845
207
Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
https://petapixel.com/2019/07/05/goodbye-aberration-physicist-solves-2000-year-old-optical-problem/
6 years ago
543
133
Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon
http://news.mit.edu/2019/increase-solar-cell-output-photon-2-electron-0703
382
227
VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/
378
322
So you think you know C? (2016)
https://wordsandbuttons.online/so_you_think_you_know_c.html
316
74
Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised
https://github.com/CanonicalLtd
288
167
7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-major-earthquake-southern-california20190705-story.html
269
197
How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-doh-in-firefox/
226
154
Speedy Desktop Apps with GTK and Rust
https://nora.codes/tutorial/speedy-desktop-apps-with-gtk-and-rust/
225
50
Finally an image of X-37B/OTV-5, US Air Force's secretive space plane, in orbit
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=154946
209
88
A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2458/a-look-at-the-amd-zen-2-core/
200
166
Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies
https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/1147259303268454400
187
94
Home is a small, engineless sailboat (2018)
https://towndock.net/shippingnews/sean-d-epagnier-and-alexandra
175
33
The M&A Process Is Broken
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/atlassian-term-sheet
163
137
Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371095
160
70
Cryptography Dispatches: Hello World, and OpenPGP Is Broken
https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-hello-world-and-openpgp/
151
99
How I encrypt my data in the cloud
https://robertclarke.com/cloud-encryption/
148
142
The Tyranny of Trendy Ideas in Academia
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190701-trendyideas?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg7sn4dWNuRhvVkoo39I05x-Q5CJZ4DU8VWHMRpHsHYr-NUpHdkhCN0pBenY4TG5GU04tSXRqbE92aENwQWVCdXJzWXZrVG42b1pvZw
146
39
Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (2008)
https://primatology.net/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/
EASA demands additional changes for the 737 Max
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-05/europe-sets-out-demands-for-boeing-before-max-can-fly-again
116
Craig Wright faces tough questions over forged documents in court
https://decrypt.co/7768/forged-documents-and-multi-billion-dollar-fortunes-craig-wright-faces-tough-questions-in-court
138
13
When Pirates Studied Euclid
https://aeon.co/essays/how-european-sailors-learned-celestial-navigation
147
The Zero-Sum Bias: When people think that everything is a competition
https://effectiviology.com/zero-sum-bias/
34
Hub: Use GitHub from the Command Line
https://hub.github.com/
127
23
Carp 0.3
https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/releases/tag/v0.3.0
125
41
Internet group brands Mozilla “internet villain” for supporting DNS privacy
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/05/isp-group-mozilla-internet-villain-dns-privacy/
30
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
https://acesounderglass.com/2019/06/21/epistemic-spot-check-the-role-of-deliberate-practice-in-the-acquisition-of-expert-performance/
124
Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1992)
http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html
117
Swedish ISP Blocks Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub (2018)
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/03/balkanizing-the-balkanizers.html
114
44
Forest kindergarten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_kindergarten
113
19
Pony 0.29
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2019/07/0.29.0-released/
107
18
A Ring of Controversy Around a Black Hole Photo
https://profmattstrassler.com/2019/06/14/a-ring-of-controversy-around-a-black-hole-photo/
16
Aging is associated with a systemic length-driven transcriptome imbalance
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/691154v1.full
106
63
Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/google-gmail-purchase-history-cant-be-deleted.html
105
24
Ask HN: How do you read and understand an open-source project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372393
Tagsistant: A Semantic Filesystem for Linux
https://www.tagsistant.net/
96
83
Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of (2018)
http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/docker-protects-a-programming-paradigm-that-we-should-get-rid-of
93
0
Model Checking a C++ Software Framework: A Case Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00172
22
Spray-on nanofiber 'skin' may revolutionize wound care
https://www.fastcompany.com/90365782/this-spray-on-nanofiber-skin-may-revolutionize-burn-and-wound-care
Finally an image of X-37B/OTV-5, US Air Force's secretive space plane, in orbit