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Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/
7 years ago
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Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2018/07/21/myth-debugging-wii-more-demanding-emulate-gamecube/
255
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The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446
253
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GitLab is now running on GCP
https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/1028266757188870150
246
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China is detaining a million Uighur muslims in a secret camp
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45147972
244
21
TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes
https://github.com/umpox/TinyEditor
★ 2.3kHTMLMIT–7 years ago
243
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Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45152546
235
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The Xi Text Engine CRDT
https://github.com/google/xi-editor/blob/e8065a3993b80af0aadbca0e50602125d60e4e38/doc/crdt-details.md
★ 19.8kRustApache-2.0–7 years ago
197
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Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/08/google-public-dns-turns-8888-years-old.html
195
49
What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do to Your Brain?
https://lithub.com/what-does-immersing-yourself-in-a-book-do-to-your-brain/
189
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Advocates say paper ballots are safest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/advocates-say-paper-ballots-are-safest
165
Introducing Electron Fiddle
https://medium.com/@felixrieseberg/introducing-electron-fiddle-1de2be1ba6e7
164
Meteor showers from space
https://www.meteorshowers.org/
162
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Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework
https://bulma.io/
159
Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/08/02/prefab-housing-complex-for-uc-berkeley-students-built-in-four-days
154
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On Apple's Love Affair with Swift
https://stefan-lesser.com/2018/06/20/on-apples-love-affair-with-swift/
61
Bethesda blocks resale of used game
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17661254/bethesda-sell-used-games-amazon-block
150
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Vert.x native: how to run a JVM app in 10Mb of RAM
https://www.jetdrone.xyz/2018/08/10/Vertx-native-image-10mb.html
148
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Bayesian analysis suggests that John Lennon wrote the music for 'In My Life'
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/11/637468053/a-songwriting-mystery-solved-math-proves-john-lennon-wrote-in-my-life
141
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Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (2014)
https://techblog.jeppson.org/2014/11/redshift-a-better-flux-program-for-linux/
133
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Porting SBCL to the RISC-V
http://christophe.rhodes.io/notes/blog/posts/2018/beginning_an_sbcl_port/
126
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Show HN: A parser for electronic component descriptions
https://github.com/monostable/electro-grammar
★ 279JavaScriptMIT–7 years ago
121
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'Intelligent' crows to pick up litter at French theme park
https://www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-tourism-birds-offbeat_2031808.html
115
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Tech-support scammers know everything about my computer, Dell customer says
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/ongoing-scam-is-still-stoking-concerns-dell-customer-data-was-breached/
107
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Startup Had ‘Masturbation’ Zone, Exec Who Took Off Pants in Meeting: Lawsuit
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/02/her-tech-boss-took-his-pants-off-in-meeting-that-was-far-from-the-only-issue-lawsuit/
101
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Yagni (2015)
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html
98
43
Publii – open source static CMS for everyone
https://github.com/GetPublii/Publii
★ 7.1kHTMLGPL-3.0–7 years ago
92
45
Hollywood gets its own open-source foundation
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/10/hollywood-gets-its-own-open-source-foundation/
90
6
Regex Dictionary
https://visca.com/regexdict/
88
42
What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/?single_page=true
86
PC Monitors: The Evolution of LED Backlights
https://pcmonitors.info/articles/the-evolution-of-led-backlights/
78
Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a22674251/air-force-bomb-forest-fires/
10
Vkvg: Vulkan vector drawing, trying to stay close to Cairo API
https://github.com/jpbruyere/vkvg
★ 809CMIT–7 years ago
77
35
AWS error exposed GoDaddy business secrets
https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-error-exposed-godaddy-server-secrets/?ref
76
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'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added
http://golang.org/cl/128359
Trap Street
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
69
Mysterious Musical Stones of Ringing Rocks Park in Pennsylvania
http://strangesounds.org/2013/06/geological-oddity-the-mysterious-musical-stones-of-ringing-rocks-park-in-pennsylvania.html
15
To understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/style/numtot-urbanism-memes.html
64
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Burying ‘One Child’ Limits, China Pushes Women to Have More Babies
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/world/asia/china-one-child-policy-birthrate.html
62
12
NASA rockets once flew from launch pad in Michigan wilderness
https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/rockets_once_flew_at_launch_pa.html
60
17
Show HN: CattlePi automated setup and updates for Raspberry Pi(s)
https://cattlepi.com/
8
Open Logic Project: An Open-Source, Collaborative Logic Text
http://openlogicproject.org/
58
3
FOSDEM 2019 – Call for participation
https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-08-10-call-for-participation/
57
29
Show HN: A cross platform app for mirroring the clipboard between synced devices
https://github.com/tiagovtristao/clipmir-desktop
★ 114JavaScriptMIT–7 years ago
Tech-support scammers know everything about my computer, Dell customer says