682
308
Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/make-magazine-maker-media-layoffs/
6 years ago
487
261
I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project
https://github.com/TrillCyborg/onefraction
469
164
iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/08/ios-13-location-permissions/
402
420
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/business/economy/age-discrimination-jobs-hiring.html
401
255
WeChat and the Surveillance State
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48552907
365
129
Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System
https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48190
357
117
The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluetooth/
314
212
Huawei Accused of Technology Theft
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898429/huawei-accused-of-technology-theft
313
154
It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/2-davos-experts-says-it-s-time-to-switch-to-a-four-day-working-week/
259
102
For Men Who Hate Talking on the Phone, Games Keep Friendships Alive
https://kotaku.com/for-men-who-hate-talking-on-the-phone-games-keep-frien-1835277944
254
187
Write HTML Like It's 1999
https://bradleytaunt.com/2019/06/08/html-like-1999/
240
61
Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
https://apnews.com/ff973c5c769c4d1d872255f04c6c1f11
225
69
USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-usa-lags-eu-brazil-china.html
219
33
Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter at Meduza, has been arrested in Moscow
https://twitter.com/Alexey__Kovalev/status/1137088350500925440
209
300
Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of subscription startups
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/style/rent-subscription-clothing-furniture.html
186
47
Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gut-bacteria-may-change-way-many-drugs-work-body
178
I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/how-im-saving-for-my-parents-retirement.html
175
The Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28409/the-mysterious-and-potentially-revolutionary-celera-500l-aircraft-may-fly-soon
169
46
Plaid Deletes GitHub Issue Exposing Imitation of Bank Login UIs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20133806
153
Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be
https://github.com/duke7553/files-uwp
151
68
Grover – A State-of-the-Art Defense Against Neural Fake News
https://grover.allenai.org/
146
24
Generate new repositories with repository templates
https://github.blog/2019-06-06-generate-new-repositories-with-repository-templates/
143
Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/06/introducing-google-research-football.html
141
137
How Anne Wojcicki’s 23andMe Will Mine Its Giant DNA Database
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2019/06/06/23andme-dna-test-anne-wojcicki-prevention-plans-drug-development/
140
35
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
http://news.mit.edu/2019/ai-chip-light-computing-faster-0605
139
26
Skiptracing: Reversing Spotify.app
https://medium.com/@lerner98/skiptracing-reversing-spotify-app-3a6df367287d
132
29
Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay
121
76
Rust, Macros, λ-calculus/Church numerals, oh my
https://github.com/nixpulvis/lalrpop-lambda/blob/master/src/encode/numerals.rs
58
GPT2, Counting Consciousness and the Curious Hacker
https://medium.com/@NPCollapse/gpt2-counting-consciousness-and-the-curious-hacker-323c6639a3a8
116
19
PracticeJS – Coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app
https://practicejs.com/
114
12
The human body is a mosaic of different genomes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01780-9
113
21
The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-radioinstigator-a-150-signals-intelligence-platform-consisting-of-a-raspberry-pi-rpitx-2-4-ghz-crazyradio-and-an-rtl-sdr/
108
77
Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48464030
2
Nature invented play long before it invented us
http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/why-it-pays-to-play-around
100
79
America's rural radio stations are vanishing
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/06/radio-silence-how-the-disappearance-of-rural-stations-takes-americas-soul-with-them
48
Teenagers campaigning for Mike Gravel on Twitter
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/magazine/mike-gravel-teens-twitter-presidential-campaign.html
94
ColorKitty: Find palettes from pictures
https://colorkitty.com/
91
40
To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created an Inedible Sandwich
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich
89
96
Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/glue-traps-1.5149294
56
To stop a virus, California has euthanized more than 1.2M birds
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-virulent-newcastle-disease-outbreak-in-southern-california-20190607-story.html
88
60
Singapore abolishes school exam rankings (2018)
https://citinewsroom.com/2018/10/singapore-abolishes-school-exam-rankings-says-learning-is-not-competition/
85
7
Dan Ingalls PARC Talk on Sanskrit and OCR (1980) [video]
https://vimeo.com/4714623
11
Unwittingly obfuscating the fact that you're not doing AI
https://breakitdownto.earth/2019/06/06/Obfuscating_a_lack_of_AI.html
83
TV meteorologist objected to management’s ‘code red’ orders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/06/07/tv-meteorologist-objected-managements-code-red-orders-on-air-apology-he-might-be-out-job/
Rust, Macros, λ-calculus/Church numerals, oh my