1158
414
WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-capitalism
6 years ago
657
365
WARP is here
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/
604
319
A patent lawsuit against GNOME
https://lwn.net/Articles/800516/
465
247
We are clueless about how long things should take
http://kyleprifogle.com/dear-startup/
464
257
Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/tea-bags-plastic-study-mcgill-1.5295662
455
163
The one who kept VLC free
https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/kempf-interview-vlc-videolan
430
338
If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot
https://skyclerk.com/blog/if-you-run-a-small-business-park-in-the-back-of-the-parking-lot
401
231
Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/09/24/looking-back-at-the-snowden-revelations/
345
85
Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/goodbye-motherboard-hello-siliconinterconnect-fabric
341
84
Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
https://httptoolkit.tech/mock/
339
47
Reverse engineering a custom CPU from a single program
https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/dsctf-2019-cpu-adventure-unknown-cpu-reversing/
329
263
U.N. postal union clinches deal to keep U.S. in
http://reuters.com/article/us-un-postal/u-n-postal-union-clinches-deal-to-keep-u-s-in-club-idUSKBN1WA247
Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-theory-of-obesity/
141
Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/drilling-open-a-smart-door-lock-in-4-seconds/
259
250
Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/09/24/kik-a-1-billion-app-plagued-by-child-abuse-closes/
522
Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier
https://www.axios.com/2019-employer-coverage-workers-premiums-deductibles-ea2cbdf3-91bd-4b4d-9611-71fd72b1140c.html
245
87
How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing
221
241
Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G62GWS4/ref=ods_gw_fnn_xpl_dt_atf_shov_zr_en_0925?pf_rd_p=d1850fba-bf7a-4b5c-8952-f505fad79e33&pf_rd_r=CE25W7EX405HCV5BKXA5
204
209
Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/09/25/centralised-doh-is-bad-for-privacy-in-2019-and-beyond/
200
22
Performance metrics for web apps
https://blog.superhuman.com/performance-metrics-for-blazingly-fast-web-apps-ec12efa26bcb
190
95
Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/amazon-sidewalk-is-a-new-long-range-wireless-network-for-your-stuff/
176
64
Efficient GraphQL Queries in Ruby on Rails and Postgres
https://pganalyze.com/blog/efficient-graphql-queries-in-ruby-on-rails-and-postgres
164
118
Google wins privacy case: ‘Right to be forgotten’ applies only in EU
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-24/google-european-union-right-to-be-forgotten
135
The Most Misused SSN of All Time
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html
158
70
The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-e-google-free-pro-privacy-android-clone-is-now-available/
152
194
Amazon Echo Buds
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F6VM1S3/ref=ods_gw_fnn_xpl_dt_atf_shov_pt_en_0925?pf_rd_p=d1850fba-bf7a-4b5c-8952-f505fad79e33&pf_rd_r=CE25W7EX405HCV5BKXA5
143
156
The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete, can power 1M homes
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/25/business/worlds-largest-wind-farm/index.html
142
40
Four Column ASCII (2017)
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
138
44
Ray Tracing Denoising
https://alain.xyz/blog/raytracing-denoising
137
48
Graal Autovectorization
https://github.com/oracle/graal/pull/1692
128
80
A list of computer languages with release year and category
https://codelani.com/lists/languages.html
Rocket Mail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail
121
146
Juul Labs CEO to Step Down
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/juul-labs-ceo-to-step-down-amid-growing-vaping-backlash
111
59
High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/public-exploit-code-spawns-mass-attacks-against-high-severity-vbulletin-bug/
106
14
Ways to leak your data: apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/25/50-ways-to-leak-your-data/
61
Neither, and New: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund
https://stratechery.com/2019/neither-and-new-lessons-from-uber-and-vision-fund/
102
37
The secret life of open source developers [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-322-the-secret-life-of-open-source-developers
98
8
A list of themes and starters for JAMstack sites
https://jamstackthemes.dev/
ZeroTier 2.0 Status
https://www.zerotier.com/zerotier-2-0-status/
96
77
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by wasabi consumption
https://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/9/e230065.full
94
Why Thomas Cook Collapsed
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/09/thomas-cook-bankruptcy-travel-industry-cheap-flights-europe/598627/
89
57
Outdoor Preschools
https://www.rei.com/blog/news/outdoor-preschool-trends
88
21
Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/09/25/764243209/prehistoric-babies-drank-animal-milk-from-a-bottle
5
A Practical Guide to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Throughput
https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/ble-throughput-primer
86
Amazon Echo Loop
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JPK4XJ6
32
On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 (2016)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/on-reading-issues-of-wired-from-1993-to-1995
7
Show HN: Watermill – Building event-driven applications easy way in Go
https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/watermill
83
Stop Using Internet Explorer
https://mashable.com/article/internet-explorer-vulnerability-just-stop-using-it/
81
How the invention of the book changed how people read
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/how-invention-book-changed-how-people-read
25
Google Chrome Update Damages macOS File System
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-chrome-damages-macos-file-system,40473.html
Mesa 19.2
https://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/19.2.0.html
31
A Criminologist Accused of Cooking the Books
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190924-Criminology?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emgy5Y-dAeAI88Vkl3OR4ZPajd6ssrFAxNVnafDFjqu4AWZkpfVDdwM3pGT1E3SjBzbm5pVUNTc0FPRXB6UHY4UTctY0xWOC0xUVlIWQ
69
Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-25/why-i-m-worried-about-the-repo-market
79
What the Apps That Bring Food to Your Door Mean for Delivery Workers
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/20/what-the-apps-that-bring-food-to-your-door-mean-for-delivery-workers/
36
Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/unbabel-gets-60m-for-its-blended-approach-to-business-translation/
76
45
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/facebook-horizon/
75
33
Mont Blanc: Glacier in danger of collapse, experts warn
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49820542
73
Xilinx FPGA Board for Arduino
https://www.seeedstudio.com/Spartan-Edge-Accelerator-Board-p-4261.html
72
DOMPurify, Security in the DOM, and Why We Really Need Both [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/enigma16_slides_heiderich.pdf
Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric