686
247
Ask HN: How Do You Read?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847508
6 years ago
467
117
TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files
https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils
171
I find journaling indispensable
https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/journaling/
354
152
Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data
https://cuelang.org
328
81
Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusive/exclusive-messaging-app-telegram-moves-to-protect-identity-of-hong-kong-protesters-idUSKCN1VK2NI
278
72
The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
https://github.com/ARMmbed/littlefs/blob/master/DESIGN.md
238
198
The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room
https://popula.com/2019/08/05/the-wisdom-of-never-leaving-your-hotel-room/
237
153
Why I like Clojure
http://sulami.github.io/posts/why-i-like-clojure/
229
80
XLOOKUP for Excel
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Excel-Blog/Announcing-XLOOKUP/ba-p/811376
212
114
How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FCXCXigp7byv2dM8D/how-to-make-billions-of-dollars-reducing-loneliness
146
AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1
https://status.aws.amazon.com/?date=2019-08-31
205
102
A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption
https://unixism.net/2019/08/a-managers-guide-to-kubernetes-adoption/
202
211
Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account
https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/symlinks
199
144
YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/technology/youtube-childrens-privacy-fine.html
196
17
Waypipe: GSoC Project Complete
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-August/040819.html
189
Hiring Is Broken?
https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/07/27/hiring-is-broken-and-yours-is-too/
181
142
What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
166
130
Alcohol Belts of Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_belts_of_Europe
65
Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1167463054709334017?s=12
164
122
The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-evidence-the-human-brain-can-create-structures-in-up-to-11-dimensions
156
52
Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image
https://github.com/cbassa/satellite_analysis/blob/master/nahid1_launch_failure_analysis.ipynb
155
121
Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014)
https://publicintegrity.org/health/filthy-surgical-instruments-the-hidden-threat-in-americas-operating-rooms/
145
Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events
https://vector.dev/
116
6
A Simulated Enigma Machine
https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/enigma-machine
105
45
Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest
https://www.insider.com/hong-kong-police-fire-blue-dye-water-cannons-2019-8
109
Bad Customer Service Is Profitable
https://hbr.org/2019/02/why-is-customer-service-so-bad-because-its-profitable
25
You Are Not Your Code (2012)
http://sstephenson.us/posts/you-are-not-your-code
21
Idaho artifacts show humans came to North America via a water route, not land
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/us/idaho-artifacts-coopers-ferry-trnd/index.html
77
DEA agents conduct surprise searches of Amtrak passengers
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/31/dea-amtrak-passenger-search-albuquerque/
100
53
Border agents are checking social media, but we still don’t know how closely
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/31/20837448/social-media-dhs-cbp-surveillance-us-border-ismail-ajjawi-harvard
94
62
Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS
https://tidbits.com/2019/06/25/apple-to-deprecate-scripting-languages-in-future-versions-of-macos/
93
5
I Built a $7K/Month WordPress Plugin Because I Needed the Product
https://www.starterstory.com/build-profitable-wordpress-plugin-from-scratch
34
What Is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?
https://blog.westerndigital.com/what-is-zoned-storage-initiative/
70
Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/science/archaeology-earth-anthropocene.html
91
11
Simple Python Package to Extract Deep Learning Features
https://chsasank.github.io/deep-learning-image-features.html
87
What If Silicon Valley’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ Are Just Jerks?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-29/what-if-silicon-valley-s-brilliant-jerks-are-just-regular-ones
16
Etcd 3.4
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/08/30/announcing-etcd-3-4/
86
Redditor works out which generation of satellite took surveillance image of Iran
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_trump_tweets_sensitive_surveillance/eymf0w0/
113
Uber and Lyft don't have a right to exist
https://jalopnik.com/uber-and-lyft-dont-have-a-right-to-exist-1837680434/
83
A Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-city-size-transportation-urban-planning-history/597055/
Google is ramping up its efforts to replace SMS with RCS
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-android-rcs-messaging
66
Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843949
78
Libgphoto2 Controls Digital Cameras
http://www.gphoto.org/
27
Our team's troubles writing automated UI tests
https://medium.com/@steven.lemon182/our-teams-troubles-with-hand-written-automated-ui-tests-cb189cbbff90
76
47
Golden Ratio
https://www.melted.design/golden-ratio/
Border agents are checking social media, but we still don’t know how closely