918
280
Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
https://twitter.com/TheAndyMaturin/status/1178303707357892608
6 years ago
665
412
EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49884827
645
434
Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/isps-worry-a-new-chrome-feature-will-stop-them-from-spying-on-you/
634
176
The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon
https://www.sametab.com/blog/frameworks-for-remote-working
628
913
Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dbqgb0/protester_shot_in_chest_by_live_police_round/
542
101
The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy
https://twitter.com/TurbanMinor/status/1113352919301218304
511
515
Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him
https://medium.com/@whoisylvia/richard-stallman-has-been-vilified-by-those-who-dont-know-him-a3907b25b4c7
481
247
My Time at Snap
https://medium.com/@marko_tupper/my-time-at-snap-83134da32e01
380
893
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126014
378
120
Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor
https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/alternative-transportation/this-insideout-motor-for-evs-is-power-dense-and-finally-practical
377
85
Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Like Silicon Valley
https://onezero.medium.com/africa-is-building-an-a-i-industry-that-doesnt-look-like-silicon-valley-72198eba706d
373
263
I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/opinion/quit-social-media.html
291
126
Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/30/business/tech/japanese-pagers-last-beeps-50-years/#.XZKmvC33VTY
289
188
Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers
https://www.france24.com/en/20190926-airbus-hit-by-series-of-cyber-attacks-on-suppliers
269
589
Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/730386096/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of-harvard-in-admissions-case
253
347
Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/secretive-seattle-startup-picnic-unveils-pizza-making-robot-heres-delivers-300-pies-hour/
240
Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/september/synthetic-vaccine.html
238
80
Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicated server and Go
https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-github-bitbucket-gitlab-projects/
237
136
Great apes appear to have “theory of mind”
https://www.inverse.com/article/59699-orangutans-bonobos-chimps-theory-of-mind
211
78
Global Illumination in WebGL
https://playcanv.as/p/ZV4PW6wr/
203
130
We Are All Confident Idiots (2014)
https://psmag.com/social-justice/confident-idiots-92793
201
People don’t want to commute; they just don’t want to miss out
https://nohq.co/blog/sid-sijbrandij-people-dont-want-to-commute-they-ju/
200
106
Sonos smart speaker controller API and CLI written in Rust
https://github.com/mlang/ronor
195
93
Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-method-enables-person-walls-candidate.html
48
Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes
https://www.rule30prize.org
173
363
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126012
164
75
The Myth of Commoditized Excellence
http://barryhawkins.com/blog/posts/the-myth-of-commoditized-excellence/
43
The Founder Dating Playbook
https://firstround.com/review/the-founder-dating-playbook-heres-the-process-i-used-to-find-my-co-founder/
157
95
Conventional Commits: A specification for structured commit messages
https://conventionalcommits.org/
153
149
Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/children of alumni/donors
https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/09/penn-upenn-philadelphia-harvard-admissions-legacy-athletes
147
73
New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-studies-warn-of-cataclysmic-solar-superstorms/
144
301
The myth of the teacher pay gap?
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-truth-about-teacher-pay
142
103
Square Canada has a Cuban coffee issue
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/square-canada-1.5303143
13
Stańczyk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta%C5%84czyk
135
42
Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts
https://timr.co/go-interfaces-the-tricky-parts
134
119
PuTTY 0.73
https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2019/000029.html
63
If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire
https://sideprojectplaybook.com/if-you-want-to-go-broke-listen-to-a-billionaire/
133
26
Early-career setback and future career impact
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12189-3
15
My God, It’s Full of Dots
http://bit-player.org/2019/my-god-its-full-of-dots
Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/sep/30/unraveling-cia-secrecy/
77
Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram
https://www.fastcompany.com/90392917/the-next-big-reading-platform-may-be-instagram
123
Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB
https://www.datanami.com/2019/09/30/kafka-spawns-open-source-kareldb/
110
Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-create-fact-checking-exemptions-for-opinion-and-satire-11569875314?mod=rsswn
113
Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
http://www.ktvu.com/business/engineer-admits-hacking-yahoo-accounts-searching-for-images-1
109
84
I Can Eat Glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Eat_Glass
102
18
Streamlit launches open-source machine learning application dev framework
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/01/streamlit-launches-open-source-machine-learning-application-development-framework/
Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI
https://www.skydio.com/
99
35
Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits 10 year delay
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02921-w
98
Eight Tons of Punk
https://theoutline.com/post/8002/maximum-rocknroll-record-archives-photo-essay
97
Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation's hope or hype?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49725741
27
Bill Clinton and American Financiers Armed China
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-american-financiers
91
The IT revolution and southern Europe's two lost decades
https://voxeu.org/article/it-revolution-and-southern-europes-two-lost-decades
87
Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/30/microsofts-windows-virtual-desktop-service-is-now-generally-available/
57
To show or not to show work
https://www.byrdseed.com/to-show-or-not-to-show-work/
82
187
51% of young voters believe humanity could be wiped out within 15 years
https://scottrasmussen.com/51-of-young-voters-believe-humanity-could-be-wiped-out-within-15-years
3
Let me automate that for you: removing pain points from data pipeline setup
http://tech.gc.com/let-me-automate-that-for-you/
76
Show HN: Deep Work Stats – How much time do you have for deep work?
https://shepherd.com/free-meeting-stats/
Zuckerberg Hates Warren’s Plan to Break Up Facebook. She Doesn’t Care
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html
61
1966 children about the future [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwHib5wYEj8
23
Researchers Discover the Tallest Known Tree in the Amazon
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-discover-tallest-known-tree-amazon-180973227/
17
All Hands On Deck: In two hours of leaked audio, Zuckerberg rallies Facebook
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-leak-audio-ftc-antitrust-elizabeth-warren-tiktok-comments
Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history