1039
425
When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157161487396994&id=501751993
5 years ago
716
280
Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
https://www.coindesk.com/blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-paper-pirate-takes-bitcoin-donations
689
374
Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53165293
535
332
Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ads-boycott-verizon/verizon-suspends-advertising-on-facebook-joins-growing-boycott-idUSKBN23W3HK
512
284
Symbian Won
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/06/symbian-won/
506
342
Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/business/pakistan-fake-pilot-intl-hnk/index.html
488
256
Quora goes permanently remote-first
https://twitter.com/adamdangelo/status/1276210618786168833
461
122
Curl Wttr.in
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
454
96
Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest
http://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/why-birds-can-fly-over-mount-everest
394
398
Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-superseding-indictment
370
83
Krita 4.3.0
https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-3-0-released/
327
72
Street-Fighting Mathematics
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics
315
134
Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY
276
208
Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible
https://github.com/team-video/aviary.sh
272
203
Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/comcast-mozilla-strike-privacy-deal-to-encrypt-dns-lookups-in-firefox/
266
250
DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search
https://m.twitter.com/dhh/status/1275901955995385856
252
120
We use too many damn modals (2018)
https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/
211
158
The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
https://blog.plover.com/2020/06/24/#boundary-conditions
210
159
Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare
https://www.dw.com/en/wirecard-files-for-insolvency-after-financial-hole-laid-bare/a-53936447
187
147
How Zoom works [slides]
https://builtformars.co.uk/how-zoom-works/
145
Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 months
https://www.wired.com/story/google-auto-delete-data/
186
62
California agency blocks release of police use of force, surveillance training
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/california-agency-blocks-release-police-use-force-and-surveillance-training
169
229
The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/why-wait-for-apple-try-out-the-original-arm-desktop-experience-today-with-a-raspberry-pi
168
42
Faster Integer Parsing
https://kholdstare.github.io/technical/2020/05/26/faster-integer-parsing.html
166
21
“TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network.”
https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/
162
153
Tesla gave workers permission to stay home, then sent termination notices
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tesla-gave-workers-permission-to-stay-home-rather-15365312.php
87
United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/23/united-states-wants-https-for-all-government-sites-all-the-time/
156
305
ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization
https://bmalehorn.com/arm-mac/
61
Logistic regression from scratch
https://philippmuens.com/logistic-regression-from-scratch/
163
New system76 laptop: Oryx Pro
https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
137
89
Dems pitch $100B broadband plan
https://www.majoritywhip.gov/?press=clyburn-rural-broadband-task-force-and-house-democrats-introduce-accessible-affordable-internet-for-all-act
136
70
'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53151106
132
47
Relax for the Same Result (2015)
https://sivers.org/relax
127
43
How CDNs Generate Certificates
https://fly.io/blog/how-cdns-generate-certificates/
126
37
Community open letter against renaming Wikimedia to Wikipedia
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_open_letter_on_renaming
125
32
Linux to begin tightening up ability to write to CPU MSRs from user-space
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Filter-Tightening-MSRs
121
What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture, part 2
http://thinkingagriculture.io/what-sv-doesnt-understand-about-agriculture-part-ii/
55
How we test the TeamCity UI
https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2020/06/teamcity-ui-how-do-we-test-it/
118
49
Don't De-Anonymize Scott Alexander
https://www.dontdoxscottalexander.com/
117
33
Query-Based Compiler Architectures
https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.html
113
206
Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
https://blog.withprimer.com/laura-deming/
110
15
Show HN: Sourceful – Crowdsourcing the best public Google docs
https://sourceful.co.uk
100
Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation
https://relay.sh
92
66
What is a photon? (2017)
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2017/08/what-is-photon.html
91
Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companies Hurt Society
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqx8q/snowden-tech-workers-are-complicit-in-how-their-companies-hurt-society
44
Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language
https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic
68
City of London: Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011)
https://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city
19
The Ising model: a cartoon picture of magnets that became ubiquitous in science
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cartoon-picture-of-magnets-that-has-transformed-science-20200624/
97
Craig Federighi confirms Apple Silicon Macs will not support booting other OS
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hfkdlg/craig_federighi_confirms_apple_silicon_macs_will/
81
58
San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates
https://www.thesfnews.com/san-francisco-tenants-break-leases-at-alarming-rates/57573
79
7
Applications of Markov Chains (2003) [pdf]
http://langvillea.people.cofc.edu/MCapps7.pdf
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