836
605
Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-tech-trfn/california-city-bans-predictive-policing-in-u-s-first-idUSKBN23V2XC
6 years ago
815
532
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-military-usually-punishes-misconduct-but-police-often-close-ranks-127898
543
158
Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/23/boston-facial-recognition-ban
492
195
There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff
https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554
489
277
Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/26/21297400/microsoft-retail-stores-closing-cities-open
408
244
Dynamic linking
https://drewdevault.com/dynlib.html
384
274
Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
https://www.stevebenjamins.com/blog/music-in-the-age-of-algorithms-47syg
375
644
Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112048980882521
369
271
Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying
334
186
Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox
https://www.axios.com/report-amazon-to-pay-1-billion-for-self-driving-tech-firm-zoox-719d293b-3799-4315-a573-a226a58bb004.html
329
152
Turn recipe websites into plain text
https://plainoldrecipe.com/
281
89
Show HN: HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper
https://hific.github.io
237
143
Tim O’Reilly makes a case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/tim-oreilly-makes-a-persuasive-case-for-why-venture-capital-is-starting-to-do-more-harm-than-good/
234
325
Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-removes-manual-deferrals-from-windows-update-by-it-pros-to-prevent-confusion/
226
73
Xbox Architecture
https://www.copetti.org/projects/consoles/xbox/
225
75
Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers
https://aiprobook.com/numerical-linear-algebra-for-programmers?release=0.9.0
224
114
What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)
https://wordsbyevanporter.com/what-i-learned-from-writing-for-the-onion-for-a-month/
215
103
Building AI Trading Systems
https://dennybritz.com/blog/ai-trading/
201
85
The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia
https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia
198
164
“Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”
https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/release-notes/