1242
536
I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
https://www.varsity.co.uk/interviews/19990
5 years ago
756
168
Pandoc – A universal document converter
https://pandoc.org/
462
243
A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-a-one-line-change-decreased-our-build-times-by-99-b98453265370
433
242
Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/delete-facebook-and-youll-lose-all-oculus-games-for-good/1100-6483716/
425
60
Microsoft Tilecode
https://microsoft.github.io/tilecode/
401
241
Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/anki-as-learning-superpower-computer-science-edition/
371
62
2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete
https://petapixel.com/2020/10/23/this-insane-2-5-gigapixel-image-of-the-orion-constellation-took-five-years-to-complete/
327
149
Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/i-was-howling-in-pain-how-falling-five-storeys-from-a-new-york-rooftop-changed-my-life-20200910-p55u9y.html
325
106
YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images
https://twitter.com/galacticfurball/status/1319765986791157761
275
252
Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877408
266
42
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-map-of-the-standard-model-of-particle-physics-20201022/
255
160
Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption
http://stingle.org/
216
Lessons from six months at Shopify
https://alexdanco.com/2020/10/23/six-lessons-from-six-months-at-shopify/
214
58
BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/24/bl602-bl604-risc-v-wifi-bluetooth-5-0-le-soc-will-sell-at-esp8266-price-point/
212
52
Rethinking Attention with Performers
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/10/rethinking-attention-with-performers.html
193
112
ØMQ – The Guide (2011)
https://zguide.zeromq.org
182
84
Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future
https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/towards-a-solarpunk-future
158
99
My toothbrush streams gyroscope data
https://blog.johannes-mittendorfer.com/artikel/2020/10/my-toothbrush-streams-gyroscope-data
29
Big Trouble in a Deep Void
https://tritonstation.com/2020/10/23/big-trouble-in-a-deep-void/
155
GDB 10.1
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-10/msg00009.html
153
132
30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-ton-generator/
152
119
Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code
https://letsxd.com/vscode
14
Ungrammar
https://rust-analyzer.github.io//blog/2020/10/24/introducing-ungrammar.html
144
139
How to Live with Dying
https://theamericanscholar.org/how-to-live-with-dying/
140
36
/.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile
https://leimao.github.io/blog/bashrc-VS-profile-VS-bash_profile/
138
15
Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
https://blog.cloudkernels.net/posts/firecracker-rpi4/
135
31
Three open source Sonos projects: efficient embedded development in Rust
https://tech-blog.sonos.com/posts/three-open-source-sonos-projects-in-rust/
134
120
Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply
https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/use-your-bike-as-a-backup-to-your-backup-power-supply
130
September 2020 least deadly month ever in Sweden
https://cornucopia.cornubot.se/2020/10/september-2020-least-deadly-month-ever.html?m=1
128
104
Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particles-can-break-the-speed-of-light-20201020/
127
137
An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/The-underage-optimist/the-4gotten-generation-an-open-letter-to-indias-youth-get-off-that-smartphone-it-can-destroy-you/
126
38
Rocketcrab: Party Games for Phones
https://rocketcrab.com/
122
284
Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881140
121
66
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)
https://blog.ycombinator.com/employee-1-amazon/
21
Space Engine – The Universe Simulator
http://spaceengine.org/
48
Scientists Discover Unmarked Coffins in Search for 1921 Tulsa Massacre Victims
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/10/23/927265545/scientists-discover-unmarked-coffins-during-search-for-1921-tulsa-massacre-victi
103
8
Language Design with Leo White
https://signalsandthreads.com/language-design/
101
Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
https://prog21.dadgum.com/3.html
97
How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible
https://www.righto.com/2020/10/how-bootstrap-load-made-historic-intel.html
89
5
The Ghidra Book
https://nostarch.com/GhidraBook
88
10
Binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool
https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk
86
6
A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64
https://freeze64.com/