719
216
The struggles of an open source maintainer
http://antirez.com/news/129
6 years ago
512
629
Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/business/aldi-walmart-low-food-prices/index.html
494
215
Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building
https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html
469
444
Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/technology/personaltech/music-streaming-cd.html
441
227
New Game: Minecraft Earth
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/new-game--minecraft-earth#
436
68
Game Engine Black Books Update
http://fabiensanglard.net/gebb/index.html
418
65
Guide to Deep Work
https://doist.com/blog/complete-guide-to-deep-work/
407
244
Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter
https://github.com/python/black
402
221
Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html
358
235
Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed
https://www.thedrive.com/news/27976/people-are-being-arrested-and-jailed-due-to-hertz-erroneously-reporting-rental-cars-stolen-report
356
130
Get Your Book, Make It Free
http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/get-your-book-make-it-free/
332
178
Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider
https://twitter.com/waxzce/status/1128711501206913028
292
200
Security Update
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/16/security-update/
280
89
Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles
https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/comments/bpq336/salesforce_enables_modify_all_in_all_user_profiles/
274
51
Genomics – A programmer’s guide
https://gist.github.com/andy-thomason/f304850bdf20d2cd2ecbb042d81b5e54
245
165
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cray-m-a-hpe/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-buy-supercomputer-maker-cray-in-1-30-billion-deal-idUSKCN1SN1CN
238
208
As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-16/insurance-covers-mental-health-but-good-luck-using-it
Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-northern-california-homeless-count-20190517-story.html
44
Update to Security Incident
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/17/update-to-security-incident-may-17-2019/
131
Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8
https://hackernoon.com/has-the-python-gil-been-slain-9440d28fa93d
231
91
Amadine – Vector graphics software for Mac
https://amadine.com
225
33
Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams
https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-as-tensor-network-diagrams
213
Chelsea Manning sent back to jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/16/politics/chelsea-manning-back-to-jail/index.html
202
143
An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram
https://news.mit.edu/2019/kilo-standard-change-0516
201
117
Amazon Jumps into Freight Brokerage
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/amazon-jumps-freight-brokerage
184
As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern
https://www.quantamagazine.org/as-planet-discoveries-pile-up-a-gap-appears-in-the-pattern-20190516/
Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Online
https://mymodernmet.com/leonardo-da-vinci-codex-atlanticus/
181
What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper
http://nautil.us/blog/what-ancient-romans-used-instead-of-toilet-paper
180
92
Treat Facebook Like Big Tobacco
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-17/regulate-facebook-like-big-tobacco-not-like-a-phone-company
179
10
PyTorch internals
http://blog.ezyang.com/2019/05/pytorch-internals/
167
72
Federated Learning
https://federated.withgoogle.com/
84
'I’ve become isolated': the aftermath of near-doomed QF72
https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-ve-become-very-isolated-the-aftermath-of-near-doomed-qf72-20190514-p51n7q.html
161
23
Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19939030
153
32
Grumpy Cat has died
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48308638
127
53
Spina bifida: Keyhole surgery repairs baby spine in womb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48253477
26
Standards.REST: A Collection of HTTP/REST API Standards and Specs
http://standards.rest/
125
70
A new documentary on the downfall of General Magic
https://hyperallergic.com/500449/general-magic-documentary-smartphone-apple-silicon-valley/
122
94
Wind provided 37 per cent of Ireland’s electricity in Q1 2019
https://www.iwea.com/latest-news/2190-iwea-publishes-first-quarterly-wind-report
121
39
Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/05/introducing-translatotron-end-to-end.html
110
46
FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)
https://icculus.org/fatelf/
104
21
Building better software with better tools: sanitizers vs. Valgrind
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/05/16/building-better-software-with-better-tools-sanitizers-versus-valgrind/
103
137
Tracking logo found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation
https://www.militarytimes.com/2019/05/17/secret-tracking-device-found-in-navy-email-to-navy-times-amid-leak-investigation-raises-legal-ethical-questions/
France to ban electric scooters from pavements in September
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0504/1047489-france-scooters/
101
37
Microbots Are on Their Way
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/science/microbots-robots-silicon-wafer.html
87
12
Show HN: Real-time image manipulation with Voronoi/Delaunay
https://github.com/MauriceGit/Voronoi_Image_Manipulation
85
64
Low-Income College Students Are Being Taxed Like Trust-Fund Babies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/us/politics/college-scholarships-tax-increases.html
79
16
Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/17/understanding-real-world-concurrency-bugs-in-go/
78
Health Effects of Job Insecurity
https://wol.iza.org/articles/health-effects-of-job-insecurity/long
77
Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice
https://lithub.com/some-writing-advice-dont-take-others-advice/
76
6
Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf]
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan2019_unwind.pdf
Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/heres-why-airplane-boarding-got-so-ridiculous.html
71
107
Trump unveils 'merit-based' immigration policy plan
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48304975
Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets