543
115
Guide to Software Defined Radio
https://luaradio.io/new-to-sdr.html
6 years ago
512
213
The modern web is becoming unusable
https://omarabid.com/the-modern-web
457
81
Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/12/19/xor-filters-faster-and-smaller-than-bloom-filters/
364
77
Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages
https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/
306
70
New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/new-boson-hidden-in-beryllium-decay-check-new-physics-maybe/
293
200
Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html
289
92
The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
https://beepb00p.xyz/sad-infra.html
279
346
Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/in-the-2010s-decade-we-became-alienated-by-technology
263
124
BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse
https://bugjail.com/
258
144
People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook
https://analysis.leadstories.com/3471185-fake-faces-people-Who-Do-Not-Exist-Invade-Facebook-To-Influence-2020-Elections.html
254
139
Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
https://qz.com/africa/1772671/ethiopia-launched-its-first-space-satellite-with-chinas-help/
244
163
CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culprit in Most Vaping Deaths
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat
234
133
Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/court-awards-80-million-to-consumer-attorneys-in-equifax-case.html
228
You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
226
27
Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/20/apple-launches-public-bug-bounty-program/
194
Navy’s flawed technology set the USS John McCain up for disaster
https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-installed-touch-screen-steering-ten-sailors-paid-with-their-lives/
192
60
Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C
https://github.com/mkirchner/gc
★ 1.3k C MIT– 6 years ago
187
75
Ember.js Octane Edition
https://blog.emberjs.com/2019/12/20/octane-is-here.html
186
167
Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info
https://www.fellowage.io/?r=hn
179
2
Boeing astronaut capsule for NASA stalls in orbit
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50855395
176
83
On Linux's Random Number Generation
https://research.nccgroup.com/2019/12/19/on-linuxs-random-number-generation/
175
65
267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/267-million-phone-numbers-exposed-online/
173
121
Apple has a secret team working on internet satellites
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/apple-has-top-secret-team-working-on-internet-satellites
168
63
Use GitHub actions at your own risk
https://julienrenaux.fr/2019/12/20/github-actions-security-risk/
95
New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/new-disclosures-to-our-archive-of-state-backed-information-operations.html
153
67
Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go
https://github.com/allegro/bigcache
★ 8.1k Go Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
152
The Inquirer reaches end-of-life
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life
151
61
Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk
https://mgsloan.com/posts/deck-desk/
147
84
Progressive React
https://houssein.me/progressive-react
22
In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle
https://wdc65xx.com/in-memoriam-of-chuck-peddle/
140
57
Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moore’s Law
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/design/arm-shows-backside-power-delivery-as-path-to-further-moores-law
136
240
Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/20/boeings-starliner-flies-into-wrong-orbit-jeopardizing-trip-to-the-international-space-station.html
130
12
A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python
https://nanonets.com/blog/ocr-with-tesseract/
120
13
The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/385-million-year-old-fossils-reveal-worlds-oldest-forest-had-modern-tree-roots-180973810/
118
6
Dungeon Generation in Enter The Gungeon
https://www.boristhebrave.com/2019/07/28/dungeon-generation-in-enter-the-gungeon/
116
A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)
https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
104
10
SBCL20 in Vienna
https://lispblog.xach.com/post/189764932688/sbcl20-in-vienna
99
17
Apple Security Bounty
https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/
98
49
‘Spiderman’ Hacker Daniel Kaye Took Down Liberia’s Internet
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-20/spiderman-hacker-daniel-kaye-took-down-liberia-s-internet
94
41
Long Names Are Long (2016)
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2016/06/16/long-names-are-long//
90
96
Huawei expected to surpass Apple to become world’s No 2 phone maker
https://cntechpost.com/2019/12/20/huawei-smartphone-shipments-expected-to-reach-230-million-this-year/
38
The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2019/12/19/the-worlds-most-beloved-money-losing-business-needs-your-help/
88
Russia presses Apple to install Kremlin-approved apps
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/russia-presses-apple-to-install-kremlin-approved-apps
87
Visual Studio Code repository is open again
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87440
★ 184.3k TypeScript MIT– 6 years ago
An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fg-huawei-timeline/
85
The Joy of Perl (1998)
https://www.salon.com/1998/10/13/feature_269/
28
Ask HN: Partial Bootstrap for a SaaS Startup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842979
80
How to Track President Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html
72
RDS Pricing Has More Than Doubled
https://medium.com/@rbranson/rds-pricing-has-more-than-doubled-ef8c3b7e5218
68
34
Neural networks as non-leaky mathematical abstraction
https://blog.cerebralab.com/Neural_networks_as_non-leaky_mathematical_abstraction
66
58
SmugMug emails subscribers with request to find more paying users
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/19/flickr-owner-smugmug-emails-subscribers-with-an-urgent-request-help-us-find-more-paying-users/
64
An immune molecule can sometimes influence the social behavior of mice: study
http://news.mit.edu/2019/explain-infections-fever-reduce-autism-1218
117
German court bans Uber's ride-hailing services in Germany
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-court/german-court-bans-ubers-ride-hailing-services-in-germany-idUSKBN1YN171
An overview of direct memory access (2014)
https://geidav.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/an-overview-of-direct-memory-access/
The use of the word ‘robust' to describe software in UK law
https://ials.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2019/06/25/the-use-of-the-word-robust-to-describe-software-code/
India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-internet-shutdown-in-kashmir-is-now-the-longest-ever-in-a-democracy/2019/12/15/bb0693ea-1dfc-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html
62
Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes
https://newrepublic.com/article/155978/science-fictions-wonderful-mistakes
