948
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Why Bother with What Three Words?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-words/
7 years ago
664
505
I Miss Rails
https://chanind.github.io/rails/2019/03/28/why-i-miss-rails.html
412
401
Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334482
387
98
Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-webassembly-compiler-runtime
363
83
Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few
https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8a42d368
354
39
I Built a Lisp Compiler
https://mpov.timmorgan.org/i-built-a-lisp-compiler/
331
44
Common statistical tests are linear models
https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/
320
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Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553
306
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An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/science/frogs-fungus-bd.html
287
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Lyft prices IPO at top of range
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/lyft-prices-ipo-at-top-of-range/
264
25
Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser
https://github.com/Tonejs/Tone.js
258
77
YC Interviews in India
https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-interviews-in-india/
246
147
Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3mqna/internal-documents-show-apple-is-capable-of-implementing-right-to-repair-legislation
241
155
BBC podcasts on third-party apps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/d68712d7-bd24-440f-94a0-1c6a4cdee71a
237
233
Looking for a new CEO
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/03/28/the-next-ceo-of-stack-overflow/
215
151
The FCC has fined robocallers $208M and collected $7k
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-208-million-its-collected-6790
212
14
Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/27/amazon-aurora:-on-avoiding-distributed-consensus-for-i-os,-commits,-and-membership-changes/
211
197
The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-26/the-world-s-cheapest-hospital-has-to-get-even-cheaper
207
54
New Bill Would Stop NSA’s Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Data
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wyden-paul-amash-lofgren-bill-would-stop-nsa-mass-collection-of-us-phone-data
203
72
A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There
http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/a-magician-explains-why-we-see-whats-not-there
193
How to open a microchip and see what’s inside
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/how-to-open-microchip-asic-what-inside
190
180
EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021
https://www.fastcompany.com/90326383/eu-to-ban-plastic-plates-cups-and-cutlery-by-2021
138
Oil traders are watching workers’ phones to spot problems at refineries
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/traders-can-now-spot-oil-refinery-problems-by-tracking-phones
176
129
Learning Ada
https://words.steveklabnik.com/learning-ada
163
177
Forget Bribery – The Real Scam Is Pretending That Degrees Have Value
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-28/admissions-bribery-scandal-pretending-degree-has-value-is-a-scam
158
52
The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of the Clicker Game Universal Paperclips
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-unexpected-philosophical-depths-of-the-clicker-game-universal-paperclips
152
18
Addition Font
https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html
145
85
Go 2018 Survey Results
https://blog.golang.org/survey2018-results
141
33
Stellarium 0.19
http://stellarium.org/release/2019/03/24/stellarium-0.19.0.html
128
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A woman who doesn't feel pain
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47719718
123
10
Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 22: Caveat Implementor
https://makingcomputerdothings.com/creating-a-starcraft-ai-part-22-caveat-implementor/
Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg Have Blown Up on Twitter, and in Betting Markets
https://readypipe.com/blog/yang-buttigieg/
118
37
Gödel Machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine
115
23
How to Dress Like an Ottoman
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illustrated-guide-to-ottoman-clothes
112
146
What did Google+ get right?
https://write.as/eriki/what-did-google-get-right
13
New LTE vulnerabilities discovered by KAIST [pdf]
https://syssec.kaist.ac.kr/pub/2019/kim_sp_2019.pdf
111
142
Facebook Accused by HUD of Housing Bias Over Use of Targeted Ads
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-28/facebook-violated-fair-housing-act-with-ad-practice-hud-charges
106
59
How researchers discovered we have “two brains” [video]
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p072zr9l/the-curious-case-of-the-man-with-two-brains-
102
53
How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/28/706838786/how-mosquitoes-sniff-out-human-sweat-to-find-us
Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful
https://www.exurbe.com/stoicisms-appeal-to-the-rich-and-powerful/
92
50
Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19515627
58
Lockheed’s D-21 Tagboard Supersonic Spy Drone
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27178/air-force-wanted-to-turn-skunk-works-mach-3-capable-recon-drone-into-a-nuclear-bomber
124
In Beijing, it’s often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-meituan-china-delivery-empire/
89
94
The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-plight-of-the-graying-tech-worker/
108
Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00893-5
86
64
Tech workers in China’s Silicon Valley face burnout before they reach 30
https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3002533/no-sleep-no-sex-no-life-tech-workers-chinas-silicon-valley-face
79
24
Observables, Side-Effects, and Subscriptions: Some Reactive Best Practices
https://blog.eyas.sh/2018/12/observables-side-effects-and-subscriptions/
75
Microsoft bans April's fools pranks
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283674/microsoft-april-fools-day-ban-pranks-internal-memo
Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks
https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/27/apple-3rd-gen-butterfly-keyboard-problems/
74
29
“The China Study” and Longevity
https://steemit.com/health/@engineerdiet/the-china-study-and-longevity
Wikimedia Foundation Joins the World Wide Web Consortium
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/28/joining-the-world-wide-web-consortium/
71
Radicle Architecture
http://radicle.xyz/blog/index.html
70
How do you compute the midpoint of an interval? (2014) [pdf]
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/576641/filename/computing-midpoint.pdf
'The Wake' Is an Unlikely Hit in an Imaginary Language (2015)
https://www.npr.org/2015/08/27/434970724/the-wake-is-an-unlikely-hit-in-an-imaginary-language
69
U.S. Sues Facebook for Housing Bias, Citing Ad and Data Practices
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/facebook-hud-discrimination.html
Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership
