1512
607
Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-telegram-belarus/
5 years ago
702
292
They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
535
338
Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-amazon-returns-1.5753714
457
121
Good sleep, good learning, good life
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Good_sleep,_good_learning,_good_life
441
179
Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic
https://debugger.medium.com/todays-webcams-are-boring-so-i-brought-back-a-classic-291cc7c94c76
430
193
Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shifting-gears/227923-google-sues-me-using-word-droid-my-company-name-orpheusdroid.html
406
298
Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/big-investors-are-dying-to-know-what-the-little-guys-are-doing
384
390
How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)
https://www.straightdope.com/21341412/how-does-a-gas-pump-know-to-shut-itself-off
250
175
Webpack 5
https://webpack.js.org/blog/2020-10-10-webpack-5-release/
240
160
Show HN: SmartGuitarAmp – Guitar plugin made with deep learning
https://github.com/keyth72/SmartGuitarAmp
205
77
More than half of all whale and dolphin species are of conservation concern
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54485407
203
87
KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web
https://katex.org/
202
165
You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)
http://paulgraham.com/boss.html
200
41
How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-andrea-ghez-won-the-nobel-for-an-experiment-nobody-thought-would-work/
198
66
Loading CSV File at the Speed Limit of the NVMe Storage
https://liuliu.me/eyes/loading-csv-file-at-the-speed-limit-of-the-nvme-storage/
197
73
The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice
https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/10/6/21494291/vanilla-ice-to-the-extreme-ice-ice-baby-history-30th-anniversary
189
245
Nine in ten adults think buying latest smartphone is waste of money
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/latest-smartphone-iphone-mobile-waste-of-money-report-b837371.html
172
148
What if you knew how computers work? (2015)
https://www.xorpd.net/
10
A New Back End for Cranelift
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/10/a-new-backend-for-cranelift-part-1-instruction-selection/
89
OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008729/openai-is-giving-microsoft-exclusive-access-to-its-gpt-3-language-model/
38
Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS
https://paulbridger.com/posts/video_analytics_pipeline_tuning/
154
49
UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”
https://www.exberliner.com/features/julian-assange-trial-2020/nils-melzer-assange/
150
33
Collision Detection (2015)
http://www.jeffreythompson.org/collision-detection/
149
63
St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-island-humans-cant-conquer/
124
83
Arch Conf 2020 Streaming [video]
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/archconf2020/ArchConf
119
79
Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/09/tiktok-pakistan-ban/?guccounter=1
116
42
MathJax
https://www.mathjax.org
111
53
Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/73983.html
108
17
Is there a known recent Linux locking bug that affects the OCaml runtime?
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/is-there-a-known-recent-linux-locking-bug-that-affects-the-ocaml-runtime/6542
107
60
Scientists find upper limit for the speed of sound
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-scientists-upper-limit.html
105
131
“I just woke up one morning and it struck me that I was a murderer. so I quit.”
https://twitter.com/flakealso/status/1314718594601639936
104
62
OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot
https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1314237833276612609
100
The strange new world of being a deepfake actor
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/09/1009850/ai-deepfake-acting/
94
130
Is your programming language unreasonable? (2015)
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/is-your-language-unreasonable/
93
170
Car Paint Colors Have Gotten More Boring over the Years
https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car-paint-colors-have-gotten-more-boring-over-the-years
92
7
How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus
http://bwlampson.site/58-Consensus/WebPage.html
19
The shadow investment wars of Alibaba and Tencent
https://lillianli.substack.com/p/the-shadow-war-between-alibaba-and
16
AMD Has Scaled Ryzen Faster Than Any Other CPU in the Past 20 Years
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/316023-amd-has-scaled-ryzen-faster-than-any-other-cpu-in-the-past-20-years
86
8
Ctypes.sh: A foreign function interface for bash
https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh
85
39
An Almond-Based Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Depression in Diabetics
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33022991/
80
90
Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues?
https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2020/10/08/forearm-artery-reveals-human-evolution-continues/
3
Goodbye Mozilla
https://paulrouget.com/bye_mozilla.html
78
24
Fractal Learning
https://reisub0.github.io/fractal-learning.html
71
34
Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of)
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NewgrpCommandWhy