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Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
https://grumpy.website/post/0RzW4elEN
6 years ago
950
376
Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/salesforce-is-buying-data-visualization-company-tableau-for-15-7b-in-all-stock-deal/
825
198
US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/the-us-governments-database-of-traveler-photos-has-been
665
271
Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/by4ipr/android_now_forces_apps_to_include_proprietary/
463
211
Always Own Your Platform
http://alwaysownyourplatform.com/
411
46
From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/10/04/from-design-patterns-to-category-theory/
366
179
GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS with Android compatibility
https://grapheneos.org/#
362
183
Couple wins millions using lottery loophole
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/northamerica/top-stories/couple-wins-millions-using-lottery-loophole/ar-AACEewY
324
189
Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/
307
139
Micro Frontends
https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html
298
191
Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/06/10/mozilla-will-reportedly-launch-a-paid-version-of-firefox-this-fall/
281
367
Apple Is Listening
https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening
275
118
NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/nyt-google-media.php
256
72
New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer
https://www.snmmi.org/NewsPublications/NewsDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=31744
247
133
Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)
https://two-wrongs.com/why-you-should-buy-into-the-emacs-platform
234
The End of Political Cartoons at The New York Times
https://www.chappatte.com/en/the-end-of-political-cartoons-at-the-new-york-times/
224
283
Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
https://www.amazon.com/iss/credit/creditbuilder?pr=conplcc
222
53
Medicine needs to embrace open source
https://www.zdnet.com/article/medicine-needs-to-embrace-open-source/
213
30
Nannou: Creative Coding Toolkit for Rust
https://nannou.cc/
196
69
VLC 3.0.7 and security
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2019/VLC-3.0.7-and-security
194
8
CBP says traveler photos and license plate images stolen in data breach
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/cbp-data-breach/
193
24
Curated List of Open-Source Typefaces
https://beautifulwebtype.com/
184
107
Raytheon, United Technologies Merger Will Create A New Aerospace Giant
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/731225619/raytheon-and-united-technologies-merge-to-create-a-new-aerospace-giant
182
28
“Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and other advice for data journalists
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/hadley-wickham-your-default-position-should-be-skepticism-and-other-advice-for-data-journalists
73
Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016)
https://www.metalevel.at/sudoku/
175
58
Unicode programming, with examples in C
https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-05-23-unicode-icu.html
174
59
World's largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01810-6
The ice bucket challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS
http://web.alsa.org/site/PageNavigator/pr_060419.html
168
86
The Mathematical Hacker (2012)
https://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html
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43
Small guide to making nice tables [pdf]
https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/markusp/teaching/guides/guide-tables.pdf
164
How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Cloud Storage Service
https://jarv.is/notes/how-to-backup-linux-server/
161
157
Sleep tweaks boost night owls' wellbeing
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48558309
160
66
AV1 codec ecosystem update
https://www.singhkays.com/blog/av1-ecosystem-update-may-2019/
206
How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47B Company?
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/wework-adam-neumann.html
151
Kill Instant Messaging
https://dpc.pw/kill-instant-messaging
140
117
Let's make them pay for using our personal data
http://amortizedcost.net/make-them-pay-for-personal-data/
22
Procedural content generation: creating a universe (2015)
http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2015/01/14/procedural-content-generation-creating-a-universe/
137
64
An American Black Site
https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2019/06/04/force-feeding-american-prison-supermax-mohammad-salameh/
94
Philly Wisper
https://phillywisper.net/
129
92
BeGoneAds – A Python script that blocks ads by installing common hosts files
https://github.com/anned20/begoneads
127
81
Hacking My Mother’s Phone to Save Her Memories
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/hacking-phone-privacy.html
125
It's Cold in the Information Age
https://natalian.org/2019/01/07/Winter/
156
Malloc Never Fails (2012)
https://scvalex.net/posts/6/
124
79
NASA ‘Snoopy’ lunar module likely found 50 years after being jettisoned
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/nasa-snoopy-lunar-module-likely-found-50-years-after-being-jettisoned-into-space/
122
62
As Tech Goliaths Face a Reckoning, Small Businesses Say They Finally Feel Heard
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/technology/big-tech-antitrust-scrutiny.html
A mentalist’s guide to being happy
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190605-a-mentalists-guide-to-being-happy
113
Automagica: Open-Source Robotic Process Automation
https://github.com/oakwoodai/automagica
27
Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language based on chemical reactions
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Alchemist
109
4
Towards Reproducible Research with PyTorch Hub
https://pytorch.org/blog/towards-reproducible-research-with-pytorch-hub/
103
G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-japan-tax/g20-agrees-to-push-ahead-with-digital-tax-communique-idUSKCN1T903D
100
Common Lisp: The Untold Story (2012)
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html
99
52
Tesla boom lifts Norway's electric car sales to record market share
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-autos-idUSKCN1RD2BB
93
Boeing Knew the AOA Disagree Alert on the 737 Max Didn’t Work
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/05/06/boeing-angle-of-attack-disagree-alert/
33
Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/business/media/google-news-industry-antitrust.html
20
From Docker Container to Bootable Linux Disk Image
https://micromind.me/en/posts/from-docker-container-to-bootable-linux-disk-image/
23
U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter
https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-2408760609.html
90
People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (2017)
https://www.indy100.com/article/music-goosebumps-some-people-science-research-emotions-psychology-study-harvard-7926781
89
49
Only 13% of UK adults trust big tech firms with handling anonymized NHS data
https://techerati.com/news-hub/only-13-of-uk-adults-trust-tech-firms-with-anonymized-nhs-data/
88
39
Tech and Antitrust
https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-antitrust/
84
40
The technology industry is rife with bottlenecks
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/06/06/the-technology-industry-is-rife-with-bottlenecks
83
3
Some network structures are more defensible than others
https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-some-platforms-thrive-and-others-dont
32
RISC-V Bitmanip Extension [pdf]
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip/master/bitmanip-0.90.pdf
80
19
Special report: Profiting from prison
https://www.axios.com/profiting-prison-c2bd43b2-4b2f-44ee-8f23-c6c9a14c1aaa.html
Raytheon, United Technologies Merger Will Create A New Aerospace Giant