785
368
Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045
7 years ago
666
203
What do executives do, anyway?
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926
401
244
MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/mypayrollhr-ceo-arrested-admits-to-70m-fraud/
381
69
Elements of Clojure
https://www.therepl.net/episodes/23/
377
196
The Spinner
https://www.thespinner.net/
345
141
Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices
https://github.com/axi0mX/ipwndfu
★ 7.3k Python GPL-3.0– 7 years ago
339
308
Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/plane-tests-must-use-average-pilots-ntsb-says-after-737-max-crashes-11569506401?mod=rsswn
331
107
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit
326
68
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02918-5
315
332
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https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/congressional-independence
231
Cash/Consent: The war on sex work
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/essays/cashconsent/
302
86
The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
https://allthatsinteresting.com/fugate-family-blue-people-of-kentucky
274
117
The One Man MMO Project
http://onemanmmo.com/
269
60
Crafting Interpreters: Closures
http://craftinginterpreters.com/closures.html
181
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https://hire.google.com/articles/culture-fit-interview-questions/
266
574
Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-09/msg00008.html
256
110
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1177644211790729216
Yogababble
https://www.profgalloway.com/yogababble
237
45
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-and-underused-part-1-5-of-n/
214
161
Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/tests-show-bootleg-marijuana-vapes-tainted-hydrogen-cyanide-n1059356
213
158
An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/human-flourishing/201909/does-religious-upbringing-promote-generosity-or-not
378
Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/style/men-emotions-mankind-project.html
212
225
Facebook Horizon
https://www.oculus.com/facebookhorizon/
205
40
On Sharding
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/09/25/On-Sharding
200
272
Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/tech/wag-dog-walking-softbank/index.html
193
17
Application Layering – A Pattern for Extensible Elixir Application Design
https://aaronrenner.io/2019/09/18/application-layering-a-pattern-for-extensible-elixir-application-design.html
190
149
The curious economics of being ripped off on holiday
http://timharford.com/2019/09/the-curious-economics-of-being-ripped-off-on-holiday/
180
61
The Science of Functional Programming [pdf]
https://github.com/winitzki/sofp/blob/master/sofp-src/sofp.pdf
★ 1.4k TeX GPL-2.0– 7 years ago
174
93
Germany shuts down illegal data center in former NATO bunker
https://www.apnews.com/be9947471fb74360b6cf9d1d2b535927
169
234
California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patients and Angering Doctors
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/upshot/california-surprise-medical-billing-law-effects.html
168
82
Prescription drugs and grapefruit a 'deadly mix' (2012)
https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/prescription-drugs-and-grapefruit-a-deadly-mix/
167
67
Upstreaming multipath TCP
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/800501/c42e5c5e9243637b/
165
37
Ad.watch – Breaking open Facebook's machine of political persuasion
https://ad.watch/
143
Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/09/27/tethered-jailbreaks-are-back/
133
ZFS v0.8.2
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.8.2
★ 12.1k C – 7 years ago
131
66
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https://sivers.org/4
128
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https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/east-india-company
123
222
New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics
https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/stressed-out-americans-making-themselves-sick-over-politics/
112
26
I built a wind map with WebGL (2017)
https://blog.mapbox.com/how-i-built-a-wind-map-with-webgl-b63022b5537f
109
44
Porting my website to Workers Sites and Zola
https://words.steveklabnik.com/porting-steveklabnik-com-to-workers-sites-and-zola
55
AMD's Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-9-3900-specs-pro-cpu,40485.html
57
US doctors are hoping to start offering women vaginal fluid transplants
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49646907
103
3
Transformers 2.0: Deep interoperability between TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
★ 160k Python Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
102
94
Black Blacker Than Vantablack
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/24/blackest-black-mit-material-news-vantablack/
16
Modern C for C++ Peeps
https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.html
98
83
NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars
https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-send-nuclear-rockets-to-the-moon-and-mars/
97
Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/09/26/proof-emerges-that-a-quantum-computer-can-outperform-a-classical-one
12
PoE for Raspberry Pi for under $2
http://albert-david.blogspot.com/2019/09/poor-mans-poe-for-raspberry-pi-3-under-2.html
90
Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (2017)
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/01/fingerprints-could-be-stolen-from-v-sign-selfies/
87
6
AllenNLP Interpret: A Framework for Explaining Predictions of NLP Models
https://allennlp.org/interpret
30
A Texas Ranger got a prolific serial killer to talk
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-25/texas-ranger-got-one-of-the-nations-worst-serial-killers-to-talk-this-is-how
71
The White-Collar Job Apocalypse That Didn’t Happen
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/business/economy/jobs-offshoring.html
