883
118
Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-basics.pdf
7 years ago
690
221
Employee happiness and business success are linked
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/07/28/employee-happiness-and-business-success-are-linked
674
216
Blender 2.80
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/
588
121
BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS
★ 2k Assembly BSD-2-Clause– 7 years ago
467
157
Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/capital-one-breach-was-inevitable/
433
346
Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946
398
What’s New in ES2019
https://blog.tildeloop.com/posts/javascript-what%E2%80%99s-new-in-es2019
389
247
Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-in-one-day-to-combat-drought
348
222
Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06520
318
98
A Look at Overnight Stays at US National Parks
http://jordan-vincent.com/night-under-the-stars
300
366
Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-30/u-s-economy-personal-bad-behavior-isn-t-what-causes-poverty
299
503
Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/technology/apple-earnings-iphone.html
290
47
How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner
https://blog.gregbrockman.com/how-i-became-a-machine-learning-practitioner
284
109
Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907280007.html
242
83
One week of empathy training
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/i-feel-hopeless-rejected-and-a-burden-on-society-one-week-of-empathy-training/https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/i-feel-hopeless-rejected-and-a-burden-on-society-one-week-of-empathy-training/
239
119
A Programmer’s Regret: Neglecting Math at University
https://awalterschulze.github.io/blog/post/neglecting-math-at-university/
230
316
“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=883038#c114
225
151
Monorepo is great if you're really good
https://yosefk.com/blog/dont-ask-if-a-monorepo-is-good-for-you-ask-if-youre-good-enough-for-a-monorepo.html
39
Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines
https://stripe.com/blog/canonical-log-lines
215
69
So, you want to build a CubeSat?
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-07-30-Issue-23/
208
153
Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49151042
205
60
Capital One attacker may have breached other major corporations
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-impacts-106m-people/
204
125
Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017)
https://benbernardblog.com/web-scraping-and-crawling-are-perfectly-legal-right/
193
165
Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/humans-hominin-introgression-07438.html
192
Most internet service providers are gone – Sonic has survived and thrived
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Most-internet-service-providers-are-gone-Sonic-14188418.php
188
126
'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/30/five-eyes-backdoor-access-whatsapp-encryption
185
65
Amazon as experiment
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/7/26/amazon-as-experiment
183
174
The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-phones-for-the-next-billion-users-arent-smartphones-11563879608?mod=rsswn
175
93
Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/moving-the-linux-desktop-to-another-reality.html
172
66
LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 25mW power
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/lorawan-distance-world-record
298
On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-30/flawed-elevators-on-13-billion-carrier-miss-another-deadline
169
238
New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/30/20746878/josh-hawley-dark-patterns-platform-design-autoplay-youtube-videos-scrolling-snapstreaks-illegal
167
7
Introduction to Bayesian Filter
https://leimao.github.io/article/Introduction-to-Bayesian-Filter/
163
224
You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
https://onezero.medium.com/youre-paying-into-a-broken-system-whenever-you-buy-something-on-ios-3f3aa88ecf8c
219
Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/google-unlocks-33-of-publisher-paywalls-on-july-30-this-is-what-happens-next/
150
35
The Story of the Ping Program (1997)
https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html
138
21
Show HN: Bild – A collection of parallel image processing algorithms in Go
https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild
★ 4.1k Go MIT– 7 years ago
131
95
Amazon, Walmart, Ikea targeted in University of California light bulb lawsuits
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retailers-university-of-california-la/amazon-walmart-ikea-targeted-in-university-of-california-light-bulb-lawsuits-idUSKCN1UP24S
129
26
High-performance, exactly-once, failure-oblivious distributed programming (2018)
http://christophermeiklejohn.com/pl/2018/12/15/ambrosia.html
Lock-free multithreading with atomic operations
https://www.internalpointers.com/post/lock-free-multithreading-atomic-operations
127
4
Elementary Algebra (1971) [pdf]
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Papers/ElementaryAlgebra
123
The Moon is older than previously believed
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-older-previously-believed.html
111
The Origin of Most Coal on Earth (2016)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/
Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site
https://builder.io
108
124
I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on the Side
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nea8bx/im-a-college-professor-who-faked-dissertation-data-on-the-side
105
17
104
78
Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/why-do-kids-have-imaginary-friends/594919/
103
When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right
https://www.theferrett.com/2019/07/29/when-having-friends-is-more-alluring-than-being-right/
102
10
Ray tracing with uLisp
http://www.ulisp.com/show?2NWA
50
Stripe subsidiary plans to open office in Baltimore
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/07/29/san-francisco-tech-firm-picks-locust-point-for-200.html
97
161
Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/dark-emerges-from-stealth-with-unique-deployless-software-model/
96
48
Ask HN: How did you automate your day job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20564687
24
Andy Rachleff on 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2019/06/lean-startup-conference-speaker-andy.html?m=1
90
42
Launch HN: FeaturePeek (YC S19) – Front-end review for the whole team
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20566785
86
49
The Fifth Generation Computing Project
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/07/25/the-fifth-generation-computing-project/
A Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-science/
82
134
Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
https://gizmodo.com/humans-will-never-colonize-mars-1836316222
The Near Impossible 20-Year Journey to Translate 'Fire Emblem: Thracia 776'
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb8mvv/the-near-impossible-20-year-journey-to-translate-fire-emblem-thracia-776
20
A Critique of Pure Learning: What Neural Networks Can Learn from Animal Brains
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/582643v1
81
Disabling server-side logging of Siri requests
https://github.com/jankais3r/Siri-NoLoggingPLS
★ 236 MIT– 7 years ago
‘No Way to Prevent This’ Says Development Community Where This Regularly Happens
https://medium.com/@nimelrian/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-development-community-where-this-regularly-happens-8ef59e6836de
