750
190
Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts
https://uglygerry.com/
6 years ago
563
Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
https://armin.dev/blog/2019/08/supporting-browser-extension-developers/
480
199
Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583581
462
98
Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf]
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4229#comment-1815290
439
183
iTerm2 3.3
https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_3_0.changelog
370
844
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584311
361
107
Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html
358
118
35 Over 35
https://theamericanscholar.org/35-over-35/
340
153
The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)
https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/12400/the-lost-art-of-lacing-cable
333
82
Every Noise at Once
http://everynoise.com/
297
125
Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game
https://diablo.rivsoft.net/
284
224
Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/1/20749831/alphabet-google-apple-cash-reserves-richest-company
271
44
John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)
http://sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on-parallel-implementations/
263
157
Composing better emails
https://iridakos.com/how-to/2019/06/26/composing-better-emails.html
254
320
Norweigan oil fund
https://www.nbim.no/en/
253
174
High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190729094538.htm
241
84
PartiQL: One query language for all your data
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-partiql-one-query-language-for-all-your-data/
204
25
A Readable Specification of TLS 1.3
https://davidwong.fr/tls13/
200
256
Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49185007
149
California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agriculture-farmlands-solar-power-20190703-story.html
195
314
Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/01/goldman-spending-100-million-to-shave-milliseconds-off-stock-trades.html
185
115
The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis
http://nautil.us/issue/74/networks/the-flawed-reasoning-behind-the-replication-crisis
178
95
Big O Notation – Using not-boring math to measure code’s efficiency
https://www.interviewcake.com/article/python/big-o-notation-time-and-space-complexity
177
166
DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/doordash-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-caviar-squares-food-ordering-platform-300895200.html
163
104
N.Y.P.D. Adds Children as Young as 11 to Facial Recognition Database
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/nyregion/nypd-facial-recognition-children-teenagers.html
76
Launch HN: Tandem (YC S19) – A Virtual Office for Remote Teams
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585810
144
JuliaCon 2019 Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP8iPy9hna6StY9tIJIUN3F_co9A0zh0H
141
170
Dwindling CPAN Releases
https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/dwindling-cpan-releases/
139
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584309
135
87
IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/ibm-fired-as-many-as-100-000-in-recent-years-court-case-shows
28
Programming Algorithms: A Crash Course in Lisp
http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2019/07/crash-course-in-lisp.html
126
132
Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity
https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/8/1_Apple_is_reverting_to_their_1990s_disposition.html
117
63
Show HN: Generate a fake app to replace any addictive app
https://www.detoxify.app/
61
Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/competition-forever-change-blockchain/
24
Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino
https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/machine-learning-thats-light-enough-for-an-arduino
109
California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects
https://onezero.medium.com/california-police-are-sharing-facial-recognition-databases-to-id-suspects-3317726d31ad
113
96
FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e8n/fbi-says-qanon-internet-conspiracy-theorists-are-national-security-threats
112
80
Anyone who looks at this code instantly becomes insane
https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone/issues/19
111
64
The High Price of Multitasking
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/opinion/multitasking-brain.html
110
Detailed 3D map of Milky Way shows 'warped' shape
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/01/most-detailed-ever-3d-map-of-milky-way-shows-warped-shape-cepheid
90
How to stop Apple from listening to your Siri recordings
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/29/stop-apple-listening-siri-recordings/
106
74
Stun Belts in Court
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/07/29/shock-treatment-in-court
101
8
Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
https://www.quantamagazine.org/bubble-experiment-finds-universal-laws-20190731/
100
50
Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=40253
99
51
Iron Age Celtic Woman Was Buried in a Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/iron-age-celtic-woman-was-buried-hollowed-out-tree-trunk-180972773/
33
Japanese Play-by-Postcard RPGs: Net Games (2017)
https://www.dampfkraft.com/games/japanese-postcard-net-games.html
97
July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/july-hottest-month-1.5233368
15
Evolving Lindenmayer Systems
https://jobtalle.com/evolving_lindenmayer_systems.html
Show HN: Lagukan, a highly personalized music service
https://lagukan.com/
94
11
A Transparent Display with Per-Pixel Color and Opacity Control
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3327984
89
43
The foodoo economics of meal delivery
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/03/the-foodoo-economics-of-meal-delivery
What We Can and Can’t Learn from Copenhagen
https://gehlinstitute.org/dialogue/can-cant-learn-copenhagen/
19
A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-chemical-clue-life-earth.html
169
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584310
85
Hawaii Extends Thirty Meter Telescope Permit Amid Protests
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/31/747056053/hawaii-extends-thirty-meter-telescope-permit-amid-protests
17
Gerbil – A meta-dialect of Scheme
https://cons.io/
81
Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock
https://www.ft.com/content/f7d855ac-b465-11e9-bec9-fdcab53d6959
78
29
Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge
https://www.openideo.com/challenge-briefs/cybersecurity-visuals
18
Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/life-altering-copyright-lawsuits-could-come-regular-internet-users-under-new-law
Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/08/01/one-lawyer-five-years-3-802-cases
138
The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/apple-just-announced-something-unthinkable-about-iphone-heres-why-its-actually-great-news.html
Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
https://rare-technologies.com/implementing-poincare-embeddings/
35
Known packings of equal circles in a circle
http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/cci.html
72
31
Curving – Dog Body Language
https://www.silentconversations.com/dog-body-language-curving-silent-conversations/
70
Did John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-steinbeck-did-nobel-prize-winning-novelist-spy-for-the-cia-in-paris
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