1232
553
Perfectly Cropped
https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/
6 years ago
701
440
Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/technology/dod-jedi-contract.html
644
370
My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8
556
623
قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/
475
393
Gmail marking email from me as spam
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08806.html
431
74
An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/10/21/illustrated-guide-to-oauth-and-oidc
351
316
Who Killed the Scrollbar?
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq
337
255
Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalization-trade-paul-krugman-china/
300
159
Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
https://medium.com/@docjamesw/speaking-truth-to-power-reflections-on-a-career-at-microsoft-90f80a449e36
288
122
Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query
https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
284
26
Don Valentine has died
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/remembering-don-valentine/
267
361
Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21357921
266
225
Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1187791335345930240
248
82
Panopticlick
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
236
156
Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/india-tech-startups-fundraise/
235
24
Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization
https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/python-opengl/#python-opengl-for-scientific-visualization
226
114
We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive
https://theintercept.com/2019/07/26/europe-border-control-ai-lie-detector/
212
55
Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties
https://popula.com/2019/01/29/saving-the-planet-with-co2/
192
62
Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50180781
191
160
Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams
https://www.sciencealert.com/ant-roads-are-practically-immune-to-traffic-jams-even-when-it-gets-crowded
187
213
Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/17/h-1b-uber-snatches-up-more-foreign-worker-visas-as-it-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees/
186
42
Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere/
184
Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done
https://www.focusmate.com/
172
49
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-fractal-patterns-quantum-material.html
165
109
Applying BERT models to Search
https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/
163
117
Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/fair-the-softbank-backed-car-subscription-startup-lays-off-40-of-staff-sacks-cfo/
161
116
New Hampshire Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways'
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kp8j/lawmaker-kills-repair-bill-because-cellphones-are-throwaways
155
Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
https://www.sicpers.info/2019/10/zen-and-the-art-of-software-maintenance/
153
227
Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550619876633
148
Why EdDSA held up better than ECDSA against Minerva
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20191024-eddsa.html
144
9
A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
https://dlopuch.github.io/venture-dealr/
140
39
Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/learning-to-smell-using-deep-learning.html
137
167
The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more
https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/08/the-kindle-is-fine-it-couldve-been-much-better-than-that/
Australia’s Darling River is running dry
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thirst-turns-to-anger-as-australias-mighty-river-runs-dry
133
27
Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros
https://github.com/seungwonpark/kudeki-chain/
132
28
Mir Books
https://mirtitles.org/
131
30
Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming
https://ispc.github.io/
127
29
Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5
https://mnml.gg/
125
36
Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10703
32
Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-columbus-letters-stolen-from-vatican-libraries-around-the-world-60-minutes-2019-10-20/
124
Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/citation/wc991103.htm
118
33
Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot
Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356203
115
57
Back from the Blender Conference
https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/back-from-the-blender-conference-2019/
85
Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2019-10-25-beating-c-with-futhark-on-gpu.html
107
Double Slit Experiment No Mystery
https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/double-slit-experiment-no-mystery/
106
73
Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/042
103
44
Airbnb in the Himalayas
https://veridici.com/how-airbnb-is-silently-changing-himalayan-villages/
99
5
Pernosco: Fast, Fun, Omniscient Debugging
https://pernos.co/
PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk
https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/25/forecasts-indicate-potential-for-historic-wind-event-this-weekend-approximately-850000-customers-notified-that-they-may-be-impacted-beginning-saturday-evening/
Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat
https://github.com/Speedi13/ROP-COMPILER
97
15
Non-Green Plants (2013)
https://plantsandprejudice.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/how-do-non-green-plants-work/
96
52
Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners
http://brainio.com
95
53
Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018)
https://drivemag.com/news/dagen-h-the-day-sweden-switched-from-driving-on-the-left-to-the-right
94
98
Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/24/sea-urchins-california-oregon-population
92
86
Offshore wind to become a $1T industry
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2019/october/offshore-wind-to-become-a-1-trillion-industry.html
91
Wisconsin's Foxconn Boondoggle Is Getting Worse
https://reason.com/2019/10/24/wisconsins-massive-foxconn-boondoggle-is-getting-worse/
Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)
http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html
89
56
Show HN: A Modern C/C++ build tools (Simple, Fast, Cross-platform)
https://xmake.io/#/
84
New 2MW electric vehicle chargers could revolutionise mining industry
https://thedriven.io/2019/10/23/new-2mw-electric-vehicle-chargers-could-revolutionise-mining-industry/
Auto-brewery syndrome: probably an under-diagnosed medical condition
https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000325
80
10
A day in the life of a Danish forensic pathologist
https://www.information.dk/mofo/no-desire-to-open-up-this-mans-skull-do-it-because-to
13
Teen designs Hong Kong-inspired shoe only to have it dropped from Vans contest
https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/Vans-step-on-Toronto-teens-freedom-of-expression
79
Ask HN: What are some B.S. tricks management pulls on naive developers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21354968
61
Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force
https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/detail?id=2019Z20386&did=2019D42637
75
Would aliens understand lambda calculus? (2018)
http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/alien-lambda-calculus/
22
South-Pointing Chariot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing_chariot
65
Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/tiktok-lamakers-national-security-threat/
72
18
HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
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