623
595
Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/
5 years ago
501
167
The most expensive number in engineering
https://surjan.substack.com/p/the-most-expensive-number-in-engineering
440
590
Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept
https://onezero.medium.com/the-document-metaphor-desktop-gui-doesnt-work-anymore-d276271bfa40
427
238
We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor
https://www.butwhatfor.com/admiral-yarnell-and-an-attack-on-pearl-harbor/
413
196
Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
https://www.sciencealert.com/space-debris-has-damaged-the-international-space-station
411
159
Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/danish-whistleblower-details-nsa-collaboration-submarine-cable-spying-surveillance-data-center/
403
NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806
345
383
On Smoking
https://annagat.substack.com/p/on-smoking
316
203
Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chinese-paddlefish-one-of-largest-fish-extinct?loggedin=true
302
32
PostGIS at 20, the Beginning
http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2021/05/postgis-20-years.html
293
364
What Oxford taught me about posh people
https://unherd.com/2021/05/what-oxford-taught-me-about-posh-people/
286
156
Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120
https://hackaday.com/2021/05/30/neural-networks-emulate-any-guitar-pedal-for-120/
282
201
Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back
https://jalopnik.com/woman-catches-louisiana-state-police-attaching-tracker-1846738167
231
210
iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices
https://www.imore.com/ios-14-tracking-changes-sees-big-ad-spending-drop-tumbling-prices
217
322
China allows couples to have three children
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57303592
215
53
Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/quit-mentoring-at-plato/
213
In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes
https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-mexico-police-f6ea7798ca3cc171ac13b3a5a6a6c266
456
Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)
https://outofyourrut.com/avoid-buying-hoa-neighborhoods/
209
211
Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business
https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/googles-new-popup-will-further-weaken
204
178
UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys?
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/uuid-serial-or-identity-columns-for-postgresql-auto-generated-primary-keys/