1313
370
My Favourite Git Commit
https://fatbusinessman.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit
6 years ago
768
219
Coffee Is Hard
https://www.stilldrinking.org/coffee-is-hard
717
199
Four kinds of documentation
https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/
701
63
Earth and Sun
https://ciechanow.ski/earth-and-sun/
478
109
New pathfinding algorithm
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317
411
201
Bazel 1.0
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/10/bazel-reaches-10-milestone.html
327
24
Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]
https://mml-book.com/
271
76
Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
http://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/
254
234
Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/18/alphabets-wing-begins-making-first-commercial-drone-deliveries-in-the-u-s/
244
84
Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/faster-layouts-with-css-grid-and-subgrid/
237
246
Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/17/770696476/most-u-s-dairy-cows-are-descended-from-just-2-bulls-thats-not-good
235
45
Practice Sight-Reading Music
https://sightreading.training/
List of software that has free tiers for developers
https://free-for.dev/
220
153
California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/unprecedented-movement-detected-on-california-earthquake-fault-capable-of-8-0-temblor-1.603516/quake-1.603517
211
41
The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways
https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/18/the-wayback-machine-fighting-digital-extinction-in-new-ways/
210
184
I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-destroying-angel/
69
Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator
https://gridsome.org/
204
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Mark Hurd Has Died
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/mark-hurd-co-ceo-of-oracle-dies-at-62.html
203
131
Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit
https://blog.imgur.com/2019/10/14/discontinuing-support-for-nsfw-reddit-subsections/
56
Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62hZJVqs2o
190
85
We moved our servers to Iceland
https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/why-we-moved-our-servers-to-iceland
11
Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/10/microsoft-open-sources-sanddance-visual-data-exploration-tool/
181
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Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/builders-ditch-nest-as-google-ties-digital-assistant-to-devices
175
122
The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks
https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/
173
59
Email marketing regulations around the world
https://github.com/threeheartsdigital/email-marketing-regulations
160
55
Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (2017)
https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155
154
101
Really Fixing Getrandom()
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/802360/06e2457983b56edb/
70
Boeing 2016 internal messages suggest employees may have misled FAA on 737 MAX
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-boeing-exclusive/exclusive-boeing-2016-internal-messages-suggest-employees-may-have-misled-faa-on-737-max-sources-idUSKBN1WX25G
151
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I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/390427/im-resigning-as-a-stack-overflow-community-elected-moderator
146
72
Scientists create device that cuts desalination costs by 90%
https://tass.com/science/1083191
144
13
Photographing Big Waves at Mavericks
https://www.cake.co/conversations/L44Nh7h/my-cautionary-tale-of-photographing-the-world-s-biggest-waves-at-mavericks
143
44
Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]
http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pdf
139
71
Machine learning in UK financial services
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/report/2019/machine-learning-in-uk-financial-services.pdf?la=en&hash=F8CA6EE7A5A9E0CB182F5D568E033F0EB2D21246
132
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Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game
https://blackjackbreak.com
128
Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018)
https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1184830194323984389
126
42
Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/boeing-flight-simulator-text-message.html
123
27
Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production
https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex/tree/v0.9.0
Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-019-0038-6
53
D at 20: Hits and Misses [pdf]
https://digitalmars.com/articles/hits.pdf
116
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Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/18/editorial-mac-pro-puts-the-pedal-to-metal-in-apples-race-with-nvidia
Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add-ons-to-be-removed-from-addons-mozilla-org/
114
Facebook and Speech
https://continuations.com/post/188425562010/facebook-and-speech-its-all-about-power
106
46
FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ messages about the 737 Max
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/boeing-shares-slide-on-report-faa-is-concerned-it-was-misled-about-737-max.html
105
33
Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande
https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-the-checklist-manifesto-by-atul-gawande
100
73
The Beauty of COBOL (2018)
https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/
99
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The Real Reasons I Don’t Hire You
https://charity.wtf/2019/10/18/the-real-11-reasons-i-dont-hire-you/
98
Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/17/catalan-separatists-have-tooled-up-with-a-decentralized-app-for-civil-disobedience/
95
Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and no dependencies too)
https://github.com/norcalli/nvim-colorizer.lua
The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/the-pixel-4s-face-unlock-works-on-sleeping-unconscious-people/
93
25
Egypt uncovers 'huge cache' of ancient sealed coffins
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/luxor-egyptian-coffins-hnk-scli/index.html
89
4
The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack
https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destroyer-cyberattack/
A historian's critique of popular conceptions of witchcraft
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/managing-our-darkest-hatreds/
30
YC Interview Tips from a Former YC Partner [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfTgzA6iKZc
86
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Show HN: Booste – a cloud-hosted desktop for developers
http://www.devs.booste.io/
Comparison of X Window Managers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers
We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/why-we-need-to-design-health-care-reform-that-puts-patients-before-profits/
82
20
Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/open-source-engineering/risc-v-day-microchip-adds-risc-v-hard-ip-polarfire-fpgas-2019-10/
78
The outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths
Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila