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https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IMissMicrosoftEncarta.aspx
7 years ago
1116
441
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html
1016
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How to Build Good Software
https://www.csc.gov.sg/articles/how-to-build-good-software
813
222
OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
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661
228
Kerbal Space Program 2
https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/game/kerbal-space-program-2/
634
158
Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
https://guzey.com/productivity/
435
41
Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library
https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd
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396
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https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/
351
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How Rust optimizes async/await
https://tmandry.gitlab.io/blog/posts/optimizing-await-1/
343
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Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects
https://kottke.org/19/08/these-nigerian-teens-are-making-sci-fi-shorts-with-slick-visual-effects
335
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Calculus Is Deeply Irrational
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/calculus-is-deeply-irrational/
311
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Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency
https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/why-did-china-just-devalue-the-yuan
291
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Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/08/12/c_const_isnt_for_performance.html
258
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Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation
https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redefines-the-purpose-of-a-corporation-to-promote-an-economy-that-serves-all-americans
231
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Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/18/twitter-china-ads-attack-hong-kong-protesters
227
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Cerebras Systems unveils a 1.2T transistor chip for AI
https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/19/cerebras-systems-unveils-a-record-1-2-trillion-transistor-chip-for-ai/
197
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Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/wireless-carrier-throttling-of-online-video-is-pervasive-study
193
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15970710/galaxy-science-fiction-magazine-online-free-reading-archive
185
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http://nautil.us/issue/75/story/the-great-silence
91
Updating our advertising policies on state media
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertising_policies_on_state_media.html
163
78
No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/no-son-of-mine-is-going-to-be-a-benthamite-utilitarian-this-is-a-john-stuart-mill-family-dammit
Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/developers-console/19008
161
46
Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-china-but-its-state-news-agency-is-buying-promoted-tweets-to-portray-hong-kong-protestors-as-violent/
160
Crossword Panic of 1944
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Crossword-Panic-of-1944/
157
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/21st-century-datacenter-locations-driven-19th-politics-george-moore
156
51
SharpScript
https://sharpscript.net
154
57
Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/patagonias-philosopher-king
140
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‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups
https://dev.to/veebuv/never-work-as-a-software-engineer-in-a-startup-4a4p
138
98
Rendering on the Web
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-on-the-web
133
96
Portugal trials use of goats to clear vegetation for reduction of wild fire risk
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/world/europe/portugal-wildfires-goats-climate-change.html
132
37
Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePICO8VirtualFantasyConsoleIsAnIdealizedConstrainedModernDayGameMaker.aspx
62
Does “www.” Mean Better Transport Layer Security?
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/941
11
Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
116
18
Show HN: Crawlab: Open-Source Web Crawler Admin Platform That Runs Any Language
https://github.com/tikazyq/crawlab
★ 61 – 7 years ago
112
55
A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017)
https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/look-back-bloomberg-keyboard/
110
Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-010-0373-2
40
Kaspersky in the Middle – what could possibly go wrong?
https://palant.de/2019/08/19/kaspersky-in-the-middle-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
109
SoftBank plans to lend $20B to its CEO and employees amid volatile markets
https://mazech.com/2019/08/softbank-plans-to-lend-20-billion-to-its-employees-amid-volatile-markets/
108
64
Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (2016)
https://putanumonit.com/2016/02/03/015-dating_1/
106
26
Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors
https://color.clss.hk/
105
74
Scala Native
http://www.scala-native.org/
104
50
New Electric Motor Could Boost Efficiency of EVs, Scooters, and Wind Turbines
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/new-electric-motor-could-boost-efficiency-of-evs-scooters-and-wind-turbines
45
In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/amazon-orwell-1984.html
103
52
The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (2014)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-27185893
102
84
Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736347
214
Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail to Dent Tesla’s Electric-Car Dominance
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/jaguar-and-audi-suvs-fail-to-dent-tesla-s-electric-car-dominance
35
If we burn, you burn with us
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2019-08-17/if-we-burn-you-burn-with-us
94
The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders
http://www.mistakenorders.com/en/home.html
8
Richard Sorge: The Soviet Union’s Master Spy
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/richard-sorge-the-soviet-unions-master-spy/
90
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Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (2015)
https://qz.com/571151/the-mast-brothers-fooled-the-world-into-buying-crappy-hipster-chocolate-for-10-a-bar/
89
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Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?
https://onezero.medium.com/could-removing-social-media-metrics-reduce-polarization-4d604352c705
101
I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/19/20727283/unions-good-income-inequality-wealth
88
Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/drinking-fluoridated-water-during-pregnancy-may-lower-iq-sons-controversial-study-says
86
13
Algorithms book, by Jeff Erickson
http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/
85
15
The Moderators Who Keep Hacker News Focused on Intellectual Curiosity
https://thenewstack.io/the-beleaguered-moderators-who-keep-hacker-news-focused-on-intellectual-curiosity/
“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/americas-hot-new-job-being-rich-persons-servant/595774/
83
24
Fearing data privacy issues, Google cuts some Android phone data for carriers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-data-exclusive-idUSKCN1V90SQ
81
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Review: Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world/
80
32
404 Found
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/404-Found
On Mathematical Beauty in Physics
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2017/09/24/on-mathematical-beauty-in-physics/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/t-magazine/parsi-food.html
