2493
770
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
8 years ago
472
436
Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair
466
209
The Big Hack: Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, Chinese Government
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond
379
87
The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found
https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/10/04/the-apple-ii-source-code-for-the-logo-language-found/
371
74
GoogleMeetRoulette: Joining random meetings
https://www.martinvigo.com/googlemeetroulette
291
168
How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
https://medium.com/@shevski/how-solid-is-tims-plan-to-redecentralize-the-web-b163ba78e835
284
304
Go hits the concurrency nail on the head
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/go-hits-the-concurrency-nail-right-on-the-head/
281
173
Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
https://daringfireball.net/2018/10/bloomberg_the_big_hack
260
323
IQ Matters Less Than You Think
http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/your-iq-matters-less-than-you-think
221
166
Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-do-computers-use-so-much-energy/
208
66
A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/a-shadowy-op-ed-campaign-is-now-smearing-spacex-in-space-cities/
201
157
SQL as an API language
https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/#SQL_as_an_API_language
178
183
The growth in passive funds has caused markets to become more correlated?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-24/are-index-funds-communist
46
About the ZipCPU
http://zipcpu.com/about/zipcpu.html
170
40
Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html
169
50
Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45753455
156
47
Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news/2018/10/node-js-foundation-and-js-foundation-announce-intent-to-create-joint-organization-to-support-the-broad-node-js-and-javascript-communities/
153
56
“Social network” of brains lets people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612212/the-first-social-network-of-brains-lets-three-people-transmit-thoughts-to-each-others-heads/
14
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NprBQi0cSHU
149
83
Ask HN: How to start a startup that requires a high amount of initial capital?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18137132
145
126
Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset (2017)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-cobol/banks-scramble-to-fix-old-systems-as-it-cowboys-ride-into-sunset-idUSKBN17C0D8
143
38
Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/What-travelling-was-like-100-years-ago/
139
Blazor, a framework for browser-based .NET apps using WebAssembly [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-6pAxqAa4
137
53
Rethink Robotics shuts down
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/4/17935820/rethink-robotics-shuts-down-baxter-sawyer-robot-cobots
135
11
The interesting ideas in Datasette
https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/
134
123
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/10/4/17936626/leon-lederman-nobel-prize-medical-bills
133
9
Twenty Questions Of Maddening, Delicious Geometry
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018/10/03/twenty-questions-of-maddening-delicious-geometry/
132
70
First-ever DNSSEC root key rollover
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-you-need-know-about-first-ever-dnssec-root-key-rollover-october-11-2018
131
76
A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt nearly from scratch
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/a-remaster-with-no-old-code-crash-bandicoot-was-rebuilt-nearly-from-scratch/
122
36
Darpa Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scientists Claim
https://www.newsweek.com/darpa-biological-weapons-insects-scientists-warn-1152834
121
58
Apple Shortcuts User Guide
https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios
115
223
Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/what-simulation-hypothesis-why-some-think-life-simulated-reality-ncna913926
111
99
Netflix Is Forcing Hollywood into a Talent War
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/netflix-is-forcing-hollywood-into-a-talent-war
108
Police Use Fitbit Data to Charge 90-Year-Old Man in Stepdaughter’s Killing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/fitbit-murder-arrest.html
75
Japan set to allow gene-editing tools for research into early human development
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06847-7
105
0
Shasta: a free energy market embedded into ethereum
https://shasta.world/
102
33
D-Wave Launches Free Quantum Cloud Service
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/dwave-launches-free-quantum-cloud-service?href=
101
21
Scmutils in Clojure
https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils
★ 823 Clojure GPL-3.0– 8 years ago
4
Fuchsia’s Xi code editor is no longer a Google-owned project
https://9to5google.com/2018/10/02/xi-code-editor-no-longer-google-project/
92
27
Descent Source Code
https://github.com/videogamepreservation/descent
★ 422 C – 8 years ago
19
Synchronous languages
http://www-sop.inria.fr/meije/rp/ROS/Tt-SM.html
8
60 Years Photographing the North American Railroad
https://hyperallergic.com/404272/jim-shaughnessy-essential-witness-sixty-years-of-railroad-photography/
91
45
Ask HN: Open-source commitment for commercial software?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18136588
Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/technology/facebook-kavanaugh-nomination-kaplan.html
82
35
The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase
https://www.usv.com/blog/the-myth-of-the-infrastructure-phase
Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1047538991363489792
48
On McNeil Island, the only residents are dangerous sex offenders
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/03/dangerous-sex-offenders-mcneil-island-commitment-center
79
20
What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got-wrong-about-apple/
78
Baikal T1 MIPS Processor – The Last of the Mohicans?
https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/09/26/baikal-t1-last-mips-processor/
77
31
A kinda okay text generator
https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/
39
Heat Storage Hypocausts: Air Heating in the Middle Ages (2017)
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/03/heat-storage-hypocausts-air-heating-middle-ages.html