571
105
Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-echolocate
7 years ago
384
229
Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18208076
334
295
The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-the-real-reason-we-havent-directly-detected-dark-matter-3d04021b314e
322
24
CSS Layout cookbook
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_cookbook
252
22
A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack (2013)
http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html
241
111
Ten years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1050990035892199424.html
220
192
It’s better to be born rich than gifted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/09/its-better-be-born-rich-than-talented/
191
9
The Big List of RPG Plots
https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-big-list-of-rpg-plots.html
185
134
The Magic Leap Con
https://gizmodo.com/the-magic-leap-con-1829716266
174
140
On Cash
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/10/11/On-Cash
167
121
Why Did China’s Biggest Movie Star, and the Interpol Chief, Vanish?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-did-chinas-biggest-movie-star-and-the-interpol-chief-vanish
163
38
The true power of regular expressions (2012)
https://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html
159
78
Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used against us
https://privacyinternational.org/feature/1064/invisible-manipulation-10-ways-our-data-being-used-against-us
157
76
Business networking for nerds (2017)
http://benjaminreinhardt.com/networking-for-nerds/
154
88
VSCode silently opts you in to data collection
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting
149
40
MPEG-G: the ugly
https://datageekdom.blogspot.com/2018/09/
143
49
Firebase outages and misleading status reporting
https://medium.com/@scosta/why-firebase-sucks-ce5d2302eb20
139
12
The Murgia Hack System
http://mhsys.org/notes/
35
Richard Branson suspends Saudi Arabia’s investment over missing journalist
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/13/17967954/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi
124
25
Rapids – Open GPU Data Science
http://rapids.ai/
122
68
Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event
https://9to5google.com/2018/10/11/the-dirty-word-android-dead-made-by-google/
6
Thieves and Geeks: Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities
https://www.recordedfuture.com/russian-chinese-hacking-communities/
119
69
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-blindspot-rp
107
82
How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/13/cops-disable-face-id/
11
Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard
https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/10/chess-game-using-racket-s-pasteboard.html
104
98
Theranos Criminal Case Is Broader Than Publicly Disclosed, Prosecutors Say
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/theranos-criminal-case-is-broader-than-disclosed-u-s-says?srnd=premium
41
Show HN: Oat++ – Zero-dependency C++ framework for high-performance web services
https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp
★ 8.5kC++Apache-2.0–7 years ago
101
62
The Employee Engagement Myth
https://medium.com/@lukethomas14/the-employee-engagement-myth-3885526782d7
Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/10/microsoft-oin-exfat/
8
Big Integer Design
https://www.bearssl.org/bigint.html
95
26
Thank you for calling tech support, now please die (2015)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/thank-you-for-calling-tech-support-now-please-die/
93
99
U.S. Robocall Data
https://robocallindex.com
90
18
A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00990
89
Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to Record His Own Death
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206059
47
Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/saudi-arabia-arms-sales.html
87
32
Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should be outraged
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/incarcerated-pennsylvanians-now-have-to-pay-150-to-read-we-should-all-be-outraged/2018/10/11/51f548b8-cbd9-11e8-a85c-0bbe30c19e8f_story.html
81
23
Are influencers overrated? New Study questions effectiveness of targeting “hubs”
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/are-influencers-overrated
74
73
Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers
https://torrentfreak.com/epic-games-sues-youtuber-golden-modz-over-magical-fortnite-powers-181012/
Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-mathematicians-possibility-gravitational.html
153
Defamation lawsuit over “Shitty Media Men” spreadsheet could break new ground
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/google-fight-subpoena-demands-shitty-media-men-spreadsheet-1151932
44
Panspermia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
17
Tribler Invented 'Paid' Torrent Seeding Over a Decade Ago
https://torrentfreak.com/tribler-invented-paid-torrent-seeding-over-a-decade-ago-181013/
19
Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust
https://gankro.github.io/blah/rust-layouts-and-abis
70
4
Setting, Elaborating, Reflecting on Goals Improves Academic Performance (2010) [pdf]
http://individual.utoronto.ca/jacobhirsh/publications/GoalSettingJAP2010.pdf
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