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This Page is Designed to Last
https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
6 years ago
705
235
Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/
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431
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296
541
246
Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-the-decision/50620
483
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Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner
https://www.eatthismuch.com/
461
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State of JavaScript 2019
https://2019.stateofjs.com/
430
150
Rust 1.40
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/12/19/Rust-1.40.0.html
413
142
How tracking pixels work
https://jvns.ca/blog/how-tracking-pixels-work/
116
An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
370
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The Amazon Premium
http://calpaterson.com/amazon-premium.html
347
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Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420
333
92
How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/shopify-manages-api-versioning-breaking-changes
332
4
Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2019/12/19/welcoming-mozilla-to-matrix/
316
129
GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]
https://www.bytesized.xyz/github-actions-tutorial
254
107
Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation
https://multipass.run/
243
157
Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
★ 184.3k TypeScript MIT– 6 years ago
239
100
The Afsluitdijk
https://theafsluitdijk.com/
229
106
Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/06/07/apprenticeships/
227
335
Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/12/02/the-real-reasons-why-job-seekers-are-not-given-feedback/#303e3aaeadf1
223
152
The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits
https://reason.com/2019/12/18/the-feds-get-permission-to-seize-edward-snowdens-book-profits/
208
81
Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/ohio-gas-well-accident-last-year-released-surprising-amount-of-methane/
194
94
A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolinehaskins1/data-leak-exposes-personal-data-over-3000-ring-camera-users
188
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Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21030114/robocalls-bill-congress-president-trump-sign-law-illegal-fcc-ajit-pai
67
When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub
https://threedots.tech/post/when-sql-database-makes-great-pub-sub/
184
15
Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
https://www.assured.se/2019/12/19/gcp-security/
179
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The Road to Scala 3
https://www.scala-lang.org/2019/12/18/road-to-scala-3.html
167
31
How to Make Python Wait
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-to-make-python-wait
165
34
Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
https://blog.janestreet.com/using-python-and-ocaml-in-the-same-jupyter-notebook/
162
Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/6M4dmZWpFaI
158
Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal-study-confirms-racial-bias-many-facial-recognition-systems-casts-doubt-their-expanding-use/
53
Technology Preview for secure value recovery
https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
140
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Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/airplanes-and-accounting-games-the
131
Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck Virtual Machine
https://github.com/f-prime/arcanevm
★ 220 Python GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
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Cisco devices must regenerate self-signed certificates before 2020
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/704/fn70489.html
124
54
Show HN: CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance
http://calmjobs.io/
122
Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It
https://www.wsj.com/articles/recycling-rethink-what-to-do-with-trash-now-china-wont-take-it-11576776536
119
42
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? (2018)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-the-hardest-equations-in-physics-so-difficult-20180116/
101
Tars: Tencent's microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation
http://tarscloud.org/feeds/3463219192613486
115
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Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/contractor-admits-planting-logic-bombs-in-his-software-to-ensure-hed-get-new-work/
114
22
Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
https://nongaap.substack.com/p/shopify-a-starcraft-inspired-business
113
10
Activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes
https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram
★ 3.7k JavaScript Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
166
YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are Getting Burned Out
https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-created-a-generation-of-young-stars-now-they-are-getting-burned-out-11576762704
111
To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-control-its-destiny-facebook-bets-big-on-hardware?pu=hackernewshmb8vq&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
104
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India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenship Law
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-19/india-bans-public-protests-to-quell-rising-anger-against-new-law
37
Don’t Shy Away or Risk Cowardly Management
https://avivbenyosef.com/dont-shy-away-or-risk-cowardly-management/
43
Teaching College-Level Mathematics in Prisons [pdf]
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1821.pdf
95
20
A Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math
https://lithub.com/how-a-mathematical-model-rescued-my-book-about-math/
38
Demonstration of 4-Row Janko Keyboard (1986) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w
30
Modular C: Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language (1994) [pdf]
http://metamodular.com/Computing/modular-c.pdf
91
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Brad Cox: when OOP was about “Software-ICs” and micro-transactions
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/2019/12/02/brad-cox/
90
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NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-x-59-quiet-supersonic-research-aircraft-cleared-for-final-assembly
89
40
Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/13/20978024/genetic-testing-dna-consequences-23andme-ancestry
86
Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (1738) [pdf]
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ipollak/ece302/FALL09/notes/Bernoulli_1738.pdf
80
Google Reader Killed RSS
https://mcfunley.com/google-reader-killed-rss
