1595
457
Firefox 70
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefox-70-a-bountiful-release-for-all/
6 years ago
1331
918
Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324768
836
394
Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/new-york-ranked-choice-voting.html
757
219
Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]
http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf
658
205
Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/
556
123
Firefox is getting language translation
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-get-page-translation-feature-like-chrome/
526
78
Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/
433
185
London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third
https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/ulez-reduces-polluting-cars-by-13500-every-day
415
111
Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion
408
257
Don't Use VPN Services
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
365
199
Estonia is running its country like a tech company
https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/
318
202
Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325138
300
112
Ghost 3.0
https://ghost.org/blog/3-0/
290
12
Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]
https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/blob/master/notes/eisenstein-nlp-notes.pdf
283
88
Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request
https://cpdos.org/
259
165
Assange in Court
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/
251
66
Unix Turns 50
https://www.bell-labs.com/unix50/
246
151
Pizza Hut’s First Website
https://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html
245
27
Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTrBTrjyohi
244
39
Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)
http://www.shapeoperator.com/2017/02/28/geometry-algebra-intuition/
241
156
McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/banks-must-act-now-or-risk-becoming-a-footnote-mckinsey-says
236
49
No Maintenance Intended
http://unmaintained.tech/
222
91
TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1186735799338860544
216
74
New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position
https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1186775481615605760
200
155
Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-time-frequently-asked-questions-faq#cut
188
122
Faces of Open Source
http://www.facesofopensource.com/
183
92
Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3800247
182
120
Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years
https://kottke.org/19/10/behold-our-dazzling-night-sky-when-the-milky-way-collides-with-andromeda-in-4-billion-years
177
116
Rethinking Encryption
https://www.lawfareblog.com/rethinking-encryption
172
Mailgun Acquires Mailjet
https://www.mailgun.com/blog/mailgun-acquires-european-competitor-mailjet/
171
104
Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
https://slimbook.es/en/noticias-notas-de-prensa-y-reviews/435-slimbook-collaborates-with-the-powerpc-laptop
170
98
Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle
167
Google clamps down on free storage
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay
157
125
FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/10/ftc-brings-first-case-against-developers-stalking-apps
150
97
Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-professor-bible-hobby-lobby.html
147
4
An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/sss-intro/
56
AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
https://status.aws.amazon.com#r53
142
44
Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch
https://datadome.co/store-50-million-event-per-second-in-elasticsearch/
138
70
A Landmark Climate Trial Turns on Whether Exxon Cooked the Books
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-22/landmark-climate-trial-turns-on-whether-exxon-cooked-the-books
127
285
Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession
https://theweek.com/articles/871131/think-young-people-are-hostile-capitalism-now-just-wait-next-recession
126
52
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [video]
https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
An Intern's Experience with Rust
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/16/an-interns-experience-with-rust/
WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/neumann-clings-to-billionaire-status-after-wework-gets-a-bailout
86
I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900
https://www.reddit.com/r/juststart/comments/dkyq92/how_i_wasted_10_weeks_of_my_life_and_1900/
117
109
Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/
115
47
Node.js 13.0
https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v13.0.0
113
80
Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/infosys-whistleblowers-allege-unethical-practices-shares-fall
108
55
Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335216
48
U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/10/technology-inventions-where-work-patents-agglomeration-data/599089/
101
YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
http://virustotal.github.io/yara/
99
69
The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/greenhouse-series/
22
47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
https://sociable.co/social-media/47-attorneys-general-support-facebook-antitrust-investigation/
41
Blind auditions and gender discrimination
https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/
96
The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes
https://thehftguy.com/2019/10/22/the-demise-of-docker-and-the-rise-of-kubernetes/
84
20
Firefox Lockwise – Encrypted Password Manager
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/
83
Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21327217
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