1606
498
Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml
7 years ago
685
500
Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook
https://www.ft.com/content/23ab2f68-d957-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17
608
211
Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/
603
164
Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1
https://inkscape.org/news/2019/09/08/inkscape-10-beta1-available-testing/
597
233
Modern C, Second Edition
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/modern-c-second-edition/
574
541
Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190320/07442041832/ironically-too-many-video-streaming-choices-may-drive-users-back-to-piracy.shtml
543
293
The cost of parsing JSON
https://v8.dev/blog/cost-of-javascript-2019#json
367
299
The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation
https://www.ft.com/content/5be1f2ee-d60b-11e9-a0bd-ab8ec6435630
356
297
Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwqp5/tom-delonges-ufo-research-center-is-making-politicians-demand-answers
353
226
.su
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
343
322
Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees
https://nocsok.com
327
84
Asciicker – an online 3D game demo rendering to ASCII text
http://asciicker.com/x13/
320
53
AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles
https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim
★ 18.1k C++ – 7 years ago
304
133
How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/18/world/asia/hk-twitter.html
290
166
New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
https://neo4j.com/press-releases/query-language-graph-databases-international-standard/?
263
75
Going Fast Slowly
https://varnish-cache.org/docs/6.2/phk/thatslow.html
256
104
Welcoming Semmle to GitHub
https://github.blog/2019-09-18-github-welcomes-semmle/
252
120
Functor, Applicative, and Monad
https://typeslogicscats.gitlab.io/posts/functor-applicative-monad.html
245
46
Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts
https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1518
★ 14.1k C BSD-3-Clause– 7 years ago
232
268
Reddit was down for over two hours
https://reddit.statuspage.io/incidents/4q8mfp969hky?u=3mcg5t0ys8mn
225
66
Git Blame-Someone-Else
https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else
★ 11.6k Shell MIT– 7 years ago
203
IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/ibm-will-soon-launch-a-53-qubit-quantum-computer/
199
137
Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/18/caesarean-babies-have-different-gut-bacteria-microbiome-study-finds
188
92
Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages
https://www.publisheet.com
165
100
Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006475
162
78
Kubernetes 1.16
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/09/18/kubernetes-1-16-release-announcement/
157
Why the Federal Reserve is pouring money into the financial system
https://www.ft.com/content/345da16e-d967-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17
155
88
How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018)
https://bustbyte.no/blog/how-we-hacked-blackboard-and-changed-our-grades
153
89
The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-gravitational-wave-revolution-is-underway/
148
168
Whole Foods Will Cut Health-Care Benefits for Nearly 2k Employees
http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/09/whole-foods-cuts-health-care-part-time-employees.html
135
15
Using TLA+ for fun and profit in the development of ElasticSearch [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYDcbcOVurc
134
42
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html
147
Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/financial-transparency_switzerland-in-the-age-of-automatic-exchange-of-banking-information/45234706
132
31
At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer
https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/
131
37
Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves
https://timothycrosley.github.io/hypothesis-auto/
128
85
Egypt’S 1.8 Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/egypts-massive-18gw-benban-solar-park-nears-completion
113
64
I’m Suing Lyft
https://medium.com/@alturkos/why-im-suing-lyft-6a409e316d1f
112
129
We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF
https://medium.com/rubbish-love/130-000-reasons-why-data-science-can-help-clean-up-san-francisco-6412eba1e374
108
49
My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49725337
107
68
Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne879z/i-tracked-someone-with-license-plate-readers-drn
106
28
Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: High-Performance Distributed SQL
https://blog.yugabyte.com/announcing-yugabyte-db-2-0-ga-jepsen-tested-high-performance-distributed-sql/
105
73
How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-not-the-way-everybody-behaves-how-adam-neumanns-over-the-top-style-built-wework-11568823827?mod=rsswn
36
Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage
https://github.com/vasanthv/jsonbox
★ 2.4k JavaScript MIT– 7 years ago
103
Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business
https://hbr.org/2019/09/dont-let-metrics-undermine-your-business
98
79
KaiOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
77
Ask HN: What are some architectural decisions that improved your codebase?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005372
94
38
Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hacker.html
93
The American Brain
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html
90
119
Python Is Eating the World
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-is-eating-the-world-how-one-developers-side-project-became-the-hottest-programming-language-on-the-planet/
121
Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/style/generation-z-millennials-work-life-balance.html
87
Trump strips California of power to set auto emission standards
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49746701
86
33
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet
https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-of-americans-medical-images-and-data-are-available-on-the-internet
83
43
A Reflection on the Departure of RMS
https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84
80
76
Pocket Casts Is Now Free
https://blog.pocketcasts.com/major-new-update/
21
Make a healthy climate a legal right that extends to future generations
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/09/17/make-a-healthy-climate-a-legal-right-that-extends-to-future-generations
18
Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/descript-audio/
