840
278
WeWTF
https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf
6 years ago
760
324
Tech Interview Handbook
https://yangshun.github.io/tech-interview-handbook/
635
95
Start Your Own ISP
https://startyourownisp.com/
342
208
The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild
http://japanesecomplete.com/777
303
169
Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
https://saag.pashi.com/#hn
285
30
Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading
https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/clojurescript-pixel-game-engine-with-blender-live-reloading
280
340
Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome
https://www.pulltech.net/article/1566007822-Google-plans-to-deprecate-FTP-URL-support-in-Chrome
255
47
Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp
https://makezine.com/2019/08/16/hacking-the-sonos-ikea-symfonisk-into-a-high-quality-speaker-amp/
253
61
Alone in the Dark
https://www.filfre.net/2019/08/alone-in-the-dark/
225
179
Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2019/08/why-software-architects-must-be-involved-in-the-earliest-systems-engineering-activities.html
214
337
The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-first-solar-road-has-turned-out-to-be-a-disappointing-failure
213
41
Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code
https://github.com/videogamepreservation
203
117
NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/climate/hottest-july-noaa.html
192
27
Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix
https://github.com/google/nixery
185
94
São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (2016)
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secrets-sao-paulo-uncovered-outdoor-advertising-ban/
183
178
Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)
http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php
182
54
Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail
https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914
150
68
GNU Parallel 2018
https://zenodo.org/record/1146014
147
114
Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/google-chrome/212361/microsoft-has-first-major-impact-on-chrome
146
77
You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds
https://www.studyfinds.org/new-to-investing-you-may-be-better-off-picking-stocks-at-random-study-finds/
140
67
Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/08/how-dissidents-are-using-shortwave-radio-broadcast-news-china/158950/
138
73
WeWork’s 17th employee: I was not offered options
https://twitter.com/tristajaye/status/1162471350851817472
135
75
Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/business/wells-fargo-overdraft-fees.html
131
26
Siri, Privacy, and Trust
https://daringfireball.net/2019/08/siri_privacy_trust
127
28
Effortless Elixir Releases and Deployment
http://alchemist.camp/articles/elixir-releases-deployment-render
118
156
Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs
https://www.philosophicalhacker.com/post/towards-readable-clis/
16
Free and open-source tools for analog filmmaking
http://sixteenmillimeter.com
109
21
Armoured Commander: The WWII Tank Commander Roguelike
https://www.armouredcommander.com/blog/armoured-commander-i/
101
121
U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-16/u-s-treasury-to-do-market-outreach-again-on-ultra-long-bonds-jzejo2qu
22
With friends like these
http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2019/08/with-friends-like-these.html
96
63
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish
4
Announcing New AMD EPYC-based Azure Virtual Machines
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-amd-epyc-based-azure-virtual-machines/
Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently that it annihilated itself
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/across-the-universe-a-star-exploded-so-violently-that-it-completely-annihilated-itself
37
The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random
https://onezero.medium.com/the-league-of-entropy-is-making-randomness-truly-random-522f22ce93ce
23
Animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-08-14-%E2%80%9C-nemo-effect%E2%80%9D-untrue-animal-movies-promote-awareness-not-harm-say-researchers
92
66
Show HN: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-distri/
90
98
Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724959
88
It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bjsoeh/it_is_perfectly_ok_to_only_code_at_work_you_can/
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