692
640
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
6 years ago
642
141
A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
https://www.balena.io/blog/build-a-raspberry-pi-powered-train-station-oled-sign-for-your-desk/
144
LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-successful-flight-by-light.html
600
441
Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
https://twitter.com/LauraSullivaNPR/status/1156617951245721601
502
143
Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/22-28-july-2019/chelsea-westminster-hospital-arts-research/
302
210
Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49164316
291
88
Kriegspiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)
267
81
Launch HN: Hatchways (YC S19) – Internships Instead of Interviews
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20578850
266
47
A Brief Guide to a Few Algebraic Structures
https://argumatronic.com/posts/2019-06-21-algebra-cheatsheet.html
260
77
Tokyo's audiophile venues (2016)
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2724
254
194
A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/there-s-a-5-600-electric-moonshot-for-your-combustion-clunker
246
114
Why does unsubscribing from a newsletter take “a few days”?
https://twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013
244
154
Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/30/1399
218
Why Generics?
https://blog.golang.org/why-generics
215
214
Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02316-x
213
64
How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small
https://unstoppable.me/accomplish-big-things/
201
336
As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)
https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/05/18/as-crime-dries-up-japans-police-hunt-for-things-to-do
195
110
DSVPN – VPN using TCP at port 80 and 443
https://github.com/jedisct1/dsvpn
238
An F-22 Raptor’s Crumbling Radar Absorbent Skin
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29218/these-images-of-an-f-22-raptors-crumbling-radar-absorbent-skin-are-fascinating
191
46
LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store
https://github.com/zerotier/lf
163
The Ethics of Web Performance
https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/
190
268
Electron 6.0
https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-6-0
189
93
Graph database reinvented: Dgraph gets $11.5M to pursue unique, opinionated path
https://www.zdnet.com/article/you-can-go-your-own-graph-database-way-dgraph-secures-115m-to-pursue-its-opinionated-path/
176
TSMC Talks 7nm, 5nm, Yield, and Next-Gen 5G and HPC Packaging
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2567/tsmc-talks-7nm-5nm-yield-and-next-gen-5g-and-hpc-packaging/
169
234
U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs from Canada
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-07-31/trump-administration-drugs-canada
165
51
Drama – Draw user interfaces and create interactive prototypes
https://www.drama.app/beta
243
The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?
https://www.outsideonline.com/2399736/impossible-foods-beyond-meat-alt-meat
137
123
How Sydney destroyed its trams for love of the car
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/28/erased-from-history-how-sydney-destroyed-its-trams-for-love-of-the-car
136
15
Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12378
43
Espresso Machine Powered by Tcl/Tk
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.tcl/TsTbDVx8tUQ/kbejHvzuEgAJ
135
58
German prosecutors charge ex-Audi boss Stadler over emissions cheating
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-audi-emissions-probe/german-prosecutors-charge-ex-audi-boss-stadler-over-emissions-cheating-idUSKCN1UQ0PM
133
36
Building Payments for an Insurance Startup
https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/how-to-build-an-insurance-company
132
127
Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-spurs-tech-figures-to-distance-themselves
147
High-Density Housing Near Public Transit Is Aim of San Diego Code Change
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2019/07/29/high-density-housing-near-public-transit-is-aim-of-san-diego-code-change/
115
24
ZRNA – Software-defined analog circuits
https://zrna.org
The perfect language and why Go still isn't it
https://www.snazz.xyz/programming/2019/07/31/perfect-language.html
112
13
Solving differential equations on a 6502 with Woz's floating point code
https://github.com/ben165/6502_solving_de
108
44
New CSS Features in Firefox 68
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/new-css-features-in-firefox-68/
103
49
Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/lefthook-knock-your-teams-code-back-into-shape
96
28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/EDN-20190731-1
95
34
First Programmable Memristor Computer
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processors/first-programmable-memristor-computer
4
Marvin Minsky and the Ultimate Tinker Toy
https://tinlizzie.org/tinkertoy/
90
69
How over 25 People Got Scammed into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/07/how-over-25-people-got-scammed-into-working-at-a-nonexistent-game-company/
6
The Stranding of the MV Shokalskiy
https://idlewords.com/2019/07/the_stranding_of_the_mv_shokalskiy.htm
86
5
An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf]
http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
85
26
Things to plan for when hiring remote employees
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/didnt-plan-hiring-remote-employees/
82
Vickrey–Clarke–Groves Auction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey%E2%80%93Clarke%E2%80%93Groves_auction
The Enduring Mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-of-jawn-philadelphias-allpurpose-noun
8
Ex-Joyeur
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/07/31/ex-joyeur/
79
FTC: Equifax might run out of cash, so please take the credit monitoring
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/31/ftc-equifax-might-run-out-of-cash-so-please-take-monitoring.html
Ring has enormous control over the ways police partners can portray its products
https://gizmodo.com/everything-cops-say-about-amazons-ring-is-scripted-or-a-1836812538
78
The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/psychedelic-medicine-is-coming-the-law-isnt-ready/
TSMC Talks 7nm, 5nm, Yield, and Next-Gen 5G and HPC Packaging