1451
216
I made a smart watch from scratch
https://m.imgur.com/a/FSBwD3g
7 years ago
883
414
Have a personal web site
https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/04/29/personal-web-sites/?c=1
702
344
Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors
https://twitter.com/ericschmidt/status/1123324575436214272
440
237
Python at Netflix
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/python-at-netflix-bba45dae649e
423
218
Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
https://80000hours.org/2019/04/career-advice-i-wish-id-been-given-when-i-was-young/
397
167
Golden: Mapping human knowledge
https://golden.com/blog/introducing-golden/
375
87
Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images
https://search.creativecommons.org/
341
152
How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about rare diseases
http://www.cureffi.org/2019/04/29/financial-modeling-in-rare-disease/
323
95
Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding
https://soul.dev/playground/?id=55e627cb87ad63674a8c07cf3664991d
294
166
The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/29/are-the-hyper-specialist-shops-of-berlin-the-future-of-retail
277
65
Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights
https://globalnews.ca/news/5203960/yvr-rejects-ads/
273
104
Now dev – Serverless on localhost
https://zeit.co/blog/now-dev
272
99
UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)
https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/1700/new-report-reveals-uk-police-are-secretly-downloading-content-suspects-mobile
130
Librem One – A growing bundle of ethical services
https://librem.one/
267
89
Deep learning outperformed dermatologists in melanoma image classification task
https://www.ejcancer.com/article/S0959-8049(19)30221-7/fulltext
261
102
Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-twisted-graphene-became-the-big-thing-in-physics-20190430/
255
287
A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/upshot/health-care-huge-price-discrepancies.html
252
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Teen Suicide Spiked After Debut Of Netflix's '13 Reasons Why,' Study Says
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=718529255
251
49
Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on 250M Protein Sequences
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/622803v1
241
114
U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/world/europe/rape-victim-data-privacy-uk.html
23
Anatomy of an ELF executable
https://kishuagarwal.github.io/life-of-a-binary.html
211
18
Y Combinator's Essential Startup Advice – Michael Seibel [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35jCapHmug
208
Google Will Eat Itself (2005)
http://www.gwei.org
207
115
The Remote Manifesto
https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
331
It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opinion/contributors/learning-french-in-middle-age.html
205
Facebook is redesigning its core app
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523265/facebook-events-groups-redesign-news-feed-features-f8-2019
203
DHS Asserting Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-documents-reveal-dhs-asserting-broad-unconstitutional-authority-search-travelers
199
126
Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/alphabet-revenue-misses-analysts-estimates-shares-fall
194
20
How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open Data
https://samc1213.github.io/2019/04/29/rideshare-dataset-getting-started/
190
279
A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/in-silicon-valley-the-quest-to-make-gasoline-out-of-thin-air?
188
79
TeX Live 2019
https://tug.org/texlive/
185
94
Fedora 30
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/
162
77
NSA says warrantless searches of Americans’ data rose in 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/nsa-surveillance-spike/
160
58
N-Wheeled Cars
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/nwheelcar/nwheelcar.htm
157
247
Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/tether-says-stablecoin-is-only-backed-74-by-cash-securities
156
161
Some voters are sick of companies like Amazon paying no corporate tax
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/democrats-taxes-2020.html
155
47
Yubikey guide for Git Signing, SSH Auth, U2F 2FA, and 1Password (2017)
http://www.engineerbetter.com/blog/yubikey-all-the-things/
154
41
Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems
https://github.com/Microsoft/BuildXL
147
125
Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment
140
Apple tells lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvdb4/apple-is-telling-lawmakers-people-will-hurt-themselves-if-they-try-to-fix-iphones
138
36
A Woman Who Preserved over 30 Years of TV History
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-television-news-archive
133
15
Surge Synthesizer
https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
Apollo 15 postage stamp incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15_postage_stamp_scandal
55
Emperor Akihito: Japanese monarch declares historic abdication
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48020703
131
76
Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard
https://pydist.com/blog/distributions-vs-releases
21
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/
122
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What predicts students’ drinking habits? How much they think others are drinking
https://news.vcu.edu/article/What_predicts_college_students_drinking_habits_How_much_they
121
109
Silicon Valley Is Not a Fad
https://medium.com/@duncanr/silicon-valley-is-not-a-fad-5979bd950615
119
116
Apple Q2 Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/
120
Calling a real estate robocaller back
https://www.philly.com/business/robocall-scam-philadelphia-home-buying-selling-20190430.html
54
Mark Shuttleworth sees increased demand for enterprise Ubuntu Linux desktop
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-sees-increased-demand-for-enterprise-ubuntu-linux-desktop/
Modern C++ for C Programmers
https://ds9a.nl/articles/posts/cpp-intro/
96
40
Tokyo's Underground Discharge Channel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underground_Discharge_Channel
93
The Homogeneity of Instagram Travel Photos
https://hyperallergic.com/457945/alarming-homogeneity-of-instagram-travel-photos/
92
108
Army Camouflage That Failed to Hide Its Soldiers
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/army-camouflage-that-cost-more.html
90
I Dream of Canteens
https://dinnerdocument.com/2019/04/30/i-dream-of-canteens/
83
68
The Price We Pay: How Little Most Bay Area Families Can Afford
https://extras.mercurynews.com/pricewepay/
Yubikey guide for Git Signing, SSH Auth, U2F 2FA, and 1Password (2017)