717
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
7 years ago
576
298
PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
https://quariety.com/2018/07/20/peertube-the-decentralized-youtube-succeeds-in-crowdfunding/
412
188
The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720
300
135
Kanban for E-Mail
https://kanbanmail.app/
278
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Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/upshot/nike-vaporfly-shoe-strava.html
273
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Public.resource.org wins appeal on right to publish the law [pdf]
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/533D47AF883C8194852582CD0052B8D4/$file/17-7035.pdf
256
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Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network
https://opnsec.com/2018/07/into-the-borg-ssrf-inside-google-production-network/
249
34
Classic Algorithms Implemented in JavaScript
https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms/blob/master/README.md
★ 195.8kJavaScriptMIT–7 years ago
234
89
Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_woodworking_riving.htm
230
192
What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?
https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/what-tech-should-you-use-in-2018
223
107
A used voting machine from the 2016 election
https://twitter.com/AltUSPressSec/status/1019955719964160006
209
161
The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals
https://blog.scottlogic.com/2018/07/20/wasm-future.html
201
143
Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have
https://multinational.io/
195
120
Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveillance fears
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/red-shell-game-tracking-gdpr
Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach
http://www.erica.biz/2018/cockroach/
185
53
Introducing the Python Language Server
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/07/18/introducing-the-python-language-server/
182
109
Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/advanced-cars/darpa-vehicle-technologies
173
22
Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]
https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
153
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Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/20/waymos-autonomous-vehicles-are-driving-25000-miles-every-day/
152
72
Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmkdd/counterfeit-iphone-x-review-and-teardown
148
49
Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/darpa-wants-your-insect-scale-robots-for-a-micro-olympics
144
3
YC Startup School Library
https://www.startupschool.org/library
138
50
The Data Transfer Project
https://datatransferproject.dev/
134
28
A Mansion Filled with Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young
https://undark.org/article/wilo-evans-broad-band/
126
141
Where the Super-Rich Go to Buy Their Second Passport
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-buying-citizenship/
123
Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/07/20/civilization-vi-removes-red-shell/
122
69
Egypt sarcophagus: Mystery black tomb opened in Alexandria
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44893804
121
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Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY labor board says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/uber-drivers-employees-for-unemployment-purposes-ny-labor-board-says/
118
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Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (2015)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/urine-not-chlorine-causes-red-eyes-pools-180955712/?no-ist
64
Command-line apps with Clojure and GraalVM: 300x better startup times
https://www.astrecipes.net/blog/2018/07/20/cmd-line-apps-with-clojure-and-graalvm/
70
Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/golang-announce/RVR0FzIKBsU/PAxl4-ZVCAAJ
117
71
Tariffs China imposes on every country
http://thesoundingline.com/the-tariffs-china-actually-imposes-on-every-country-including-the-us/
115
76
Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborations
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/facebook-ai-research-expands-with-new-academic-collaborations/
114
75
We need a new model for tech journalism
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/tech-journalism.php
113
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As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/as-the-spacex-steamroller-surges-european-rocket-industry-vows-to-resist/
112
A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/summer/statement/tiny-village-in-vermont-was-the-perfect-spot-hide-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn
A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment
https://blog.cotten.io/bitcoin-money-laundering-and-muellers-12-e2fa91097e12
29
Announcing Rust 1.27.2
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/07/20/Rust-1.27.2.html
106
10
New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/diagnostics/new-wearable-sensor-detects-stress-hormone-in-sweat
103
45
A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/
102
Open plan offices don’t live up to the hype, finds Harvard Business School study
https://www.fastcompany.com/90204593/heres-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-open-plan-offices
98
The sad state of RSS on the Mac
https://blog.notmyhostna.me/sad-state-of-rss-on-the-mac/
96
Netflix Makes a Statement in India with “Sacred Games”
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/07/19/netflix-makes-a-statement-in-india-with-sacred-games
65
Apple fans returning new MacBook Pros with Core i9
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-fans-returning-macbook-pros-154205304.html
97
36
A Trillion Worlds
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-trillion-worlds/
25
Singapore personal data hack hits 1.5m
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44900507
94
55
Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/are-things-getting-better-or-worse
85
19
Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/
83
A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workweek-new-zealand.html
82
23
The Healing Buzz of “Drunk History”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/the-healing-buzz-of-drunk-history
78
77
Getting Started with DNS over HTTPS on Firefox
https://medium.com/@nykolas.z/getting-started-with-dns-over-https-on-firefox-e9b5fc865a43
Interview with Patrick Collison
http://growth.eladgil.com/book/chapter-5-organizational-structure-and-hypergrowth/you-cant-delegate-culture-an-interview-with-patrick-collison/
43
DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and confuse their customers
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-alternatives-privacy-duckduckgo-search-engine-browser-chrome-eu-fine-a8455321.html
How much does Netflix spend on Amazon AWS?
https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Netflix-spend-on-Amazon-AWS?share=1
No Man’s Sky developer Sean Murray: ‘It was as bad as things can get’
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/20/no-mans-sky-next-hello-games-sean-murray-harassment-interview
57
Ask HN: What should I do to prepare for a meeting about my annual raise?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17576382
46
Shocks to military support and subsequent assassinations in Ancient Rome
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176518302532
73
6
DNS Zombies (2016)
https://blog.apnic.net/2016/04/04/dns-zombies/
14
Show HN: Musoq – Use SQL on various data sources
https://github.com/Puchaczov/Musoq
★ 503C#MIT–7 years ago
67
42
Show HN: Amatino – A double-entry accounting API
https://amatino.io/
66
84
What Stays on Facebook and What Goes? The Social Network Cannot Answer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/technology/facebook-misinformation.html
PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding