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
5 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/
188
54
A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly
http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/pont/
82
Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes
https://r2c.dev/blog/2020/hardcoded-secrets-unverified-tokens-and-other-common-jwt-mistakes/
180
78
Wildlife Services, a US agency planting 'cyanide bombs' to kill predators
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/26/cyanide-bombs-wildfire-services-idaho
168
94
A New Standard Deal
https://blog.ycombinator.com/a-new-standard-deal/
150
31
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML
https://crashedmind.github.io/PlantUMLHitchhikersGuide/
41
PHP Insights: Analyze the code quality of PHP projects
https://phpinsights.com
149
40
Reducing search indexing latency to one second
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2020/reducing-search-indexing-latency-to-one-second.html
Even if you’re asymptomatic, the coronavirus can do damage
https://elemental.medium.com/even-if-youre-asymptomatic-the-coronavirus-can-do-damage-4ab22451161a
142
123
Big Sur on Unsupported Macs
https://parrotgeek.com/bigsur/
141
68
Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler
https://dropbox.tech/application/engineering-dropbox-transfer--making-simple-even-simpler
134
106
Unilever is latest brand to boycott Facebook
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/883941796/unilever-maker-of-dove-soap-is-latest-brand-to-boycott-facebook?t=1593203268423
131
Fix Your Timestep
https://gafferongames.com/post/fix_your_timestep/
115
Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1067182
113
Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/17/1003318/why-venture-capital-doesnt-build-the-things-we-really-need/
110
69
SARS-CoV-2 detected in Barcelona sewage water sample from March 2019
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1.full.pdf+html
107
111
Prisma Raises $12M Series A
https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-raises-series-a-saks1zr7kip6
91
Ask HN: What are the technical justifications for keeping .DS_Store?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23648165
105
24
Clock Signal: A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms
https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK
138
Silurian Hypothesis: Were There Civilizations on Earth Before Humans? (2018)
http://www.sci-news.com/featurednews/silurian-hypothesis-05921.html
37
Show HN: LCC – Open-Source Spatial Audio from Stereo Speakers
https://github.com/MeteorStudioASU/lcc/
99
81
The failure of Sprig
https://twitter.com/gaganbiyani/status/1265755248922157066
17
TypeScript 4.0 Beta
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-0-beta/
93
2
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying
92
59
Micronaut 2.0: a full stack Java framework for modular, testable applications
https://docs.micronaut.io/2.0.0/guide/index.html
Virgin Australia administrators agree to sell airline to Bain Capital
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/26/virgin-australia-administrators-agree-to-sell-airline-to-american-private-equity-firm-bain-capital
87
21
The Math Behind the Rolling Shutter Phenomenon (2014)
https://petapixel.com/2014/10/13/math-behind-rolling-shutter-phenomenon/
86
42
Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companies Hurt Society
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wxqx8q/snowden-tech-workers-are-complicit-in-how-their-companies-hurt-society
88
Trust, Slavery and the African School of Economics
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/05/21/trust-slavery-and-the-african-school-of-economics
83
9
General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS
https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/26/Vendor-purpose-OS.html
Re-Stacking the GUI Stack
https://genodians.org/nfeske/2020-06-23-gui-stack
79
20
Algorithm-Visualizer
https://github.com/Walker-TW/Algorithm-Visualizer
74
An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/collections/behind-the-code/coder-stories/articles/btc-interview-paul-mockapetris
71
23
Cracked It, a social enterprise that repairs phones
https://www.crackedit.org/
33
To restore American leadership in semiconductor manufacturing
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7178?s=1&r=1
97
Mincome: Canada’s 1970s universal basic income experiment
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment
67
Multistate Disagreement over the Length of the Foot to End
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/multistate-disagreement-over-the-length-of-the-foot-to-end/
Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes