541
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Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/
8 years ago
510
301
NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-systems-are-failing-to.html
458
286
Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037613
390
188
Postgres 11 – A First Look
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/09/20/postgresql-11-a-first-look/
389
126
Functional core, imperative shell (2012)
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/functional-core-imperative-shell
210
Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple
https://www.asaph.org/2018/09/jguitar-apple-ios-shortcut.html
303
127
Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation
https://github.com/NVIDIA/vid2vid
★ 8.7k Python – 8 years ago
258
104
Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/09/21/equifax-free-credit-freeze-new-law/1377815002/
249
98
A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wiener-my-lai-hugh-thompson-20180316-story.html#
248
64
Apple File System Reference [pdf]
https://developer.apple.com/support/apple-file-system/Apple-File-System-Reference.pdf
229
119
Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/how-to-make-a-racist-ai-without-really-trying/
218
97
Deep learning experiments in OCaml
https://blog.janestreet.com/deep-learning-experiments-in-ocaml/
92
Go team adding a Go language server to core
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/tools/+/136676#message-11c783bc9a9f6adf6119bbb85c89510fda25abe9
215
79
Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)
http://paulgraham.com/head.html
213
133
A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/dd52796e-5935-414e-af0c-de9686d02afa
192
56
Marzipan: Porting iOS Apps to the Mac
https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/porting-ios-apps-to-mac-marzipan-iosmac-uikit-appkit/
185
61
The Dangers of DNA Testing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/the-dangers-of-dna-testing.html
180
130
Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust
https://lineageos.org/engineering/Qualcomm-Firmware/
178
Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down
https://heapanalytics.com/blog/engineering/clocksource-aws-ec2-vdso
173
39
Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulating-cpython-c.html
170
82
What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1621
164
41
Cloudflare Ordered to Expose YTS, Showbox, and Popcorn Time Site 'Operators'
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-ordered-to-expose-yts-showbox-and-popcorn-time-site-operators-180919/
156
40
The South African mountains older than continents
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180920-the-south-african-mountains-older-than-continents
151
69
A guide to proper use of animation in UX
https://uxdesign.cc/the-ultimate-guide-to-proper-use-of-animation-in-ux-10bd98614fa9
148
54
Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf]
https://academics.rowan.edu/csm/departments/math/facultystaff/faculty/osler/Billions_pi_digits.pdf
144
116
C++ Core Coroutines Proposal [pdf]
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p1063r0.pdf
139
165
Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/09/19/decline-of-global-extreme-poverty-continues-but-has-slowed-world-bank
Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-smog-streak-20180921-story.html
44
Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)
http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/12/worst-puzzle-ever.html
53
How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi
https://aeon.co/essays/how-communist-bulgaria-became-a-leader-in-tech-and-sci-fi
125
19
Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two
https://blog.stoplight.io/writing-documentation-when-you-arent-a-technical-writer-part-two-59997587cc2a
111
Google workers discussed tweaking search after travel ban
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-workers-discussed-tweaking-search-function-to-counter-travel-ban-1537488472
105
207
How Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (2016)
http://features.crosscut.com/seattle-forward-thrust-sound-transit
103
45
Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06769-4
100
37
Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua [pdf]
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/pallene-sblp.pdf
94
51
After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hambach-forest-treehouse-eviction
7
Over 1,100 New Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade
http://blog.archive.org/2018/09/21/over-1100-new-arcade-machines-added-to-the-internet-arcade/
91
48
C++ Lifetime profile v1.0 posted
https://herbsutter.com/2018/09/20/lifetime-profile-v1-0-posted/
90
Tencent's AI plays StarCraft II, and wins over 90 percent of the time
https://www.eyerys.com/articles/news/tencents-ai-plays-and-defeats-starcraft-iis-built-ai-full-matches
87
10
Hayabusa-2: Japan’s rovers ready for touchdown on asteroid
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45578795
85
78
The epic rise and fall of the name Heather
https://qz.com/1390135/the-epic-rise-and-fall-of-the-name-heather/
84
8
The game industry of Iran (2016)
https://www.polygon.com/features/2016/1/14/10757460/the-game-industry-of-iran
81
Sloan Kettering’s Deal with Startup Ignites a New Uproar
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/health/memorial-sloan-kettering-cancer-paige-ai.html
80
Drug giants Novartis and Bayer fail to stop NHS offering cheaper eye treatment
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45588983
76
68
All the plastic you can and cannot recycle
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45496884?app=news.science_and_environment.story.45496884.page
75
9
Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/introduction-to-haproxy-stick-tables/
73
Twitch is reportedly blocked in China
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/20/twitch-blocked-china/
71
46
Firefox installs add-ons into your browser without consent, again
https://medium.com/@neothefox/firefox-installs-add-ons-into-your-browser-without-consent-again-d3e2c8e08587
The new Jaguar cars sound like spaceships, thanks to Richard Devine
http://cdm.link/2018/09/jaguar-richard-devine/
67
132
PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars
https://reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKCN1M12NT
26
This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer (2013)
https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer/
