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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/
The Story of the Team Behind the 6502
https://www.team6502.org/
Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking
https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48630/
A neural algorithm for similarity search (2017)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6364/793
What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?
https://medium.com/@tdietterich/what-does-it-mean-for-a-machine-to-understand-555485f3ad40
Show HN: pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans
https://github.com/mgartner/pg_flame
Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
http://reprints.longform.org/playboy-interview-steve-jobs
Looping Music Seamlessly
http://nolannicholson.com/looper.html
High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017)
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/gpu-computing-julia-programming-language/
Betrayal at Krondor
https://www.filfre.net/2019/10/betrayal-at-krondor/
Show HN: CloudBrowser – Free 30 Minute Internet Cafe for Secure Browsing
https://free.cloudbrowser.xyz
Is “Investing in improving structure” better than “Paying off technical debt”?
https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/1187766114706542593
Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
https://www.quantamagazine.org/inherited-learning-it-happens-but-how-is-uncertain-20191016
We May Not Have to Age So Fast
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-may-not-have-to-age-so-fast-11572012999?mod=rsswn
Space: A Major Legal Void
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-space-major-legal-void.html
A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Widget-Maker – A Flutter UI Builder
https://www.widgetmaker.dev/
Breaking Bread: The dark and white flours of ideology
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/rips_nicolaia_21_october_2019.php
Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006)
https://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/commndmt.txt.html
Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than Ever
https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/peloton-is-spinning-faster-than-ever.html
Deepstream 5.0: Resurrected using MIT license
https://deepstream.io/blog/20190920-release-deepstream-5.0/
Minimal Wim
https://raffinaderij.booreiland.amsterdam/minimalwim/
Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Product Manager for Search and Discovery
https://www.themuse.com/jobs/themuse/product-manager-search-discovery
Moved by Fire: History’s Promethean Moment (2014)
http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/moved-by-fire-historys-promethean-moment
Bhopal disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-military-spaceplane/secretive-military-spaceplane-lands-in-florida-after-record-long-orbital-flight-idUSKBN1X60PH
The Pipe Holds Them All Together
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/pipe-holds-them-all-together
PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild
https://github.com/neex/phuip-fpizdam
Interview with a Medical Librarian
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/10/22/newsmaker-megan-rosenbloom/
Stealing private keys from a secure file sharing service
https://timvisee.com/blog/stealing-private-keys-from-secure-file-sharing-service/
Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/your-brain-approaches-tricky-tasks-in-a-surprisingly-simple-way
U.N., Unicef, Red Cross Under Ongoing Mobile Attack
https://threatpost.com/un-unicef-red-cross-mobile-attack/149556/
Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity
https://medium.com/@bellmar/heroes-and-juniors-increasing-engineering-team-velocity-97ce6a59103e
900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/world/asia/hiv-aids-pakistan-ratodero.html
California Live Fire Maps
https://ucanr.edu/sites/fire/Wildfire_Health_-_Safety/Current/
What Affects Brew Time
https://coffeeadastra.com/2019/10/20/what-affects-brew-time/
Study Estimates 50% of Sites That Use WebAssembly Use It for Malicious Purposes
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/WebAssembly-wasm-malicious-usage/
Constraints that Enable Innovation (2015) [video]
https://vimeo.com/128934608
PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC-1996/PDC-1996-Keynote-with-Bob-Muglia-and-Steve-Jobs
Transistor Clock
http://www.transistorclock.com/
Startpage is now owned by an advertising company
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_is_now_owned_by_an_advertising_company/
23 years of software side channel attacks [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNoP3qVyU8w
ML from Scratch, Part 2: Logistic Regression (2018)
http://www.oranlooney.com/post/ml-from-scratch-part-2-logistic-regression/
Git repository summary on your terminal
https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch
PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
https://sivers.org/pg2
How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/smarter-living/10-tips-internet-privacy-crowdwise.html
Carbon – Create and share images of your source code
https://carbon.now.sh/
We Sold Pando
https://pando.com/2019/10/23/we-sold-pando/
1.5M Packages a Day Bring Chaos to NYC Streets
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/nyregion/nyc-amazon-delivery.html
One Page Dungeon Generator
https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon
Unity creates new open source tool for architects
https://archpaper.com/2019/10/unity-reflect-open-source-tool/
Interview: Creating a FOSS printed circuit board design tool
https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/urban-bruhin-librepcb
The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5
https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1
I, Language Robot
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-language-robot/
Open Application Model Specification
https://github.com/oam-dev/spec/blob/master/README.md
Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
https://doist.com/blog/mental-health-and-remote-work/
Show HN: Muddymaps.js: Make Your Own Muddy Maps in the Browser Using a CSV
https://github.com/MuddyMaps/MuddyMaps.js
Disney Is Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html
Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy
https://customanim.com/
The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2
https://www.devever.net/~hl/xhtml2
Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/git-subcopy
The Importance of Cigarette Receipts in a Thirty-Two-Year-Old Murder Case
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-importance-of-cigarette-receipts-murder-conviction
Show HN: Turn Ebooks into Audiobooks
https://Auditus.cc
Duck Curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html
1,000 True Fans (2008)
https://www.kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/can-brain-science-help-us-break-bad-habits
Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102019/massachusetts-sues-exxon-climate-change-investor-fraud-misleading-advertising-healey
Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1 day after deadline
https://twitter.com/KoernerMatt/status/1187516489676410881
Why async fn in traits are hard
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/10/26/async-fn-in-traits-are-hard/
Fires in California Take Down Safari Books Online
https://d1lu8vbgap5ai0.cloudfront.net/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-27%20at%2010.46.27%20PM.png
I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-bought-used-voting-machines-on-ebay/
Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-27/economics-revolution-needed-to-fix-great-stagnation
Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test
https://www.universetoday.com/143810/skylons-sabre-engine-passes-a-big-test/
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-fractal-patterns-quantum-material.html
Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don’t get enough sleep: study
https://www.newsweek.com/american-kids-arent-getting-enough-sleep-its-affecting-their-success-school-scientists-warn-1466882
New drug forces flu virus into ‘error catastrophe,’ overwhelming with mutations
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/new-drug-forces-flu-virus-error-catastrophe-overwhelming-it-mutations
What Was the Mouse Utopia? (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=HfNKFvHtA3g
Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others [video] (1972)
https://www.ted.com/talks/viktor_frankl_youth_in_search_of_meaning/up-next
Patents are about sharing information – don’t shroud them in secrecy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/patents-are-about-sharing-information-public-dont-shroud-them-secrecy
Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/machine-learning-powered-search-ranking-of-airbnb-experiences-110b4b1a0789
A Man Must Do What He Must: Hammett’s Pragmatism (2009)
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/non_fiction/e011.html
MIT engineers develop efficient carbon capture using electrochemical cell
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/10/20191027-mitcc.html
Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste, a Nobel winner suggests
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/laser-nuclear-waste
Telling Whiskey from Whisky
https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.100511
Banksy’s Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191007/17291443141/banksys-fake-store-is-attempt-to-abuse-trademark-law-to-avoid-copyright-law.shtml
Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners
http://brainio.com
Bowling with Melville
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/24/bowling-with-melville/
Show HN: The Ballad of TurboChair
https://duro.me/stories/hackathon/technical/ballad-of-turbochair
The present and future of semantic code search
https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/hamel-husain-on-semantic-code-search
Show HN: Synonym, explain and guess word explanations
https://synonym.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/
Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family
https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang
Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/coca-cola-plastic-waste-pollution/
Software Is Hard (2007)
http://gamearchitect.net/Articles/SoftwareIsHard.html
Spotify Saved the Music Industry – Now What?
https://fortune.com/longform/spotify-music-industry-profits-apple-amazon/
The CEO Lifecycle
https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-ceo-100-2019-edition#the-ceo-life-cycle
Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/citation/wc991103.htm
The Thirty Million Line Problem (2018) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk&feature=youtu.be
White House senior infosec staffer quits over highly concerning lack of security
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/white-house-guts-infosec-team-posturing-itself-to-be-compromised-again/
TREE vs. Graham’s Number [video]
https://www.numberphile.com/videos/tree-v-grahams-number
Containers in 2019: They’re Calling It a Hypervisor Comeback
https://www.infoq.com/articles/containers-hypervisors-2019/
Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-columbus-letters-stolen-from-vatican-libraries-around-the-world-60-minutes-2019-10-20/
An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools
https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools/
California’s new gig economy law could put freelancers out of business
https://theweek.com/articles/873453/how-californias-new-gig-economy-law-could-freelancers-business
Show HN: Peg Solitaire implemented in HTML, JavaScript, CSS
https://ask5.github.io/solitaire/
Consider the Hedgehog
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n20/katherine-rundell/consider-the-hedgehog
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
https://oeis.org/
Our aim is to remove 90 % of floating ocean plastic
https://theoceancleanup.com/
Five Worlds
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/05/06/five-worlds/
Bruno Simon – 3D Curriculum
https://bruno-simon.com/
Why experts are annoying
https://sivers.org/exan
Never Use White Text on Black: Astygmatism and Conference Slides (2017)
https://jessicaotis.com/academia/never-use-white-text-on-a-black-background-astygmatism-and-conference-slides/
TSMC Starts $19.5B 3nm Fab Construction
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-fab-3nm-5nm-process-intel-samsung
Sudo vulnerability
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/14/1
Victor Mono – A free programming font
https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
The Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/the-real-nature-of-thomas-edisons-genius
Most interesting mathematics mistake? (2009)
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/879/most-interesting-mathematics-mistake
Show HN: Siproc – A primitive SIP client that spawns processes for each call
https://schm1dt.ch/git/siproc/file/README.md.html
Exxon accurately predicted 2019’s climate change and CO2 emission in 1982
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1187719206562910209
No XBL Components Left in Firefox
https://twitter.com/justinfagnani/status/1187860260477734912
Insomnia is now part of Kong
https://insomnia.rest/blog/insomnia-and-kong/
India had its first ‘WhatsApp election.’ We have a million messages from it
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/india-whatsapp-analysis-election-security.php
How to Mitigate a Negative SEO Campaign?
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/17778048?hl=en
Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
https://twitter.com/vah_13/status/1187755829371555840
How to install GalliumOS on a chromebook using Chrx
https://write.privacytools.io/connor/how-to-install-galliumos-on-a-chromebook-using-chrx
Web of Documents
http://blog.danieljanus.pl/2019/10/07/web-of-documents/
IMO Grand Challenge
https://imo-grand-challenge.github.io
The Wonders of the Suffix Tree Through the Lens of Ukkonen’s Algorithm
https://humanreadablemag.com/issues/0/articles/the-wonders-of-the-suffix-tree-through-the-lens-of-ukkonen’s-algorithm/
C Is Not a Low Level Language (2018)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479%E2%80%9D
Fired John Hopkins Professor in Talks to Join Xiaomi
https://technode.com/2019/10/18/xiaomi-daniel-povey-job/
Fractal Fantasy – WebGL and Three.js demos
https://fractalfantasy.net/
Hundreds shot and beaten as Chile takes to the streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/chile-hundreds-shot-and-beaten-street-protests
Fast HTTP Package for Go. Tuned for High Performance
https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp
80% of river plastic pollution entering the oceans stem from 1000 rivers
https://theoceancleanup.com/sources/
Tor Browser 9.0
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90
7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/7-million-adobe-creative-cloud-accounts-exposed-to-the-public/
Windows 10 update at Aussie border force borks access to its Cargo System
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/australian_border_force_internet_explorer_woes/
A push gone wrong in the name of what, exactly?
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/25/enabler/
We Aim to Tackle Plastic in 1000 Rivers by 2025
https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
A model for CEO excellence
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-mindsets-and-practices-of-excellent-ceos
USAF Unit Moves Reveal Clues to RQ-180 Ops Debut
https://aviationweek.com/defense/usaf-unit-moves-reveal-clues-rq-180-ops-debut
A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614597/a-neural-net-solves-the-three-body-problem-100-million-times-faster/
A day in the life of a Danish forensic pathologist
https://www.information.dk/mofo/no-desire-to-open-up-this-mans-skull-do-it-because-to
Show HN: eBook repository for the permaweb
https://github.com/marcojrfurtado/bookweave
Scanning the Scanners: Sensing the Internet from a Distributed Network Telescope [pdf]
https://people.csail.mit.edu/richterp/imc19_scanners.pdf
Show HN: Listen to an NP-Complete Problem
https://github.com/howonlee/audible-cos
A lightbulb moment for nuclear fusion?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/27/nuclear-fusion-research-power-generation-iter-jet-step-carbon-neutral-2050-boris-johnson
Decisions and Technical Leadership E-book [pdf]
https://ruthmalan.com/Journal/2019/20190629SlideDocTechnicalLeadershipDecisions.pdf
Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50180781
The Most Futuristic Developments We Can Expect in the Next 10 Years
https://gizmodo.com/the-most-futuristic-developments-we-can-expect-in-the-n-1838676080
Canada opens the door to public scrutiny of clinical drug trials
https://undark.org/2019/10/09/canada-opens-door-public-scrutiny-drug-trials/
The Vanishing Library
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II119/articles/the-vanishing-library
New York Regulator Probes UnitedHealth Algorithm for Racial Bias
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-regulator-probes-unitedhealth-algorithm-for-racial-bias-11572087601?mod=rsswn
“Austere Religious Scholar”
https://mobile.twitter.com/aymanm/status/1188494517848154114
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50127713
Hyperscalers and Cloud Builders Resume Their Spending Spree
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/25/hyperscalers-and-cloud-builders-resume-their-spending-spree/
I Don’t Focus on Generating a Quick Profit
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/why-i-dont-focus-on-generating-a-quick-profit-160d4f87b6
Samsung Satellite Lands in Gratiot County Michigan
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/10/26/samsung-space-satellite-lands-rural-michigan-neighborhood-morning-gratiot-county/2469708001/
The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic from rivers
https://www.fastcompany.com/90422403/the-ocean-cleanup-project-is-now-cleaning-plastic-out-of-rivers-before-it-gets-to-the-ocean
Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/23/hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-tells-police-10971438/
Air Force spaceplane returns to Earth after 780-day mission
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-x-37b-spaceplane-returns-to-earth-after-780-day-mission/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a
Thar Be Witches, and Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/sunday/thar-be-witches-and-us.html
Endoplasmic reticulum stress response regulation by mitochondrial microprotein
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12816-z
Linguistic humor, Headlines (2003)
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/headlines.html
Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-27/cash-is-more-popular-than-ever
Statistics have lost their power
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy
KeePassXC 2.5
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2019-10-26-2.5.0-released/
A cool WebDev resource for beginners
https://dev.to/arthtyagi/the-odin-project-review-4f2c
GCC’s Assembler Syntax
https://www.felixcloutier.com/documents/gcc-asm.html
Machines Predict the Weather for Us
https://vas3k.com/blog/how_to_weather/
SoftBank’s WeWork Bailout Draws Investor Concern
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbanks-wework-bailout-draws-investor-concern-11572086091?mod=rsswn
U.K. science minister says DARPA-like agency is in the works
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/uk-science-minister-says-darpa-agency-works
The WeWork story is so bizarre we can’t even get outraged about it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-wework-story-is-so-bizarre-we-cant-even-get-outraged-about-it/2019/10/25/85774d58-f743-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html
Tech giants have hijacked the web – Some innovators are developing new platforms
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-giants-have-hijacked-the-web-its-time-for-a-reboot-11572062420?mod=rsswn
CS:GO players banned by Google’s new chat AI
https://www.pcgamer.com/20000-toxic-csgo-players-banned-in-six-weeks-by-faceit-and-googles-new-chat-ai/
Block on GM rice has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness
South Carolina Judge Says State’s Asset Forfeiture Programs Are Unconstitutional
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191021/19081243236/south-carolina-judge-says-states-asset-forfeiture-programs-are-unconstitutional.shtml
TUI for lobste.rs, Written in Rust
https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/04/lobsters-tui/
Twitter “Silenced” Dissenting Voices During Protests in Egypt: Research
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/twitter-egypt-protests-accounts-suspended
Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3akm7/how-facebook-bought-a-police-force
Habits of Successful Language Learners
https://learnjapanese.best/2019/10/10/habits-of-successful-language-learners/
Autism Aesthetics
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/autism-aesthetics-rodas-yergeau-savarese/
Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/teslas-new-solar-roof-costs-less-than-a-new-roof-plus-solar-panels-aims-for-install-rate-of-1k-per-week/
Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/festivals/
Hong Kong Free Press calls for immediate release of freelance photographer
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/27/editorial-hong-kong-free-press-calls-immediate-release-freelance-photographer-following-arrest-mong-kok/
“Automating Social Services Is Killing People”
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/10/skynet-but-for-welfare-automating-social-services-is-killing-people/
Oh, Canada Independent Security Researchers Feel the Chill Up North
https://securityledger.com/2019/10/episode-165-oh-canada-independent-security-researchers-feel-the-chill-up-north/
Australian water rats cut cane toads open with to feast on their hearts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/26/australian-water-rats-cut-cane-toads-open-with-surgical-precision-to-feast-on-their-hearts
How are people making money selling knowledge on the Internet?
https://crazypolymath.substack.com/p/how-are-people-making-money-selling
Double Slit Experiment No Mystery
https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/double-slit-experiment-no-mystery/
Snapchat is a cautionary tale against leaving unicorns for dead
https://www.axios.com/snapchat-unicorns-wework-uber-lyft-c1f4be4a-6452-4c5f-af89-234764e0c66c.html
FTC fosters fake reviews, its own commissioners claim
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-ftc-fosters-fake-reviews-its-own-commissioners-say/
Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads from Health Orgs, Let Anti-Vaxxer Ads Slip Through
https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-axed-pro-vaccine-ads-from-hospitals-and-health-orgs-let-anti-vaxxer-ads-slip-through
California power lines spark wildfires and prompt blackouts. Why not bury them?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/11/bury-california-power-lines-wildfire-blackout-fix-unlikely-work/3946935002/
About 41% of the global population are under 24. And they’re angry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/26/young-people-predisposed-shake-up-established-order-protest
More Than 50 Python Tips and Tricks
https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/50-python-3-tips-tricks-e5dbe05212d7
Getting started with Docker and Kubernetes
https://dev.to/itnext/learn-how-you-can-get-started-with-docker-and-kubernetes-a92
$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj89n/this-dollar2-test-identified-bird-shit-as-cocaine-cops-keep-using-it-to-arrest-people
Schumer proposes $462B car swap – gas for electric
https://apnews.com/ffd9b2112605471484e967a137478e94
Trip planning in OneBusAway is turned off for now
https://onebusaway.org/trip-planning-on-android-phone-turned-off-for-now/
SQL in Small Steps
http://sql-steps.netlify.com/
While California Fires Rage, the Rich Hire Private Firefighters
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/style/private-firefighters-california.html
Building for Open Source
https://aletheiaware.com/blog/20191025-building-for-open-source.html
Dreams, Drugs and ConvNets – artefacts of deep learning and human cognition
https://medium.com/@pmigdal/dreams-drugs-convnets-ae7ed6ad50a5
YouTube famous creators want to plant 20M trees
https://teamtrees.org
The Underbelly of Venture Capital
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/underbelly-venture-capital-thomas-brennan/
Show HN: I’m doing a video series about building a C++ IDE from scratch
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOpZvQB55bfeIHSA71J81OZi3F19lh3d
Visual Intro to Machine Learning
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?
https://kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html
PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
https://sivers.org/pg2
Performance of System V Style Shared Memory Support in Python 3.8
https://medium.com/@rvprasad/performance-of-system-v-style-shared-memory-support-in-python-3-8-d7a7d1b1fb96
mpv 0.30.0 released
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases/tag/v0.30.0
Interceptor by The Ocean Cleanup team. Clean 1000 most polluting rivers by 2025
https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
Pros and cons of different ways of storing Enum values in the database
https://zubialevich.blogspot.com/2019/08/enum-vaues-in-the-database.html
Style Your Pandas DataFrame Like a Master
https://towardsdatascience.com/style-pandas-dataframe-like-a-master-6b02bf6468b0
The major carriers have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs-cross-carrier-messaging-initiative-ccmi-att-tmobile-sprint-verizon
Most Americans Say Parents Do Too Much for Their Young Adult Children
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/10/23/majority-of-americans-say-parents-are-doing-too-much-for-their-young-adult-children/
Google’s Chrome Web Store under fire for shoddy service and cryptic policies
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/chrome_web_store_issues/
Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921/
How to Survive When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/
Puppeteer 2.0
https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v2.0.0&show=api-release-notes
It’s Not a Feature Problem–Avoiding Startup Tarpits
https://medium.com/hackernoon/its-not-a-feature-problem-avoiding-startup-tarpits-7d5ec4b8c81b
Can you apply SOLID principles to your React applications?
https://dev.to/shadid12/can-you-apply-solid-principles-to-your-react-applications-46il
New drug forces flu virus “error catastrophe,” overwhelms it with new mutations
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/new-drug-forces-flu-virus-error-catastrophe-overwhelming-it-mutations
All Your Memories Are Stored by One Weird, Ancient Molecule (2018)
https://www.inverse.com/article/40113-arc-protein-ancient-mouse-brain-rna-capsid
List of websites and whether or not they support 2FA
https://twofactorauth.org
Google CEO: Company is genuinely struggling with employee trust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/25/google-ceo-leaked-video-says-company-is-genuinely-struggling-with-employee-trust/
Tonight, the clocks are changing for one of the last times ever
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-clock-change-2019-daylight-savings-time
Trump ordered Defense chief to ’screw Amazon’ out of $10B contract, book says
https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-ordered-defense-chief-to-screw-amazon-out-of-10b-contract-book-reportedly-says/
Comcast Slides Reveal It’s Lobbying Against Plans to Encrypt Browser Data:Report
https://gizmodo.com/comcast-slides-reveal-its-lobbying-against-plans-to-enc-1839364000
Review: Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-philosophy-religion/james-g-chappel-bad-romance
The Paradox of Trauma
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-doesnt-kill-us/201304/the-paradox-trauma
Build Tools (C++)
https://medium.com/@julienjorge/an-overview-of-build-systems-mostly-for-c-projects-ac9931494444
Clapping banned at Oxford University to stop people being triggered
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/24/clapping-banned-oxford-university-stop-people-triggered-10975221/
The Ocean Cleanup Unveiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBz-VZ-gzjU
American whiskeys leave behind a web-like “fingerprint” as they evaporate
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/whiskey-webs-are-unique-fingerprints-for-different-kinds-of-american-whiskey/
A Nuclear Rocket That Could Reach 20% the Speed of Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5zkUq3VDY
Future Kubernetes will mimic what Facebook already does
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/10/future-kubernetes-will-mimic-what-facebook-already-does/
When programmers get weird: The funniest code projects on GitHub
https://qz.com/677122/when-programmers-get-weird-the-funniest-code-projects-on-github/
Two Boeing air disasters demand urgent change – but where do we start?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/26/boeing-737-max-crashes-federal-aviation-administration-faa
Tesla new Solar Glass Roof tiles are the first version ready for a wide rollout
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932831/tesla-new-solar-glass-roof-elon-musk-version-three
Google CEO says company genuinely struggling with employee trust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/25/google-ceo-leaked-video-says-company-is-genuinely-struggling-with-employee-trust/
Four Ways to Develop Your Soft Skills Through Meetings
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/10/26/develop-your-soft-skills/#.XbRLUV3QXZE.hackernews
The American System of Tipping Makes No Sense
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/american-tipping-system-makes-no-sense/600865/
Guide to Twitter for People in Tech / Research
https://twitter.com/jamesg_oca/status/1188009219188023296
Three “programming” board games that will tickle your pseudocode
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/roundup-three-programming-board-games-that-will-tickle-your-pseudocode/
Chinese Uyghurs forced to welcome Communist Party into their homes (2018)
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/14/asia/china-xinjiang-home-stays-intl/index.html
There Is No Algorithm for Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
Trump administration may blacklist Chinese firms that routinely copy tech
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/26/trump-administration-chinese-blacklist-for-ip-rumor/
Docker best practices for secure and lightweight Dockerfiles
https://www.datree.io/resources/docker-best-practices
Study casts doubt on carbon capture
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-carbon-capture.html
Show HN: HTML placeholder trick – showing element when input has value
https://codepen.io/mjunaidi/pen/oNNwwer
Show HN: GPT-2 generates hilarious blog content
https://twitter.com/ShrutiRamanujam/status/1187770341428486144
A 100x Investment
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/a-100x-investment-part-1-6c858bbe72ef
MrBeast partners with more than 600 YouTubers to plant 20M trees
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20926852/mrbeast-teamtrees-charity-donations-pewdiepie-mkbhd-youtube-trending-tree-planting
Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/23/13-learnings-13-years/
How to Use NMAP NSE Scripts to Find Vulnerabilities
https://dotweak.com/2019/08/30/how-to-use-nmap-nse-scripts-to-find-vulnerabilities-K1pUQ00zNVhFRWp0TUNGU2RZOHBsZz09
A new combination of DNA, metal, and light could revolutionize drug discovery
https://massivesci.com/articles/drug-discovery-dna-encoded-libraries-nickel-light/
For Fathers of Daughters
https://jules.thegrommet.com/2018/10/10/for-fathers-of-daughters/
Sysdig – Why good tools matter
https://medium.com/@trevor00/sysdig-why-good-tools-really-matter-cad2a9276573
I Went from a Failed Facebook Interview to Founding a Profitable Business
https://hackernoon.com/how-a-facebook-rejection-pushed-me-to-start-and-grow-a-profitable-business-in-12-months-0dn03xxk
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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/
The Story of the Team Behind the 6502
https://www.team6502.org/
Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking
https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48630/
A neural algorithm for similarity search (2017)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6364/793
What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?
https://medium.com/@tdietterich/what-does-it-mean-for-a-machine-to-understand-555485f3ad40
Show HN: pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans
https://github.com/mgartner/pg_flame
Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
http://reprints.longform.org/playboy-interview-steve-jobs
Looping Music Seamlessly
http://nolannicholson.com/looper.html
High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017)
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/gpu-computing-julia-programming-language/
Betrayal at Krondor
https://www.filfre.net/2019/10/betrayal-at-krondor/
Show HN: CloudBrowser – Free 30 Minute Internet Cafe for Secure Browsing
https://free.cloudbrowser.xyz
Is “Investing in improving structure” better than “Paying off technical debt”?
https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/1187766114706542593
Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
https://www.quantamagazine.org/inherited-learning-it-happens-but-how-is-uncertain-20191016
We May Not Have to Age So Fast
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-may-not-have-to-age-so-fast-11572012999?mod=rsswn
Space: A Major Legal Void
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-space-major-legal-void.html
A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
Widget-Maker – A Flutter UI Builder
https://www.widgetmaker.dev/
Breaking Bread: The dark and white flours of ideology
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/rips_nicolaia_21_october_2019.php
Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006)
https://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/commndmt.txt.html
Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than Ever
https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/peloton-is-spinning-faster-than-ever.html
Deepstream 5.0: Resurrected using MIT license
https://deepstream.io/blog/20190920-release-deepstream-5.0/
Minimal Wim
https://raffinaderij.booreiland.amsterdam/minimalwim/
Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Product Manager for Search and Discovery
https://www.themuse.com/jobs/themuse/product-manager-search-discovery
Moved by Fire: History’s Promethean Moment (2014)
http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/moved-by-fire-historys-promethean-moment
Bhopal disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-military-spaceplane/secretive-military-spaceplane-lands-in-florida-after-record-long-orbital-flight-idUSKBN1X60PH
The Pipe Holds Them All Together
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/pipe-holds-them-all-together
PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild
https://github.com/neex/phuip-fpizdam
Interview with a Medical Librarian
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/10/22/newsmaker-megan-rosenbloom/
Stealing private keys from a secure file sharing service
https://timvisee.com/blog/stealing-private-keys-from-secure-file-sharing-service/
Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/your-brain-approaches-tricky-tasks-in-a-surprisingly-simple-way
U.N., Unicef, Red Cross Under Ongoing Mobile Attack
https://threatpost.com/un-unicef-red-cross-mobile-attack/149556/
Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity
https://medium.com/@bellmar/heroes-and-juniors-increasing-engineering-team-velocity-97ce6a59103e
900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/world/asia/hiv-aids-pakistan-ratodero.html
California Live Fire Maps
https://ucanr.edu/sites/fire/Wildfire_Health_-_Safety/Current/
What Affects Brew Time
https://coffeeadastra.com/2019/10/20/what-affects-brew-time/
Study Estimates 50% of Sites That Use WebAssembly Use It for Malicious Purposes
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/WebAssembly-wasm-malicious-usage/
Constraints that Enable Innovation (2015) [video]
https://vimeo.com/128934608
PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC-1996/PDC-1996-Keynote-with-Bob-Muglia-and-Steve-Jobs
Transistor Clock
http://www.transistorclock.com/
Startpage is now owned by an advertising company
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_is_now_owned_by_an_advertising_company/
23 years of software side channel attacks [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNoP3qVyU8w
ML from Scratch, Part 2: Logistic Regression (2018)
http://www.oranlooney.com/post/ml-from-scratch-part-2-logistic-regression/
Git repository summary on your terminal
https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch
PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
https://sivers.org/pg2
How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/smarter-living/10-tips-internet-privacy-crowdwise.html
Carbon – Create and share images of your source code
https://carbon.now.sh/
We Sold Pando
https://pando.com/2019/10/23/we-sold-pando/
1.5M Packages a Day Bring Chaos to NYC Streets
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/nyregion/nyc-amazon-delivery.html
One Page Dungeon Generator
https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon
Unity creates new open source tool for architects
https://archpaper.com/2019/10/unity-reflect-open-source-tool/
Interview: Creating a FOSS printed circuit board design tool
https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/urban-bruhin-librepcb
The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5
https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1
I, Language Robot
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-language-robot/
Open Application Model Specification
https://github.com/oam-dev/spec/blob/master/README.md
Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
https://doist.com/blog/mental-health-and-remote-work/
Show HN: Muddymaps.js: Make Your Own Muddy Maps in the Browser Using a CSV
https://github.com/MuddyMaps/MuddyMaps.js
Disney Is Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html
Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy
https://customanim.com/
The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2
https://www.devever.net/~hl/xhtml2
Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/git-subcopy
The Importance of Cigarette Receipts in a Thirty-Two-Year-Old Murder Case
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-importance-of-cigarette-receipts-murder-conviction
Show HN: Turn Ebooks into Audiobooks
https://Auditus.cc
Duck Curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html
1,000 True Fans (2008)
https://www.kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/can-brain-science-help-us-break-bad-habits
Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102019/massachusetts-sues-exxon-climate-change-investor-fraud-misleading-advertising-healey
Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1 day after deadline
https://twitter.com/KoernerMatt/status/1187516489676410881
Why async fn in traits are hard
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/10/26/async-fn-in-traits-are-hard/
Fires in California Take Down Safari Books Online
https://d1lu8vbgap5ai0.cloudfront.net/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-27%20at%2010.46.27%20PM.png
I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-bought-used-voting-machines-on-ebay/
Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-27/economics-revolution-needed-to-fix-great-stagnation
Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test
https://www.universetoday.com/143810/skylons-sabre-engine-passes-a-big-test/
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-fractal-patterns-quantum-material.html
Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don’t get enough sleep: study
https://www.newsweek.com/american-kids-arent-getting-enough-sleep-its-affecting-their-success-school-scientists-warn-1466882
New drug forces flu virus into ‘error catastrophe,’ overwhelming with mutations
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/new-drug-forces-flu-virus-error-catastrophe-overwhelming-it-mutations
What Was the Mouse Utopia? (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=HfNKFvHtA3g
Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others [video] (1972)
https://www.ted.com/talks/viktor_frankl_youth_in_search_of_meaning/up-next
Patents are about sharing information – don’t shroud them in secrecy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/patents-are-about-sharing-information-public-dont-shroud-them-secrecy
Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/machine-learning-powered-search-ranking-of-airbnb-experiences-110b4b1a0789
A Man Must Do What He Must: Hammett’s Pragmatism (2009)
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/non_fiction/e011.html
MIT engineers develop efficient carbon capture using electrochemical cell
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/10/20191027-mitcc.html
Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste, a Nobel winner suggests
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/laser-nuclear-waste
Telling Whiskey from Whisky
https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.100511
Banksy’s Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191007/17291443141/banksys-fake-store-is-attempt-to-abuse-trademark-law-to-avoid-copyright-law.shtml
Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners
http://brainio.com
Bowling with Melville
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/24/bowling-with-melville/
Show HN: The Ballad of TurboChair
https://duro.me/stories/hackathon/technical/ballad-of-turbochair
The present and future of semantic code search
https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/hamel-husain-on-semantic-code-search
Show HN: Synonym, explain and guess word explanations
https://synonym.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/
Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family
https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang
Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/coca-cola-plastic-waste-pollution/
Software Is Hard (2007)
http://gamearchitect.net/Articles/SoftwareIsHard.html
Spotify Saved the Music Industry – Now What?
https://fortune.com/longform/spotify-music-industry-profits-apple-amazon/
The CEO Lifecycle
https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-ceo-100-2019-edition#the-ceo-life-cycle
Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/citation/wc991103.htm
The Thirty Million Line Problem (2018) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk&feature=youtu.be
White House senior infosec staffer quits over highly concerning lack of security
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/white-house-guts-infosec-team-posturing-itself-to-be-compromised-again/
TREE vs. Graham’s Number [video]
https://www.numberphile.com/videos/tree-v-grahams-number
Containers in 2019: They’re Calling It a Hypervisor Comeback
https://www.infoq.com/articles/containers-hypervisors-2019/
Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-columbus-letters-stolen-from-vatican-libraries-around-the-world-60-minutes-2019-10-20/
An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools
https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools/
California’s new gig economy law could put freelancers out of business
https://theweek.com/articles/873453/how-californias-new-gig-economy-law-could-freelancers-business
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https://ask5.github.io/solitaire/
Consider the Hedgehog
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n20/katherine-rundell/consider-the-hedgehog
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
https://oeis.org/
Our aim is to remove 90 % of floating ocean plastic
https://theoceancleanup.com/
Five Worlds
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/05/06/five-worlds/
Bruno Simon – 3D Curriculum
https://bruno-simon.com/
Why experts are annoying
https://sivers.org/exan
Never Use White Text on Black: Astygmatism and Conference Slides (2017)
https://jessicaotis.com/academia/never-use-white-text-on-a-black-background-astygmatism-and-conference-slides/
TSMC Starts $19.5B 3nm Fab Construction
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-fab-3nm-5nm-process-intel-samsung
Sudo vulnerability
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/14/1
Victor Mono – A free programming font
https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
The Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/the-real-nature-of-thomas-edisons-genius
Most interesting mathematics mistake? (2009)
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/879/most-interesting-mathematics-mistake
Show HN: Siproc – A primitive SIP client that spawns processes for each call
https://schm1dt.ch/git/siproc/file/README.md.html
Exxon accurately predicted 2019’s climate change and CO2 emission in 1982
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1187719206562910209
No XBL Components Left in Firefox
https://twitter.com/justinfagnani/status/1187860260477734912
Insomnia is now part of Kong
https://insomnia.rest/blog/insomnia-and-kong/
India had its first ‘WhatsApp election.’ We have a million messages from it
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/india-whatsapp-analysis-election-security.php
How to Mitigate a Negative SEO Campaign?
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/17778048?hl=en
Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
https://twitter.com/vah_13/status/1187755829371555840
How to install GalliumOS on a chromebook using Chrx
https://write.privacytools.io/connor/how-to-install-galliumos-on-a-chromebook-using-chrx
Web of Documents
http://blog.danieljanus.pl/2019/10/07/web-of-documents/
IMO Grand Challenge
https://imo-grand-challenge.github.io
The Wonders of the Suffix Tree Through the Lens of Ukkonen’s Algorithm
https://humanreadablemag.com/issues/0/articles/the-wonders-of-the-suffix-tree-through-the-lens-of-ukkonen’s-algorithm/
C Is Not a Low Level Language (2018)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479%E2%80%9D
Fired John Hopkins Professor in Talks to Join Xiaomi
https://technode.com/2019/10/18/xiaomi-daniel-povey-job/
Fractal Fantasy – WebGL and Three.js demos
https://fractalfantasy.net/
Hundreds shot and beaten as Chile takes to the streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/chile-hundreds-shot-and-beaten-street-protests
Fast HTTP Package for Go. Tuned for High Performance
https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp
80% of river plastic pollution entering the oceans stem from 1000 rivers
https://theoceancleanup.com/sources/
Tor Browser 9.0
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90
7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/7-million-adobe-creative-cloud-accounts-exposed-to-the-public/
Windows 10 update at Aussie border force borks access to its Cargo System
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/australian_border_force_internet_explorer_woes/
A push gone wrong in the name of what, exactly?
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/25/enabler/
We Aim to Tackle Plastic in 1000 Rivers by 2025
https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
A model for CEO excellence
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-mindsets-and-practices-of-excellent-ceos
USAF Unit Moves Reveal Clues to RQ-180 Ops Debut
https://aviationweek.com/defense/usaf-unit-moves-reveal-clues-rq-180-ops-debut
A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614597/a-neural-net-solves-the-three-body-problem-100-million-times-faster/
A day in the life of a Danish forensic pathologist
https://www.information.dk/mofo/no-desire-to-open-up-this-mans-skull-do-it-because-to
Show HN: eBook repository for the permaweb
https://github.com/marcojrfurtado/bookweave
Scanning the Scanners: Sensing the Internet from a Distributed Network Telescope [pdf]
https://people.csail.mit.edu/richterp/imc19_scanners.pdf
Show HN: Listen to an NP-Complete Problem
https://github.com/howonlee/audible-cos
A lightbulb moment for nuclear fusion?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/27/nuclear-fusion-research-power-generation-iter-jet-step-carbon-neutral-2050-boris-johnson
Decisions and Technical Leadership E-book [pdf]
https://ruthmalan.com/Journal/2019/20190629SlideDocTechnicalLeadershipDecisions.pdf
Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50180781
The Most Futuristic Developments We Can Expect in the Next 10 Years
https://gizmodo.com/the-most-futuristic-developments-we-can-expect-in-the-n-1838676080
Canada opens the door to public scrutiny of clinical drug trials
https://undark.org/2019/10/09/canada-opens-door-public-scrutiny-drug-trials/
The Vanishing Library
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II119/articles/the-vanishing-library
New York Regulator Probes UnitedHealth Algorithm for Racial Bias
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-regulator-probes-unitedhealth-algorithm-for-racial-bias-11572087601?mod=rsswn
“Austere Religious Scholar”
https://mobile.twitter.com/aymanm/status/1188494517848154114
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50127713
Hyperscalers and Cloud Builders Resume Their Spending Spree
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/25/hyperscalers-and-cloud-builders-resume-their-spending-spree/
I Don’t Focus on Generating a Quick Profit
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/why-i-dont-focus-on-generating-a-quick-profit-160d4f87b6
Samsung Satellite Lands in Gratiot County Michigan
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/10/26/samsung-space-satellite-lands-rural-michigan-neighborhood-morning-gratiot-county/2469708001/
The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic from rivers
https://www.fastcompany.com/90422403/the-ocean-cleanup-project-is-now-cleaning-plastic-out-of-rivers-before-it-gets-to-the-ocean
Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/23/hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-hires-hitman-tells-police-10971438/
Air Force spaceplane returns to Earth after 780-day mission
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-x-37b-spaceplane-returns-to-earth-after-780-day-mission/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a
Thar Be Witches, and Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/sunday/thar-be-witches-and-us.html
Endoplasmic reticulum stress response regulation by mitochondrial microprotein
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12816-z
Linguistic humor, Headlines (2003)
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/headlines.html
Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-27/cash-is-more-popular-than-ever
Statistics have lost their power
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy
KeePassXC 2.5
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2019-10-26-2.5.0-released/
A cool WebDev resource for beginners
https://dev.to/arthtyagi/the-odin-project-review-4f2c
GCC’s Assembler Syntax
https://www.felixcloutier.com/documents/gcc-asm.html
Machines Predict the Weather for Us
https://vas3k.com/blog/how_to_weather/
SoftBank’s WeWork Bailout Draws Investor Concern
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbanks-wework-bailout-draws-investor-concern-11572086091?mod=rsswn
U.K. science minister says DARPA-like agency is in the works
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/uk-science-minister-says-darpa-agency-works
The WeWork story is so bizarre we can’t even get outraged about it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-wework-story-is-so-bizarre-we-cant-even-get-outraged-about-it/2019/10/25/85774d58-f743-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html
Tech giants have hijacked the web – Some innovators are developing new platforms
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-giants-have-hijacked-the-web-its-time-for-a-reboot-11572062420?mod=rsswn
CS:GO players banned by Google’s new chat AI
https://www.pcgamer.com/20000-toxic-csgo-players-banned-in-six-weeks-by-faceit-and-googles-new-chat-ai/
Block on GM rice has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness
South Carolina Judge Says State’s Asset Forfeiture Programs Are Unconstitutional
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191021/19081243236/south-carolina-judge-says-states-asset-forfeiture-programs-are-unconstitutional.shtml
TUI for lobste.rs, Written in Rust
https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/04/lobsters-tui/
Twitter “Silenced” Dissenting Voices During Protests in Egypt: Research
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/twitter-egypt-protests-accounts-suspended
Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3akm7/how-facebook-bought-a-police-force
Habits of Successful Language Learners
https://learnjapanese.best/2019/10/10/habits-of-successful-language-learners/
Autism Aesthetics
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/autism-aesthetics-rodas-yergeau-savarese/
Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/teslas-new-solar-roof-costs-less-than-a-new-roof-plus-solar-panels-aims-for-install-rate-of-1k-per-week/
Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/festivals/
Hong Kong Free Press calls for immediate release of freelance photographer
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/27/editorial-hong-kong-free-press-calls-immediate-release-freelance-photographer-following-arrest-mong-kok/
“Automating Social Services Is Killing People”
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/10/skynet-but-for-welfare-automating-social-services-is-killing-people/
Oh, Canada Independent Security Researchers Feel the Chill Up North
https://securityledger.com/2019/10/episode-165-oh-canada-independent-security-researchers-feel-the-chill-up-north/
Australian water rats cut cane toads open with to feast on their hearts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/26/australian-water-rats-cut-cane-toads-open-with-surgical-precision-to-feast-on-their-hearts
How are people making money selling knowledge on the Internet?
https://crazypolymath.substack.com/p/how-are-people-making-money-selling
Double Slit Experiment No Mystery
https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/double-slit-experiment-no-mystery/
Snapchat is a cautionary tale against leaving unicorns for dead
https://www.axios.com/snapchat-unicorns-wework-uber-lyft-c1f4be4a-6452-4c5f-af89-234764e0c66c.html
FTC fosters fake reviews, its own commissioners claim
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-ftc-fosters-fake-reviews-its-own-commissioners-say/
Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads from Health Orgs, Let Anti-Vaxxer Ads Slip Through
https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-axed-pro-vaccine-ads-from-hospitals-and-health-orgs-let-anti-vaxxer-ads-slip-through
California power lines spark wildfires and prompt blackouts. Why not bury them?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/11/bury-california-power-lines-wildfire-blackout-fix-unlikely-work/3946935002/
About 41% of the global population are under 24. And they’re angry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/26/young-people-predisposed-shake-up-established-order-protest
More Than 50 Python Tips and Tricks
https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/50-python-3-tips-tricks-e5dbe05212d7
Getting started with Docker and Kubernetes
https://dev.to/itnext/learn-how-you-can-get-started-with-docker-and-kubernetes-a92
$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj89n/this-dollar2-test-identified-bird-shit-as-cocaine-cops-keep-using-it-to-arrest-people
Schumer proposes $462B car swap – gas for electric
https://apnews.com/ffd9b2112605471484e967a137478e94
Trip planning in OneBusAway is turned off for now
https://onebusaway.org/trip-planning-on-android-phone-turned-off-for-now/
SQL in Small Steps
http://sql-steps.netlify.com/
While California Fires Rage, the Rich Hire Private Firefighters
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/style/private-firefighters-california.html
Building for Open Source
https://aletheiaware.com/blog/20191025-building-for-open-source.html
Dreams, Drugs and ConvNets – artefacts of deep learning and human cognition
https://medium.com/@pmigdal/dreams-drugs-convnets-ae7ed6ad50a5
YouTube famous creators want to plant 20M trees
https://teamtrees.org
The Underbelly of Venture Capital
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/underbelly-venture-capital-thomas-brennan/
Show HN: I’m doing a video series about building a C++ IDE from scratch
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOpZvQB55bfeIHSA71J81OZi3F19lh3d
Visual Intro to Machine Learning
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?
https://kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html
PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
https://sivers.org/pg2
Performance of System V Style Shared Memory Support in Python 3.8
https://medium.com/@rvprasad/performance-of-system-v-style-shared-memory-support-in-python-3-8-d7a7d1b1fb96
mpv 0.30.0 released
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases/tag/v0.30.0
Interceptor by The Ocean Cleanup team. Clean 1000 most polluting rivers by 2025
https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
Pros and cons of different ways of storing Enum values in the database
https://zubialevich.blogspot.com/2019/08/enum-vaues-in-the-database.html
Style Your Pandas DataFrame Like a Master
https://towardsdatascience.com/style-pandas-dataframe-like-a-master-6b02bf6468b0
The major carriers have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs-cross-carrier-messaging-initiative-ccmi-att-tmobile-sprint-verizon
Most Americans Say Parents Do Too Much for Their Young Adult Children
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/10/23/majority-of-americans-say-parents-are-doing-too-much-for-their-young-adult-children/
Google’s Chrome Web Store under fire for shoddy service and cryptic policies
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/chrome_web_store_issues/
Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921/
How to Survive When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/
Puppeteer 2.0
https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v2.0.0&show=api-release-notes
It’s Not a Feature Problem–Avoiding Startup Tarpits
https://medium.com/hackernoon/its-not-a-feature-problem-avoiding-startup-tarpits-7d5ec4b8c81b
Can you apply SOLID principles to your React applications?
https://dev.to/shadid12/can-you-apply-solid-principles-to-your-react-applications-46il
New drug forces flu virus “error catastrophe,” overwhelms it with new mutations
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/new-drug-forces-flu-virus-error-catastrophe-overwhelming-it-mutations
All Your Memories Are Stored by One Weird, Ancient Molecule (2018)
https://www.inverse.com/article/40113-arc-protein-ancient-mouse-brain-rna-capsid
List of websites and whether or not they support 2FA
https://twofactorauth.org
Google CEO: Company is genuinely struggling with employee trust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/25/google-ceo-leaked-video-says-company-is-genuinely-struggling-with-employee-trust/
Tonight, the clocks are changing for one of the last times ever
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-clock-change-2019-daylight-savings-time
Trump ordered Defense chief to ’screw Amazon’ out of $10B contract, book says
https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-ordered-defense-chief-to-screw-amazon-out-of-10b-contract-book-reportedly-says/
Comcast Slides Reveal It’s Lobbying Against Plans to Encrypt Browser Data:Report
https://gizmodo.com/comcast-slides-reveal-its-lobbying-against-plans-to-enc-1839364000
Review: Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-philosophy-religion/james-g-chappel-bad-romance
The Paradox of Trauma
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-doesnt-kill-us/201304/the-paradox-trauma
Build Tools (C++)
https://medium.com/@julienjorge/an-overview-of-build-systems-mostly-for-c-projects-ac9931494444
Clapping banned at Oxford University to stop people being triggered
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/24/clapping-banned-oxford-university-stop-people-triggered-10975221/
The Ocean Cleanup Unveiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBz-VZ-gzjU
American whiskeys leave behind a web-like “fingerprint” as they evaporate
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/whiskey-webs-are-unique-fingerprints-for-different-kinds-of-american-whiskey/
A Nuclear Rocket That Could Reach 20% the Speed of Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5zkUq3VDY
Future Kubernetes will mimic what Facebook already does
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/10/future-kubernetes-will-mimic-what-facebook-already-does/
When programmers get weird: The funniest code projects on GitHub
https://qz.com/677122/when-programmers-get-weird-the-funniest-code-projects-on-github/
Two Boeing air disasters demand urgent change – but where do we start?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/26/boeing-737-max-crashes-federal-aviation-administration-faa
Tesla new Solar Glass Roof tiles are the first version ready for a wide rollout
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932831/tesla-new-solar-glass-roof-elon-musk-version-three
Google CEO says company genuinely struggling with employee trust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/25/google-ceo-leaked-video-says-company-is-genuinely-struggling-with-employee-trust/
Four Ways to Develop Your Soft Skills Through Meetings
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/10/26/develop-your-soft-skills/#.XbRLUV3QXZE.hackernews
The American System of Tipping Makes No Sense
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/american-tipping-system-makes-no-sense/600865/
Guide to Twitter for People in Tech / Research
https://twitter.com/jamesg_oca/status/1188009219188023296
Three “programming” board games that will tickle your pseudocode
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/roundup-three-programming-board-games-that-will-tickle-your-pseudocode/
Chinese Uyghurs forced to welcome Communist Party into their homes (2018)
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/14/asia/china-xinjiang-home-stays-intl/index.html
There Is No Algorithm for Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
Trump administration may blacklist Chinese firms that routinely copy tech
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/26/trump-administration-chinese-blacklist-for-ip-rumor/
Docker best practices for secure and lightweight Dockerfiles
https://www.datree.io/resources/docker-best-practices
Study casts doubt on carbon capture
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-carbon-capture.html
Show HN: HTML placeholder trick – showing element when input has value
https://codepen.io/mjunaidi/pen/oNNwwer
Show HN: GPT-2 generates hilarious blog content
https://twitter.com/ShrutiRamanujam/status/1187770341428486144
A 100x Investment
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/a-100x-investment-part-1-6c858bbe72ef
MrBeast partners with more than 600 YouTubers to plant 20M trees
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20926852/mrbeast-teamtrees-charity-donations-pewdiepie-mkbhd-youtube-trending-tree-planting
Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/23/13-learnings-13-years/
How to Use NMAP NSE Scripts to Find Vulnerabilities
https://dotweak.com/2019/08/30/how-to-use-nmap-nse-scripts-to-find-vulnerabilities-K1pUQ00zNVhFRWp0TUNGU2RZOHBsZz09
A new combination of DNA, metal, and light could revolutionize drug discovery
https://massivesci.com/articles/drug-discovery-dna-encoded-libraries-nickel-light/
For Fathers of Daughters
https://jules.thegrommet.com/2018/10/10/for-fathers-of-daughters/
Sysdig – Why good tools matter
https://medium.com/@trevor00/sysdig-why-good-tools-really-matter-cad2a9276573
I Went from a Failed Facebook Interview to Founding a Profitable Business
https://hackernoon.com/how-a-facebook-rejection-pushed-me-to-start-and-grow-a-profitable-business-in-12-months-0dn03xxk
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