786
214
I Can’t Stop Winning
https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/
6 years ago
648
197
Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/camera-microphone-require-https-in-firefox-68/
552
292
IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future
502
170
Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502
https://tinyletter.com/jamesbowman/letters/i-have-found-an-excellent-programmer-named-steve-wozniac
478
271
Firefox 68.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0/releasenotes/
472
435
Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/car-crashes-arent-always-unavoidable/592447/
407
209
Ross Perot Has Died
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/billionaire-and-former-presidential-candidate-ross-perot-is-dead-at-89.html
397
301
A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
https://twitter.com/modacitylife/status/1147119109672448002
326
146
Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20688113/zoom-apple-mac-patch-vulnerability-emergency-fix-web-server-remove
320
21
New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing
https://www.fast.ai/2019/07/08/fastai-nlp/
309
562
France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airlines-tax-idUSKCN1U412B
304
386
Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/apple-macbook-air-macbook-pro-updates/
300
233
What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-if-life-did-not-originate-on-earth
299
112
Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate
289
314
Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48908726
68
When Can I Reuse This Calendar?
https://www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/
280
168
Racket Is an Acceptable Python
https://dustycloud.org/blog/racket-is-an-acceptable-python/
277
111
It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy
https://invincible.substack.com/p/its-never-too-late-to-be-successful
269
167
How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms
https://medium.com/darklang/how-dark-deploys-code-in-50ms-771c6dd60671
263
120
If Sapiens were a blog post
https://neilkakkar.com/sapiens.html
261
Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390247
255
158
Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/raspberry-pi-4-uses-incorrect-usb-c-design-wont-work-with-some-chargers/
248
58
Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190704191425.htm
244
53
Australia's anti-encryption laws used to bypass journalist protections: expert
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/08/australias-anti-encryption-laws-being-used-to-bypass-journalist-protections-expert-says
230
Intention to fine Marriott more than £99M under GDPR for data breach
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/statement-intention-to-fine-marriott-international-inc-more-than-99-million-under-gdpr-for-data-breach/
223
52
Zoom is reinstalling itself after a minute of being uninstalled [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AL28s9An5k
218
95
California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/report-california-earthquakes-disrupted-hf-propagation-on-west-coast
210
173
How I Taught My Kid to Read
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/phonics-not-whole-word-best-teaching-reading/591127/
192
23
Interpretable Machine Learning
https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/
187
104
Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV
https://blog.google/products/chromecast/prime-video-chromecast-android-tv-youtube-fire-tv/
183
132
Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions
https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2019/06/29/rsync-guis-power-control-design-and-decisions/
175
Database as Filesystem [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc
169
91
C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-03/the-british-banking-dynasty-that-s-even-older-than-the-rothschilds
39
A list of Amazon’s businesses and subsidiaries
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/these-are-all-the-businesses-you-never-knew-were-owned-by
166
45
Webpack Doesn't Work on Monday (On Windows)
https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962
155
42
Brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept
https://neurosciencenews.com/concept-comprehension-14296/
152
49
Data Still Dominates
https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/06/30/data_still_dominates.html
147
196
Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook
https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/
145
97
New antibiotics effective against resistant bacteria in mice
https://presse.inserm.fr/en/new-antibiotics-developed-by-inserm-and-universite-de-rennes-1/35666/
142
89
Nuclear material worth $72M seized in a car in Turkey
https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/07/nuclear-weapon-material-worth-72m-seized-in-a-car-in-turkey/
140
48
There’s more than one way to write an IP address
https://ma.ttias.be/theres-more-than-one-way-to-write-an-ip-address/
136
115
Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GTn8p4GxT9gJ:https://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/3078458/the-worst-move-from-microsoft-in-30-years-mpn-changes-spark-uproar
55
Americans Shocked to Find Their Rights Literally Vanish at U.S. Airports
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americans-rights-are-literally-vanishing-at-the-airport/
36
Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst
https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/06/fast-radio-burst.html
126
43
Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2
https://minimaxir.com/apps/gpt2-mtg/
125
26
Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust
https://github.com/mitnk/cicada
123
127
Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG
https://decrypt.co/7795/investigators-tether-loaned-usdt-to-investors-illegally-traded-in-new-york-ran-an-unregistered-securities-offering
118
106
The challenges of teaching software engineering
https://www.sicpers.info/2019/07/the-challenges-of-teaching-software-engineering/
103
61
South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in plane they assembled from kit
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48914418
99
U.S. has its wettest 12 months on record again
https://www.noaa.gov/news/us-has-its-wettest-12-months-on-record-again
98
3
Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes
https://www.lundbeckfonden.com/en/ants-give-away-the-secrets-of-human-brain-processes/#
34
Cat Colors
https://www.catster.com/cats-101/different-cat-colors
When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-venmo-cash-app-twitter-crowdfund-money-20190602-story.html
92
16
FreeBSD 11.3
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.3R/announce.html
212
The forgotten joy of soap
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/the-forgotten-joy-of-soap/
17
Google Acquires Elastifile
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/expanding-our-enterprise-file-storage-offerings-to-simplify-the-management-and-scaling-of-data
96
BlueJeans also runs a webserver when installed on macOS
https://support.bluejeans.com/s/article/BlueJeans-Detector-Service
94
Trump’s Twitter blocks violate First Amendment rights, appeals court affirms
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/trump-cant-block-you-on-twitter-appeals-court-affirms/
88
Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop
https://peterwang512.github.io/FALdetector/
Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions