2101
637
Ken Thompson's Unix Password
https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html
6 years ago
781
353
I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced
https://twitter.com/digitallawyer/status/1181348689756864513
750
304
Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer
636
313
What Happens to the Body on No Sleep
https://www.outsideonline.com/2292806/your-body-no-sleep
605
382
Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjw535/blizzards-hong-kong-screw-up-is-officially-an-international-incident
599
167
A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-dumb-reason-your-fancy-computer-vision-app-isnt-working-exif-orientation-73166c7d39da
583
302
Pair Locking Your iPhone
https://arkadiyt.com/2019/10/07/pair-locking-your-iphone-with-configurator-2/
446
107
Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352
427
96
Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators
https://www.quantamagazine.org/chemistry-nobel-goes-to-lithium-battery-innovators-20191009/
408
150
Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1181736075775004672
85
Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China
https://reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dfkmp1/blizzards_official_weibo_account_just_posted_an/
375
72
Overwatch's Mei Is Becoming a Symbol of the Hong Kong Resistance
https://kotaku.com/overwatchs-mei-is-becoming-a-symbol-of-the-hong-kong-re-1838899963
372
206
China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/china-attacks-apple-for-allowing-hong-kong-crowdsourced-police-activity-app/
339
86
Schneier on Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans
https://www.zdnet.com/article/schneier-slams-australias-encryption-laws-cybercon-speaker-bans/
127
Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/
318
308
Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy
https://reason.com/2019/10/09/the-economy-keeps-growing-but-americans-are-using-less-steel-paper-fertilizer-and-energy/
122
Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
https://freedom.press/training/blog/newsrooms-lets-talk-about-gsuite/
298
155
String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/string-theory-does-not-win-a-nobel-and-i-win-a-bet/
284
76
Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/
271
99
The Future of Mathematics? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-mQ3HxgDE
270
84
FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo
https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1181611182882353152
269
67
Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account
https://twitter.com/Espsilverfire2/status/1182001007976423424
260
81
Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart
https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot
252
93
China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173
247
83
New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/science/solar-energy-power-electricity.html
241
The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI
https://medium.com/google-design/the-obvious-ui-is-often-the-best-ui-7a25597d79fd
233
149
Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?
http://themaintainers.org/blog/2019/7/30/why-do-people-neglect-maintenance
231
33
FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/unsealed-fisa-ruling-slaps-fbi-for-misuse-of-surveillance-data/
211
161
Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on her eyes
https://www.asiaone.com/asia/obsessed-fan-finds-japanese-idols-home-zooming-her-eyes
202
90
Zettelkästen?
https://clerestory.netlify.com/zk/
200
217
Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/waymo-to-customers-completely-driverless-waymo-cars-are-on-the-way/
197
104
Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm
https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
195
55
A Useful Thing in Bash
https://coderwall.com/p/oqtj8w/the-single-most-useful-thing-in-bash
191
169
China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/china-says-stay-tuned-for-retaliation-over-u-s-tech-blacklist
184
64
Designing a COM Library for Rust
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/08/designing-a-com-library-for-rust/
183
NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nba-events-in-china-disrupted-over-hong-kong-tweet-11570613597?mod=rsswn
182
The Isle of Man is not in the UK
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191008-the-british-isle-that-doesnt-belong
181
179
Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public health crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/europe-s-diesel-subsidies-are-causing-a-public-health-crisis
178
Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/df0zx5/upset_about_blizzards_hk_ruling_heres_what_to_do
168
142
IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/virtual-currency-irs-issues-additional-guidance-on-tax-treatment-and-reminds-taxpayers-of-reporting-obligations
156
145
No Radical Changes in GNU Project
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-10/msg00005.html
133
GitHub and US Government Developers
https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-developers/
154
44
OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157059352620659&w=2
148
Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/beijing-takes-aim-at-prague-after-one-china-dispute-deepens
25
NixOS 19.09
https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09
139
112
Everything Is Private Equity Now
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-03/how-private-equity-works-and-took-over-everything
Hash tables
https://www.data-structures-in-practice.com/hash-tables/
69
Open Libra: An open platform for financial inclusion
https://www.openlibra.io/
137
Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
https://www.newsweek.com/methane-boiling-sea-discovered-siberia-1463766
136
16
Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/09/lessons-from-design-school-for-software-engineers/
135
68
Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/us/cows-painted-zebras-avoid-flies-scn-trnd/index.html
132
35
The Birth of Standard Error (2013)
https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20131211/index.html
130
Artifact: What Went Wrong?
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/artifact-what-went-wrong/
129
The myth of inevitable technological progress
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/1/20887003/tech-technology-evolution-natural-inevitable-ethics
128
88
The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
https://a16z.com/2019/10/08/passion-economy/
126
117
Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/aaa-finds-your-new-car-probably-wont-stop-you-from-hitting-pedestrians/
125
22
Alloy is a language for describing structures and a tool for exploring them
https://github.com/AlloyTools/org.alloytools.alloy
124
Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/why-did-humpback-whale-just-save-seals-life
119
30
From rags to Richer: A business success story built on treating people well
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/03/from-rags-to-richer
115
49
Lightning Strikes Twice as Much over Shipping Lanes
https://www.wired.com/story/why-lightning-strikes-twice-as-much-over-shipping-lanes/
114
65
Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/retro-apple-computers-lenin-museum-russia
113
Turkey has begun attacking Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-kurds.html
Show HN: React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation
https://react-hook-form.com/
110
Why is Middle School so hard?
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/10/why-middle-school-and-preteens-are-so-challenging/599542/
Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker
https://jdlm.info/articles/2019/09/06/lessons-building-node-app-docker.html
106
15
Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/science/archaeology-lidar-maya.html
101
60
Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid
https://hothardware.com/news/atari-vcs-lead-architect-quits-claims-six-months-unpaid
97
9
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/summary/
94
MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on our launch
https://octopus.com/blog/octopus-cloud-1.0-reflections
Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy