833
367
What’s New in Python 3.8
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html
6 years ago
813
148
Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster
https://tokio.rs/blog/2019-10-scheduler/
801
522
“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723
★ 37.9k Java GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
792
689
Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html
666
201
My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
http://www.sullysullenberger.com/my-letter-to-the-editor-of-new-york-times-magazine/
601
Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/14/apple_china_tencent/
494
476
Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/
465
173
YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/dhu0tl/its_official_youtube_is_taking_down_educational/
429
97
More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive
https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/13/2500-more-ms-dos-games-playable-at-the-archive/
375
29
Goodbye with Love
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dhf1vo/goodbye_with_love/
368
281
Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/14/uber-lays-off-another-350-across-eats-self-driving-and-other-departments/
333
116
I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS
https://blog.inkdrop.info/i-stopped-setting-a-financial-goal-for-my-saas-a92c3db65506
318
92
How to fuck up software releases
https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/12/how-to-fuck-up-releases.html
308
145
Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/safeway
304
59
AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project
https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/opensource/aws-sponsorship-of-the-rust-project/
297
31
The Open Book Project
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
★ 7.9k CC-BY-SA-4.0– 6 years ago
282
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Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at rates well above inflation
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/new-drug-pricing-data-shows-stunning-hikes-one-whopping-667-increase/
271
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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2218685-nasa-engineers-helical-engine-may-violate-the-laws-of-physics/
267
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The Unix Game
https://www.unixgame.io/
265
176
Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
https://www.zdnet.com/article/building-chinas-comac-c919-airplane-involved-a-lot-of-hacking-report-says/
247
135
Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of 'bodies smashed'
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50035229
244
208
The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/10/05/the-stockmarket-is-now-run-by-computers-algorithms-and-passive-managers
240
121
24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012018/csp-concentrated-solar-molten-salt-storage-24-hour-renewable-energy-crescent-dunes-nevada
228
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How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/7/20887473/norway-norwegian-lunch-sandwich-matpakke
216
107
First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (1856)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856/
205
94
Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/clash-over-surveillance-software-turns-personal-in-germany
189
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James Gosling on Richard Stallman [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6XHroNewc&t=10377
165
18
Watt: A runtime for executing Rust procedural macros compiled as WebAssembly
https://github.com/dtolnay/watt
★ 1.4k Rust Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
163
34
The World’s Oldest Tree Lives in Sweden
https://swedesinthestates.com/the-worlds-oldest-tree-lives-in-sweden/
162
Harold Bloom Has Died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html
156
122
Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS
https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos
★ 15.5k Swift GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
152
42
The boy behind the biggest coin-op conversion of the 80s
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-13-the-boy-behind-the-biggest-coin-op-conversion-of-the-80s
149
36
Facebook to Pay $40M Under Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/facebook-pay-40-million-under-proposed-settlement-video-metrics-suit-1245807
78
What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters
https://www.1843magazine.com/travel/taste-the-fear/what-it-feels-like-to-swim-in-subzero-waters
124
6
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours
287
Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia/spain-jails-leaders-of-catalan-secession-bid-for-sedition-idUSKBN1WS0RX
91
Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201910140036.html
115
120
Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27767289/dirty-little-secret-everybody-knows-about
49
YC Fall Hackathon 2019
https://blog.ycombinator.com/apply-to-the-yc-fall-hackathon-2019/
114
89
The Acid Farmers
https://mikejay.net/the-acid-farmers/
113
51
Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/stealing-sensitive-browser-data-with-the-w3c-ambient-light-sensor-api/
109
Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult
https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-coding-bootcamp-y-combinator-cult-2019-10
108
27
Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49989351
26
Goodyear Inflatoplane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Inflatoplane
104
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Peter Ratcliffe's Nobel Prize Winning Study Was Rejected by Journal
https://www.news18.com/news/world/27-year-old-letter-reveals-scientist-peter-ratcliffes-nobel-prize-winning-study-was-rejected-by-journal-2344475.html
102
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The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-09/tesla-s-autopilot-could-save-the-lives-of-millions-but-it-will-kill-some-people-first
99
9
Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
https://fs.blog/2019/10/focused-diffuse-thinking/
101
On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes?cb=1
93
Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions in sudo
https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html
161
A Prenup Is the Latest Must-Have for Tech Startup Founders in Love
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-11/prenup-is-latest-must-have-for-tech-startup-founders-in-love
