994
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ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
https://www.keypointsabout.org/blog/advancing-the-internet-societys-mission-into-the-future
6 years ago
869
231
Open-Source Home Automation
https://www.home-assistant.io/
419
172
Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
https://medium.com/@siggi/google-adwords-charged-me-for-clicks-in-istanbul-while-location-targeting-the-u-s-e705b3bdc8a5
404
166
The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondor/
374
243
How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
https://medium.com/@derek./how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-6c51045dbc30
358
150
The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/11/27/the-first-non-bullshit-book-about-culture-ive-read/
316
284
Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-arrest-united-states-citizen-assisting-north-korea
296
47
Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning
https://explained.ai/matrix-calculus/index.html
278
152
Ask HN: Burning Out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661054
274
140
Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)
https://www.benkuhn.net/syntax
254
267
What is energy, actually? (2011)
https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/energy-and-us/what-is-energy-actually/
234
75
Information Is Physics
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/11/240356-information-is-physics/
54
Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/magazine/63-up-michael-apted.html
227
20
CMU 15-721: In-Memory Databases / Advanced Database Systems [video]
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXja7K1hjZ01UTVDnGQdx5v5U
203
91
AMD is dominating Intel in Amazon's best-selling CPUs list
https://www.techspot.com/news/82962-amd-dominating-intel-amazon-best-selling-cpu-list.html
197
51
TLA+ model checking made symbolic
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/29/tla-model-checking-made-symbolic/
195
344
Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-21/math-anxiety-elementary-teacher
194
107
React in concurrent mode: 2000 state-connected comps re-rendered at 60FPS
https://twitter.com/0xca0a/status/1199997552466288641
181
37
Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant
https://almond.stanford.edu/
177
236
Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-fakenews-idUSKBN1Y3093
168
32
Making Git and Jupyter Notebooks play nice
http://timstaley.co.uk/posts/making-git-and-jupyter-notebooks-play-nice/
94
The successor of SMS has already been hacked
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5ywxb/rcs-rich-communications-services-text-call-interception
162
74
Who eats who in open source
http://www.platformonomics.com/2019/11/dining-preferences-of-the-cloud-and-open-source-who-eats-who/
157
95
Unsoundness in Pin
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/unsoundness-in-pin/11311
148
21
Fleck: A Lisp that runs wherever Bash is
https://github.com/chr15m/flk/
Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Bzle0w6jz-1ndabrvC5MXUIQ5jme0M8xBF71oz-0Js/present#slide=id.i0
81
Total sleep deprivation impairs attention and higher-order cognitive processes
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-70149-001?doi=1
133
183
Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/drunk-driving-twice-quebec-breathalyzer-for-life-1.5369145
15
Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles
https://twitter.com/codeman38/status/1200243842521415681
123
30
Zephyr: A scalable Real-Time operating system for IoT embedded devices
https://www.zephyrproject.org/
69
In Amish village, a rural doctor sees the rarest diseases on Earth
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/11/29/wisconsin-rural-doctor-treats-amish-studies-rare-genetic-diseases/3995625002/
121
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Live Map
https://datastories.shopify.com/
116
72
German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies
https://decrypt.co/12603/new-law-makes-germany-crypto-heaven
114
Giant tortoises show surprising cognitive powers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03655-5
112
Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf]
http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/mac/Inside_Macintosh.pdf
111
60
Disproved Discoveries That Won Nobel Prizes (2015)
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/10/nobel_prizes_awarded_for_disproved_discoveries.html
108
The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/plot-thickens-hypothetical-x17-particle
105
The Information Apocalypse (2018)
https://diracdeltas.github.io/blog/information-apocalypse/
97
16
Find stuff in org-mode anywhere (2017)
https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2017/01/03/Find-stuff-in-org-mode-anywhere/
96
42
Migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim retirement
https://www.economist.com/china/2019/11/30/the-migrants-who-made-china-an-industrial-giant-face-a-grim-retirement
93
62
The Role of Luck in Life Success
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/
92
22
Foreign Accent Syndrome
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-23-psychedelics-and-waking-dreams-adding-feeling-to-virtual-reality-the-greatest-ape-and-more-1.5369357/now-i-have-a-lovely-scottish-brogue-the-science-behind-foreign-accent-syndrome-1.5369364
90
1
Introduction to Data Compression (2013) [pdf]
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/realworld/compression.pdf
87
25
Show HN: Keycat – A self-hosted end-to-end encrypted password manager
https://key.cat/
86
48
Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything
https://opentheory.net/2019/11/neural-annealing-toward-a-neural-theory-of-everything/
41
Gccemacs: Experiment with native compiled Emacs Lisp
http://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html
85
5
3D-printed microscope enables computational super-resolution imaging at $1200
https://f1000researchdata.s3.amazonaws.com/manuscripts/23450/6576bc13-4d38-494d-a56a-92ef864de3c3_21294_-_brian_patton.pdf?doi=10.12688/f1000research.21294.1&numberOfBrowsableCollections=19&numberOfBrowsableInstitutionalCollections=5&numberOfBrowsableGateways=22
84
31
Improving CLIs with isatty
https://blog.jez.io/cli-tty/
83
Project X – Like Tailwind for JavaScript
https://github.com/calebporzio/project-x
82
Ponzi Schemes, Private Yachts, and a Missing $250M in Crypto: Quadriga
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/the-strange-tale-of-quadriga-gerald-cotten
78
213
Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Australian safety chief
https://thedriven.io/2019/11/27/tesla-cybertruck-may-be-unsafe-for-other-road-users-says-australian-safety-chief/
26
Shenzhen and Yiwu: Supply Chains and Consumerism
https://medium.com/@hydraulicsheep/window-shopping-in-yiwu-a-tale-of-globalisation-supply-chains-and-throwaway-culture-7b587a4e8aad
In Amish village, a rural doctor sees the rarest diseases on Earth
