948
261
QuickJS JavaScript Engine
https://bellard.org/quickjs/
6 years ago
695
485
Twitter was down
https://status.twitterstat.us
549
171
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
https://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platforms/
524
392
No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02156-9
388
77
My First Fifteen Compilers
https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/07/09/my-first-fifteen-compilers/
349
71
How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to
https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-made-8-000-per-month-podcasting-and-why-you-probably-dont-want-to-855966a557aa
324
478
France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by US
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48947922
290
23
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/national/science-health/japans-hayabusa2-probe-makes-second-touchdown-distant-asteroid/
257
203
Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-malicious-apps-infect-million-android.html
249
68
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
https://wordsandbuttons.online/lexical_differential_highlighting_instead_of_syntax_highlighting.html
248
115
AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208975-ai-made-from-a-sheet-of-glass-can-recognise-numbers-just-by-looking/
243
144
Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets
https://m.economictimes.com/tech/hardware/apple-starts-shipping-india-made-iphones-to-european-markets/articleshow/70166859.cms
240
149
Data scientists shouldn't use Upwork
https://www.racketracer.com/2019/07/11/why-data-scientists-should-never-use-upwork/
218
66
Show HN: Inlets 2.0 – expose your local endpoints to the Internet
https://inlets.dev
213
109
Thaddeus Kosciusko
https://angrystaffofficer.com/2019/07/09/thaddeus-kosciusko-the-polish-engineer-you-never-heard-of-who-saved-america/
209
56
Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android
https://github.com/facebook/hermes
208
127
Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain
https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply
Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-disables-walkie-talkie-app-due-to-vulnerability-that-could-allow-iphone-eavesdropping/
83
210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia
https://www.latimes.com/science/oldest-modern-human-skull-in-eurasia-story.html
193
26
Linux Observability with BPF
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/linux-observability-with-bpf/
188
70
In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything
https://lithub.com/in-cairo-the-garbage-collector-knows-everything/
182
152
When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Your-Pa-word-doesn-t-matter/ba-p/731984
170
63
13-Year-Old Scientist's Research Shows Hand Dryers Can Hurt Kids' Ears
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739783918/hand-dryers-harm-childrens-hearing-canadian-study-shows
161
Infinite work is less work
http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2019/07/infinite-work-is-less-work.html
154
15
QCSuper: A tool for capturing 2G/3G/4G air traffic on Qualcomm-based phones
https://labs.p1sec.com/2019/07/09/presenting-qcsuper-a-tool-for-capturing-your-2g-3g-4g-air-traffic-on-qualcomm-based-phones/
153
50
Guix Workflow Language
https://www.guixwl.org/
151
64
Unemployed Fishing
https://www.drakemag.com/back-issues/2019/summer/2032-unemployed-fishing.html
148
84
Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-stirs-suspicions-by-adding-telemetry-files-to-security-only-update/
8
Tiles to Curves: Fun with Voronoi Graphs
https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/tiles-to-curves-fun-with-voronoi-graphs-part-1-r5150/
147
130
Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
https://techerati.com/news-hub/google-admits-listening-to-some-smart-speaker-recordings/
145
54
Steam Labs
https://store.steampowered.com/labs
33
Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
https://github.com/luksamuk/powerlisp
134
79
Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site
http://www.petesqbsite.com/index.php
Launch HN: Stacks (YC S14) – The first SEC-qualified crypto token offering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413420
133
97
Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/maker-faire-now-make-community/
125
87
Plant trees while you search the web
https://info.ecosia.org/what
124
WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
116
67
Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit
https://blog.cloudkernels.net/posts/rpi4-64bit-virt/
114
How we built a serverless architecture with AWS
https://www.hypertrack.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-we-built-a-serverless-architecture-with-aws/
113
20
Show HN: I made an interactive hex calculator in ncurses
https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise
112
95
Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job
https://jeremyaboyd.micro.blog/2019/07/09/jeremy-i-think.html
99
45
'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2017/06/05/the-restaurant-of-order-mistakes-employs-waiters-with-dementia/
93
43
Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415371
89
32
FUSE performance improvements with eBPF [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-bijlani.pdf
78
19
Visualize team email network with new MIT tool
https://openteam.info/
7
Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet
https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/arpanet-part-3-the-subnet/
13
We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
76
Zelda speedrunners are attacking the memory allocator
https://twitter.com/Gankro/status/1148361355130527748
73
98
Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l2408
Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/technology/amazon-workers-retraining-automation.html
101
German submarine U-1206
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206
When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter