654
240
The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
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561
236
Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
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489
113
UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/uasp-makes-raspberry-pi-4-disk-io-50-faster
471
217
China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887239225/china-suppression-of-uighur-minorities-meets-u-n-definition-of-genocide-report-s
429
122
Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers
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404
93
I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
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373
288
Bible API
http://bible-api.com/
349
156
Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/stop_tracking_increase_revenue_effectiveness/
343
292
Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)
https://observer.com/2019/05/internet-mob-justice-innocent-lives/
341
232
Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/07/03/2133201/linus-torvalds-i-do-no-coding-any-more
330
89
Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust
https://www.codeslow.com/2020/07/writing-winning-4k-intro-in-rust.html
326
Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code
https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hk7d5v/onyx_is_violating_the_linux_kernels_license/
311
97
A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time
https://carolchen.me/blog/jits-intro/
310
181
I Got My Attention Back (2017)
https://craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/
298
50
Rich Tables in the Terminal
https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich#tables
275
187
The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
https://applypixels.com/blog/comeback
265
66
How McKinsey helps companies avoid responsibility
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254
54
The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law
https://ark-invest.com/analyst-research/ai-training/
243
79
Beginner's Guide to Abstraction
https://jesseduffield.com/beginners-guide-to-abstraction/
242
32
Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography
https://www.cryptologie.net/article/504/why-im-writing-a-book-on-cryptography/
219
39
Ridiculous Math Problems
http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2020/Ridiculous.html
218
322
My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards
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194
101
When India kicked out Coca-Cola, local sodas thrived (2019)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-thums-up
59
JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music
https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/
192
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Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say current plan threatens lives
https://www.gpbnews.org/post/georgia-tech-professors-revolt-over-reopening-say-current-plan-threatens-lives-students-staff
173
Tell HN: Giving away my homebrew windmill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737970
165
13
An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
https://lars.hupel.info/topics/crdt/01-intro.html
162
155
Formula 1 2020: The secret aerodynamicist – are capes the key?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/51739796
161
48
Dolphin Progress May and June 2020
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/07/05/dolphin-progress-report-may-and-june-2020/
154
124
Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?
http://theorangeduck.com/page/reproduce-their-results
150
15
Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml
https://github.com/prismlab/parallel-programming-in-multicore-ocaml/tree/draft
149
104
Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (2013)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a8937/our-intellectual-property-laws-are-out-of-control-15467970/
133
44
Rust on the ESP32 (2019)
https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp32-rust/
130
71
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
http://newpascal.org/assets/modern_pascal_introduction.html
129
12
A crash course in just-in-time compilers (2017)
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-crash-course-in-just-in-time-jit-compilers/
128
20
Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine
https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine
118
81
Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-jl-telemetry-should-be-opt-in/
111
70
A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath, Oj for Go
https://github.com/ohler55/ojg/blob/master/design.md
107
25
Scann: Scalable Nearest Neighbors
https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/scann
DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/04/duckduckgo-has-been-blocked-by-multiple-indian-isps/
95
41
Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/podcast-ep-003-paul-davis-on-fixing-big-linux-audio-issues
92
Choosing a Rust web framework
https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-07-04-choosing-a-rust-web-framework-2020-edition/
33
Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids
https://datarevenue.com/en-blog/pandas-vs-dask-vs-vaex-vs-modin-vs-rapids-vs-ray
91
112
Contrarian view on closing files
https://coady.github.io/posts/closing-files/
86
0
The Triplebyte data download doesn’t give you all your data
https://www.linestarve.com/blog/post/triplebyte-data-download/
85
Show HN: A simple Poker API to calculate the winning hand/s
https://www.pokerapi.dev/
Show HN: Getting fit in virtual reality with open source and Godot
https://vrworkout.at
82
16
Andrew Wilkinson and Tiny Capital
https://colinkeeley.com/blog/andrew-wilkinson-tiny-capital-operating-manual
57
The Purpose of Persuasion
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-purpose-of-persuasion
74
Transport makes up only 6% of the greenhouse gas emissions from food
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80
53
A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines
https://www.wired.com/story/a-startup-is-testing-the-subscription-model-for-search-engines/
73
3
Place for Open and Interactive Mathematics
https://imaginary.org/
Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids