1294
430
Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
https://nullsweep.com/why-is-this-website-port-scanning-me/
5 years ago
993
247
EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/gnevp8/remaster_update_and_open_source_mod_support/fr97x9x/
747
101
Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS
http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html
669
553
Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21262302/ap-test-fail-iphone-photos-glitch-email-college-board-jpeg-heic
598
333
What Is Nix?
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/what-is-nix
479
206
Surviving Depression
https://vishnu.tech/posts/surviving-depression/
452
131
Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html?te20hn
445
248
The death of corporate research labs
https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html
415
296
Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
https://www.studyfinds.org/digital-overload-average-adult-will-spend-34-years-of-their-life-staring-at-screens/
297
72
Unofficial APIs
https://github.com/Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis
283
152
Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAYWPRrWKb
262
132
Lovely Week with Elixir
https://www.ramblingcode.dev/posts/lovely_week_with_elixir/
261
145
Coinbase will be a remote-first company
https://blog.coinbase.com/post-covid-19-coinbase-will-be-a-remote-first-company-cdac6e621df7?gi=97cf312cab0b
259
159
15 years later: remote code execution in qmail
https://www.qualys.com/2020/05/19/cve-2005-1513/remote-code-execution-qmail.txt
246
190
Welcome to C# 9.0
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/welcome-to-c-9-0/
218
187
Why the Cessna is such a badass plane (2019)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a29417998/cessna-badass-plane/
216
294
U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-arrests-former-green-beret-son-in-connection-with-ghosn-escape-from-japan-11589984215
210
64
Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal
https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/turning-signal-app-into-a-coarse-tracking-device-643eb4298447
258
Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/uk-laws/organ-donation-law-in-england
196
58
Free, open and collaborative routing service
https://maps.openrouteservice.org
185
Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23252448
172
140
Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability
https://electrek.co/2020/05/19/tesla-bidirectional-charging-ready-game-changing-features/
171
48
The mystery of 'hacked' Houseparty users may have been solved
https://medium.com/@thezedwards/epic-games-ignored-epic-subdomain-takeover-on-their-authentication-domain-promoted-1-million-b4d809039b0e
170
118
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
163
121
Things I hate about Rust
https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/05/20/Things-I-hate-about-rust
160
161
Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'historic' space mission
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/20/nasa-head-of-human-spaceflight-doug-loverro-suddenly-resigns-days-before-historic-space-mission
158
19
KVM host in a few lines of code
https://zserge.com/posts/kvm/
136
Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/20/google_chrome_83/
139
Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23245552
144
99
In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websocket port scanning
https://medium.com/@bjt2n3904/in-protest-of-the-web-bulldozer-e0fce4567d26
142
50
Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/dead-sea-scroll-fragments-thought-to-be-blank-reveal-text/
441
U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthrates-fall-to-record-low-11589947260
75
Apache Drill's Future
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/drill-user/202005.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09535
109
93
The Liskov Substitution Principle (2019)
https://www.brainstobytes.com/the-liskov-substitution-principle/
107
147
TikTok has recently traded at valuations of $105-110B on private markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-20/tiktok-owner-s-value-surpasses-100-billion-in-private-markets
31
Equal Access: Automated accessibility checker for web projects
https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access
100
53
The silence of the owls
https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound?MvBriefArticleId=702
83
Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)
http://unicode.org/notes/tn27/
The problem isn't the 'merit' it's the 'ocracy' (2019)
https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-problem-isnt-merit-its-ocracy.html
94
178
China’s new plan to seize the world’s tech crown from the U.S
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-20/china-has-a-new-1-4-trillion-plan-to-overtake-the-u-s-in-tech
92
9
Free Elixir/Phoenix LiveView Course
https://pragmaticstudio.com/phoenix-liveview
182
The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15785/the-intel-comet-lake-review-skylake-we-go-again
81
54
How to use UTM parameters to grow your audience
https://smashnotes.com/updates/how-to-use-utm-parameters-to-grow-your-audience
77
10
Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf]
https://mboehme.github.io/paper/FSE20.EmpiricalLaw.pdf
85
The Third Age of JavaScript
https://www.swyx.io/writing/js-third-age/
25
Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter
https://internetofthieves.org/posts/twitter-map-optout/