1438
559
Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-October/004596.html
6 years ago
1166
1286
Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/
802
310
Soli
https://atap.google.com/soli/
302
Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
https://fair.org/home/still-manufacturing-consent-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/
543
263
The benefits of a more asynchronous workplace
https://doist.com/blog/asynchronous-communication/
359
150
After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/184-years-cherokees-seek-house-delegate-seat-promised-treaty
349
224
Yahoo Groups to remove all content December 14
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html
348
284
Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/766057380/how-magic-mushrooms-can-help-smokers-kick-the-habit
311
270
Make More Land
https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-more-land
303
292
Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x9j3k/depressed-people-see-the-world-more-realistically
299
453
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
282
157
Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb
https://simblob.blogspot.com/2019/10/verb-noun-vs-noun-verb.html
271
19
Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)
http://dev.stephendiehl.com/numpile/
266
212
Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Plan-to-remake-SF-s-Market-Street-without-car-14535887.php
262
203
Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matter-nightmare-what-if-we-just.html
261
222
How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
https://www.space.com/how-can-a-star-be-older-than-the-universe.html
258
163
Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/nyregion/hasidic-jews-amazon.html
245
107
Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra
https://pipedream.com
242
65
Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-double-entry-accounting-database-service/
230
335
US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
https://www.coindesk.com/us-law-enforcement-traces-bitcoin-transactions-to-nab-largest-child-porn-site
229
116
The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/the-a2-motorway-no-longer-divides-maastricht/
235
What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191011-what-happens-when-a-city-bans-car-from-its-streets
192
Writing Great Mystery Plots
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/charles-finch-on-how-he-writes-charles-lenox-mysteries.html
187
39
Show HN: Change Python code while it's running using a reloading loop
https://github.com/julvo/reloading
★ 1.1k Python MIT– 6 years ago
182
33
Kubernetes Networking: Behind the Scenes
https://itnext.io/kubernetes-networking-behind-the-scenes-39a1ab1792bb?source=friends_link&sk=b5b666c68375f7c60f76faa8571baa21
181
71
Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet
180
76
Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/16/announcing-dapr-open-source-project-build-microservice-applications/
81
Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/spains-happy-little-carless-city/
174
49
Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak
https://voice.mozilla.org/
167
46
Designing Accessible Color Systems
https://stripe.com/au/blog/accessible-color-systems
162
56
Paris zoo unveils a slime mould
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-zoo-blob/paris-zoo-unveils-the-blob-an-organism-with-no-brain-but-720-sexes-idUSKBN1WV2AD
185
Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell
https://chrispenner.ca/posts/wc
148
50
How to Read “Gilgamesh”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/how-to-read-gilgamesh
146
225
Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/americans-now-need-at-least-500-000-a-year-to-enter-the-top-1
143
122
UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/16/uk-drops-plans-for-online-pornography-age-verification-system
142
98
Google and Ambient Computing
https://stratechery.com/2019/google-and-ambient-computing/
136
90
Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house
https://www.amazon.com/ECOHOUSEMART-Laminated-friendly-Building-Engineered/dp/B07PNWFJ49/
131
100
A History of Pizza
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/historians-cookbook/history-pizza
124
58
Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller
https://blog.oxplot.com/usb-pd-standalone-sink-controller/
115
57
People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/australia/tasmanian-tiger-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
114
110
Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/10/15/mispredicted-branches-can-multiply-your-running-times/
111
159
The World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/human-guinea-pigs-prepare-for-20-hour-marathon-flights
108
48
Digital pollution
https://sivers.org/polut
8
Show HN: Sparkler – A KVM-Based Virtual Machine Manager
https://unixism.net/2019/10/sparkler-kvm-based-virtual-machine-manager/
105
34
Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack
http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1
104
78
U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military-cyber-exclusive-idUSKBN1WV0EK
21
Guitar Machine
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/guitar-machine/
93
3
AndOTP Removed from the Google Play Store Due to Donation Link
https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP/issues/396
★ 3.7k Java MIT– 6 years ago
45
Xi Jinping's daughter has returned to US to resume studies at Harvard
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3796172
91
73
ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/15/eileen-connors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/
18
HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/hamr-3d-hand-shape-and-pose-estimation-from-a-single-rgb-image-225cba26ce2
60
Where you place your food in the fridge does matter
https://www.electrafixbc.ca/articles/fridge-storage.html
88
92
Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/10/15/form-controls-microsoft-edge-chromium/
40
Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size
http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
84
77
LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed Operating System
http://legoos.io/index.html
83
20
The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-exquisite-precision-of-time-crystals/
29
Docker containers in space
https://www.balena.io/blog/beyond-the-cloud-docker-containers-in-space/
74
Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable
https://mosaicscience.com/story/urban-living-city-mental-health-glasgow-cities-happiness-regeneration/
