521
267
Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
https://harry.garrood.me/blog/malicious-code-in-purescript-npm-installer/
6 years ago
357
165
How I use the good parts of AWS
https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1154516910265884672
342
282
Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-recycling-landfills
316
349
A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-13/the-black-hole-engulfing-the-world-s-bond-markets-quicktake
247
69
Burnout
https://johnnyrodgers.is/burnout
241
87
Surprisingly popular
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprisingly_popular
235
114
Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
https://tldr.hackeryogi.com/
234
143
Safe Deposit Boxes Aren't Safe
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html
209
62
Canada’s Forgotten Rainforest
https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-forgotten-rainforest/
206
202
Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011)
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
195
101
Border Collie Trained to Recognize 1,022 Nouns Dies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/science/chaser-border-collie-dies.html
192
135
RISC Is Unscalable
https://blackhole12.com/blog/risc-is-fundamentally-unscalable/
190
63
One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a single viral hit
https://theoutline.com/post/7709/meet-the-man-who-has-spent-the-past-years-making-over-19000-videos-of-himself-feeding-cats
183
130
Comparisons in C++20
https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2019/07/28/comparisons-cpp20/
182
78
In Praise of Walking
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/28/its-a-superpower-how-walking-makes-us-healthier-happier-and-brainier
169
21
Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
https://henrikwarne.com/2019/07/27/book-review-designing-data-intensive-applications/
86
Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/misunderstanding-dunning-kruger/
168
133
Ask HN: Best Lisp for software development?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20546906
166
85
Show HN: Memorize Terminal Commands
https://www.memorize-terminal-commands.com/
83
Problems with the CSS background-image property
https://nystudio107.com/blog/the-css-background-image-property-as-an-anti-pattern
145
207
Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/survival/
128
11
Survival in chessland [pdf]
http://tom7.org/chess/survival.pdf
127
161
Senior Citizens Struggle with Suicide as Loneliness and Isolation Set In
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/27/745017374/isolated-and-struggling-many-seniors-are-turning-to-suicide
28
Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: June 25–26, 2019
https://blog.coinbase.com/incident-post-mortem-june-25-26-2019-1d08c1657cbc
126
42
On Writing a C++ Book
https://lospi.net/c/c++/programming/developing/software/2019/07/28/cpp-crash-course.html
125
124
Gödel's Ontological Proof
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_ontological_proof
123
US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples
https://redbus2us.com/us-visa-forms-ds-160-260-has-social-media-questions-now-samples/
116
159
Apple: No Macintosh Forks. But the iPad...
https://mondaynote.com/apple-no-macintosh-forks-but-the-ipad-78894ddfadfb
113
26
PyPy JIT for 64-bit ARM
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/07/pypy-jit-for-aarch64.html
112
41
Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write (2018)
https://mondaynote.com/bezos-a-ceo-who-can-write-2f368ee36599
106
24
What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections
https://medium.com/open-glam/the-great-wave-what-hokusais-masterpiece-tells-us-about-museums-copyright-and-online-da0f25bd4ed2
105
30
MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency
https://www.coindesk.com/mit-fellow-accuses-facebook-of-lifting-his-ideas-for-libra-cryptocurrency
38
Make meaning your vocational goal
https://hbr.org/2019/07/why-you-should-stop-trying-to-be-happy-at-work
104
A Comscore Company Distributes a MITM Proxy Spyware Compromising Users Security
https://www.airoav.com/mitm-voicefive/
99
Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket
https://www.cnet.com/news/sonys-mini-air-conditioner-can-fit-in-your-pocket/
79
In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/world/americas/brazil-deforestation-amazon-bolsonaro.html
97
51
Engineers Don't Solve Problems (2018)
https://logicmag.io/failure/engineers-dont-solve-problems/
94
What Is Gaussian Curvature?
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2019/curvature/
91
66
The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-forgotten-solution-superdeterminism.html
57
Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of students ahead of fall semester
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-defunds-scholarships-thousands-university-students-ahead-fall-semester-n1035231
The Dark Ages of AI (1985) [pdf]
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2a85/7e042331c53b856b3ad5018454f72d798790.pdf
84
16
Spaceman Diff: Diffing Images on the Command Line
https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff
One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a single viral hit
