1106
523
Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe/
5 years ago
1099
540
Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
https://smitop.com/post/reddit-whiteops/
1034
135
We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
672
432
How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)
https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/
525
229
Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767781
460
215
Flutter for Linux
https://snapcraft.io/blog/canonical-enables-linux-desktop-app-support-with-flutter
419
69
EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages
https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
394
84
A graphical analysis of women's tops sold on Goodwill's website
https://goodwill.awardwinninghuman.com/
392
152
SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-to-acquire-rancher-labs/
380
196
Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine
https://www.runnaroo.com/
365
371
MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-harvard-file-suit-against-new-ice-regulations-0708
358
160
The saddest “Just Ship It” story
https://kitze.io/posts/saddest-just-ship-it-story-ever
344
132
The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)
https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-more-senior-your-job-title-the-more-you-need-to-keep-a-journal
339
Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits
https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/git-commit-accepts-several-message-flags-m-to-allow-multiline-commits/
268
116
Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
251
153
Firefox Picture-in-Picture
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-picture-in-picture-mode/
249
174
KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-07-07-2.6.0-released/
213
The stable marriage problem and modern dating
https://www.arvarik.com/the-stable-marriage-problem-and-modern-dating
210
34
Ariane RISC-V CPU – An open source CPU capable of booting Linux
https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6
203
54
On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs
https://rottedbits.blogspot.com/2020/07/on-closing-of-living-computers.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR30zAZFD54sW4qfZ-X3GatKhMo6nNsuEEHuIQkKPq7ONWhKFBPQncBVIlM
193
96
Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/science/polynesian-ancestry.html
182
65
CUDA 11.0
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html#cuda-whats-new
181
78
Identity Beyond Usernames
https://lord.io/blog/2020/usernames/
175
109
Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/spreading-rock-dust-on-fields-could-remove-vast-amounts-of-co2-from-air
156
235
VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality
https://thebolditalic.com/vcs-have-a-well-known-black-founder-problem-but-really-they-have-just-forgotten-about-people-2e8452029793
218
Concorde ‘B’ (2014)
https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b
150
245
A $500M call option on home gyms
https://napkinmath.substack.com/p/the-future-of-fitness-lululemon-buys
145
53
Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?
https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/foreign-data-wrappers
139
14
Tin Can Phone Modem
https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/tin_can_phone_modem.php
133
22
Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/06/30/beta-evidence-based-software-engineering-book/
46
Launch HN: ElectroNeek (YC W20) – Automatically find and automate routine work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23770214
130
93
Pope pulls speech on Hong Kong freedom, raising questions over Beijing pressure
https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200707/3JPO2PWP2UXTHBOUYIKKMLKKUU/
121
71
The GDPR as accidentally explained by people in the US
https://hroy.eu/posts/gdprExplainedByUS/
26
Barebones WebGL in 75 lines of code
https://avikdas.com/2020/07/08/barebones-webgl-in-75-lines-of-code.html
115
19
Never Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment and Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor
https://wolfstreet.com/2020/07/02/never-before-have-i-seen-so-much-fake-unemployment-jobs-data-by-the-bureau-of-labor-statistics-while-labor-department-nails-it/
114
32
The GNU Name System IETF Draft
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html
113
211
Robinhood has lured young traders, sometimes with devastating results
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risky-trading.html
111
68
On Interviewing Programmers
https://thecobraeffect.blogspot.com/2020/07/interviewing-programmers.html
103
2
Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-harvard-mit-sue-trump-govt.html
102
35
GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
https://github.com/jakekgrog/GhostDB
56
Fig: Visual Apps and Shortcuts for Your Terminal
https://withfig.com/
99
77
XMPP works – 1 July 2020
https://xmpp.org/2020/07/newsletter-01-july/
98
81
The myth of “joins don't scale”
https://blog.dbi-services.com/the-myth-of-nosql-vs-rdbms-joins-dont-scale/
97
6
FPGA Softcore SoC Shootout
https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=705
94
72
Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-disinformation-usa/facebook-takes-down-accounts-and-pages-of-trump-ally-roger-stone-idUSKBN2492YK