1385
528
I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
https://twitter.com/Timcammm/status/1183782929614409729
6 years ago
927
460
Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/
842
337
Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/03/06/Want-to-improve-your-relationships-Try-Nonviolent-Communication-1
722
288
Meetup.com alternatives
https://phacks.dev/meetup-com-alternatives
620
231
OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
https://micahflee.com/2019/10/new-version-of-onionshare-makes-it-easy-for-anyone-to-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites/
505
383
California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
https://qz.com/1727790/californias-new-law-bans-schools-from-starting-before-8am/
450
440
Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/blizzard-cancels-overwatch-event-as-it-tries-to-contain-backlash
398
54
Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-inspector/
382
125
Firefox Privacy How-To Guide
https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/
367
499
Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/twitter-world-leaders-break-rules/
343
186
DuckDuckGo Search Improvements
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-improvements/
318
106
Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/algolia-finds-110m-from-accel-and-salesforce-for-its-search-as-a-service-used-by-slack-twitch-and-8k-others/
297
307
.NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project
https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/130
293
110
Ionic React
https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/
262
208
My Vision of D’s Future
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/
261
166
Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50054044
20
How we hit our $30k ARR milestone
https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/how-we-hit-our-30k-annual-recurring-revenue-milestone
241
214
Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elite-m-b-a-programs-report-steep-drop-in-applications-11571130001?mod=rsswn
238
330
Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/switzerland-vs-silicon-valley
230
170
Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-older-teslas-due-to-excessive-data-logging-report
217
Rustup 1.20.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/10/15/Rustup-1.20.0.html
183
Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/10/msg00043.html
190
114
Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191004/19564743128/city-baltimore-blew-off-76000-ransomware-demand-only-to-find-out-bunch-data-had-never-been-backed-up.shtml
174
227
Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/ohio-voter-purge.html
171
46
Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/
122
By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year
https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/
69
Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions
https://news.codecademy.com/bjarne-stroustrup-interview/
168
223
Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sears-hasnt-fared-better-after-bankruptcy-as-another-100-stores-will-soon-close-11570959000?mod=rsswn
109
5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach
https://5g.systemsapproach.org/index.html
162
83
Face-recognition technology is the new norm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/facial-recognition-police.html
153
79
Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-artifacts-pulled-edge-norways-melting-glaciers-180967949/
198
YouTube Regrets
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/
149
The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18n=true&guccounter=1
132
97
DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/doh-dot-dnssec.html
128
21
Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport
http://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/10/13/introducing-arrow-flight/
123
65
Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor
117
23
Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
https://assist.app/hn
116
32
Docker Hub Registry is down
https://status.docker.com/
51
What the Hell Was Modernism?
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/jerry-saltz-new-moma-modernism.html
113
10
Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem
https://tspvis.com
111
52
ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/dhmqzm/abc_news_is_trying_to_pass_gun_range_videos_as/
86
OpenVMS: state of the x86 port
http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html
107
27
Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue
https://beamjobs.com/blog/14-mistakes-our-startup-made
101
11
My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming
https://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/my-2019-mathematics-a-to-z-linear-programming/
99
115
Google Announces Nest WiFi
https://blog.google/products/google-nest/nest-wifi/
44
Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/oct/15/zombie-debt-benefits-overpayment-poverty
35
Show HN: Policy_sentry, an AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator
https://github.com/salesforce/policy_sentry
87
A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/a-detailed-look-at-ubuntus-new-experimental-zfs-installer/
95
84
Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball
https://www.ploopy.co
93
41
Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-keep-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere/
92
74
You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/15/20828843/studio-ghibli-movies-miyazaki-streaming-netflix-disney-plus
8
Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (2013)
https://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/09/probabalistic-scraping-of-plain-text-tables/
91
308
$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home
https://www.wsj.com/articles/so-you-make-100-000-it-still-might-not-be-enough-to-buy-a-home-11571149819?mod=rsswn
90
34
College admissions officers rank prospective students before they apply
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/14/colleges-quietly-rank-prospective-students-based-their-personal-data/
88
139
Google Announces Pixel 4
https://store.google.com/product/pixel_4
12
CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run Commands as Root
https://sensorstechforum.com/cve-2019-14287-sudo-bug/
60
Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate, censorship – survey
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/10/blizzard-hong-kong-protest-hearthstone-blind-app.html
85
16
Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/perception-of-musical-pitch-varies-across-cultures
78
America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-pistachios-from.html
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