714
96
Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
https://www.harshsikka.me/self-studying-the-mit-applied-math-curriculum/
7 years ago
607
213
Use mmap with care
https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/use-mmap-with-care
587
262
Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub
566
190
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
478
126
GNU Guix 1.0
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released/
409
229
JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/23/in-this-twitter-exchange-jetb.html
395
243
Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-will-soon-let-you-automatically-scrub-your-location
380
32
Android App Reverse Engineering 101
https://maddiestone.github.io/AndroidAppRE/
355
143
TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat
https://www.propublica.org/article/intuit-turbotax-h-r-block-gutted-free-tax-filing-internal-memo
354
697
Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html
314
84
Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust
https://m.stopa.io/risp-lisp-in-rust-90a0dad5b116
310
128
Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/02/gitlab-journey-from-azure-to-gcp/
342
Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company
288
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GitHub Learning Lab
https://lab.github.com/
279
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Proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – study
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/05/414326/alzheimers-disease-double-prion-disorder-study-shows
277
119
Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48118558
253
33
Creating a Great Team Culture, and Why It Matters
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3323993
247
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UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-sightings-2019-us-military-tic-tac-pentagon-navy-unidentified-aerial-1412272
234
64
ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/719337356/aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices
218
Bored Lonely Angry Stupid
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones
207
148
We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6528766848526278657
202
31
Show HN: Faast.js – Serverless Batch Computing Made Simple
https://faastjs.org
196
98
It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too
https://zeroequalsfalse.press/posts/it-is-ok-to-only-code-at-work/?
189
329
Tesla is raising up to $1.5B through convertible note and share sale
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/tesla-1-5-billion/
187
43
Zuckerberg sued over privacy scandals, alleged insider trades
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/facebooks-zuckerberg-sued-over-scandals-alleged-insider-trades
185
73
Renewables predicted to beat coal for the first time in US later this year
https://qz.com/1610977/solar-wind-plus-other-renewables-beat-coal-for-first-time-in-us/
181
85
Azure is experiencing DNS issues in all regions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19812919
176
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Repair delays for Tesla owners
https://www.sfgate.com/cars/article/tesla-repair-wait-time-complaints-electric-car-13796037.php
175
116
How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/crying-baby-in-mesopotamia
174
104
Environmentalist didn't speak for 17 years to learn how to listen to opponents
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/breaking-silence-1.4526352/this-environmentalist-didn-t-speak-for-17-years-to-learn-how-to-listen-to-his-opponents-1.4527401
173
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Tesla Model 3 Effect – Chevy Dealers Discount 2019 Bolt by Almost $10k
https://www.torquenews.com/1083/tesla-model-3-effect-chevy-dealers-discount-2019-bolt-electric-vehicles-almost-10000-race-bottom-market
169
AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ai-tech-generates-entire-bodies-of-people-who-don-t-exist-1.4405165
167
14
On lists, cache, algorithms, and microarchitecture
https://pdziepak.github.io/2019/05/02/on-lists-cache-algorithms-and-microarchitecture/
36
Writing Exploit-Resistant Code with OpenBSD
https://lteo.net/blog/2019/04/27/carolinacon-15-writing-exploit-resistant-code-with-openbsd/
161
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Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/fashion/jack-dorsey-influencer.html
154
23
A Guide to Rust Graphics Libraries as of 2019
https://wiki.alopex.li/AGuideToRustGraphicsLibraries2019
153
29
Hedge Fund Private Investigators
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1f6yg8n93jyfh/The-Ruthless-Secretive-and-Sometimes-Seedy-World-of-Hedge-Fund-Private-Investigators
50
My Childhood in a Cult
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/my-childhood-in-a-cult
142
195
Where the Good Jobs Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/good-jobs-no-college-degrees.html
59
The Zig Programming Language
https://ziglang.org/
134
16
Llvm-mca – LLVM Machine Code Analyzer
https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
124
125
Greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613325/how-greed-and-corruption-blew-up-south-koreas-nuclear-industry/
86
Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No
https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fonts-hell-no.html
30
Racket News – Issue 7
https://racket-news.com/2019/05/racket-news-issue-7.html
118
8
Precise timing of machine code with Linux perf
https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/04/03/Precise-timing-of-machine-code-with-Linux-perf
112
‘Star Citizen,’ a video game that raised $300M but may never be ready to play
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-the-saga-of-star-citizen-a-video-game-that-raised-300-millionbut-may-never-be-ready-to-play/#3d3007b75ac9
108
42
Chinese hospitals set to sell experimental cell therapies
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01161-2
106
26
Serving Vue.js Apps on GitHub Pages
https://blog.usmanity.com/serving-vue-js-apps-on-github-pages/
51
Charity is no substitute for humanity
https://hmmdaily.com/2019/05/01/charity-is-no-substitute-for-humanity/
King Alfred and India
https://www.caitlingreen.org/2019/04/king-alfred-and-india.html
101
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DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/homeland-security-dna-testing-immigration/index.html
99
62
Ask HN: Can we build Ironman's Jarvis with 2019 tech?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19805727
38
‘Cybersovereignty’ Splits the Once World Wide Web
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-02/how-cybersovereignty-splits-the-once-world-wide-web-quicktake
It’s perfectly OK to only code at work
https://zeroequalsfalse.press/posts/it-is-ok-to-only-code-at-work/
93
For the first time there's more people worldwide aged 65+ than aged 5 & younger
https://reason.com/2019/05/01/this-one-chart-about-global-aging-changes-everything/
90
7
Remote Development with Visual Studio Code (SSH/Docker)
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-development
Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon
Julian Assange Appears in Court for U.S. Extradition Hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/world/europe/julian-assange-us-extradition.html
82% of vehicles sold this year came with a touch screen
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-infotainment-dashboard-screen-tops-consumer-reports-ratings-2019-05-01
82
48
The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested
https://mindmatters.ai/2019/04/the-human-brain-even-basic-facts-are-hotly-contested/
80
The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/2/18518176/boeing-737-max-crash-problems-human-error-mcas-faa
9
Bento – An Android UI Framework
https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2019/05/introducing-bento.html
79
21
A Working Mathematician’s Guide to Parsing
https://jeremykun.com/2019/04/20/a-working-mathematicians-guide-to-parsing/
78
58
Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/dji_dev_jailed_fined_leaking_aes_ssl_keys_github/
77
6
Restoring accidentally deleted files on Linux
https://sabotage-linux.github.io/blog/6/
How Indigo, a Canadian Chain, Is Reinventing Book Selling
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/books/booksupdate/indigo-books-canadian-chain.html
74
40
Launch HN: Withfriends (YC W19) – Memberships for Small Businesses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19810092
71
PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
http://www.peazip.org/peazip-free-archiver.html
69
Major Azure Outage
https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1124046510411460610
12
Chinese database is tracking cellphone usage, car location and more
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Chinese-database-is-tracking-cellphone-usage-car-13812775.php
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