1011
445
Things I wished more developers knew about databases
https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78
5 years ago
580
155
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/
548
243
Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/build-a-real-time-twitter-clone-in-15-minutes-with-live-view-and-phoenix-1-5
537
436
Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/magic-leap-announces-layoffs-amid-covid-19-slowdown/
507
189
Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-centers-work-harder-sun-shines-wind-blows
490
327
Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840678984/small-business-rescue-earned-banks-10-billion-in-fees
411
192
JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/jpmorgan-commercial-clients-beat-out-smaller-ones-for-sba-loans
353
211
Permanent.org – Nonprofit, secure cloud storage
https://www.permanent.org/
323
214
List of oldest continuously inhabited cities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities
309
158
Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/team-fortress-2-source-code-has-leaked-and-you-can-apparently-get-malware-by-playing
273
128
You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild
https://blog.zecops.com/vulnerabilities/unassisted-ios-attacks-via-mobilemail-maild-in-the-wild/
262
90
CS Unplugged – Computer Science without a computer
https://csunplugged.org/en/
259
99
Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/02/immune-systems-of-healthy-adults-remember-germs-to-which-theyve-never-been-exposed-stanford-study-finds.html
245
62
What end-to-end encryption should look like
https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/
239
83
Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-africa-cape-town-region/
135
AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
https://molo.ch/
235
93
Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic – sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-facebook-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-agreed-to-censor-posts-after-vietnam-slowed-traffic-sources-idUSKCN2232JX
232
187
Guitar – Git GUI Client
https://github.com/soramimi/Guitar
223
315
The Amish health care system
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/20/the-amish-health-care-system/
199
201
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180338
196
157
The new Clang _ExtInt feature provides exact bitwidth integer types
http://blog.llvm.org/2020/04/the-new-clang-extint-feature-provides.html
498
The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01098-x
177
180
Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought
https://liwaiwai.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-may-mean-automation-is-coming-sooner-than-we-thought/
168
80
Mental Model Fallacy (2018)
https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-fallacy/
166
28
How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/how-the-father-of-finfets-helped-save-moores-law
160
What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/04/you-wont-believe-what-this-one-line.html
150
24
PyTorch 1.5
https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-1-dot-5-released-with-new-and-updated-apis/
144
40
Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
http://www.haskellforall.com/2020/04/blazing-fast-fibonacci-numbers-using.html
142
86
Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55105.html
108
Two Months with Powershell on a Unix
https://code.joejag.com/2020/a-month-with-powershell.html
133
Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
https://barbra.io/
130
79
Incremental Builds in Gatsby Cloud
https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2020-04-22-announcing-incremental-builds/
124
4
Forth Lessons
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons
120
50
Oil futures drunk-trading incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_futures_drunk-trading_incident
116
27
The Making of Stunt Island
http://fabiensanglard.net/stunt_island/index.html
107
38
Show HN: Tail Recursion Optimization for the JVM
https://github.com/Sipkab/jvm-tail-recursion
Do you charge your MacBook on the left or right side? Turns out right is better
https://twitter.com/dalmaer/status/1252991902820909057
105
21
Why Is Harvard Getting $9M in Stimulus Money When It Has a $40B Endowment?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2020/04/21/why-is-harvard-getting-9-million-in-stimulus-money-when-it-has-a-40-billion-endowment/#619ce766f007
85
“Out of the Crisis” Podcast
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2020/04/out-of-crisis.html
95
Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android
https://www.androidcentral.com/cheapest-iphone-has-more-powerful-processor-most-expensive-android-phone
31
Paketo: Modular Buildpacks in Go
https://paketo.io/
7
Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-apple-cyber/flaw-in-iphone-ipads-may-have-allowed-hackers-to-steal-data-for-years-idUSKCN2242IK
91
Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Specification-gaming-the-flip-side-of-AI-ingenuity
IRC Logger with fluid web interface, search function, and live streaming (2019)
https://github.com/whitequark/irclogger
89
Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Against Covid-19
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/imaging/portable-ultrasound-proves-potent-weapon-fight-against-covid19
72
Lung damage in recovered Covid sufferers apparently permanent, research finds
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/articoli/2020/04/tag-Coronavirus-Lungeschaden-Forschung-Uniklinik-Innsbruck-6708e11e-28dc-4843-a760-e7f926ace61c.html
17
How to build a darkroom for £100 or less
https://www.35mmc.com/06/04/2020/darkroom-technique-part-1-how-to-build-a-darkroom-for-100-or-less-by-sroyon-mukherjee/
Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/22/is-mips-dead-lawsuit-bankruptcy-maintainers-leaving-and-more/
78
18
Understanding BERT and Search Relevance (2019)
https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2019/11/05/understanding-bert-and-search-relevance/
58
Is This the End of Airbnb?
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-coronavirus-losses
73
A Gooey and Delicious History of Mac and Cheese, a Meal Once Fit for a King
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/history-of-mac-and-cheese
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