1041
320
What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?
https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/1165493206441779200
6 years ago
849
294
Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
https://neilkakkar.com/things-I-learnt-from-a-senior-dev.html
502
312
Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h
492
458
From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
https://shooting-unicorns.com/battlestation/from-mac-to-linux-the-setup-ive-grown-to-love
402
211
Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel
http://apollo.backplane.com/2019-Zen2Missive.html
401
84
Write your own Excel in F# (2018)
http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/write-your-own-excel/
298
57
QEMU VM Escape
https://blog.bi0s.in/2019/08/24/Pwn/VM-Escape/2019-07-29-qemu-vm-escape-cve-2019-14378/
282
86
Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting
https://blog.jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/
276
Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise
http://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-the-secret-to-technical-expertise.html
256
357
Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830057/amazon-audible-speech-to-text-feature-lawsuit-major-book-publishers
250
41
Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
https://snr.stanford.edu/salsify/
213
266
Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gambled-tesla-to-save-solarcity
198
20
Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9hM0h6IQDo
192
69
Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/24/douglas-adams-was-right-knowledge-without-understanding-is-meaningless
189
44
A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (2013)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3
188
215
Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20793590
187
162
The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
180
191
Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cuu8rc/why_didnt_the_romans_contribute_much_to/
174
150
I Took a Pay Cut for a More Meaningful Job
https://www.fastcompany.com/90308995/i-took-a-huge-paycut-for-a-more-meaningful-job
167
71
The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)
https://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-handwriting/
163
376
Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-25/germany-in-uproar-as-negative-rates-threaten-saving-obsession
153
47
Chicken Hypnotism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism
146
The Gig Economy (2018)
https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/
138
8
Racket for E-Commerce
https://defn.io/2019/08/20/racket-ecommerce/
28
Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/127.0.0.1
137
12
Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph
http://ma-graph.org/
133
196
America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-18/america-is-obsessed-with-beef-but-it-has-no-use-for-hides-so-leather-prices-plunge
131
36
Adventure in Prolog Tutorial (2016)
http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advtop.php
130
13
Clever Functional Design
https://ferd.ca/clever-functional-design.html
127
54
Cowrie: a medium-interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot
https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie
126
The phpCE 2019 conference in Dresden has been cancelled and won't be continued
https://2019.phpce.eu/en/
122
How the Great Truth Dawned
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/9/how-the-great-truth-dawned
117
Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49450655
109
76
The Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar U.S. Fighter-Jet Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/magazine/f35-joint-strike-fighter-program.html
101
Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31812-9/fulltext
100
Keyringless GnuPG
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/08/09/
97
23
Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ninth-circuit-goes-step-further-protect-privacy-border-device-searches
Ask HN: Best Linux Laptop Replacing a Macbook Pro?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20795113
92
68
India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-48050020
30
Webmin 1.890 Exploit – What Happened?
http://www.webmin.com/exploit.html
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