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CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/17/cloudflare-is-ruining-the-internet-for-me/
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network
https://brave.com/vpn0-a-privacy-preserving-distributed-virtual-private-network/
Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access
https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/10/04/google-xiaomi-and-huawei-devices-affected-by-zero-day-flaw-that-unlocks-root-access/
It’s time to ban cars from Manhattan?
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/3/20896837/nyc-traffic-history-pedestrian-cars
Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/05/nxdomain/
CERN’s Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report [pdf]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334148892_FCC-hh_The_Hadron_Collider
A Sociology of Steve Jobs (2011)
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/10/10/a-sociology-of-steve-jobs/
Avoid Working Alone
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/06/24/avoid-working-alone/
Windows Exploitation Tricks: Spoofing Named Pipe Client PID
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/09/windows-exploitation-tricks-spoofing.html?m=1
The Wave that changed the world (2017)
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/03/17/the-wave-that-changed-history
Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts
https://voxeu.org/article/why-japan-lost-its-comparative-advantage-producing-electronic-parts-and-components
Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/echolocation-blind-people-reveals-brain-s-adaptive-powers
Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/quantum-computers-amazing-progress-google-ibm-and-extraordinary-but-probably-false-supremacy-claims-google/
Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/kitty-hawk-reveals-its-secret-project-heaviside/
Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/three-big-things-the-most-important-forces-shaping-the-world/
Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/39/19251
High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet—but it won’t reform itself
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-economy-and-the-planet-but-it-wont-reform-itself-banking-wall-street-city-of-london
Show HN: Visual travel destination discovery tool, currently by matching weather
https://flycatcherclub.com
Single malt Scotch whisky targeted by United States tariffs
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-49915034
Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991
http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-miraculous-year-1990-1991.html
The long history of parents complaining about their kids’ homework
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/10/parents-complaining-about-homework-history.html
Open Source: From Community to Commercialization
https://a16z.com/2019/10/04/commercializing-open-source/
Small Clojure Interpreter
https://npmjs.com/package/@borkdude/sci
John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence (2015) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg#t=50s
Show HN: See Google’s Data on Real User Site Performance for Any Site
https://crux.run
E*Trade Announces $0 Base Commissions for Online Stock, ETF, and Options Trades
https://about.etrade.com/newsroom/press-releases/article?qmodStoryID=5545607436705191
Show HN: ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision
https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss
Show HN: Easy Serverless GraphQL APIs with Serverless Framework AppSync
https://github.com/serverless-components/aws-app-sync
Whois++
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS%2B%2B
In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/
Show HN: Transform Data Without Programming
https://www.easydatatransform.com
The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/guid/3870F370-E6CB-11E9-83E6-1366F1C3851C
Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant [audio]
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/british-columbia/sanctioned-the-arrest-of-a-telecom-giant/
Good design and type safety in Yahtzee
http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/good-design-and-type-safety-in-yahtzee/
‘Mike’s Candyshop’: Behind the Overdose Death of Colin Kroll
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/nyregion/colin-kroll-hq-trivia-overdose.html
RISC V: A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/10/03/a-new-blueprint-for-microprocessors-challenges-the-industrys-giants
An Antique Toaster That’s Better Than Today’s [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game
https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/finding-the-right-car/the-tesla-effect-how-tesla-is-changing-the-used-car-game/1096
Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping
https://zacs.site/blog/building-a-syllable-dictionary-with-python.html
Coded Merkle Tree: Solving Data Availability Attacks in Blockchains
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01247
Show HN: GitCF – A RawGit-Like Service Running on CloudFlare Workers
https://gh.maple3142.net/
Show HN: Brain Test – Stroop Effect
http://stroopeffectapp.com
SchemeBBS
https://textboard.org/
Tesla Acquires Canadian Battery Specialist, Hibar Systems
https://electricautonomy.ca/2019/10/04/tesla-acquires-canadian-battery-specialist-hibar-systems/
Under-Investigated Fields
https://matthewmcateer.me/blog/under-investigated-fields/
A function that represents all primes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes#A_function_that_represents_all_primes
Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications
https://medium.com/swlh/tools-i-recommend-for-building-geospatial-web-applications-274d6939536c
A Rant on Terra
https://blackhole12.com/blog/a-rant-on-terra/
Show HN: HN Pop Quiz – Useless Trivia Quiz about Hacker News
https://www.hnpopquiz.com
IMAP Server on Node.js / MongoDB
https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck
Principal Component Analysis
http://www.oranlooney.com/post/ml-from-scratch-part-6-pca/
Mathematical challenges take undergrad in a new direction
http://spectrum.mit.edu/summer-2019/academic-turn/
Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/
Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city’s residents
https://www.bipartisanalliance.com/2019/10/we-identified-walkability-of-city-how.html
Australia Just Had a Bad Flu Season. That May Be a Warning for the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/health/flu-australia-america.html
Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/well/move/being-young-active-and-physically-fit-may-be-very-good-for-your-brain.html
Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/05/taiwan-flag-emoji-disappears-latest-apple-iphone-keyboard/
Thoughts on Cocoa
https://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2019/Oct/msg00004.html
Fab in India: India is trying to create an indigenous chip-making industry
https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/10/03/india-is-trying-to-create-an-indigenous-chip-making-industry
Australian government to crack down on climate protestors
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/incredibly-worrying-legal-fight-looms-around-australia-over-clampdown-on-protest
Scientists on Arctic Expedition Choose Ice Floe That’ll Be Home for a Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/climate/mosaic-arctic-expedition.html
A Separate Kind of Intelligence
https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-kind-of-intelligence
What’s Coming in Go 1.14 [slides]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HfIwlVTmVWQk94OLKfTGvXpQxyp0U4ywG1u5j2tjiuE/mobilepresent?slide=id.g550f852d27_228_0
Show HN: Updated wave method of building color palette
https://wavepalette.com/about/
Household Bleach Inactivates Chronic Wasting Disease Prions
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/household-bleach-inactivates-chronic-wasting-disease-prions
V8: Workaround for Intel Gemini Lake Processor Bug
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/1803775
Ancient Greek Scroll’s Hidden Contents Revealed Through Infrared Imaging
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767309531/ancient-greek-scrolls-hidden-contents-revealed-through-infrared-imaging
FT launches Road to Riches board game to boost financial literacy
https://www.ft.com/content/435b3312-daec-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17
Startup options are better than they look (2017)
https://www.benkuhn.net/optopt
How to Stress the C# Compiler
https://blog.hediet.de/post/how-to-stress-the-csharp-compiler
Columbia Silences Its Marching Band
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/sports/columbia-silences-its-marching-band.html
Interview with Paul Salopek of the “Out of Eden” Walk
https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-paul-salopek/
Scientists implant "memories" into bird brains to teach them songs
https://newatlas.com/biology/implant-memories-bird-brains-teach-songs/
Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren’t
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49906336
Better Than Free (2008)
https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/
Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes? (2015)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34667380
Books and Television Affect Your Brain Differently, According to Science
https://medium.com/@melissachu/how-books-and-television-affect-your-brain-differently-according-to-science-34ca8be1493
Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
https://able.bio/rhett/the-new-able-editor--596ha6x
Traveling Wave Reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
Ant Design
https://ant.design/
Malaysian government plans to promote startups by becoming a venture capitalist
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3031630/malaysias-cunning-plan-start-dominance-if-you-cant-beat-them
Project MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjqa5/24-of-your-cable-tv-bill-is-just-bogus-fees-study-says
Eight Habits of Expert Software Designers: An Illustrated Guide
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/
Researchers unearth ’iron dragon’ of ancient Queensland outback
https://www.smh.com.au/national/researchers-unearth-iron-dragon-of-ancient-queensland-outback-20191003-p52xf5.html
You can now try the Oil language
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/10/04.html
Dreamboard
http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Dreamboard
I built a game into our B2B product
https://pragli.com/blog/why-i-built-a-game-into-our-b2b-product/
Hygieia is a devops dashboard aggregator
https://hygieia.github.io/Hygieia/getting_started.html
The McKenzie Method can help you say goodbye to back and neck pain
https://www.wellandgood.com/good-sweat/mckenzie-method/
China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173
Making a big high quality comic book using only FLOSS from scratch
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article735/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-1
Open Source GitHub App Built with Flutter
https://github.com/pd4d10/git-touch
The Gentleperson’s Guide to Forum Spies (2012)
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
Show HN: Create pixel art using any image in Google Sheets
https://sheet2site.com/art/
Unit 731
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-astronomers-suns-binary.html
What the max amount of caffeine you should be drinking in day looks like (2017)
https://www.businessinsider.com/caffeine-daily-serving-2017-6
MDMA
https://www.profgalloway.com/mdma/
MIT Probabilistic Computing Project Reading List
http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/reading-list/
Xcode Build Optimization – Exhaustive list of ways to speed up your Xcode build
https://blog.flexiple.com/xcode-build-optimization-a-definitive-guide/
The great fear of 1776 for the Native Americans and their British allies
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/the-great-fear-of-1776/
DSLs to Reconfigurable Hardware: Design of the Spatial Language and Compiler
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13333122
People Who Read a Lot of Books Are Way Nicer, Kinder and Empathetic
https://www.peacequarters.com/bookworms-make-better-more-empathetic-friends-according-to-research-alexa/
HK fears internet shutdown after emergency powers are used to ban face masks
https://qz.com/1721944/hong-kong-fears-internet-shutdown-after-face-mask-ban/
An overview of build systems (mostly for C++ projects)
https://medium.com/@julienjorge/an-overview-of-build-systems-mostly-for-c-projects-ac9931494444
Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49945636
ProxylessNAS: Direct Neural Architecture Search on Target Task and Hardware
https://github.com/MIT-HAN-LAB/ProxylessNAS
Imagededup: Finding duplicate images made easy
https://github.com/idealo/imagededup
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes biology is next frontier in computing
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/02/eric-schmidt-says-hes-eyeing-biology-for-the-next-computing-frontier.html
Why customers love Tesla despite its many mistakes
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/how-tesla-became-one-of-the-internets-most-polarizing-companies/
The Shannon Limit (2010)
https://news.mit.edu/2010/explained-shannon-0115
A Few Bad Apples
https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2019/10/a-few-bad-apples.html
FDA says stop using all THC vaping products
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/statement-consumer-warning-stop-using-thc-vaping-products-amid-ongoing-investigation-lung-illnesses
’Brexitspeak’ growing too fast for public to keep up, say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/05/brexitspeak-brexit-vocabulary-growing-too-fast-public-keep-up
The broken record: Why Barr’s call against end-to-end encryption is nuts
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-broken-record-why-barrs-call-against-end-to-end-encryption-is-nuts/
Sean Carroll’s Podcast, Mindscape
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
Memory Leaks in JavaScript – How To
https://medium.com/swlh/effective-javascript-debugging-memory-leaks-75059b2436f6
Show HN: Lego, a fast static site generator built in JavaScript
https://astronomersiva.github.io/lego/
Synthetic data will help solve machine learning’s cold start problem
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/synthetic-data-a-bridge-over-the-data-moat-29f392a52f27
The Countries Where People Are the Most Emotionally Complex
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/emotional-complexity-study/426672/
Raspberry Pi 4 Can Now Overclock to 2.147 GHz. Here’s How
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-higher-overclock,40559.html
New gel lets us spread flame retardant before wildfires start
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/new-gel-lets-us-spread-flame-retardant-before-wildfires-start/
Why Elon Musk’s Big, Shiny Starship Sparked a Passive-Aggressive Fight with NASA
https://www.livescience.com/starship-crew-dragon-spacex-nasa-bridenstine.html
Spelling and Grammar with Vim
https://www.vimfromscratch.com/articles/spell-and-grammar-vim/
’We Were Wiped Out’: New Yorkers Preyed on Chicago Cabbies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/nyregion/taxi-medallions-chicago.html
Django for Newborn Babies
https://dev.to/akashgiricse/django-for-newborn-babies-578l
Show HN: Turn Any Desk into a Drumpad
https://www.3d-beats.com
Friday Humor: How to Create a Blog Nobody Reads
https://sideprojectplaybook.com/create-blog-nobody-reads/
The End of Guinea Worm Was Just Around the Corner. Not Anymore
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/10/04/767177987/the-end-of-guinea-worm-was-just-around-the-corner-not-anymore
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html
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CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/17/cloudflare-is-ruining-the-internet-for-me/
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network
https://brave.com/vpn0-a-privacy-preserving-distributed-virtual-private-network/
Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access
https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/10/04/google-xiaomi-and-huawei-devices-affected-by-zero-day-flaw-that-unlocks-root-access/
It’s time to ban cars from Manhattan?
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/3/20896837/nyc-traffic-history-pedestrian-cars
Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/05/nxdomain/
CERN’s Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report [pdf]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334148892_FCC-hh_The_Hadron_Collider
A Sociology of Steve Jobs (2011)
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/10/10/a-sociology-of-steve-jobs/
Avoid Working Alone
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/06/24/avoid-working-alone/
Windows Exploitation Tricks: Spoofing Named Pipe Client PID
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/09/windows-exploitation-tricks-spoofing.html?m=1
The Wave that changed the world (2017)
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/03/17/the-wave-that-changed-history
Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts
https://voxeu.org/article/why-japan-lost-its-comparative-advantage-producing-electronic-parts-and-components
Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/echolocation-blind-people-reveals-brain-s-adaptive-powers
Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/quantum-computers-amazing-progress-google-ibm-and-extraordinary-but-probably-false-supremacy-claims-google/
Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/kitty-hawk-reveals-its-secret-project-heaviside/
Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/three-big-things-the-most-important-forces-shaping-the-world/
Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/39/19251
High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet—but it won’t reform itself
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-economy-and-the-planet-but-it-wont-reform-itself-banking-wall-street-city-of-london
Show HN: Visual travel destination discovery tool, currently by matching weather
https://flycatcherclub.com
Single malt Scotch whisky targeted by United States tariffs
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-49915034
Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991
http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-miraculous-year-1990-1991.html
The long history of parents complaining about their kids’ homework
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/10/parents-complaining-about-homework-history.html
Open Source: From Community to Commercialization
https://a16z.com/2019/10/04/commercializing-open-source/
Small Clojure Interpreter
https://npmjs.com/package/@borkdude/sci
John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence (2015) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg#t=50s
Show HN: See Google’s Data on Real User Site Performance for Any Site
https://crux.run
E*Trade Announces $0 Base Commissions for Online Stock, ETF, and Options Trades
https://about.etrade.com/newsroom/press-releases/article?qmodStoryID=5545607436705191
Show HN: ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision
https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss
Show HN: Easy Serverless GraphQL APIs with Serverless Framework AppSync
https://github.com/serverless-components/aws-app-sync
Whois++
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS%2B%2B
In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/
Show HN: Transform Data Without Programming
https://www.easydatatransform.com
The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/guid/3870F370-E6CB-11E9-83E6-1366F1C3851C
Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant [audio]
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/british-columbia/sanctioned-the-arrest-of-a-telecom-giant/
Good design and type safety in Yahtzee
http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/good-design-and-type-safety-in-yahtzee/
‘Mike’s Candyshop’: Behind the Overdose Death of Colin Kroll
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/nyregion/colin-kroll-hq-trivia-overdose.html
RISC V: A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/10/03/a-new-blueprint-for-microprocessors-challenges-the-industrys-giants
An Antique Toaster That’s Better Than Today’s [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game
https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/finding-the-right-car/the-tesla-effect-how-tesla-is-changing-the-used-car-game/1096
Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping
https://zacs.site/blog/building-a-syllable-dictionary-with-python.html
Coded Merkle Tree: Solving Data Availability Attacks in Blockchains
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01247
Show HN: GitCF – A RawGit-Like Service Running on CloudFlare Workers
https://gh.maple3142.net/
Show HN: Brain Test – Stroop Effect
http://stroopeffectapp.com
SchemeBBS
https://textboard.org/
Tesla Acquires Canadian Battery Specialist, Hibar Systems
https://electricautonomy.ca/2019/10/04/tesla-acquires-canadian-battery-specialist-hibar-systems/
Under-Investigated Fields
https://matthewmcateer.me/blog/under-investigated-fields/
A function that represents all primes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes#A_function_that_represents_all_primes
Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications
https://medium.com/swlh/tools-i-recommend-for-building-geospatial-web-applications-274d6939536c
A Rant on Terra
https://blackhole12.com/blog/a-rant-on-terra/
Show HN: HN Pop Quiz – Useless Trivia Quiz about Hacker News
https://www.hnpopquiz.com
IMAP Server on Node.js / MongoDB
https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck
Principal Component Analysis
http://www.oranlooney.com/post/ml-from-scratch-part-6-pca/
Mathematical challenges take undergrad in a new direction
http://spectrum.mit.edu/summer-2019/academic-turn/
Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/
Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city’s residents
https://www.bipartisanalliance.com/2019/10/we-identified-walkability-of-city-how.html
Australia Just Had a Bad Flu Season. That May Be a Warning for the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/health/flu-australia-america.html
Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/well/move/being-young-active-and-physically-fit-may-be-very-good-for-your-brain.html
Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/05/taiwan-flag-emoji-disappears-latest-apple-iphone-keyboard/
Thoughts on Cocoa
https://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2019/Oct/msg00004.html
Fab in India: India is trying to create an indigenous chip-making industry
https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/10/03/india-is-trying-to-create-an-indigenous-chip-making-industry
Australian government to crack down on climate protestors
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/incredibly-worrying-legal-fight-looms-around-australia-over-clampdown-on-protest
Scientists on Arctic Expedition Choose Ice Floe That’ll Be Home for a Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/climate/mosaic-arctic-expedition.html
A Separate Kind of Intelligence
https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-kind-of-intelligence
What’s Coming in Go 1.14 [slides]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HfIwlVTmVWQk94OLKfTGvXpQxyp0U4ywG1u5j2tjiuE/mobilepresent?slide=id.g550f852d27_228_0
Show HN: Updated wave method of building color palette
https://wavepalette.com/about/
Household Bleach Inactivates Chronic Wasting Disease Prions
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/household-bleach-inactivates-chronic-wasting-disease-prions
V8: Workaround for Intel Gemini Lake Processor Bug
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/1803775
Ancient Greek Scroll’s Hidden Contents Revealed Through Infrared Imaging
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767309531/ancient-greek-scrolls-hidden-contents-revealed-through-infrared-imaging
FT launches Road to Riches board game to boost financial literacy
https://www.ft.com/content/435b3312-daec-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17
Startup options are better than they look (2017)
https://www.benkuhn.net/optopt
How to Stress the C# Compiler
https://blog.hediet.de/post/how-to-stress-the-csharp-compiler
Columbia Silences Its Marching Band
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/sports/columbia-silences-its-marching-band.html
Interview with Paul Salopek of the “Out of Eden” Walk
https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-paul-salopek/
Scientists implant "memories" into bird brains to teach them songs
https://newatlas.com/biology/implant-memories-bird-brains-teach-songs/
Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren’t
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49906336
Better Than Free (2008)
https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/
Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes? (2015)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34667380
Books and Television Affect Your Brain Differently, According to Science
https://medium.com/@melissachu/how-books-and-television-affect-your-brain-differently-according-to-science-34ca8be1493
Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
https://able.bio/rhett/the-new-able-editor--596ha6x
Traveling Wave Reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
Ant Design
https://ant.design/
Malaysian government plans to promote startups by becoming a venture capitalist
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3031630/malaysias-cunning-plan-start-dominance-if-you-cant-beat-them
Project MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjqa5/24-of-your-cable-tv-bill-is-just-bogus-fees-study-says
Eight Habits of Expert Software Designers: An Illustrated Guide
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/
Researchers unearth ’iron dragon’ of ancient Queensland outback
https://www.smh.com.au/national/researchers-unearth-iron-dragon-of-ancient-queensland-outback-20191003-p52xf5.html
You can now try the Oil language
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/10/04.html
Dreamboard
http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Dreamboard
I built a game into our B2B product
https://pragli.com/blog/why-i-built-a-game-into-our-b2b-product/
Hygieia is a devops dashboard aggregator
https://hygieia.github.io/Hygieia/getting_started.html
The McKenzie Method can help you say goodbye to back and neck pain
https://www.wellandgood.com/good-sweat/mckenzie-method/
China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173
Making a big high quality comic book using only FLOSS from scratch
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article735/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-1
Open Source GitHub App Built with Flutter
https://github.com/pd4d10/git-touch
The Gentleperson’s Guide to Forum Spies (2012)
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
Show HN: Create pixel art using any image in Google Sheets
https://sheet2site.com/art/
Unit 731
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-astronomers-suns-binary.html
What the max amount of caffeine you should be drinking in day looks like (2017)
https://www.businessinsider.com/caffeine-daily-serving-2017-6
MDMA
https://www.profgalloway.com/mdma/
MIT Probabilistic Computing Project Reading List
http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/reading-list/
Xcode Build Optimization – Exhaustive list of ways to speed up your Xcode build
https://blog.flexiple.com/xcode-build-optimization-a-definitive-guide/
The great fear of 1776 for the Native Americans and their British allies
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/the-great-fear-of-1776/
DSLs to Reconfigurable Hardware: Design of the Spatial Language and Compiler
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13333122
People Who Read a Lot of Books Are Way Nicer, Kinder and Empathetic
https://www.peacequarters.com/bookworms-make-better-more-empathetic-friends-according-to-research-alexa/
HK fears internet shutdown after emergency powers are used to ban face masks
https://qz.com/1721944/hong-kong-fears-internet-shutdown-after-face-mask-ban/
An overview of build systems (mostly for C++ projects)
https://medium.com/@julienjorge/an-overview-of-build-systems-mostly-for-c-projects-ac9931494444
Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49945636
ProxylessNAS: Direct Neural Architecture Search on Target Task and Hardware
https://github.com/MIT-HAN-LAB/ProxylessNAS
Imagededup: Finding duplicate images made easy
https://github.com/idealo/imagededup
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes biology is next frontier in computing
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/02/eric-schmidt-says-hes-eyeing-biology-for-the-next-computing-frontier.html
Why customers love Tesla despite its many mistakes
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/how-tesla-became-one-of-the-internets-most-polarizing-companies/
The Shannon Limit (2010)
https://news.mit.edu/2010/explained-shannon-0115
A Few Bad Apples
https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2019/10/a-few-bad-apples.html
FDA says stop using all THC vaping products
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/statement-consumer-warning-stop-using-thc-vaping-products-amid-ongoing-investigation-lung-illnesses
’Brexitspeak’ growing too fast for public to keep up, say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/05/brexitspeak-brexit-vocabulary-growing-too-fast-public-keep-up
The broken record: Why Barr’s call against end-to-end encryption is nuts
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-broken-record-why-barrs-call-against-end-to-end-encryption-is-nuts/
Sean Carroll’s Podcast, Mindscape
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
Memory Leaks in JavaScript – How To
https://medium.com/swlh/effective-javascript-debugging-memory-leaks-75059b2436f6
Show HN: Lego, a fast static site generator built in JavaScript
https://astronomersiva.github.io/lego/
Synthetic data will help solve machine learning’s cold start problem
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/synthetic-data-a-bridge-over-the-data-moat-29f392a52f27
The Countries Where People Are the Most Emotionally Complex
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/emotional-complexity-study/426672/
Raspberry Pi 4 Can Now Overclock to 2.147 GHz. Here’s How
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-higher-overclock,40559.html
New gel lets us spread flame retardant before wildfires start
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/new-gel-lets-us-spread-flame-retardant-before-wildfires-start/
Why Elon Musk’s Big, Shiny Starship Sparked a Passive-Aggressive Fight with NASA
https://www.livescience.com/starship-crew-dragon-spacex-nasa-bridenstine.html
Spelling and Grammar with Vim
https://www.vimfromscratch.com/articles/spell-and-grammar-vim/
’We Were Wiped Out’: New Yorkers Preyed on Chicago Cabbies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/nyregion/taxi-medallions-chicago.html
Django for Newborn Babies
https://dev.to/akashgiricse/django-for-newborn-babies-578l
Show HN: Turn Any Desk into a Drumpad
https://www.3d-beats.com
Friday Humor: How to Create a Blog Nobody Reads
https://sideprojectplaybook.com/create-blog-nobody-reads/
The End of Guinea Worm Was Just Around the Corner. Not Anymore
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/10/04/767177987/the-end-of-guinea-worm-was-just-around-the-corner-not-anymore
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html
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