639
111
Saving Lydia
https://medium.com/lydian-accelerator/saving-lydia-62a1c0bdf0fb
7 years ago
567
169
Some items from my “reliability list”
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/21/reliability/
498
141
CERN migrates to open-source technologies
https://home.cern/news/news/computing/migrating-open-source-technologies
486
239
Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
https://developer.squareup.com/blog/squares-growth-framework-for-engineers-and-engineering-managers/
436
215
Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful
https://petapixel.com/2019/07/22/photographers-instagrammers-stop-being-so-dmn-selfish-and-disrespectful/
77
Vital Wikipedia Articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles
396
380
“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/issues/289
★ 2.7k Vala GPL-3.0– 7 years ago
324
88
A History of Visa
http://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2019/5/29/part-l-a-history-of-visa
96
The Rust compiler is still getting faster
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/25/the-rust-compiler-is-still-getting-faster/
301
199
Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement
https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/
294
258
Alibaba partner announces 16 core RISC-V chip
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-07-25/alibaba-chip-subsidiary-launches-first-product-using-open-source-architecture-101443785.html
281
23
An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks
https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-rnns/
265
56
MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive
https://www.ably.io/concepts/mqtt
261
156
McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/mckinsey-johnson-and-johnson-opioids.html
253
164
Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/magazine/electronic-music-synthesizers.html
248
183
Ask HN: What did you do when you suddenly got rich?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20521902
219
70
Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-acquire-the-majority-of-intels-smartphone-modem-business/
202
93
Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/chris-hughes-facebook-breakup.html
192
238
Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for Suspending Ad Account
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/tulsi-gabbard-sues-google.html
190
81
What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth traffic
https://hexway.io/blog/apple-bleee/
180
Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript
https://github.com/thomasdavis/blockbid-ccxt-tutorials
★ 385 JavaScript BSD-2-Clause– 7 years ago
174
247
Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/24/approaching-peak-housing-dysfunction-in-california
172
34
Crafting Interpreters: Calls and Functions
https://craftinginterpreters.com/calls-and-functions.html
171
173
US proposes barring tech companies from offering financial services
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/us-proposes-barring-tech-companies-from-offering-financial-services.html
167
Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scorching-heat-produces-all-time-record-highs-in-belgium-netherlands-as-western-europe-swelters-under-heat-wave/70008886
179
In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/wells-are-getting-deeper-as-groundwater-gets-depleted/
166
59
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-hidden-costs-of-automated-thinking
160
89
ChaiScript – Easy to Use Scripting for C++
http://chaiscript.com/
153
22
How to Write a Thesis (1977)
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/umberto-eco-how-to-write-a-thesis/
152
189
Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-24/beijing-strikes-ominous-tone-saying-military-could-intervene-in-hong-kong
146
41
Kyoto Animation artworks go on display nationwide in remembrance of arson attack
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/kyoto-animation-artworks-go-display-nationwide-remembrance-arson-attack/
140
193
I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see colleagues’ emails
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/university-blacklist-academic-phd-a9016186.html
37
Mental models
https://nesslabs.com/mental-models
136
How Weight Training Might Change the Brain
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/well/move/how-weight-training-changes-the-brain.html
24
Show HN: CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux
https://github.com/snovvcrash/usbrip
★ 1.1k Python GPL-3.0– 7 years ago
134
67
Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijl6uDa_kQU
133
Raspberry Pi microSD follow-up, SD Association fools me twice?
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-microsd-follow-sd-association-fools-me-twice
132
39
Valonia ventricosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa
131
63
Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tipping point'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/amazonian-rainforest-near-unrecoverable-tipping-point
129
100
The Internet Loves a Rest Stop in Breezewood, Pennsylvania
https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/07/breezewood-meme-pennsylvania-turnpike-i-70-rest-stop-photos/594559/
128
114
Could wooden building be a solution to climate change?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190717-climate-change-wooden-architecture-concrete-global-warming
127
32
A Permanently Magnetic Liquid
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-printed-droplets-of-permanently-magnetic-liquid-and-boy-is-it-trippy
147
Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results [pdf]
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q2_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf
125
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20%
https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazoncom-announces-second-quarter-sales-20-634-billion
119
53
Cargo ships that ‘liquefy’ (2018)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180905-the-cargo-ships-that-liquefy
118
27
Alpha Compositing
https://ciechanow.ski/alpha-compositing/
110
33
I Used to Be a Human Being (2016)
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-my-distraction-sickness-and-yours.html
106
112
Spaced Repetition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
137
Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet
64
Google Cloud's run rate is now over $8B
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/google-clouds-run-rate-is-now-over-8b/
29
Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/alaskan-glaciers-melting-faster-than-previously-thought/
103
16
Math versus Dirty Data
https://jeremykun.com/2019/06/08/math-versus-data/
102
Equifax CEO pushed out after data hack getting nearly $20M in bonuses
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/equifax-data-breach-settlement-disgraced-former-ceo-getting-nearly-20-million-in-bonuses-after-the-hack/
159
How Much Water Do You Need to Drink?
https://elemental.medium.com/how-much-water-do-you-really-need-to-drink-7a6cf683b211
Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition
https://www.inquirer.com/news/curtis-institute-music-20190721.html
5
Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190724-king-mead
YouTube isn’t for kids, but kids videos are among its most popular
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-24/pew-study-youtube-children-content
87
31
Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday
https://startupandrew.com/posts/how-i-started-pineapple-day-holiday/
79
How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript
https://mitchum.blog/how-to-build-minesweeper-with-javascript/
71
GitHub and Trade Controls
https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-and-trade-controls
28
Ask HN: Twitter perma-banned my popular bot for a false reason
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20522546
75
3
In Order to Become More Competitive We've Decided To Make Your Job Worse
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-order-to-become-more-competitive-in-our-sector-weve-decided-to-make-a-series-of-terrible-decisions-that-will-make-your-job-way-worse
73
10
Wanderland: A journey through Iran’s wild west
https://www.1843magazine.com/journeys/wanderland-a-journey-through-irans-wild-west
Toxorhynchites – Mosquito Eater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxorhynchites
Europe’s Cities Weren’t Built for This Kind of Heat
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/07/europe-heat-wave-temperature-cities-climate-change-plan/594811/
