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554
Why Enterprise Software Sucks
https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776
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1083
343
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
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619
439
Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/pull/89
477
259
I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/
408
219
Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/09/exposure-to-air-pollution-is-linked-to-an-increase-in-violent-crime
363
229
Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey
https://netblocks.org/reports/twitter-facebook-whatsapp-and-instagram-restricted-in-southern-turkey-oy9RzE83
357
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600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)
https://blog.jayway.com/2015/04/13/600k-concurrent-websocket-connections-on-aws-using-node-js/
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SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-212
309
134
Uber Go Style Guide
https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md
308
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NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex/nasa-aims-for-first-manned-spacex-mission-in-first-quarter-2020-idUSKBN1WP1CS
292
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Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died
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280
128
Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-10-15/
278
150
AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering
https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally-flawed-offering/
264
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California power outage triggers chaos in science labs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03086-2
258
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Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/business/boeing-737-max.html
245
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Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/why-dont-i-see-you-anymore/598336/
241
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What You Can't Say (2004)
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
238
84
Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64
https://www.hirensbootcd.org
71
Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/03/twitter-analysis-identifying-a-pro-indonesian-propaganda-bot-network/
Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1005747
213
68
Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first
https://instagram-engineering.com/making-instagram-com-faster-part-3-cache-first-6f3f130b9669
193
27
Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653
191
86
Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-spygate-_credit-suisse-scandal-shakes-zurich-s-elite/45280086
166
45
Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests
https://curl.trillworks.com/
164
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Ask HN: How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21229345
162
57
When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices
https://en.pingwest.com/a/3649
17
Love Letter to Clojure
https://itrevolution.com/love-letter-to-clojure-part-1/
139
36
Photos of Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html
138
Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers
63
Monzo: How our security team handle secrets
https://monzo.com/blog/2019/10/11/how-our-security-team-handle-secrets
60
California Blocks Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/california-just-blocked-police-body-cam-use-face
136
30
Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/10/microsoft-open-sources-sanddance-visual-data-exploration-tool/
125
The Nobel Peace Prize 2019
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2019/summary/
122
64
Quintillion CEO’s Promise to Wire the Arctic Was $1B Scam
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-08/quintillion-ceo-s-promise-to-wire-the-arctic-was-1-billion-scam
114
135
WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms
https://www.ft.com/content/f29ecc58-eba9-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55
111
146
The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a29427713/navy-compact-fusion-reactor/
106
37
Show HN: A news aggregator for the Python community written in Python/Django
https://github.com/sebst/pythonic-news/
104
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I tried to hack my insomnia
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614478/i-tried-to-hack-my-insomnia-with-technology-heres-what-worked/
103
9
Lost transcription of Tale of Genji chapter found in Japanese storeroom
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/lost-chapter-the-tale-of-genji-murasaki-shikibu-found-japan
76
New York's Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/new-york-the-strand-bookstore-landmark-status-sue
98
39
MNT Reform DIY Laptop
https://mntre.com/reform/
HamWAN: A modern, multi-megabit, IP-based, digital network for amateur radio use
https://hamwan.org/
96
67
Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/environment/article235973882.html
53
Why are adult daughters missing from ancient German cemeteries?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/why-are-adult-daughters-missing-ancient-german-cemeteries
93
58
Fibers aren’t useful for much any more
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191011-00/?p=102989
91
Effects of acute wild blueberry supplementation on the cognition of children
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00394-018-1843-6
88
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Function Currying in Go
https://medium.com/@meeusdylan/function-currying-in-go-a88672d6ebcf
87
20
China has increased fishery subsidies
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/sea-running-out-of-fish-despite-nations-pledges-to-stop/
26
Fixing the World (2011)
http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Fixing-the-World
85
11
Tracking PG&E outages by scraping to a Git repo
https://simonwillison.net/2019/Oct/10/pge-outages/
82
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iPadOS review: The iPad is dead, long live the iPad
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1582717
79
16
Show HN: Git-remote-s3 – push and pull Git repos to/from s3, encrypted using GPG
https://github.com/bgahagan/git-remote-s3
43
The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-a-wilderness-without-humans/
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