621
290
An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-artwork-banksy-shredded-selling-13-million-sothebys
7 years ago
536
137
Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition
https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/programmers-play-minecrafts-inner-workings
458
308
Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-china-hacking-bloomberg-servers-spies-fbi
410
123
5G Got me Fired
https://medium.com/@dvorak/5g-got-me-fired-ce407e584c4a
384
369
Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/
310
80
Writing system software: code comments
http://antirez.com/news/124
284
272
The Python Unicode Mess
http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9938-the-python-unicode-mess
245
104
Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
https://antipolygraph.org/statements/statement-038.shtml
235
160
Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
https://ifixit.org/blog/11673/
217
188
The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/smarter-living/the-dutch-reach-save-bicyclists-lives-bicycle-safety-drivers.html
210
233
Brave – A private, secure and fast browser
https://brave.com/index/
190
33
NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf]
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf
183
46
Ham vs. Ham as Radio Amateurs Are in Conflict with ARRL
https://perens.com/static/ARRL/TransparencyOctober2018.html
178
38
Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician
http://standupmaths.com/
171
47
How not to say the wrong thing (2013)
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/07/opinion/la-oe-0407-silk-ring-theory-20130407
169
84
Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
https://github.com/oscarmorrison/md-page
★ 1.3kJavaScriptMIT–7 years ago
166
95
Why Patterns Failed and Why You Should Care
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-10.html#e2018-10-05T15_39_10.htm
161
Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish traffic from center
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/05/inenglish/1538733317_890210.html
Flying a Cessna 172 for 65 days nonstop
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2008/march/01/endurance-test-circa-1958
152
21
Adding an Effect System to OCaml [video]
https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/effective-programming/
148
85
Supply Chain Security Is the Whole Enchilada, but Who’s Willing to Pay for It?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/supply-chain-security-is-the-whole-enchilada-but-whos-willing-to-pay-for-it/
145
32
New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright
144
30
Show HN: Trigonoparty – JavaScript trigonometry visualization
https://ramesaliyev.com/trigonoparty/
50
On the Law of Diminishing Specialization
http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/10/03/on-the-law-of-diminishing-specialization/
141
37
How to read Kafka: part I
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/10/how-to-read-kafka-part-i
131
29
The Prolog Story (2010)
http://kylecordes.com/2010/the-prolog-story
128
43
Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stripe-payments-apple-amazon-facebook
125
59
Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords
https://github.com/jcs/login_duress
★ 108C–7 years ago
119
54
AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-service-operator-kubernetes-available/
109
12
Oxford Electric Bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
97
The Scots Language
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language
90
35
Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant a scathing story about SpaceX
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-may-have-used-firm-to-plant-anti-spacex-oped-2018-10?r=US&IR=T
83
We Found a Way to Increase Voter Turnout in Texas, but Texas Isn’t Interested
https://medium.com/s/story/texas-rejected-1000s-of-legally-submitted-voter-registration-forms-days-before-the-deadline-d4dbc7fa8504
82
14
Formalizing 100 theorems in Coq
https://madiot.fr/coq100/
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