859
597
To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/to-break-google-s-monopoly-on-search-make-its-index-public
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736
250
Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-foundation-with-1-2-million-epic-megagrant/
691
492
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle
664
298
Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48962557
574
182
Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
https://samcurry.net/cracking-my-windshield-and-earning-10000-on-the-tesla-bug-bounty-program/
466
142
Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/i-team-florida-dmv-sells-your-personal-information-to-private-companies-marketing-firms
432
396
Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48990482
407
204
How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?
https://people.kernel.org/bleung/how-many-kinds-of-usb-c-to-usb-c-cables-are-there
399
120
Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete
https://medium.com/@balidani/cities-skylines-is-turing-complete-e5ccf75d1c3a
363
47
Let's Build a Compiler
https://generalproblem.net/lets_build_a_compiler/01-starting-out/
313
82
Cargill: The Worst Company in the World
https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the-world/
283
112
Ownership and Borrowing in D
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in-d/
274
24
Elements of Programming
http://elementsofprogramming.com/
264
188
New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model
https://www.imore.com/new-2019-macbook-air-features-slower-ssd-2018-model
261
38
BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-07-15/bpf-performance-tools-book.html
177
Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-max-ordered-by-ryanair-undergoes-name-change
238
SpaceX says Crew Dragon capsule exploded due to exotic titanium fire
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-crew-dragon-explosion-titanium-fire/
236
31
Defunctionalize the Continuation
http://www.pathsensitive.com/2019/07/the-best-refactoring-youve-never-heard.html
221
330
'My son spent £3,160 in one game'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48925623
218
121
EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage
https://www.zdnet.com/article/european-gps-satellites-have-been-down-for-four-days-in-mysterious-outage/
58
Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apollo-11-had-a-hidden-hero-software-11563153001?mod=rsswn
198
115
German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools due to privacy risks
https://thenextweb.com/privacy/2019/07/15/german-schools-ban-microsoft-office-365-amid-privacy-concerns/
195
74
I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads
https://blog.floydhub.com/web-scraping-with-python/
186
100
Mac Open Web
https://macopenweb.com/
175
317
Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/im-begging-you-stop-donating-canned-goods-to-food-banks
173
19
Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer
https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa
166
63
Avoid Artificial Stupidity
https://www.mapflat.com/blog/artificial-stupidity/
165
51
IndieAuth – A federated login protocol using one's own domain name
https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth
162
44
Autocompletion with Deep Learning
https://tabnine.com/blog/deep
159
214
We can't get enough of audiobooks
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/13/listen-up-rise-of-audiobooks-steven-poole
152
50
Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform
https://www.extremetech.com/internet/294213-how-google-legally-profits-from-massive-fraud-on-its-platform
147
234
China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/china-s-rising-tech-scene-threatens-u-s-brain-drain-n1029256
127
MIT AI tool can predict breast cancer up to 5 years early
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/mit-ai-tool-can-predict-breast-cancer-up-to-5-years-early-works-equally-well-for-white-and-black-patients/
6
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germany-threatens-to-break-up-with-microsoft-office-again/
118
34
Show HN: ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page
https://importdoc.com/
113
81
Howto: Block Amazon and any site using Amazon Web Services
https://bigboy.us/other/aws/
110
36
Launch HN: Dataform (YC W18) – Build Reliable SQL Data Pipelines as a Team
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20441736
107
Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
https://news.mit.edu/2019/artificial-fiber-muscles-0711
106
22
Show HN: Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform
https://github.com/intrinsiclabs/osgood
98
21
Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf]
https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp19-rddkmstz.pdf
25
U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
https://theintercept.com/2019/07/11/china-surveillance-google-ibm-semptian/
94
46
Why I'm Leaving Medium
https://praxis.fortelabs.co/why-im-leaving-medium/
91
62
Baumol Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
87
53
The Lyttle Lytton Contest
http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
148
What if you couldn’t program with loops?
http://www.mikealche.com/software-development/what-if-you-couldnt-program-with-loops
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