752
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Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-computer-science-conjecture-in-two-pages-20190725/
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594
330
How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
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549
163
Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware
https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/mozilla-debuts-webthings-gateway-open-source-router-firmware-for-turris-omnia/
529
225
The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System
https://twitter.com/SophieintVeld/status/1154689216170926080
465
311
Users hate change
https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/a4d311ffcdc4fd908ec97d1c245e57dc
372
157
Firefox Reality
https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/firefox-reality/
367
389
IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-sending-warning-letters-to-more-than-10-000-cryptocurrency-holders-11564159523?mod=rsswn
331
125
What Stress Does to the Brain
https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-stress-14580/
309
97
Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190725151018.htm
296
160
Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02275-3
288
54
A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (2017)
https://internetingishard.com/
284
137
Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
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275
152
Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/scientists-stunned-by-city-killer-asteroid-that-just-missed-earth/
270
141
Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/texas-wind-energy-trnd/index.html
255
Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust
https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron-native
242
57
SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server in Go
https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
234
289
A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/hair-for-all/594826/
226
The Problem of Mindfulness
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200
108
Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/unity-now-valued-at-6b-raising-up-to-525m/
198
240
The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S.
https://gfintegrity.org/report/the-library-card-project/
193
More money than anyone imagined: an explanation for why the bubble never burst
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/whatever-happened-tech-bubble/594856/
172
13
Stanford CS Education Library (2001)
http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/
150
78
Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop
https://hothardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-rival-pine64-unleashes-200-pinebook-pro-linux-laptop#V7YJkhDrjbkSpcum.02
143
A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf]
http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
140
65
Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49127569
138
19
Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211209-tree-stumps-that-should-be-dead-can-be-kept-alive-by-nearby-trees/
136
62
Pioneer manipulates scores to pick winners
https://medium.com/@anton_87731/how-silicon-valley-vc-tournament-manipulates-the-scores-to-pick-winners-1608e8c0ff22
129
5
Metaphors We Believe By
https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/07/25/metaphors-we-believe-by/
124
61
Hakuna Cloud – Stop cloud servers when they are not in use
https://hakuna.cloud/
215
Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/25/kuo-16-inch-macbook-pro-scissor-keyboard/
114
A software engineering manager guide to measuring an engineer’s performance
https://www.jmoses.co/2019/07/08/software-engineering-manager-guide-measuring-performance.html
111
132
Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-greeland-europe-ice-heat-record-1.5225980
109
52
US government approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/its-official-us-government-approves-t-mobilesprint-merger/
107
15
Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator (2014)
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes/
9
SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure
https://blog.bonnieeisenman.com/projects/clojure-puzzles/
101
63
Show HN: Play rock paper and scissors against a untrained neural network
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/jokenpo
17
Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme
https://kennethfriedman.org/projects/toski/
96
The Aesthetic Beauty of Math
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/22/the-aesthetic-beauty-of-math/
95
1
Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/pang
94
Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest-Throughput Service
https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2019/07/24/safely-rewriting-mixpanels-highest-throughput-service-in-golang/
90
23
MemGuard: Secure sensitive information in memory in Go
https://github.com/awnumar/memguard
88
79
GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard
https://medium.com/@__xuorig__/why-graphql-performance-monitoring-is-hard-41381bc7c44d
87
Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (2011)
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/12/31/scripting/
84
Show HN: I built a spreadsheet app with Python to make data science easier
https://hackernoon.com/introducing-grid-studio-a-spreadsheet-app-with-python-to-make-data-science-easier-tdup38f7
82
OOP Before OOP with Simula
https://twobithistory.org/2019/01/31/simula.html
2
Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/planning-to-start-planning-to-finish
74
Visualizing and exploring sorting algorithms in two dimensions
https://dotink.co/posts/visualizing-sorting-algorithms/
Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M