820
129
Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
https://standardebooks.org/
7 years ago
664
202
Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/07/urban-tree-canopy-green-space-wellbeing-research/595060/
483
295
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest
452
430
Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/programmers-before-you-turn-40-get-a-plan-b/
361
225
“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
349
95
The Art of Warez [video]
https://vimeo.com/341663153
342
150
Contributing to the Mozilla code base
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Introduction
322
85
Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
https://medium.com/@logicbomb_1/one-misconfig-jira-to-leak-them-all-including-nasa-and-hundreds-of-fortune-500-companies-a70957ef03c7
305
333
Insured price $2,758, cash price $521
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-29/column-could-our-healthcare-system-be-any-dumber
298
193
Medieval people bathed regularly
https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/
286
62
Secretly Public Domain: Most books published in the US before 1964
https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0
267
43
A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations
https://blog.prototypr.io/this-aint-disney-a-practical-guide-to-css-transitions-and-animations-a8b87e7c5531
247
235
The Fasting Cure Is No Fad
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fasting-cure-is-no-fad-11564676512?mod=rsswn
236
185
Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-02/we-already-have-the-world-s-most-efficient-carbon-capture-technology
212
143
Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49159820
210
215
Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/apple-suspends-siri-response-grading-in-response-to-privacy-concerns/
205
157
Typed Properties in PHP 7.4
https://stitcher.io/blog/typed-properties-in-php-74
168
108
Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-01/sixty-six-garage-unconscious-and-anonymous-for-17-years
164
‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
https://digiday.com/media/just-four-dudes-inside-easylist-community-run-adblocking-list-disrupting-internet/
139
KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500%3A+Replace+ZooKeeper+with+a+Self-Managed+Metadata+Quorum
137
28
How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work
https://prospect.org/article/how-digital-advertising-markets-really-work
132
29
How to Write a Lisp Interpreter In Python (2010)
https://norvig.com/lispy.html
10
Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting
https://drew.ltd/blog/posts/2020-8-2.html
123
2
Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/31/rome-is-the-fulcrum-of-amds-datacenter-pivot/
122
76
Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-to-add-its-name-to-instagram-whatsapp?pu=hackernewssmzpp3&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
15
Advances in Conversational AI
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/advances-in-conversational-ai/
121
86
Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
https://alexdanco.com/2019/06/12/would-you-accept-cheaper-rent-in-exchange-for-a-monthly-amazon-purchasing-quota/
120
40
Cartoons in Tektronix Schematics
https://vintagetek.org/tektronix-schematic-cartoons/
119
117
Why we ground electrical systems (2015)
https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/38qiyy/an_explanation_of_why_we_ground_electrical/
23
Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
https://a16z.com/2019/07/29/hidden-networks-effects/
106
11
SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-pytorch-transformers
83
Homomorphic encryption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
105
The Web We Want
https://webwewant.fyi/
102
China has started a grand experiment in AI education
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614057/china-squirrel-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the/
80
Good for Google, Bad for America
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/opinion/peter-thiel-google.html
107
Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-will-pull-the-plug-on-dash-buttons-at-the-end-of-august-2019-08-01
35
GNU C Library 2.30
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2019/msg00001.html
93
14
The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00490
89
46
Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1157015875276464129
39
America’s DIY Phone Farmers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3naek/how-to-make-a-phone-farm
84
21
Alaska’s scientists despair over plan to shrink state universities
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02344-7
82
19
Prolog Control in Six Slides
http://www.t3x.org/bits/prolog6.html
81
More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backdoo.html
77
Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II
https://www.twitch.tv/8btc
73
12
“Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reserves
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/awakenings-in-advanced-dementia-patients-hint-at-untapped-brain-reserves/
72
The Polar Star, the only U.S. ship capable of bludgeoning through heavy ice
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-02/antarctica-polar-star-icebreaker
68
9
Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest
https://medium.com/@tombarys/dreaming-about-better-sleep-dreem-oura-and-the-rest-fb29c99f0aad
67
44
The Real Dark Web
https://www.sonniesedge.net/posts/real-dark-web/
Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardian's Permission
https://time.com/5642228/saudi-arabia-ends-guardianship-system/