1355
668
YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
https://twitter.com/KodyKinzie/status/1146196570083192832
7 years ago
1188
196
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why-did-moving-the-mouse-cursor-cause-windows-95-to-run-more-quickly
757
255
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
https://userinyerface.com
532
276
A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-ReactOS/answer/Axel-Rietschin?share=1
495
Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists
https://www.altpress.com/news/spotify-independent-artists-upload-music-streaming/
401
322
Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
https://grumpy.website/post/0S6F8ozn5
397
218
Why we're ending support for MySQL
https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/27/removing-mysql-support/
293
Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-03/capitalism-in-trouble-when-companies-drain-value-from-economy
380
108
Amazon can be held liable for third-party seller products: U.S. appeals court
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-liability-idUSKCN1TY2HM
345
241
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-down-site-app-not-working-pictures-photos-images-whatsapp-a8986426.html
343
203
Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/apple-app-government-takedowns/
338
183
I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy
https://www.wired.com/story/opt-out-of-facial-recognition-at-the-airport/
337
284
Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20680938/waymo-self-driving-cars-passengers-permit-california-pick-up
294
190
OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation
https://sogubsys.com/openbsd-is-now-my-workstation-operating-system/
280
399
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-life-expectancy-drops-third-year-row-reflecting-rising-drug-overdose-suicide-rates-180970942/
275
116
How iOS 13 redraws your eyes so you're looking at the camera
https://twitter.com/schukin/status/1146359923158089728
262
63
Radiotrophic fungus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
250
119
Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-video-broadcasting-architecture.html
243
53
Zachademics: Free games for schools
http://www.zachtronics.com/zachademics/
211
176
CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughter
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelcontactrelationyoungercousinmotherssiblingsdaughterorfatherssistersdaughter
207
139
Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344244
149
Cannabidiol in Anxiety and Sleep: A Large Case Series
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30624194
191
96
Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs
https://victorzhou.com/blog/mailchimp-to-sendy/
180
93
Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely
https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/07/03/amazon-alexa-privacy-keeps-recordings-indefinitely/
179
161
Welcome to the K-12 Surveillance State
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/opinion/surveillance-state-schools.html
45
How Google Pagespeed works
https://calibreapp.com/blog/how-pagespeed-works
114
Give Your Yard Back to Nature
https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/lawn-garden/a28197493/give-your-yard-back-to-nature/
169
Superhuman: Read Statuses
https://blog.superhuman.com/read-statuses-bdf0cc34b6a5
162
6
Debanding the World
https://blog.mapbox.com/debanding-the-world-94439af16e7f
87
The best way to tour a city is through its grocery store
http://nymag.com/urbanist/article/the-best-tourist-secret-attraction-is-the-grocery-store.html
151
Pi-Top 4
https://www.pi-top.com/products/pi-top-4
146
Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python
https://tobydriscoll.net/blog/matlab-vs.-julia-vs.-python/
42
New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThisChangesEverythingForTheDIYDiabetesCommunityTidePoolPartnersWithMedtronicAndDexcom.aspx
67
Lee Iacocca Has Died
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/07/02/auto-industry-icon-lee-iacocca-dies-at-94-he-helped-launch-the-ford-mustang-in-the-1960s-and-later-saved-chrysler-from-bankruptcy/
145
KKR has acquired Corel, reportedly for $1B
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/kkr-has-acquired-corel-including-its-recent-acquisition-parallels-reportedly-for-1b/
126
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans' Health Is Widening
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/28/736938334/the-gap-between-rich-and-poor-americans-health-is-widening
143
12
Let’s Make: Dangerous Dave
https://www.maizure.org/projects/lets-make-dangerous-dave/index.html
78
House lawmakers ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/2/20680230/facebook-libra-calibra-crypto-maxine-waters-congress-regulation-investigation-halt
59
Oregon’s Tsunami Risk
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/oregons-tsunami-risk-between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea
131
28
Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
https://www.upguard.com/breaches/attunity-data-leak
129
113
Hillbillies Need No Elegy
https://bittersoutherner.com/hillbillies-need-no-elegy-appalachian-reckoning
127
Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing music in random order?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346406
It took a decade for the Declaration of Independence to matter in American life
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/07/02/americans-forgot-declaration-independence/
125
66
Replacing a silently failing disk in a ZFS pool
https://imil.net/blog/2019/07/02/Replacing-a-silently-failing-disk-in-a-ZFS-pool/
124
51
Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to China
https://www.zdnet.com/article/engineer-found-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-military-chips-to-china/
122
Nobody talks about the real reason to use tabs over spaces
https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_talks_about_the_real_reason_to_use_tabs/
121
37
Image to LaTeX
https://www.wandb.com/articles/image-to-latex
118
61
Study suggests surgery alternative for rotator cuff pain: push-ups, pull-ups
https://news.usc.edu/141175/shoulder-injury-left-a-woman-in-excruciating-pain-but-therapy-made-her-whole-again/
Old Car Brochures
http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/
73
Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet
https://quitten.github.io/Firefox/
111
88
My low cost provider of GPUs has run out of capacity. Good alternatives?
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu
Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-brain-uses-a-not-so-instant-replay-to-make-decisions/
123
The case against plant consciousness
https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/07/plant-consciousness.html
102
25
TetrisRant (1999)
https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris
22
TikTok being investigated in the U.K. for handling of children’s data and safety
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/tiktok-is-being-investigated-in-the-u-k-for-how-it-handles-childrens-data-and-safety/
89
85
Global Passport Power Rank 2019
https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php