1125
768
Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/well-try-to-help-you-follow-the-police-attacks-on-journalists-across-the-country
5 years ago
785
300
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
https://eugeneyan.com/2020/04/05/note-taking-zettelkasten/
764
174
P2P Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix
599
313
DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/george-floyd-police-brutality-protests-government
581
324
Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html
501
148
Guide to Python Debugging
https://martinheinz.dev/blog/24
488
238
Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23390966
479
547
Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/seven-years-later-i-bought-a-new-macbook-for-the-first-time-i-dont-love-it.html
462
244
People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/grubhub-phone-order-call-fee-coronavirus
443
147
The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source
https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation
436
158
Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware
399
192
Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkybn8/police-radio-scanner-apps-george-floyd-protests
384
260
Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program/
358
101
Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records
https://ketancmaheshwari.github.io/posts/2020/05/24/SMC18-Data-Challenge-4.html
335
86
How to write a toy JVM
https://zserge.com/posts/jvm/
325
128
Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
http://oceans.nautil.us/feature/564/why-our-intuition-about-sea-level-rise-is-wrong
318
230
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
https://getimageview.net/2020/06/02/microsoft-defender-smartscreen-is-hurting-independent-developers/
304
20
Papers with Code
https://paperswithcode.com/
289
93
Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page
https://hnblogs.substack.com
278
112
Dust in the Light
https://stratechery.com/2020/dust-in-the-light/
275
Tor Browser 9.5
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95
274
102
Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-machines/
243
419
Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/05/05/thoughts-on-cameras-in-the-age-of-excellent-cell-phone-photos/
235
299
“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmatter-activity-6673316720993824768-q_dU/
232
58
Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/internet-users-all-kinds-should-be-concerned-new-copyright-offices-report
224
255
Study of the effect of Vitamin D, Magnesium and Vitamin B12 on Covid-19 patients
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.01.20112334v1
216
214
The business of tear gas
https://www.axios.com/companies-produce-tear-gas-protests-58051fa3-8ac2-4fa7-817f-8cda0af1a14d.html
207
110
Leave Facebook
https://om.co/2020/06/02/leave-facebook/
205
70
Writing to the Framebuffer (2018)
http://seenaburns.com/2018/04/04/writing-to-the-framebuffer/
202
137
The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
198
118
Refactor vs. Rewrite
https://remesh.blog/refactor-vs-rewrite-7b260e80277a
193
31
Understanding Programs Using Graphs
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/understanding-programs-using-graphs
191
225
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/twitter-takes-down-washington-protest-disinformation-bot-behavior-n1221456
176
223
Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/facebook-employees-stage-virtual-walkout-over-trump-post-moderation.html
19
Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
http://penrose.ink/siggraph20
164
33
Treasury official is running the bailout. It’s been great for his family
https://www.propublica.org/article/this-treasury-official-is-running-the-bailout-its-been-great-for-his-family
161
113
Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
https://www.aniccaresearch.tech/blog/bitcoin-minings-three-body-problem
149
Stitch Fix to Lay off About 1,400 Employees in California
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stitch-fix-to-lay-off-about-1-400-employees-in-california-11591053525
143
154
Firefox 77
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/77.0/releasenotes/
141
Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low-Altitude Show of Force
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33802/military-helicopters-descend-on-washington-in-bizarre-very-low-altitude-show-of-force
138
68
NSA Exposes Tool Used by Russian Hackers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-28/national-security-agency-exposes-tool-used-by-russian-hackers
94
Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg
https://news.yale.edu/2020/05/29/ahoy-oumuamua-may-be-hydrogen-iceberg
132
87
Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chose party over democracy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/democracy-in-america-partisanship-polarization-and-the-robustness-of-support-for-democracy-in-the-united-states/C7C72745B1AD1FF9E363BBFBA9E18867#
127
125
Science without Validation in a World without Meaning
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/science-without-validation-in-a-world-without-meaning/
62
Entire Google search result pages are now ads
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/gvdsu1/entire_google_search_result_pages_are_now_ads/
98
Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/walmart-employees-are-out-to-show-its-anti-shoplifting-ai-doesnt-work/
92
Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23390308
122
40
Show HN: CubeWeaver, a collaborative multidimensional web-based spreadsheet
https://cubeweaver.com/
15
Zero Knowledge Proofs applied to Auctions (2019) [pdf]
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2019/project/18-doNascimento-Kumari-Ganesan.pdf
121
24
Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2020.1732046
Interpreter for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++/Qt)
https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk#a-smalltalk-80-interpreted-virtual-machine
106
Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor (2016)
http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html
105
18
Le fardier de Cugnot: Replica of the first automobile
http://www.lefardierdecugnot.fr/Accueil%20en%20anglais.htm
104
Building binary deb packages: a practical guide
https://www.internalpointers.com/post/build-binary-deb-package-practical-guide
103
17
IBM Stretch, the NSA, and MLK
https://schmud.de/posts/2020-06-02-mlk.html
97
169
Stockton extends its monthly $500 UBI payment experiment
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/06/ubi-stockton-universal-basic-income-coronavirus-economy/611191/
89
What Is The Insurrection Act?
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867467714/what-is-the-insurrection-act-that-trump-is-threatening-to-invoke#umm
85
Vortex Lasers May Be a Boon for Data
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/vortex-laser
82
38
Google is sued in U.S. for tracking users' 'private' internet browsing
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit/google-is-sued-in-u-s-for-tracking-users-private-internet-browsing-idUSKBN23933H
Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it