806
694
Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/business/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joichi-ito.html#
6 years ago
610
294
Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/07/malicious-attack-on-wikipedia-what-we-know-and-what-were-doing/
468
263
M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein
288
Goodreads Is Broken
https://onezero.medium.com/almost-everything-about-goodreads-is-broken-662e424244d5
445
56
Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer
https://stellarium.org/
361
255
India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-loses-contact-with-probe-just-as-it-prepares-to-land-on-moon-11567805330?mod=rsswn
359
233
Troubles with the AWS web console
https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/c8xgsc/i_am_stupefied_every_day_by_the_awfulness_of_the/
318
73
From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out
https://nesslabs.com/jomo
286
334
Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them
https://www.wsj.com/articles/workers-are-fleeing-big-cities-for-small-onesand-taking-their-jobs-with-them-11567848600?mod=rsswn
42
Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom
https://github.com/ozkl/soso
207
107
Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/09/our-journey-to-type-checking-4-million-lines-of-python/
193
33
The days are long but the decades are short (2015)
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short
192
68
Toy Stories: Children around the world with their most prized possessions
http://www.gabrielegalimberti.com/toy-stories/
156
What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Life-on-less-than-2-dollars-a-day
181
113
Door blows off Boeing 777X during stress test
https://komonews.com/news/local/door-blows-off-boeing-777x-during-stress-test
180
76
An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/tear-gas-hong-kong-made-in-usa
201
Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-physics.html
144
43
New micro-robots can break apart and remove biofilm or plaque from a tooth
https://humanbioscience.org/2019/04/new-micro-robots-can-break-apart-and-remove-dental-biofilm-or-plaque-from-a-too.html
142
44
How China is Cashing in on Group Chats
https://a16z.com/2019/09/06/china-is-cashing-in-on-group-chats/
69
Exim – remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20190906.102039.7eeb3210.en.html
139
186
What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-next-in-making-dns-over-https-the-default/
71
HK protesters use “unblockable” messaging via a bluetooth mesh
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49565587
132
67
Malcolm Gladwell's famous 10k hour rule isn't holding up in new research
https://www.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwell-anders-ericsson-10000-hour-rule-isnt-replicating-2019-8
120
52
Show HN: I made a mind map tool meant for large, detailed node hierarchies
https://www.jumproot.com
119
74
Why Haskell Is Important
https://www.tweag.io/posts/2019-09-06-why-haskell-is-important.html
116
29
Apple Hints China Behind ‘Billion Device iPhone Hack’ That Google Reported
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/09/06/apple-hints-china-behind-billion-device-iphone-hack-that-google-reported/#2295d5f812c9
109
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno elites
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-funding-tech-intellectuals
112
78
DNA from cigarette leads to Dakota Access arrest warrant 3 years later
https://kfgo.com/news/articles/2019/sep/06/dna-from-cigarette-leads-to-dakota-access-arrest-3-years-later/934803/
10
‘Unsafe’ levels of antibiotics found in rivers in 72 countries
https://www.france24.com/en/20190527-environment-rivers-world-antibiotics-pollution-safe-levels-who-york-study-antimicrobial-resistance
117
Writing papers for American college students has become lucrative overseas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/us/college-cheating-papers.html
103
15
How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People with Disabilities
https://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/app-seattle-disability-digital-map-20190821
101
64
The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
https://www.wired.com/2015/05/future-wind-turbines-no-blades/
95
82
Top Programming Languages 2019
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-top-programming-languages-2019
104
Strike with the Band: The meritocratic failures of classical music
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/strike-with-the-band-wagner
48
Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production
https://about.bnef.com/blog/hydrogen-solve-steels-climate-test-hobble-coal/?sf108467981=1
108
How Did a Nissan Leaf Beat a Tesla Model S in a Race?
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/16/how-did-a-nissan-leaf-beat-a-tesla-model-s-in-a-race/
35
Ask HN: Why does Google index pages I cannot access?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20902268
Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them