wstate-ZuckerbergM-20180411.pdf
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Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045
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Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/business/credit-card-signatures.html
312
43
The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes
http://jdlm.info/articles/2018/03/18/markov-decision-process-2048.html?href=
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Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/09/facebook-urged-to-make-gdpr-its-baseline-standard-globally/
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Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app
https://github.com/yue/wey
★ 1.6kJavaScript–8 years ago
252
12
Go-internals: Chapter 2, “Interfaces” released
https://github.com/teh-cmc/go-internals/blob/master/chapter2_interfaces/README.md
★ 7.9kGo–8 years ago
96
Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/19/instagram-ranked-worst-social-network-young-peoples-mental-health/
251
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FreedomBox
https://freedombox.org/
249
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Project from Hell (2008)
https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/project-from-hell/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
247
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Original Windows File Manager with enhancements
https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
★ 7kCMIT–8 years ago
242
87
Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
http://www.nber.org/papers/w24489
44
Qusim.py – A toy multi-qubit quantum computer simulator written in Python
https://github.com/adamisntdead/QuSimPy
★ 723PythonAGPL-3.0–8 years ago
238
OpenAI Charter
https://blog.openai.com/openai-charter/
231
73
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (2010) [pdf]
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/KILLINGSWORTH-WanderingMind.pdf
230
22
Lessons Learned Reproducing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper
http://amid.fish/reproducing-deep-rl
224
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Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/524610/?single_page=true
213
Weirdstuff Warehouse is closed
http://weirdstuff.com/
199
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Do What You Love and Starve? (2006)
http://www.martynemko.com/articles/do-what-you-love-and-starve_id1380
197
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Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-enters-dockless-bike-wars-with-jump-acquisition-1523280600
48
BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/its-not-just-spectre-researchers-reveal-more-branch-prediction-attacks/
195
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My experience with off-shoring teams and what went wrong
https://return.co.de/blog/articles/india-scaling-people/
189
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Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-09/home-values-are-rising-by-800-a-day-in-san-jose
58
Tinn: A tiny neural network library written in C99
https://github.com/glouw/tinn
★ 2.1kCMIT–8 years ago
188
28
A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
https://flaviocopes.com/chrome-devtools-tips/
185
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OkCupid's “Removed” Visitor API
https://zdware.com/2018/okcupid_removed_visitor_api/
182
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Time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shadows?
https://theconversation.com/its-time-for-third-party-data-brokers-to-emerge-from-the-shadows-94298
181
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A Python Interpreter Written in Python (2016)
http://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written-in-python.html
180
68
Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
http://shadyurl.com/
FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.17
★ 30.6kC++LGPL-2.1–8 years ago
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ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries
https://dyn.com/blog/ace-submarine-cable-cut-impacts-ten-countries/
165
56
Elm at Pacific Health Dynamics
https://mordrax.gitbooks.io/elm-at-phd/content/
37
Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02780-x
156
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RFC 7858: DNS over TLS (2016)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858
151
9
Rust Formal Verification Working Group
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-formal-verification-working-group/7240
144
Mythology About Security
https://gettys.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/mythology-about-security/
Probes Point to Northrop Grumman Errors in January SpaceX Spy-Satellite Failure
https://www.wsj.com/articles/probes-point-to-northrop-grumman-errors-in-january-spy-satellite-failure-1523220500
130
20
Leap Motion designed a $100 augmented reality headset with hand tracking
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17208192/leap-motion-project-north-star-augmented-reality-headset-open-source-concept
127
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85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Understanding of African Migration
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-85000-year-old-finger-bone-could-complicate-our-understanding-african-migration-180968720/?no-ist
11
Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story of a Russian Boy's Photos
https://flashbak.com/finding-dmitry-magical-story-russian-boys-photos-396364/
113
Rationale: Or why am I bothering to rewrite nanomsg?
https://nanomsg.github.io/nng/RATIONALE.html
112
31
Crystals That May Have Helped Vikings Navigate Northern Seas
https://nytimes.com/2018/04/06/science/vikings-navigation-sunstones.html
An interactive guide to learning Rust
https://github.com/toidiu/learn-rust
★ 357Rust–8 years ago
110
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Show HN: Turn Touch wooden smart home remote now shipping
https://turntouch.com
106
10
Course: Mathematics for machine learning
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine-learning
57
Email doesn’t disappear
https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/04/09/email-doesnt-disappear/
78
Spyce Kitchen, a robotic chef built by four recent M.I.T. grads
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/when-a-robot-makes-you-dinner
102
13
Incrementally Improving the DOM
http://blog.functorial.com/posts/2018-04-08-Incrementally-Improving-The-DOM.html
97
18
Tracking is the opposite of freedom
http://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/172752515693/tracking-is-the-opposite-of-freedom
95
The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/upshot/the-10-year-baby-window-that-is-the-key-to-the-womens-pay-gap.html
94
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What makes a tree a tree?
https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2018/what-makes-tree-tree
90
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Don’t Do for Money What Others Do for Love
https://medium.com/@ThatBJTerry/never-do-for-money-what-others-do-for-love-28351bfb2f4
86
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Solid ship ballast from the age of sail tells surprising stories about history
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/how-bomb-debris-from-bristol-england-made-a-road-in-nyc/
Detecting Methane from Miles Away
https://cires.colorado.edu/news/detecting-methane-miles-away
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