925
327
Can we all stop using Medium now?
https://www.webdistortion.com/2019/05/16/can-we-all-please-stop-using-medium-now/
7 years ago
752
599
I turned my interview task for Google into a startup
https://uxdesign.cc/i-turned-my-interview-task-for-google-into-a-startup-877943fb3b34
634
423
Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html
480
313
I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit other workers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/executive-pay-salaries-carecentrix-senior-team-employees
355
895
SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-adversity-score.html
350
110
Zero Cost Abstractions
https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/zero-cost-abstractions/
322
261
Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/Sony-and-Microsoft-set-rivalry-aside-for-streaming-alliance
320
72
Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/faster-smarter-javascript-debugging-in-firefox/
306
21
Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-methods-in-data-analysis-signal-processing-and-machine-learning-spring-2018/
287
53
Racket 7.3
https://download.racket-lang.org/v7.3.html
283
180
Police fine pedestrian for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7036141/Police-fine-pedestrian-90-facial-recognition-camera-row.html
275
47
I.M. Pei has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/obituaries/im-pei-dead.html
257
37
MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates
http://mycpu.thtec.org/www-mycpu-eu/index1.htm
212
302
U.S. cancels $929M in California high speed rail funds after appeal rejected
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rail/u-s-cancels-929-million-in-california-high-speed-rail-funds-after-appeal-rejected-idUSKCN1SM2F9
195
128
Why is a Rust executable large? (2016)
https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executable-large.html
182
329
Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot/third-fatal-tesla-autopilot-crash-renews-questions-about-system-idUSKCN1SM1QE
181
118
Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-einride-autonomous-sweden/driverless-electric-truck-starts-deliveries-on-swedish-public-road-idUSKCN1SL0NC
208
Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/16/723693839/its-not-just-salt-sugar-fat-study-finds-ultra-processed-foods-drive-weight-gain
174
44
The moon may be tectonically active
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/moon-may-be-tectonically-active-geologists-shaken-apollo-moonquakes/
173
32
Sexy weasels in Renaissance art
https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/2019/05/14/weasels-in-renaissance-art/
159
82
The Sunset HTTP Header Field
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8594
158
85
Some of China’s '996' tech tribe quit, seek less stress
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tech-labour/opting-out-some-of-chinas-996-tech-tribe-quit-seek-less-stress-idUSKCN1SM0HX
157
Sleepless in Silicon Valley
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/05/18/sleepless-in-silicon-valley
122
Depression is increasing among Americans reaching middle age
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2019/05/15/depression-is-increasing-among-americans-reaching-middle-age
153
124
Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems
https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3075890/hackers-aircraft-landing-fake-radio-signals
149
19
Peermaps
https://peermaps.org/
148
56
Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit
https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2019/
142
16
Microsoft makes AI tool for better search available as an open source project
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/bing-vector-search/
27
ELF files on Linux
https://linux-audit.com/elf-binaries-on-linux-understanding-and-analysis/
140
Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
https://zapier.com/blog/free-dropbox-account-three-device-limit/
135
64
Grocery Outlet S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000119312519145450/d710724ds1.htm
132
193
Singapore Urges U.S. to Accept China's Rise, Spare Other Nations
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/singapore-urges-u-s-to-accept-china-s-rise-spare-other-nations
54
Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is human-made
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/science/synthetic-genome-bacteria.html
129
276
Public's Dread of Nuclear Power Limits Its Deployment
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/may/nuclear-power-limits.html
38
Excessive Consumption Limits Creativity (2016)
https://medium.com/the-mission/why-excessive-consumption-limits-your-creativity-6e925dd66daa
20
Neural nets typically contain smaller “subnetworks” that can often learn faster
http://news.mit.edu/2019/smarter-training-neural-networks-0506
125
Hermes – A message broker built on top of Kafka
https://allegro.tech/2019/05/hermes-1-0-released.html
123
101
The Curse of Genius
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-curse-of-genius
121
33
The origin story of data science
https://www.welcometothejungle.co/fr/articles/story-origin-data-science
119
28
WireGuard on OpenBSD
https://blog.jasper.la/wireguard-on-openbsd.html
117
Fukushima 8 years on – photo essay
https://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukushima-8-years-on/
113
40
Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
https://www.bosch-press.be/pressportal/be/en/press-release-17984.html
66
Quants Think Like Amateurs in China’s Wild Stock Market
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-15/quants-think-like-amateurs-in-the-world-s-wildest-stock-market
106
Black, Hot ‘Superionic’ Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water
https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-hot-superionic-ice-may-be-natures-most-common-form-of-water-20190508/
68
Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/boom-in-dodgy-wall-street-deals-points-to-market-trouble-ahead
104
43
Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)
https://www.esbe.eu/it/en/news/have-we-forgotten-to-make-heat-traps
102
13
China’s Rover Reveals Moon’s Hidden Depths
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-the-lunar-far-side-chinas-rover-reveals-moons-hidden-depths/
97
96
Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a successful maiden flight
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/15/lilium-5-seater/
170
California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/16/18617019/transit-housing-bill-sb-50-approproations-committee-suspense-wiener
93
2
Research Design Patterns
http://www.pgbovine.net/research-design-patterns.htm
87
14
Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-Game Protocol Design (2001)
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensating_Methods_in_Client/Server_In-game_Protocol_Design_and_Optimization
Who killed Olof Palme?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/16/olof-palme-sweden-prime-minister-unsolved-murder-new-evidence
84
59
How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/boom-review-michael-shnayerson-chronicles-contemporary-art-rise
29
Maryland research could improve the AI task of sensorimotor representation
https://eng.umd.edu/release/helping-robots-remember-hyperdimensional-computing-theory-could-change-the-way-ai-works
83
18
How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (2007) [pdf]
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1160925
24
Kik and the SEC: What’s Going on and What Does It Mean for Crypto?
https://a16z.com/2019/05/15/kik-and-the-sec-whats-going-on-and-what-does-it-mean-for-crypto/
80
GopenPGP, an open source encryption library for native applications
https://protonmail.com/blog/openpgp-golang/
77
Intel offered “reward” to Dutch researchers to downplay MDS vulnerability
https://www.techpowerup.com/255563/intel-tried-to-bribe-dutch-university-to-suppress-knowledge-of-mds-vulnerability
75
100
White House launches tool to report censorship on social media
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/15/18626785/white-house-trump-censorsip-tool-twitter-instagram-facebook-conservative-bias-social-media
70
17
Writing a Procedural Puzzle Generator
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2019-05-14-procedural-puzzle-generator/