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Text Editing Hates You Too
https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/
The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012)
http://www.jerrydallal.com/LHSP/LHSP.htm
View leaked secrets in Git live
https://shhgit.darkport.co.uk/
A GUI framework for C# console applications
https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework
Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15032/intel-2019-fab-update-10nm-hvm-7nm-on-track
Moving Beyond Types (2017)
https://hypothesis.works/articles/types-and-properties/
Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420
https://www.fastcompany.com/90423457/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-in-room-3420
The two-value syntax of the CSS Display property
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/the-two-value-syntax-of-the-css-display-property/
KTRW: The Journey to Build a Debuggable iPhone
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/10/ktrw-journey-to-build-debuggable-iphone.html
Adopting Erlang
https://adoptingerlang.org/
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/10/28/instagram-now-forces-people-to-sign-in-to-view-public-profiles/
Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/10/driverless-cars-are-stuck-in-a-jam
How Figma’s Multiplayer Technology Works
https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/
3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal
https://github.com/sinclairzx81/zero
On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-25-fi-31168-story.html
When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/
Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-sources-idUSKBN1X71NY
Why Palladium Is Suddenly a More Precious Metal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/why-palladium-is-suddenly-a-more-precious-metal-quicktake-k2ap4ryc
OneSignal Is Hiring Full Stack and Site Reliability Engineers San Mateo
https://onesignal.com/careers#site_reliability_engineer
The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.
https://flowingdata.com/2019/08/28/gender-switched-names/
Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode
https://sarunw.com/posts/dark-color/
Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2019/apple-your-developer-documentation-is-garbage.html
Leaving Prison at 72
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/geneva-cooley-alabama-prison.html
The Color of Noise: What Do Hues Have to Do with Sound?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/what-is-white-noise/
Easy Halloween Sound Hack, Part One (2015)
http://buckybits.blogspot.com/2015/04/easy-halloween-sound-hack-part-one.html
Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html
DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Fire shuts down cell towers in CA
https://mobile.twitter.com/lisamkrieger/status/1189042580685611009
A simple method for spray-on gene editing in planta
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/805036v1
Show HN: I created a portable lightweight replacement for Microsoft HTML Help
https://www.dmitripopov.com/introducing-litehelp/
“The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-world-is-of-course-insane-errol-morris-interview
Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-21-sourcehut-q3-2019-financial-report/
Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/3/4/18247010/chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-happiness-identity-crisis-kara-swisher-teddy-schleifer-podcast
What the Uber Eats delivery drone looks like
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/heres-what-the-uber-eats-delivery-drone-looks-like/
Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
https://keavy.com/work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-path/
How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life
https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-naveen-keeps-track#
After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/nyregion/nyc-biking-deaths-lanes.html
Google sued by the ACCC over alleged misuse of personal data
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/google-faces-accc-federal-court-misleading-use-of-data/11649356
The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/the-necessity-of-musical-hallucinations-rp
Physicists simulate critical ’reheating’ period that kickstarted the Big Bang
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-physicists-simulate-critical-reheating-period.html
Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
https://github.com/inoda/heroku-pinger
Ripe NIC: ’In Five Weeks We’ll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses’
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/10/this-time-there-really-are-no-ipv4-internet-addresses-left.html
A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline
http://fabiensanglard.net/nbajamte/index.html
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/464065-voting-machines-pose-a-greater-threat-to-our-elections-than-foreign-agents
Tcl: Everything Is a String
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/everything+is+a+string
Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2019 Results
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d41c776
FBI lawyer who tried to force crypto backdoor now says working crypto essential
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/28/san-bernadino-conversion.html
How I pay $1/month for 2 terabytes of storage: introducing Sia Slice
https://youngryan.com/2019/10/introducing-sia-slice-my-absurdly-cheap-block-storage-solution/
Distribution of eggshell colors: thermoregulatory benefit of darker pigmentation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1003-2
Show HN: Find H1B Employers by Zipcode
http://www.h1bemployersearch.com
Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/google-alphabet-earnings.html
Websites can change content inside a selection
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591698
Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/28/ancestral-home-of-modern-humans-is-in-botswana-study-finds
A note to readers: Paywall down – L.A. Times California fire coverage free today
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-28/getty-fire-paywall-note-to-readers
The “Talk”
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
SQLite is easy to compile
https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/28/sqlite-is-really-easy-to-compile/
Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
https://blog.floydhub.com/introduction-to-adversarial-machine-learning/
Tether: The Story So Far
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
Why Socialism? Albert Einstein (1949)
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism
Who does that server really serve? (2010)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html
I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent
https://blog.pixelixe.com/2019/10/24/how-I-got-40-paying-customers-in-6-months-with-0-dollars-spent/
Addressing some misconceptions about our plans for improving the security of DNS
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/10/addressing-some-misconceptions-about.html
ASCII Shader
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ll3RB
SWR – React Hooks for Remote Data Fetching
https://swr.now.sh/?r
Steve Wozniak: ’I’ve given up’ on Level 5
https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/apple-co-founder-ive-really-given-level-5
Silicon Valley breeds boredom, loneliness and vanity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/28/how-silicon-valley-breeds-boredom-loneliness-vanity/
Go Is the New Ruby
https://00f.net/2019/10/28/go-is-the-new-ruby/
Ocearch – collecting previously unattainable data from our oceans
https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/?list
Duffel (YC S18) raises $30M for flight booking API
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/duffel-raises-30m-led-by-index-ventures-to-disintermediate-legacy-travel-platforms/
Legitimate Use of Variable Length Arrays
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/10/27/
Homebrew Voxel Engine
http://weigert.vsos.ethz.ch/2019/10/27/homebrew-voxel-engine/
Logo 15-word challenge (1997)
http://www.mathcats.com/gallery/15wordcontest.html
UniCredit hit by data breach of Italian client records
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-unicredit-cyber/unicredit-hit-by-data-breach-of-italian-client-records-idUKKBN1X70HM
Show HN: Tiny-Swiper – 2kb alternative to SwiperJS with the same modern API
https://github.com/joe223/tiny-swiper
Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
https://walther.guru/blog/impl-quantum-part-1/
Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/07/17/offline-pedia/
Primes and Knots [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvoYgNYKyk0
“Rule the Waves”: a game of naval strategy (2016)
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/02/rule-the-waves-review/
Legitimate-Ish Use of Alloca()
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/10/28/
Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012
Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French (2015)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/man-wins-french-scrabble-championship-without-speaking-a-word-of-french-1.3161884
Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: ’They’re not going away.’
https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-linux-developer-on-intel-chip-security-problems-theyre-not-going-away/
A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/a-cybersecurity-firms-sharp-rise-and-stunning-collapse
Elon Musk will go to trial over “pedo guy” tweets, judge rules
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/28/20937354/elon-musk-stand-trial-vernon-unsworth-defamation-suit-ruling-tweets
Google sued by Australia’s ACCC over alleged misuse of personal data
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/google-faces-accc-federal-court-misleading-use-of-data/11649356
Show HN: Guide to LLC Formation for Indie Makers
https://www.lawavocado.com/
List of Lists of Lists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
macOS vs. Windows vs. Ubuntu Benchmarks
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos1015-win10-ubuntu
Even after Microsoft wins, Jedi saga could drag on
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/even-after-microsoft-wins-jedi-saga-could-drag-on/
Show HN: forthy2 – a higher level Forth-remix in C++
https://github.com/codr7/forthy2
DuckDuckGo Switches from Fastmail to Outlook
https://twitter.com/davecompgeek/status/1188456978529562624
The WeWork debacle should be an indictment of modern finance
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/28/wework-finance-workspace-unicorn-economic-model
U.S. Seeks to Heighten Scrutiny of Foreign Investment in Tech, Infra, Data
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-to-heighten-scrutiny-of-foreign-investment-in-technology-infrastructure-data-11568750471?mod=rsswn
A Brief History of the Fox
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173409
Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/smarter-living/career-advice-overcome-setback.html
A serial entrepreneur wants his portable MRI to transform medicine
https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/25/smaller-lighter-cheaper-a-serial-entrepreneur-wants-his-portable-mri-to-transform-medicine/
What’s Blockchain Good For, Anyway? For Now, Not Much
https://www.wired.com/story/whats-blockchain-good-for-not-much/
Blood on the Ice
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/11/07/bering-strait-blood-ice/
AirPods Pro
https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/
Yq is a portable command-line YAML processor
https://github.com/mikefarah/yq
Learnings from Conducting 500 Technical Interviews: The Interviewer Skill Ladder
https://www.holloway.com/s/trh-what-i-learned-from-conducting-500-technical-interviews-part-1
Show HN: Find developer jobs based on company benefits/perks
https://www.yolo-jobs.com
Apple macOS 10.15 vs. Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Performance Benchmarks
https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=28428
DuckDuckGo TTY Search
https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Silicon Valley breeds boredom, loneliness and vanity
https://m.sfgate.com/opinion/article/How-Silicon-Valley-breeds-boredom-loneliness-and-14567761.php
The lean startup is not for creating radically new products and markets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024630119301505#bib11
Using Cerebro as WebUI to Manage an Elk Cluster
https://red.ht/363BOnA
Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption over Backdoors
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/former_fbi_gene.html
Security researcher gets access to all Xiaomi pet feeders around the world
https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-gets-access-to-all-xiaomi-pet-feeders-around-the-world/
’Pwnagotchi’ Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwekw4/pwnagotchi-is-the-open-source-handheld-that-eats-wi-fi-handshakes
Show HN: aes.vbs – AES-256-CBC Encrypt and Decrypt Functions in VBScript
https://github.com/susam/aes.vbs
Show HN: Size of Space – An interactive universe scale comparison
https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
Why Disney+ Quietly Launched in the Netherlands First
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-disney-quietly-launched-netherlands-first-1243068
Brian May completes stereoscopic ’devil cards’ collection
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/28/brian-mays-stereoscopic-devil-cards-diableries-collection-complete
Adobe data breach exposed almost 7.5M Creative Cloud accounts
https://www.diyphotography.net/adobe-data-breach-exposed-almost-7-5-million-creative-cloud-accounts-to-the-public/
Study Estimates 50% of Web Sites Using WebAssembly Do So for Malicious Purposes
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/WebAssembly-wasm-malicious-usage/
Humble Book Bundle: Linux and BSD Bookshelf by No Starch Press
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-bsd-bookshelf-2019-books?mc_cid=640d8bb328&mc_eid=443b882743
Has Humanity’s Homeland Been Found?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/controversial-study-pinpoints-humanitys-homeland/600826/
The Banality of Systemic Evil
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality-of-systemic-evil/
As the Arctic heats up, what’s in store for its food webs?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/as-the-arctic-heats-up-whats-in-store-for-its-food-webs/
Private firefighters go to work for California’s wealthy
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/private-firefighters-california-wealthy-wildfire
AI could be a disaster for humanity
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/10/26/20932289/ai-stuart-russell-human-compatible
The Last Answer, Short Story by Isaac Asimov
https://highexistence.com/the-last-answer-short-story/
iOS 13.2 now available with Deep Fusion
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/28/ios-13-2-now-available-emoji-more/
Build a do-it-yourself air purifier for about $25 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
MikroTik RouterOS: Chain to Root
https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/routeros-chain-to-root-f4e0b07c0b21
MLOps: CI/CD for Machine Learning Pipelines and Model Deployment with Kubeflow
https://blog.growingdata.com.au/mlops-ci-cd-for-machine-learning-pipelines-model-deployment-with-kubeflow/?preview=true&_thumbnail_id=5121
Amazon fails to stop ex-sales staffer winging it to Google Cloud
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/amazon_fails_to_stop_exstaffer_working_for_google/
There Is No Algorithm for Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
Google in Talks to Acquire Fitbit
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-bid-155004119.html
Stripe with Node.js: Best Practices and Interactive Examples
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stripe-and-node-js-4-best-practices-and-examples/
Tom Scott makes an honest VPN commercial [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
Apple Reveals $250 Noise-Canceling AirPods Pro
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-airpods-pro/
OK Google, support donations to free and open source software
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hey-google-support-donations-to-foss
By now, we know where Facebook’s allegiances lie
https://thebaffler.com/the-future-sucked/all-right-already-silverman
The Impoverished Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois
Domain Controller-Level Access at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
https://twitter.com/RungRage/status/1188853620541775872
Uber announces deeper push into financial services with Uber Money
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/28/uber-announces-deeper-push-into-financial-services-with-uber-money.html
Perl Unicode Forensics
https://www.i-programmer.info/programming/perl/13197-perl-unicode-forensics.html
Lens Dashboard for Kubernetes Updated: Performance Through the Roof
https://blog.kontena.io/lens-2-3-released/
Tesla’s Elon Musk knew SolarCity faced a ‘liquidity crisis’ at time of 2016 deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/28/musk-deposition-stockholders-v-tesla-solarcity.html
O’Reilly website down Due to the fires and power outages in California
https://imgur.com/FOC6aIU
Amazon won’t spin off AWS. That’s hurting AWS
https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/07/24/cloud-irregular-amazon-wont-spin-off-aws-and-thats-too-bad-for-aws/
Facebook employees speak out on political ads
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-letter.html
Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
https://www.oreilly.com/index.html
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps you focus with ambient noise
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rofocus-increase-your-foc/olomkelphccokjjidpagjpihlnemlpng/
NASA Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Confession: ’Can’t do anything to me now’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1196320/NASA-news-Apollo-15-Moon-landing-confession-Al-Worden-astronaut
Show HN: A template for slide presentations using the browser
https://beothorn.github.io/lightpoint
How to Be a Successful Remote Developer
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-be-a-successful-remote-developer-1b93113355ad?source=friends_link&sk=55669ce03c38055a1b8278744bcd09e1
Takeaways from React Conf 2019
https://dev.to/amorriscode/19-takeaways-from-react-conf-2019-2m36
Sun Belt Cities Are Dangerous Places to Walk
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-25/sun-belt-cities-are-dangerous-places-to-walk
How Transformers Work
https://towardsdatascience.com/transformers-141e32e69591
The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois
The Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lot Less Impressive Than the Movie Version
https://forward.com/culture/433666/the-real-mark-zuckerberg-is-a-lot-less-impressive-than-the-movie-version/
The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/business/media/advertising-industry-research.html
Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVa0THWUWw
The world is sitting on a $400T financial time bomb (2017)
https://qz.com/994596/the-world-faces-a-400-trillion-disaster
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Text Editing Hates You Too
https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/
The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012)
http://www.jerrydallal.com/LHSP/LHSP.htm
View leaked secrets in Git live
https://shhgit.darkport.co.uk/
A GUI framework for C# console applications
https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework
Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15032/intel-2019-fab-update-10nm-hvm-7nm-on-track
Moving Beyond Types (2017)
https://hypothesis.works/articles/types-and-properties/
Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420
https://www.fastcompany.com/90423457/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-in-room-3420
The two-value syntax of the CSS Display property
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/the-two-value-syntax-of-the-css-display-property/
KTRW: The Journey to Build a Debuggable iPhone
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/10/ktrw-journey-to-build-debuggable-iphone.html
Adopting Erlang
https://adoptingerlang.org/
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/10/28/instagram-now-forces-people-to-sign-in-to-view-public-profiles/
Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/10/driverless-cars-are-stuck-in-a-jam
How Figma’s Multiplayer Technology Works
https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/
3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal
https://github.com/sinclairzx81/zero
On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-25-fi-31168-story.html
When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/
Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-sources-idUSKBN1X71NY
Why Palladium Is Suddenly a More Precious Metal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/why-palladium-is-suddenly-a-more-precious-metal-quicktake-k2ap4ryc
OneSignal Is Hiring Full Stack and Site Reliability Engineers San Mateo
https://onesignal.com/careers#site_reliability_engineer
The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.
https://flowingdata.com/2019/08/28/gender-switched-names/
Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode
https://sarunw.com/posts/dark-color/
Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2019/apple-your-developer-documentation-is-garbage.html
Leaving Prison at 72
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/geneva-cooley-alabama-prison.html
The Color of Noise: What Do Hues Have to Do with Sound?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/what-is-white-noise/
Easy Halloween Sound Hack, Part One (2015)
http://buckybits.blogspot.com/2015/04/easy-halloween-sound-hack-part-one.html
Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html
DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Fire shuts down cell towers in CA
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A simple method for spray-on gene editing in planta
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/805036v1
Show HN: I created a portable lightweight replacement for Microsoft HTML Help
https://www.dmitripopov.com/introducing-litehelp/
“The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-world-is-of-course-insane-errol-morris-interview
Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-21-sourcehut-q3-2019-financial-report/
Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/3/4/18247010/chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-happiness-identity-crisis-kara-swisher-teddy-schleifer-podcast
What the Uber Eats delivery drone looks like
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/heres-what-the-uber-eats-delivery-drone-looks-like/
Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
https://keavy.com/work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-path/
How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life
https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-naveen-keeps-track#
After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/nyregion/nyc-biking-deaths-lanes.html
Google sued by the ACCC over alleged misuse of personal data
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/google-faces-accc-federal-court-misleading-use-of-data/11649356
The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/the-necessity-of-musical-hallucinations-rp
Physicists simulate critical ’reheating’ period that kickstarted the Big Bang
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-physicists-simulate-critical-reheating-period.html
Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
https://github.com/inoda/heroku-pinger
Ripe NIC: ’In Five Weeks We’ll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses’
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/10/this-time-there-really-are-no-ipv4-internet-addresses-left.html
A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline
http://fabiensanglard.net/nbajamte/index.html
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/464065-voting-machines-pose-a-greater-threat-to-our-elections-than-foreign-agents
Tcl: Everything Is a String
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/everything+is+a+string
Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2019 Results
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d41c776
FBI lawyer who tried to force crypto backdoor now says working crypto essential
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/28/san-bernadino-conversion.html
How I pay $1/month for 2 terabytes of storage: introducing Sia Slice
https://youngryan.com/2019/10/introducing-sia-slice-my-absurdly-cheap-block-storage-solution/
Distribution of eggshell colors: thermoregulatory benefit of darker pigmentation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1003-2
Show HN: Find H1B Employers by Zipcode
http://www.h1bemployersearch.com
Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/google-alphabet-earnings.html
Websites can change content inside a selection
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591698
Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/28/ancestral-home-of-modern-humans-is-in-botswana-study-finds
A note to readers: Paywall down – L.A. Times California fire coverage free today
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-28/getty-fire-paywall-note-to-readers
The “Talk”
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
SQLite is easy to compile
https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/28/sqlite-is-really-easy-to-compile/
Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
https://blog.floydhub.com/introduction-to-adversarial-machine-learning/
Tether: The Story So Far
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
Why Socialism? Albert Einstein (1949)
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism
Who does that server really serve? (2010)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html
I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent
https://blog.pixelixe.com/2019/10/24/how-I-got-40-paying-customers-in-6-months-with-0-dollars-spent/
Addressing some misconceptions about our plans for improving the security of DNS
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/10/addressing-some-misconceptions-about.html
ASCII Shader
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ll3RB
SWR – React Hooks for Remote Data Fetching
https://swr.now.sh/?r
Steve Wozniak: ’I’ve given up’ on Level 5
https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/apple-co-founder-ive-really-given-level-5
Silicon Valley breeds boredom, loneliness and vanity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/28/how-silicon-valley-breeds-boredom-loneliness-vanity/
Go Is the New Ruby
https://00f.net/2019/10/28/go-is-the-new-ruby/
Ocearch – collecting previously unattainable data from our oceans
https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/?list
Duffel (YC S18) raises $30M for flight booking API
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/duffel-raises-30m-led-by-index-ventures-to-disintermediate-legacy-travel-platforms/
Legitimate Use of Variable Length Arrays
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/10/27/
Homebrew Voxel Engine
http://weigert.vsos.ethz.ch/2019/10/27/homebrew-voxel-engine/
Logo 15-word challenge (1997)
http://www.mathcats.com/gallery/15wordcontest.html
UniCredit hit by data breach of Italian client records
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-unicredit-cyber/unicredit-hit-by-data-breach-of-italian-client-records-idUKKBN1X70HM
Show HN: Tiny-Swiper – 2kb alternative to SwiperJS with the same modern API
https://github.com/joe223/tiny-swiper
Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
https://walther.guru/blog/impl-quantum-part-1/
Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/07/17/offline-pedia/
Primes and Knots [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvoYgNYKyk0
“Rule the Waves”: a game of naval strategy (2016)
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/02/rule-the-waves-review/
Legitimate-Ish Use of Alloca()
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/10/28/
Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012
Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French (2015)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/man-wins-french-scrabble-championship-without-speaking-a-word-of-french-1.3161884
Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: ’They’re not going away.’
https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-linux-developer-on-intel-chip-security-problems-theyre-not-going-away/
A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/a-cybersecurity-firms-sharp-rise-and-stunning-collapse
Elon Musk will go to trial over “pedo guy” tweets, judge rules
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/28/20937354/elon-musk-stand-trial-vernon-unsworth-defamation-suit-ruling-tweets
Google sued by Australia’s ACCC over alleged misuse of personal data
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/google-faces-accc-federal-court-misleading-use-of-data/11649356
Show HN: Guide to LLC Formation for Indie Makers
https://www.lawavocado.com/
List of Lists of Lists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
macOS vs. Windows vs. Ubuntu Benchmarks
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos1015-win10-ubuntu
Even after Microsoft wins, Jedi saga could drag on
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/even-after-microsoft-wins-jedi-saga-could-drag-on/
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https://github.com/codr7/forthy2
DuckDuckGo Switches from Fastmail to Outlook
https://twitter.com/davecompgeek/status/1188456978529562624
The WeWork debacle should be an indictment of modern finance
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/28/wework-finance-workspace-unicorn-economic-model
U.S. Seeks to Heighten Scrutiny of Foreign Investment in Tech, Infra, Data
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-to-heighten-scrutiny-of-foreign-investment-in-technology-infrastructure-data-11568750471?mod=rsswn
A Brief History of the Fox
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173409
Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/smarter-living/career-advice-overcome-setback.html
A serial entrepreneur wants his portable MRI to transform medicine
https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/25/smaller-lighter-cheaper-a-serial-entrepreneur-wants-his-portable-mri-to-transform-medicine/
What’s Blockchain Good For, Anyway? For Now, Not Much
https://www.wired.com/story/whats-blockchain-good-for-not-much/
Blood on the Ice
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/11/07/bering-strait-blood-ice/
AirPods Pro
https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/
Yq is a portable command-line YAML processor
https://github.com/mikefarah/yq
Learnings from Conducting 500 Technical Interviews: The Interviewer Skill Ladder
https://www.holloway.com/s/trh-what-i-learned-from-conducting-500-technical-interviews-part-1
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https://www.yolo-jobs.com
Apple macOS 10.15 vs. Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Performance Benchmarks
https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=28428
DuckDuckGo TTY Search
https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Silicon Valley breeds boredom, loneliness and vanity
https://m.sfgate.com/opinion/article/How-Silicon-Valley-breeds-boredom-loneliness-and-14567761.php
The lean startup is not for creating radically new products and markets
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Using Cerebro as WebUI to Manage an Elk Cluster
https://red.ht/363BOnA
Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption over Backdoors
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/former_fbi_gene.html
Security researcher gets access to all Xiaomi pet feeders around the world
https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-gets-access-to-all-xiaomi-pet-feeders-around-the-world/
’Pwnagotchi’ Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwekw4/pwnagotchi-is-the-open-source-handheld-that-eats-wi-fi-handshakes
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https://github.com/susam/aes.vbs
Show HN: Size of Space – An interactive universe scale comparison
https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
Why Disney+ Quietly Launched in the Netherlands First
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-disney-quietly-launched-netherlands-first-1243068
Brian May completes stereoscopic ’devil cards’ collection
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/28/brian-mays-stereoscopic-devil-cards-diableries-collection-complete
Adobe data breach exposed almost 7.5M Creative Cloud accounts
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Study Estimates 50% of Web Sites Using WebAssembly Do So for Malicious Purposes
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/WebAssembly-wasm-malicious-usage/
Humble Book Bundle: Linux and BSD Bookshelf by No Starch Press
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Has Humanity’s Homeland Been Found?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/controversial-study-pinpoints-humanitys-homeland/600826/
The Banality of Systemic Evil
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality-of-systemic-evil/
As the Arctic heats up, what’s in store for its food webs?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/as-the-arctic-heats-up-whats-in-store-for-its-food-webs/
Private firefighters go to work for California’s wealthy
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AI could be a disaster for humanity
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/10/26/20932289/ai-stuart-russell-human-compatible
The Last Answer, Short Story by Isaac Asimov
https://highexistence.com/the-last-answer-short-story/
iOS 13.2 now available with Deep Fusion
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/28/ios-13-2-now-available-emoji-more/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
MikroTik RouterOS: Chain to Root
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MLOps: CI/CD for Machine Learning Pipelines and Model Deployment with Kubeflow
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Amazon fails to stop ex-sales staffer winging it to Google Cloud
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/amazon_fails_to_stop_exstaffer_working_for_google/
There Is No Algorithm for Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
Google in Talks to Acquire Fitbit
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-bid-155004119.html
Stripe with Node.js: Best Practices and Interactive Examples
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stripe-and-node-js-4-best-practices-and-examples/
Tom Scott makes an honest VPN commercial [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
Apple Reveals $250 Noise-Canceling AirPods Pro
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-airpods-pro/
OK Google, support donations to free and open source software
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hey-google-support-donations-to-foss
By now, we know where Facebook’s allegiances lie
https://thebaffler.com/the-future-sucked/all-right-already-silverman
The Impoverished Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois
Domain Controller-Level Access at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
https://twitter.com/RungRage/status/1188853620541775872
Uber announces deeper push into financial services with Uber Money
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/28/uber-announces-deeper-push-into-financial-services-with-uber-money.html
Perl Unicode Forensics
https://www.i-programmer.info/programming/perl/13197-perl-unicode-forensics.html
Lens Dashboard for Kubernetes Updated: Performance Through the Roof
https://blog.kontena.io/lens-2-3-released/
Tesla’s Elon Musk knew SolarCity faced a ‘liquidity crisis’ at time of 2016 deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/28/musk-deposition-stockholders-v-tesla-solarcity.html
O’Reilly website down Due to the fires and power outages in California
https://imgur.com/FOC6aIU
Amazon won’t spin off AWS. That’s hurting AWS
https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/07/24/cloud-irregular-amazon-wont-spin-off-aws-and-thats-too-bad-for-aws/
Facebook employees speak out on political ads
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-letter.html
Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
https://www.oreilly.com/index.html
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps you focus with ambient noise
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rofocus-increase-your-foc/olomkelphccokjjidpagjpihlnemlpng/
NASA Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Confession: ’Can’t do anything to me now’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1196320/NASA-news-Apollo-15-Moon-landing-confession-Al-Worden-astronaut
Show HN: A template for slide presentations using the browser
https://beothorn.github.io/lightpoint
How to Be a Successful Remote Developer
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-be-a-successful-remote-developer-1b93113355ad?source=friends_link&sk=55669ce03c38055a1b8278744bcd09e1
Takeaways from React Conf 2019
https://dev.to/amorriscode/19-takeaways-from-react-conf-2019-2m36
Sun Belt Cities Are Dangerous Places to Walk
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-25/sun-belt-cities-are-dangerous-places-to-walk
How Transformers Work
https://towardsdatascience.com/transformers-141e32e69591
The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois
The Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lot Less Impressive Than the Movie Version
https://forward.com/culture/433666/the-real-mark-zuckerberg-is-a-lot-less-impressive-than-the-movie-version/
The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/business/media/advertising-industry-research.html
Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVa0THWUWw
The world is sitting on a $400T financial time bomb (2017)
https://qz.com/994596/the-world-faces-a-400-trillion-disaster
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