1346
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Larry Tesler Has Died
https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408
6 years ago
910
1092
Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8pp5/kickstarter-employees-win-historic-union-election
718
312
Don't touch my clipboard
https://alexanderell.is/posts/taking-over-my-clipboard/
687
92
Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas
https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel
442
318
Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352840
438
196
ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data
https://www.adsbexchange.com/
436
131
C4: C in Four Functions (2014)
https://github.com/rswier/c4
429
142
Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video
https://github.com/jasonmayes/Real-Time-Person-Removal
427
154
Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/challenge-snitch-on-the-glitch-help-the-graphics-team-track-down-an-interesting-webrender-bug/
417
185
Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200
398
210
The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software
https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-its-different-from-traditional-software/
382
111
Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/don-eyles-extra-weird-looking-freak-saves-apollo-14-40737/
372
258
Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/17/regulate-facebook/
343
139
New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-the-n2d-vm-family-based-on-amd
329
232
Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/indian-police-open-case-against-hundreds-in-kashmir-for-using-vpn/
326
83
Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad
https://www.billiam.org/2019/05/29/sherbet-an-ergonomic-keypad
321
14
Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three
https://www.andrew-best.com/posts/learn-auth-the-hard-way-part-three/
281
130
7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/this-7-000-year-old-well-is-the-oldest-wooden-structure-ever-discovered-archeologists-say-1.4815023
269
89
How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019
https://labs.spotify.com/2020/02/18/wrapping-up-the-decade-a-data-story/
267
178
MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)
https://cirw.in/blog/time-to-move-on
264
226
I Worked for a Criminal Organization
https://openmonstervision.github.io/blog/posts/that-time-i-worked-for-criminals/
262
100
Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
https://materialize.io/blog-introduction/
259
166
JWT is Awesome
https://thehftguy.com/2020/02/18/jwt-is-awesome-heres-why/
248
75
Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-tells-man-101-his-parents-must-confirm-id
221
193
Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
http://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programmer_s_critique_of_missing_structure_of_oper.html
197
125
Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
https://angel.co/today/stories/reid-hoffman-s-30m-bet-send-partners-not-cash-to-startups-10235
176
3
Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/kickstarter-workers-vote-to-unionize/
167
40
Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it
http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/
155
33
Gravitational-lensing measurements push Hubble-constant discrepancy past 5σ
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20200210a/full/
106
Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
https://obem.be/2020/02/18/mining-my-mailbox-for-top-email-service-providers.html
150
126
Request Node lib used by 48k modules is now deprecated
https://github.com/request/request/issues/3143
32
Heart doctors 'held back stent death data'
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51539112
148
206
New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/19/national/diamond-princess-coronavirus/#.XkwTijWIZTs
144
28
Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (2009)
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
143
30
Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22354060
141
16
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
https://www.amazon.science/publications/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-applications
140
Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end
https://medium.com/makani-blog/a-long-and-windy-road-3d83b9b78328
134
Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5t8EivCaM
135
Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/just-imagine-ikaria-secret/
128
97
'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51534957
How Bezos built his data machine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data
48
Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22358338
113
70
JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
https://jpeg.org/items/20200217_press.html
Show HN: FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357517
96
102
Why designing for open source can be difficult
https://gilli.is/journal/why-designing-for-open-source-can-be-so-difficult
98
Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
https://changelog.com/gotime/98
90
78
DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32252/darpa-wants-millions-to-design-an-unmanned-flying-gun-under-its-new-gunslinger-program
Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
