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1296
Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
https://decrypt.co/7502/facebook-libra-coin-cryptocurrency-launch-calibra
6 years ago
872
293
Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development
https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/
612
371
Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/06/two-potentially-life-friendly-planets-found-12-light-years-away-teegardens-star/
510
149
How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser
https://prophitt.me/articles/nefarious-linkedin
469
530
$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes
https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/1-billion-investment-bay-area-housing/
409
132
Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/france-calls-for-central-bank-review-of-facebook-cryptocurrency
400
89
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
https://superthinking.com/
396
136
Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/
387
176
Transforming a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18682633/simone-giertz-tesla-model-3-pickup-truck-youtube-diy
339
The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/the-worst-morale-boosting-gesture-ive-experienced/
363
177
Google Calendar Is Down
https://calendar.google.com/
309
100
Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM
https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl
298
308
Go Creeping In
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/06/12/Go-Creeping-In
285
237
Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-permafrost/scientists-amazed-as-canadian-permafrost-thaws-70-years-early-idUSKCN1TJ1XN
279
117
Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug
https://www.petertissen.de/?p=77
276
574
Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze
https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-housing-rent-cap/berlin-approves-5-year-rent-freeze-in-german-capital-idUSS8N20O06F
273
83
Simple techniques to optimise Go programs
https://stephen.sh/posts/quick-go-performance-improvements
255
104
Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-patches-firefox-zero-day-abused-in-the-wild/
251
118
Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them
https://www.theatlantic.com/article/591868/
241
317
Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
https://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/job/california/f-22-avionics-systems-engineer-senior/694/8842471
220
41
Use Coq in Your Browser: The Js Coq Theorem Prover Online
https://jscoq.github.io/
74
How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?
https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/06/17/blog-post
218
33
Envoy Mobile
https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-envoy-mobile-5c2067d9ade0
214
204
India is drying up
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/india-is-drying-up-fast/789376.html
213
222
Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48668791
206
122
Boeing employee: I would not put my family on a Max plane
https://mynorthwest.com/1421554/boeing-employee-max-plane/?
198
Libra White Paper
https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/
186
78
New York state lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/nyregion/greenhouse-gases-ny.html
182
53
Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20212622
30
Generalized Algebraic Data Types: A Primer
https://sketch.sh/s/yH0MJiujNSiofDWOU85loX/
173
179
In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/business/japan-work-overtime-tv-show.html
172
China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video]
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-48667221/inside-china-s-thought-transformation-camps
167
15
End-User Probabilistic Programming [pdf]
https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer19/lecture_notes/DRAFT___Probabilistic_Programming_for_End_Users.pdf
158
54
DPAPI security flaw in Windows 10
https://www.passcape.com/index.php?setLang=2§ion=blog&cmd=details&id=38
155
64
Launch HN: Sqreen (YC W18) – Securing Web Apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215483
150
81
Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/writing-a-book-47688825695e
130
111
i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/i386-architecture-will-be-dropped-starting-with-eoan-ubuntu-19-10/11263
125
11
Adventure Games and Eigenvalues (2017)
http://www.evanmiller.org/adventure-games-and-eigenvalues.html
14
Dialog – A domain-specific language for creating works of interactive fiction
http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/index.php
124
Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-nuclear-bunker-fire-20190617-story.html
119
116
Amazon expands its air cargo fleet
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/amazon-expands-air-cargo-fleet-with-15-more-planes-will-have-70-planes-by-2021/
115
103
Beijing's US Treasury holdings dip
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-sells-dollars-and-buys-gold-as-tensions-rise
113
21
Turbinia – An Uninvited Guest (2014)
http://drewgrant.info/Pages/Turbinia.htm
109
63
Varanasi: India's city where people come to die
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190617-indias-city-where-people-come-to-die
108
47
Web Single Sign-On, the SAML 2.0 perspective
https://blog.theodo.com/2019/06/web-single-sign-on-the-saml-2-0-perspective/
Migrating 300k LOC from Flow to TypeScript
https://medium.com/tech-quizlet/now-or-never-migrating-300k-loc-from-flow-to-typescript-at-quizlet-d3bae5830a1
107
49
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
https://tapmydata.com/how-to-quit-google/
148
Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth-past-future
Calibra – Digital Wallet for Libra
https://calibra.com/
98
Galton Board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine
94
50
Libra Core
https://github.com/libra/libra
92
39
First Amendment doesn’t apply to private operator running public-access channels
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18682099/supreme-court-ruling-first-amendment-social-media-public-forum
38
Announcing Timescale Cloud
https://blog.timescale.com/timescale-cloud-first-fully-managed-time-series-database-service-runs-on-aws-gcp-azure/
85
Backpage.com’s Vicious Battle with the Feds
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-backpage-vicious-battle-feds/
8
Linux and FreeBSD: Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities
https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md
82
86
Ask HN: How would you teach teens to code in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210641
77
Facebook will make the money now
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-18/facebook-will-make-the-money-now
In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?