626
297
Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-uc-elsevier-20190711-story.html
6 years ago
513
155
Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
https://twitter.com/oasace/status/1149181539000864769
386
139
Google Photos is making photos semi-public
https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/google-photo-is-making-your-photos-semi-public-and-you-probably-dont-realise-6fcc74e40ac6
360
288
One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae
296
65
Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database
https://steinhq.com/
241
124
Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range
https://git.kernel.org/linus/96125bf9985a
229
220
Why the C++ standard ships every three years
https://herbsutter.com/2019/07/13/draft-faq-why-does-the-c-standard-ship-every-three-years/
206
34
Petrichor: why does rain smell so good?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44904298
201
60
Eastgate Centre, Harare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastgate_Centre,_Harare
190
62
Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)
https://clojure.org/about/state
178
56
Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda
https://www.trek10.com/blog/amazon-eventbridge/
165
90
Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy
https://boredhacking.com/tor-webscraping-proxy/
160
23
Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw2563
150
107
Anatomy of a Mechanical Keyboard (2018)
https://drop.com/talk/10016/anatomy-of-a-mechanical-keyboard
128
6
Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 1 (2015)
https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part1/
126
38
Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html
114
103
A man who became a hermit at 20
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48968502
110
129
MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
https://www.mpaa.org/press/mpaa-welcomes-netflix-as-new-member/
108
40
Eve Online’s communications blackout explained
https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/12/20692205/eve-online-nullsec-blackout-chat
115
VW invests $2.6B in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/12/vw-invests-2-6-billion-in-self-driving-startup-argo-ai-as-part-of-ford-alliance/
106
64
Qualified Small-Business Stock rule helps Silicon Valley workers save millions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/your-money/small-business-tax-break.html
104
18
Alice and Bob: A History of the World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple (2017)
http://cryptocouple.com
66
Value Is Dead, Long Live Value
https://www.osam.com/Commentary/value-is-dead-long-live-value
33
Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal
https://insidegnss.com/galileo-interruptus/
99
101
The Intelligence Myth – Why I cringe when someone tells me my child is smart
https://medium.com/@junwu_46652/the-intelligence-myth-8b5722145180
92
‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/world/asia/china-journalists-crackdown.html
3
The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use (2017) [pdf]
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs349d/docs/theimer.pdf
88
54
Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48923485
87
12
Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs
https://medium.com/@chrisgaul/prison-gothic-the-criminal-record-written-on-hong-kongs-road-signs-c54d655d55b5
84
22
Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Has Died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html
83
20
Tekton Pipelines – K8s-style resources for declaring CI pipelines
https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline
2
Illustrating Group Theory: A Coloring Book (2017)
http://www.coloring-book.co/
81
13
The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum (2004)
http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-htdp-vs-sicp-journal/
77
The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939)
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html
76
57
The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-essay-to-read-if-you-even-think-about-wearing-clothes
72
Bistring – Bidirectionally Transformed Strings
https://github.com/microsoft/bistring
61
React Native 0.60
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/
68
8
Ways to Fool the Masses Giving Performance Results on Vector Computers (1991)
http://www.johngustafson.net/fun/fool.html
47
Show HN: Sqlkit – Golang SQL package with nested transactions
https://github.com/colinjfw/sqlkit
21
Koji – App Development Platform
https://withkoji.com/
63
29
Microsoft backtracks on Partner Network changes that sparked uproar
https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/updates-program-change-announcements/
45
"Version" include wreaks havoc on case-insensitive filesystems
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42540
58
Why Nadal is unbeatable on clay
https://leonardofed.io/blog/nadal-game.html
Computing in the Soviet Space Program (2005)
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/soviet/index.htm
Value Is Dead, Long Live Value