1441
1604
My Resignation from the Intercept
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
5 years ago
1214
912
I Violated a Code of Conduct
https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/
719
149
Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?
https://mockmechanics.com/
497
171
Ruby on Rails in a week
https://www.simplethread.com/ruby-on-rails-in-a-week/
478
526
The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/28/more-bad-news-for-the-arctic-the-laptev-sea-hasnt-frozen
445
66
Wobblepaint
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=40058
431
73
Image Scaling Attacks
https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/husky-ai-image-rescaling-attacks/
413
113
The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004)
http://www2.math.ou.edu/~dmccullough/teaching/miscellanea/miner.html
403
274
Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
https://www.axios.com/grubhub-sued-restaurants-delivery-5fa51bda-73c4-44b0-93f7-314660d8b7af.html
359
64
What's in a Linux Executable?
https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-executable-packer/part-1
335
196
MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/10/mdn-web-docs-evolves-lowdown-on-the-upcoming-new-platform/
308
223
Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/amazon-argues-users-dont-actually-own-purchased-prime-video-content
298
136
Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
http://www.tara.ai
292
306
A Little Money Laundering Can Have a Big Impact on Real Estate Prices (2019)
https://betterdwelling.com/how-a-little-money-laundering-can-have-a-big-impact-on-real-estate-prices/#_
283
19
Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
271
188
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites
https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-obtains-subpoenas-targeting-40-youtube-ripping-platforms-pirate-sites-201029/
269
60
Pygame 2.0
https://github.com/pygame/pygame/releases/tag/2.0.0
264
176
Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cadillac-fairview-5-million-images-1.5781735?cmp=rss
252
The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched
https://www.sifive.com/blog/the-heart-of-risc-v-development-is-unmatched
241
71
Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim
https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-mario
213
50
TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-2-0-a-multi-node-petabyte-scale-completely-free-relational-database-for-time-series/
211
167
Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/scientists-discover-how-common-mutation-leads-night-owl-sleep-disorder
210
69
Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL
https://nhost.io
205
98
Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-10-29-how-mailing-lists-prevent-censorship/
193
57
Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24930271
179
122
Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/
164
61
figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
http://www.figlet.org/
160
279
Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/24/can-too-many-brainy-people-be-a-dangerous-thing
159
It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth
https://techeffect.substack.com/p/humans-destiny-is-on-earth
154
33
Wyoming uses a “dark money” organization to advocate for coal in other states
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/28/926625599/wyoming-is-using-dark-money-to-help-keep-coal-plants-in-other-states-open
181
Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=514fb58
152
43
Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc
148
153
Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/billy-mitchells-donkey-kong-high-score-case-will-move-forward-to-trial/
146
278
Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netflix-subscription/netflix-raises-monthly-charges-for-u-s-subscribers-idUSKBN27E39K
128
24
eBPF Summit Day 1 Recap
https://cilium.io/blog/2020/10/28/ebpf-summit-day-1/
125
56
Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine Learning
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/understanding-causality-is-the-next-challenge-for-machine-learning
124
173
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
123
Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)
https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/glass-viscosity-calculations-definitively-debunk-the-myth-of-observable-flow-in-medieval-windows
8
Show HN: Grasp – grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes
https://github.com/borkdude/grasp
90
SRE Teams: Hash
https://sreteams.substack.com/p/hash
115
21
Introducing Semgrep and r2c
https://r2c.dev/blog/2020/introducing-semgrep-and-r2c/
62
Glenn Greenwald Resigns from the Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept/
114
54
The ungentle joy of spider sex
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2020/the-ungentle-joy-spider-sex
109
Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/oregon-hospital-shuts-down-computer-system-after-ransomware-attack-4-notes.html
102
80
The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner
https://www.vox.com/21536943/asian-american-restuarant-racism-coronavirus
99
20
An exponent one-fifth algorithm for deterministic integer factorisation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05450
93
13
Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Labelled procedure calls
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-11/
91
79
The Corporatization of Nursing Homes
https://prospect.org/familycare/the-corporatization-of-nursing-homes/
85
30
Cecilia Chiang, SF chef who brought authentic Chinese food to US, dies at 100
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/28/cecilia-chang-sf-chef-who-brought-authentic-chinese-food-to-us-dies-at-100/
84
81
Soylent isn’t Healthy (2017)
https://www.nateliason.com/blog/soylent
83
29
Smash: An efficient compression algorithm for microcontrollers
https://blog.segger.com/smash-an-efficient-compression-algorithm-for-microcontrollers/
82
120
Facebook Q3 2020
https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2020/Facebook-Q3-2020-Earnings/default.aspx
78
VPN by Google One
https://one.google.com/about/vpn
75
143
The problem with the tech hearings
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-all-the-tech-hearings
74
17
Sexual Eeling
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/natural-histories/sexual-eeling
Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web
https://www.jovo.tech/news/2020-10-29-jovo-for-web-v3-2