1216
343
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years/
6 years ago
733
342
What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
https://www.filingdb.com/pdf-text-extraction
685
263
Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/simple-systems/?r=0
599
92
Introduction to D3
https://observablehq.com/@mitvis/introduction-to-d3
548
405
Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
https://qz.com/1707479/reddit-has-become-a-guide-to-personal-finance/
519
142
What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
https://altairspace.com/2020/03/02/mysterious-light-sources/
364
481
Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-03/fed-cuts-rates-half-point-in-emergency-move-amid-spreading-virus
155
Revoking certain certificates on March 4
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certificates-on-march-4/114864
331
157
Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mastercard-is-pioneering-new-payment-technology-that-identifies-commuters-by-the-way-they-walk-2020-02-14
330
86
The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago
328
173
Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-75-Wayland-Great-Shape
309
33
Postgres Explain Visualizer
https://github.com/dalibo/pev2
★ 3.4k TypeScript PostgreSQL– 6 years ago
298
165
Atrium shuts down, laying off 100
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/03/atrium-shuts-down/
294
134
Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22473209
287
176
FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/52fcc2c3146b5875a1ec0fb7460dd382ab0e5b3b
★ 9k C – 6 years ago
280
95
Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing
https://meet.jit.si/
258
37
Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jged4x/envestnet-yodlee-credit-card-bank-data-not-anonymous
248
171
The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present
https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/
246
164
Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/03/03/moznet-irc-is-dead-long-live-mozilla-matrix
231
183
New Features in Java 14
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/java-14-arrives-with-a-host-of-new-features