709
264
California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/will-californias-new-bot-law-strengthen-democracy
6 years ago
707
75
How the Dat Protocol Works
https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/
537
287
Is this Paypal experience customary?
https://gist.github.com/stratosgear/6923623321adacd368e965ff193fe2ce
431
161
Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino
https://easylang.online/apps/tutorial_mcarlo.html
401
300
Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers
https://www.scorpia.co.uk/2019/06/28/pi4-not-working-with-some-chargers-or-why-you-need-two-cc-resistors/
365
136
Bladder cancer 'attacked and killed by common cold virus'
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48868261
356
77
Wringing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block#Wringing
324
87
How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow
https://medium.com/@sidneyliebrand/how-fzf-and-ripgrep-improved-my-workflow-61c7ca212861
318
84
Understanding Kafka with Factorio
https://hackernoon.com/understanding-kafka-with-factorio-74e8fc9bf181
291
173
81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent
https://news.sky.com/story/met-polices-facial-recognition-tech-has-81-error-rate-independent-report-says-11755941
285
293
Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/safer-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way/
261
158
Run Your Own Website
https://zacs.site/blog/own-your-platform.html
253
190
The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant a trillion trees
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/17/world/trillion-trees-climate-change-intl-scn/index.html
247
220
How much free time do you have?
https://erikrood.com/Posts/free_time_calc.html
234
52
Go compiler internals: Adding a new statement to Go
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/go-compiler-internals-adding-a-new-statement-to-go-part-1/
222
28
Lenovo BIOS Simulator
https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html
212
167
Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, even out of warranty
https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks
191
Assholes: A Probing Examination
https://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2019/06/03/dont-hire-assholes/
209
76
“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannidis (2016)
http://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/16/evidence-based-medicine-has-been-hijacked-a-confession-from-john-ioannidis/
206
48
SBCL – Past, Present, Future [pdf]
https://european-lisp-symposium.org/static/2019/rhodes.pdf
198
154
Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/wikipedia-co-founder-larry-sanger-slams-facebook-twitter-social-media.html
183
137
In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907040011.html
172
245
Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amazon-project-kuiper-internet-satellites-fcc,39805.html#xtor=RSS-5
171
13
We Need Insects More Than They Need Us
http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/we-need-insects-more-than-they-need-us
170
274
BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics
https://apnews.com/cdae456e8c1948e5b7f01c602eda23dc
105
How Utrecht Became a Paradise for Cyclists
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/07/bicycle-friendly-city-utrecht-streetfilms-bike-lanes/593320/?
163
Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737
https://kuow.org/stories/boeing-engineers-break-silence-on-max-737-read-this-letter
Toyota testing improved solar roof for EVs that can charge while driving
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/05/toyota-testing-improved-solar-roof-for-electric-cars-that-can-charge-while-driving/
156
88
UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-group-names-mozilla-internet-villain-for-supporting-dns-over-https/
66
Show HN: An ad-free news website with crowdsourced summaries
https://news.hoxly.com/
153
Why did Intel kill off their modem program?
https://semiaccurate.com/2019/04/18/why-did-intel-kill-of-their-modem-program/
144
17
The Wood Database
https://www.wood-database.com
92
FreeBSD – A lesson in poor defaults
https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html
138
Clojure and Deps.edn: A basic guide
https://tomekw.com/clojure-deps-edn-a-basic-guide/
151
An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language
https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic
132
14
Hong Kong mothers march in support of anti-extradition students
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-students/hong-kong-mothers-march-in-support-of-anti-extradition-students-idUSKCN1TZ1RR
129
63
When zebra mussels colonized Lake Erie, it began to recover
https://www.ecosophia.net/a-conversation-with-nature/
125
80
Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people
https://qz.com/1591563/the-danish-have-designed-a-simple-way-to-cope-with-loneliness/
18
The Mystery of Florida’s Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coquina-fort-in-florida
123
78
Expecting programmers to problem solve for 8 hours is stupid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363095
115
159
Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland?
https://www.gwern.net/Greenland
111
70
Ask HN: Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361651
97
57
Mistakes we make using JavaScript Promises
https://www.betamark.com/blog/mistakes-using-javascript-promises/
94
Word2vec: Fish + Music = Bass
https://graceavery.com/word2vec-fish-music-bass/
93
The Durian King
https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-col1-malaysia-durians-china-20190704-htmlstory.html
42
Time is running out for sand
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02042-4
SBCL – Past, Present, Future [pdf]