880
754
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
http://iknowwhatyoudownload.com
6 years ago
575
209
Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
https://primo.af
526
182
The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
https://thehftguy.com/2020/07/09/the-most-remarkable-legacy-system-i-have-seen/
501
454
The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
https://annoying.technology/posts/abea6876cf4f2e13/
428
181
Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)
http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea
422
330
Google to Invest $10B in India
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-to-invest-10-billion-in-india/
386
134
Atlas of Surveillance
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
339
149
A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago
https://blog.thinkst.com/2020/07/a-steve-jobs-masterclass-from-decade-ago.html
309
343
Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language
https://stu2b50.dev/posts/rust-is-surpris76171
305
59
PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C
https://github.com/zombodb/pgx
296
206
Dark Web Price Index 2020
https://www.privacyaffairs.com/dark-web-price-index-2020/
287
162
Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems
https://www.pcgamer.com/linux-founder-tells-intel-to-stop-inventing-magic-instructions-and-start-fixing-real-problems/
282
62
Python malware on the rise
https://www.cyborgsecurity.com/python-malware-on-the-rise/
530
The stock market and economy have parted ways
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-stock-market-and-economy-have-parted-ways-its-a-fomo-market-now/2020/07/12/c14246d8-c2bf-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html
270
87
Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol
https://feross.org/libtorrent-webtorrent/
250
120
Writing a software book and making over $100k
https://twitter.com/vlad_mihalcea/status/1282199525562753025
247
67
Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
https://www.causal.app/blog/whats-a-financial-statement
221
303
Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/07/bitcoin-is-more-like-ham-radio-than.html
219
132
Chipmaker Analog Devices to acquire Maxim Integrated for $21B
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maxim-intg-m-a-analog-devices/chipmaker-analog-devices-to-buy-rival-maxim-for-about-21-billion-idUSKCN24E14B
211
129
Andean condor can fly for 100 miles without flapping wings
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/13/andean-condor-fly-without-flapping-wings-flight-bird
207
201
The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty
https://medium.com/@sfard/the-greatest-privilege-we-hardly-talk-about-beauty-7db3f70c1116
128
GitHub was down
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/j597fw8kv04c
195
Deschooling Society (1970)
https://davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html
200
Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/journalists-on-twitter-study.php
189
205
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
https://lemire.me/blog/2020/07/12/science-is-the-belief-in-the-ignorance-of-experts/
187
172
13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics
https://markosaric.com/google-analytics-blocking/
173
124
http://status.github.com/
167
19
Launch HN: Aquarium (YC S20) – Improve Your ML Dataset Quality
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821502
155
58
Pulsar – an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging platform
https://github.com/apache/pulsar
150
98
Google Search Upgrades Make It Harder for Websites to Win Traffic
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-13/how-google-search-changes-make-it-more-expensive-to-win-traffic
147
80
Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/aerial-fiber-deployment/
146
137
Laziness Impatience Hubris
http://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
133
108
The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-12/the-greatest-teaching-techniques-don-t-compute-over-zoom
92
The Floppy Disk of Floating Point
https://www.evanmiller.org/the-floppy-disk-of-floating-point.html
122
47
Skypack – A new kind of JavaScript delivery network
https://www.skypack.dev
119
44
Insecam: Directory of Unsecured Surveillance Cameras
https://www.insecam.org/
115
72
Self Host a Wiki or Knowledge Base for Your Team
http://chsasank.github.io/outline-self-hosted-wiki.html
113
169
Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/9s6-BIxaCz8/i-NmhjabAQAJ
112
24
Real World Programming in SWI-Prolog
http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/
110
140
Don't use ENV variables for secret data (2017)
https://diogomonica.com/2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-use-env-variables-for-secret-data/
109
73
The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV
https://www.thedrive.com/news/34753/the-winnebago-heli-home-was-a-real-flying-rv-that-needs-to-make-a-comeback-in-2020
104
16
Small satellites are radically remaking space exploration
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/how-small-satellites-are-radically-remaking-space-exploration/
102
20
Optimizations in C++ Compilers
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3372264
95
97
Head asleep, body awake
https://alvinalexander.com/misc/head-awake-body-asleep-hear-myself-snoring/
93
ARM64 Popcount in Golang and Assembler
https://barakmich.dev/posts/popcnt-arm64-go-asm/
89
The Meddling Middlemen of Academia
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2020/middlemen/
Using GPT-3 to generate user interfaces
https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457
77
Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8vg7/scientists-discovered-a-gigantic-structure-in-a-hidden-zone-of-space
74
48
A Land of Monopolists: From Portable Toilets to Mixed Martial Arts
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-land-of-monopolists-from-portable
California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans amid case surges
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/coronavirus-updates.html
84
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro
https://rubenerd.com/tutorial-sites-treating-freebsd-like-a-linux-distro/
71
12
DevOps Newsletters
https://devopsnewsletters.com/
70
36
Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see eye to eye
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/13/vision-scientists-discover-why-humans-literally-dont-see-eye-to-eye/
56
How good are query optimizers, really? [pdf] (2015)
https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p204-leis.pdf
