1320
492
Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-google.html
5 years ago
801
433
Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime
https://timhutton.github.io/GravityIsNotAForce/
548
316
Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/reading-too-much-political-news-bad-happiness/616651
431
105
Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
https://a16z.com/2020/10/15/the-emerging-architectures-for-modern-data-infrastructure/
380
113
Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/10/egypt-africa-desert-forests-plant-trees-wastewater.html
338
37
Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy
https://grid.layoutit.com/
304
118
A legislative path to an interoperable internet
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/legislative-path-interoperable-internet
270
330
The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
https://www.economist.com/international/2020/10/17/the-pandemic-has-eroded-democracy-and-respect-for-human-rights
240
71
Openproject: Open-source project management software
https://docs.openproject.org/release-notes/11-0-0/
234
69
Google's penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/
209
58
Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong WiFi users
http://blog.headuck.com/2020/10/12/samsung-phones-force-mainland-china-dns-service-upon-hong-kong-wifi-users/
207
26
Data engineering learning path with recommended resources
https://awesomedataengineering.com
198
68
Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016
https://medium.com/@yunfangjuan/real-life-angel-investing-returns-2012-2016-b33425fcb816
195
57
Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser
https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
62
LyX – The Document Processor
https://www.lyx.org/
190
205
C++ still isn't cutting it
https://da-data.blogspot.com/2020/10/no-c-still-isnt-cutting-it.html
184
84
Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect
https://twitter.com/sneakdotberlin/status/1317734739537653760
179
333
EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-pledges-e10-billion-to-power-up-industrial-cloud-sector/
178
519
Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819254
173
114
The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/you-may-be-using-mastodon-wrong.html
170
136
Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming
https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1317836119149580288
162
55
Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream
https://paulbridger.com/posts/video-analytics-deepstream-pipeline/
159
47
OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
https://openwrt.org/openwrt_joins_conservancy
150
202
House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/realestate/house-hunting-in-france-castle.html
149
70
Cursed Elixir
https://evuez.github.io/posts/cursed-elixir.html
46
Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things
https://a16z.com/2020/10/18/doing-old-things-better-vs-doing-brand-new-things/
148
33
OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
https://www.openbsd.org/68.html
143
63
GardaWorld lost track of millions
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/garda-world/vaults/
140
Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison
52
Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07221
131
29
How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014)
https://blog.0x972.info/?d=2014/11/13/10/40/50-how-does-a-debugger-work
123
Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform
https://temporal.io/
110
13
Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops
https://www.math.uci.edu/~isik/posts/Eigentechno.html
108
73
A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul
https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-friday-a-stoic-philosopher
107
Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?
https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/
102
11
Managing Technical Quality in a Codebase
https://lethain.com/managing-technical-quality/
100
111
Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z17HAA-moY
98
49
E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75
https://www.publicbooks.org/e-b-whites-plain-style-75/?utm_source=PUBLIC+BOOKS+Newsletter
94
19
Audio’s opportunity and who will capture it
https://www.matthewball.vc/all/audiotech
44
“Less than one”-shot learning
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/16/1010566/ai-machine-learning-with-tiny-data/
92
130
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’
https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea
88
Haskell web framework IHP aims to make web development type-safe and easy
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/ihp-haskell-web-framework/
24
Obscurix – Arch Linux-based OS configured for privacy, security and anonymity
https://obscurix.github.io/
78
25
Versus – Find alternatives to a product or service
http://versusutil.com
Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive (2019)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/book-lost-books-was-discovered-danish-archive-180971943/
76
3
Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015)
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-lesson/
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