898
509
We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
https://blog.niteo.co/paypal-ban-after-12-years/
7 years ago
624
424
We Can Do Better Than SQL
https://edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql
615
100
Open source firmware is important for security
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/why-open-source-firmware-is-important-for-security/
604
135
Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-plan-the-rest-of-the-story/
587
222
Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-algorithms-are-making-it-harder/588931/
556
372
All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-chromebooks-will-also-be-linux-laptops-going-forward/
542
288
Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html
467
266
Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/
433
449
For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/this-little-device-relieves-a-cpu-from-its-garbage-collection-duties
360
227
Blue Moon
http://blueorigin.com/blue-moon
347
85
Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harder-than-3d-graphics/
323
145
United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/united-nations-expert-arrested-in-tunisia-for-using-an-rtl-sdr/
321
315
It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video
https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video/
320
54
The Beauty of Calculus [video]
https://frankeprogram.yale.edu/event/steven-strogatz-lecture-april-26-2019
293
99
Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site
https://twitter.com/berkcgoksel/status/1125727590440931329
281
157
PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1939/
273
127
When Engineers Become Whistleblowers
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-engineers-become-whistleblowers/
239
25
TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning
https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-tensorflow-graphics-computer-graphics-meets-deep-learning-c8e3877b7668
236
246
Google launches new “portal” HTML element
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-launches-portals-a-new-web-page-navigation-system-for-chrome/
215
49
How to Do Nothing (2017)
https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb
209
59
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2011)
https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
191
261
San Francisco proposes “IPO tax” on eve of Uber offering
https://www.axios.com/san-francisco-proposes-ipo-tax-uber-lyft-63d1d608-0819-44ab-860b-066371b08038.html
183
109
Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-urban-trees-fast-die-young.html
174
48
Build a Neural Network
https://enlight.nyc/projects/neural-network
28
Building CentOS 8
https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8
173
32
Diffeq.jl v6.4: Full GPU ODEs, Neural ODEs with Batching on GPUs, and More
http://juliadiffeq.org/2019/05/09/GPU.html
171
44
Listen to TurboTax Lie to Get Out of Refunding Overcharged Customers
https://www.propublica.org/article/listen-to-turbotax-lie-to-get-out-of-refunding-overcharged-customers/
141
66
Internet Explorer Browser Collection
https://www.my-internet-explorer.com/
140
161
Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/07/tech/e-highway-a5/index.html
139
190
‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/05/housing-supply-home-prices-economic-inequality-cities/588997/
131
9
Faster arithmetic by flipping signs
https://nfrechette.github.io/2019/05/08/sign_flip_optimization/
130
107
The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo
123
37
Red Hat Universal Base Image
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal-base-image
122
41
Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
https://github.com/hiroppy/fusuma
120
VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18536668/vw-volkswagen-id-3-preorders-oelectric-car-long-range-ev
118
11
Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
http://blog.eladgil.com/2019/05/markets-are-10x-bigger-than-ever.html
117
U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-videogames/u-s-adults-are-spending-big-on-video-games-playing-mostly-on-smartphones-idUSKCN1SF1DC
113
52
The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter
https://onezero.medium.com/the-global-attention-span-is-getting-shorter-ee652a7e09b8
112
Raising a Ladder to the Moon, Under the Sea
https://blogs.microsoft.com/today-in-tech/raising-a-ladder-to-the-moon-under-the-sea/
106
23
Zuckerberg Smile
https://terkelg.github.io/zuckerberg.smile/
101
10
Joe Armstrong Obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/08/joe-armstrong-obituary
98
16
Unencumbered Open Source Commodore 64 ROMs
https://github.com/MEGA65/open-roms
72
Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers
https://newrepublic.com/article/153744/gig-economy
97
13
A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator
http://www.glensstuff.com/fouriersynthchargen/fouriersynthchargen.htm
96
14
Jeff Bezos unveils a lunar lander and BE-7 rocket engine
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/09/jeff-bezos-unveils-blue-moon-lunar-lander.html
94
26
TLS 1.3 is going to save us all, and other why IoT is still insecure (2017)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-iot-is-insecure/
93
111
Go Is on a Trajectory to Become the Next Enterprise Programming Language
https://hackernoon.com/go-is-on-a-trajectory-to-become-the-next-enterprise-programming-language-3b75d70544e
91
55
The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-gore-artificial-cornea/
90
205
Harry’s Will Be Sold to Owner of Schick for $1.37B
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/business/dealbook/harrys-edgewell-acquisition.html
84
After city switched to a new bodycam vendor, Axon threatened its credit rating
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/may/09/algorithms-axon-fontana/
83
47
Call for Code – Developer competition that seeks solutions for natural disasters
https://developer.ibm.com/callforcode/
Diffeq.jl v6.4: Full GPU ODEs, Neural ODEs with Batching on GPUs, and More