567
491
16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614148/16-million-americans-will-vote-on-hackable-paperless-voting-machines/
7 years ago
502
900
15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/electoral-college.html
494
121
Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-colormap-for.html
465
199
Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes second Steam 0-day
https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-publishes-second-steam-zero-day-after-getting-banned-on-valves-bug-bounty-program/
443
305
Thoughts on Rust bloat
https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/2019/08/21/rust-bloat.html
388
175
Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/08/21/mozilla-takes-action-to-protect-users-in-kazakhstan/
383
97
Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-a-distributed-time-series-database-on-postgresql/
354
110
Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015
https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/08/19/north-dakota-regulators-oil-gas-spill-exxon-valdez
336
215
Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why
https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling/
324
114
WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-types/
302
339
Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-20/hong-kong-chinese-students-propaganda
292
221
WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company
https://hbr.org/2019/08/no-wework-isnt-a-tech-company-heres-why-that-matters
272
104
Why does all life use the same 20 amino acids?
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/why-does-all-life-use-the-same-20-amino-acids/3010824.article
246
A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)
http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/DreamOSPaper.html
241
82
Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/introducing-cloud-run-button-click-to-deploy-your-git-repos-to-google-cloud
218
293
Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields
https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-for-first-time-sells-30-year-bonds-offering-negative-yields-11566385847?mod=rsswn
216
122
Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49415973
213
113
Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/splunk-acquires-cloud-monitoring-service-signalfx-for-1-05b/
206
65
GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys
https://github.blog/2019-08-21-github-supports-webauthn-for-security-keys/
203
141
Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mortgage-market-reopens-to-risky-borrowers-11566379802?mod=rsswn