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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
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6 years ago
818
98
Htop Explained
https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/
686
301
NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUSKBN1XA27H
593
177
Restic – Backups Done Right
https://restic.net/
511
147
The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-tracking-our-faces-in-secret-were-suing/
457
72
Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX
https://makezine.com/2019/10/25/build-your-own-thrust-vectored-rockets-for-vertical-landings-like-spacex/
374
319
Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-31/blizzard-employees-blizzcon-protests
356
362
Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/468216-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-facebook-political-ads-policy-after-twitter-ban
355
213
Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/31/775068218/how-deep-sleep-may-help-the-brain-clear-alzheimers-toxins
311
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-level-in-StarCraft-II-using-multi-agent-reinforcement-learning
346
99
Getting Started with Security Keys
https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/
300
638
GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense
294
232
Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
https://www.piper.com/press-releases/piper-announces-new-m600-sls/
270
47
We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management
https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/
240
71
Which Planet Is Closest?
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/which-planet-is-closest
238
74
The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview
https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-designs-the-machine-learning-software-engineering-interview-bbbb9fc8bb28
234
40
Alf.io: open-source ticket reservation system
http://alf.io
230
83
Plants “panic” when it rains
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-panic.html
222
145
Ask HN: Getting started in biology with a software background
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408415
216
69
Ask HN: What are some resources to improve speaking skills?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21410579
205
73
Typestates in Rust (2018)
https://yoric.github.io/post/rust-typestate/
199
164
Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise
http://gustavlundin.com/di-frameworks-are-dynamic-binding/
193
36
Frab – free and open conference management system
https://frab.github.io/frab/
186
66
The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain
https://www.fastcompany.com/90422553/the-first-map-of-americas-food-supply-chain-is-mind-boggling
183
160
Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-to-man-whose-home-they-blew-up-appeals-court-says
180
111
Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/31/destroying-x86_64-instruction-decoders-with-differential-fuzzing/
168
250
The Global Fertility Crash
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-global-fertility-crash
163
8
Here Dragons Abound: Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps
https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com
159
4
WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUKKBN1XA27H
156
2
Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03298-6
154
92
FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
https://medium.com/@rajasekar3eg/fastspark-a-new-fast-native-implementation-of-spark-from-scratch-368373a29a5c
176
Is Death Reversible?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-death-reversible/
150
63
Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1811.10154/
55
Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compression-in-a-row-oriented-database/
133
‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram
https://nypost.com/2019/10/29/sexual-use-of-eggplant-and-peach-emojis-banned-on-facebook-instagram/
130
49
Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article236413328.html
126
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room at Saudi Summit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-30/softbank-s-son-speaks-to-an-almost-empty-room-at-saudi-summit
119
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Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/economy/long-term-unemployed.html
Snake game made in Go
https://github.com/tristangoossens/snake-go
1
Static analysis of an unknown compression format (2012)
http://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/8-static-analysis-of-an-unknown-compression-format.html
110
45
Boeing is facing fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-ng-qantas-finds-crack-airlines-inspect-fleets-reports-2019-10
109
38
Launch HN: zeroheight (YC S19) – UX design docs that stay up-to-date
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21409845
105
6
A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory
https://numenta.com/blog/2019/10/24/machine-learning-guide-to-htm
19
Rise of the Mathematicians
https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-rise-of-the-mathematicians
28
K-means clustering using sklearn and Python
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/k-means-clustering-using-sklearn-and-python-4a054d67b187
90
89
A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers
https://www.vice.com/en_au/partners/audible-no-gangsters-in-paradise/how-a-western-sydney-gang-got-hold-of-military-grade-rocket-launchers
5
Sunset Geometry (2016)
https://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/
87
59
Take Better Screenshots
http://www.stilldrinking.org/take-better-screenshots
84
53
Swift Server Work Group Annual Update
https://swift.org/blog/sswg-update/
81
60
Ask HN: How do you organize and manage database migrations?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21405501
77
37
The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
76
Foie Gras, Served in 1k Restaurants in NYC, Is Banned
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/foie-gras-ban-nyc.html
Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment