737
332
Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/
6 years ago
669
449
ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53573294
556
155
1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js
483
142
GitHub Public Roadmap
https://github.com/github/roadmap
481
450
Hiring Without Whiteboards
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
428
366
Not an Amazon Problem
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/23/Not-an-Amazon-Problem
385
304
Google’s top search result is Google
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors
379
188
Firefox 79
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/firefox-79/
357
167
Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975807
354
175
A new funding model for open source software
https://vriad.com/essays/a-modest-proposal-for-oss-sustainability
322
293
Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/
298
214
Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)
https://davidwalsh.name/pornhub-interview
267
The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
265
150
We thought it was just a respiratory virus
https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body
258
225
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
250
81
The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/make-your-own-self-managed-socialist-microcomputer
248
69
Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
https://github.com/robinsloan/perfect-edition
244
100
OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/9699
224
106
WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing
https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2020/07/27/wasmboxc.html
221
191
The worst tool for the job
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/25/worst-tool-for-the-job/
208
227
11M households could be evicted over the next four months
https://www.fastcompany.com/90532305/11-million-households-could-be-evicted-over-the-next-four-months
204
Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/fewer-premature-preterm-babies-born-during-pandemic-calgary-around-the-world-1.5665089
199
50
Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W
https://n-o-d-e.net/datarunner.html
197
108
Banned math book
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/22/banned-math-book/
43
The Regular Expression Visualizer, Simulator and Cross-Compiler Tool
https://blog.robertelder.org/regular-expression-visualizer/
181
256
U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-july-19-2020-1.5647948/u-s-citizens-no-longer-have-access-to-most-of-the-world-the-global-south-never-had-it-1.5648022
160
329
Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/remington-arms-declares-bankruptcy-despite-surging-gun-demand-11595903187
157
60
Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100M years old, from beneath the sea
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea
148
25
Iroquois Nationals, barred from World Games, gave gift of lacrosse to the world
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.5664460/iroquois-nationals-barred-from-world-games-say-their-people-gave-gift-of-lacrosse-to-the-world-1.5664618
146
14
MI6 tried to intervene independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/28/mi6_investigatory_powers_tribunal_interference/
144
90
Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
https://puri.sm/posts/dogwood-thermals-and-battery-life/
88
The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever
https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-of-mass-surveillance-will-not-last-forever/
140
3
Malware Reverse Engineering Handbook
https://ccdcoe.org/library/publications/malware-reverse-engineering-handbook/
135
29
Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Creative_Think.txt
132
Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/statement-by-jeff-bezos-to-the-u-s-house-committee-on-the-judiciary
125
36
The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc&list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSpkiseTHzWj6vu
116
28
Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-clutch-the-open-source-platform-for-infrastructure-tooling-143d00de9713
114
158
Stop Abusing Semver
https://samver.org/
112
133
Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/07/28/ceo-quarterly-blog-post-3-series-e-funding/
111
Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21344751/facial-recognition-face-masks-accuracy-nist-study
Kissat SAT Solver
http://fmv.jku.at/kissat/
104
46
Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-announces-broad-language-support/
39
Yandex Image Search is better than Google with “fuzzy” images
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23976172
Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3094604/did-fish-sauce-vietnam-come-ancient-rome-silk-road
99
12
Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)
http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/
94
113
Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money
https://support.google.com/pay/answer/9868649?hl=en
93
48
Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins
https://www.density.io/blog/kleiner/
85
All-you-can-eat study shows body copes well with one-off calorie indulgence
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/all-you-can-eat-pizza-study-shows-body-copes-surprisingly-well-with-one-off-calorie-indulgence/
92
Goldman warns on inflation threat to dollar as reserve currency
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-28/goldman-warns-dollar-s-role-as-world-reserve-currency-is-at-risk
15
Riding the Rays (1992)
https://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-08-a.html
79
37
Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene
https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2020/07/28/move_over_graphene_here_comes_borophene.html
76
19
UTF-8 bit by bit (2001)
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/UTF%2D8+bit+by+bit
74
18
XXH3, world's fastest hash algorithm, has reached stable status
https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/wiki/Performance-comparison
22
Otto: Friendly Machine Learning Assistant
https://github.com/KartikChugh/Otto
73
31
Nuclear Fusion Project, Iter begins assembly
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/28/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-project-under-assembly-in-france
