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My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
http://www.sullysullenberger.com/my-letter-to-the-editor-of-new-york-times-magazine/
First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856/
Flash Is Responsible for the Internet’s Most Creative Era
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era
Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?
https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202
More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive
https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/13/2500-more-ms-dos-games-playable-at-the-archive/
Facebook’s viewership metrics were inflated by 150 to 900%
https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1183207739675291654
Tilton
https://www.crockford.com/tilton.html
Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/clash-over-surveillance-software-turns-personal-in-germany
LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-profiles/microsofts-linkedin-loses-appeal-over-access-to-user-profiles-idUSKCN1VU21W
How to fuck up software releases
https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/12/how-to-fuck-up-releases.html
The boy behind the biggest coin-op conversion of the 80s
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-13-the-boy-behind-the-biggest-coin-op-conversion-of-the-80s
Why office workers can’t sleep and why that’s bad
https://lithub.com/why-office-workers-cant-sleep-and-why-thats-bad/
Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail
https://thehustle.co/costco-membership-economics/
Show HN: I’ve made a rotary dial number input, because why not?
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/dial
Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS and ML [pdf]
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-deep.pdf
Naming the ‘iPhone SE 2’
https://512pixels.net/2019/10/naming-the-iphone-se-2/
Unicorn Feces
https://www.profgalloway.com/unicorn-feces
Tracking PG&E outages by scraping to a Git repo
https://simonwillison.net/2019/Oct/10/pge-outages/
SoftBank Seeking to Take Control of WeWork Through Financing Package
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-seeking-to-take-control-of-wework-through-financing-package-11571002488?mod=rsswn
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Director of SEO
https://www.themuse.com/jobs/themuse/director-seo
SEC blocks the Telegram ICO – what this means, and what happens now
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/10/13/sec-blocks-the-telegram-ico-what-this-means-and-what-happens-now/
LXC 1.0 blog-post-series
https://stgraber.org/2013/12/20/lxc-1-0-blog-post-series/
The state of Android updates is still dire
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20847758/google-android-update-problem-pie-q-treble-mainline
Engineers without borders, silos, and vendor walls
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/13/firewall/
When GoFundMe Gets Ugly
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/gofundme-nation/598369/
Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs
https://blog.paperspace.com/paperspace-launches-gradient-community-notebooks/
Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007)
https://debugmo.de/2007/07/read-your-dvds-the-raw-way/
In praise of dissenters: It pays to encourage a variety of opinions
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/10/in-praise-of-dissenters
Baking a Better Loaf of Bread
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/oct/10/flour-power-meet-the-bread-heads-baking-a-better-loaf
Lessons Learned from Building an AI Writing App
https://senrigan.io/blog/how-writeupai-runs-behind-the-scenes/
Don’t build systems. Build subsystems
https://blog.jessitron.com/2019/10/13/dont-build-systems-build-subsystems/
What Happened to the West Village?
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/09/what-happened-to-the-west-village/
Show HN: Slouch Stoppah
https://slouchstoppah.com
Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]
https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/deep_learning_60min_blitz.html
Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/fracking-boom-tied-to-methane-spike-in-earths-atmosphere/
Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1183391221861027841
Show HN: Design System Playground
https://design-system-playground.netlify.com/
The Computer as a Communication Device
https://technicshistory.com/2019/10/10/the-computer-as-a-communication-device/
Restricting Manhattan’s 14th street to buses has been a success
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/nyregion/14th-street-cars-banned.html
Show HN: Webwide – a discussion community for web designers, devs and makers
https://hello.webwide.io
Heavier Than Air (1930)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1930/12/13/heavier-than-air
The Balloon Boy Hoax Solved
https://www.5280.com/2019/09/the-balloon-boy-hoax-solved
The Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie (2012) [pdf]
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/Talks/12-09-07_DMR.pdf
Category Theory for Scientists (2018) [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6946v1.pdf
The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/magazine/uss-wasp-lost-world-war-ii-aircraft-carrier.html
Mu: A Human Scale Computer
https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme
How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript
https://heap.io/blog/engineering/migrating-to-typescript
Hunting down Ken’s PDP-7: video footage found
https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-run-unix.html
Fortnite has been down for hours as millions of players stare at a black hole
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/13/20909812/fortnite-down-black-hole-chapter-2-the-end
Geneticists retract study suggesting first CRISPR babies might die early
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03032-2
Goodbye with Love
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dhf1vo/goodbye_with_love/
America Is Losing the Chinese Shopper
https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-losing-the-chinese-shopper-11570852805?mod=rsswn
Solving the Megaron Cube with Python
https://opensourc.es/blog/megaron-cube
Show HN: Text mining using web editor
https://textmine.co
How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs
https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(again)_on_Intel_CPUs
Computer Files Are Going Extinct
https://onezero.medium.com/the-death-of-the-computer-file-doc-43cb028c0506
Top Down Operator Precedence (1971) [pdf]
https://daesan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/top_down_operator_precedence.pdf
Apple is a hypocrite (and so are we)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-is-a-hypocrite-so-are-we/
The Necessity of Nuclear
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/divest-update/
Homemade IC (2018)
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
Are Hackintosh Users More Passionate About the Mac Than Apple?
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59x5dq/are-hackintosh-users-more-passionate-about-the-mac-than-apple
One device to drive them all (2016)
https://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/81-bmii-odtdta.html
AMP is joining the OpenJS Foundation incubation program
https://blog.amp.dev/2019/10/10/amp-is-joining-the-openjs-foundation-incubation-program/
Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/11/health/singapore-sugar-drink-ads-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Vulcain: A REST-Based Alternative to GraphQL
https://github.com/dunglas/vulcain
Millionaire buries $5M treasure in the mountains
https://www.science101.com/eccentric-millionaire-buries-treasure-incredible-discovery-2/
China’s Xi Warns of Shattered Bones for Resisters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-xi/chinas-xi-warns-attempts-to-divide-china-will-end-in-shuttered-bones-idUSKBN1WS07W
Moving Away from HDF5 (2016)
https://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/
Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/11/health/singapore-sugar-drink-ads-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Cassandra as a Service on AWS/GCP
https://www.datastax.com/constellation
Understanding the OWASP list
https://whitessource.com/owasp-top-10-vulnerabilities
A new hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips
https://www.wired.com/story/plant-spy-chips-hardware-supermicro-cheap-proof-of-concept/
Dallas school district starts video game teams on 64 campuses
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2019/10/13/friday-night-bytes-dallas-isd-starts-video-game-teams-on-64-campuses/
Introduction to TurboFan
https://doar-e.github.io/blog/2019/01/28/introduction-to-turbofan/
Kim Jong Un May Be Hiding a Hog Apocalypse from the World
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-12/kim-jong-un-may-be-hiding-a-hog-apocalypse-from-the-world
Kim Peek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek
Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State
https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/10/13/oop_and_essential_state.html
A father knitted his baby’s first year of sleep pattern data into a blanket
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/21/20699484/sleep-blanket-data-visualisation-seung-lee
The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h
https://web.archive.org/web/20131205042841/http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/2005/the-ugliest-c-feature-tgmathh/
Open Source Social Network
https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/
Reflections in a pop star’s eyes told a selfie stalker how to find her
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20910551/stalker-attacked-pop-idol-reflection-pupils-selfies-videos-photos-google-street-view-japan
The most important design guideline (2014) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tg1ONG18H8
Show HN: BuzMap – Global Unified Transit Map
http://buz-map.com/#7/52.416/-3.939
Silicon Valley Startups Awash in Dollars, Again (2007)
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/business/media/17bubble.html
Show HN: Nexrender – Data-Driven Render Automation for After Effects
https://github.com/inlife/nexrender
Frugal Computing
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/10/frugal-computing.html
In the rush to harvest body parts, death investigations have been upended
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-13/body-parts-harvesting-hinders-coroner-autopsies
A baby who was ‘born’ twice (2016)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/26/the-baby-who-was-born-twice/
The Moon made twice, at home
https://medium.com/@sulej.robert/the-moon-made-twice-at-home-a2cb73b3f1e8
Performance Analysis of Multithreaded Applications
https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/10/05/Performance-Analysis-Of-MT-apps
Notice of Retraction due to a programming error
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2752474
Most first-time visitors to Japan are struck by how clean the country is
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191006-what-japan-can-teach-us-about-cleanliness
Some (opinionated) guidelines for include file organisation in C/C++
https://upcoder.com/20/cc-include-guidelines
Show HN: Eatrel – Find food offers near you (New York)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eatrel
Facebook should ban campaign ads
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/13/ban-facebook-campaign-ads/
Designing File Formats (2005)
https://www.fadden.com/tech/file-formats.html
Show HN: bindPDF.app - Combine multiple PDF files into a single file on macOS
https://github.com/vishaltelangre/bindPDF
RGS4 maintains chronic pain symptoms in rodent models
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2019/07/12/JNEUROSCI.3154-18.2019
We build a lithium-ion car battery
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/technology/we-build-lithium-ion-car-battery
Kuo: iPhone SE 2 Launching in Q1 2020 with A13 at $399 Price
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/13/kuo-iphone-se-2-to-launch-in-q1-2020-at-399-price/
The Maraschino Mogul’s Life (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life
Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/799218/54a30b2467e46e16/
Uyghur scientists swept up in China’s detentions
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/there-s-no-hope-rest-us-uyghur-scientists-swept-china-s-massive-detentions
Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool
https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
Intel i9 9900k 40% Faster in Chrome Octane Bench with mitigations=off
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-9900k-mitigations&num=7
Sun Microsystems: A Look Back at a Tech Company Ahead of Its Time
https://thenewstack.io/sun-microsystems-a-look-back-at-a-tech-company-ahead-of-its-time/
What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/what-men-eat-and-drink-may-affect-their-babies-health/2019/10/11/33d4aefa-da42-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html
Happy 25th year, blogging
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/12/blogging-twenty-five-years-old-all-grown-up
Human intelligence: have we reached the limit of knowledge?
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-human-intelligence-limit-knowledge.html
The FBI Lost Our Son
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbi-lost-our-son-11570806358?mod=rsswn
Why Apple Killed the MacBook Pro
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/10/12/apple-macbook-pro-steve-jobs-tim-cook-powerful-macos-ios-iphone-defeat-broken/#423ae8a84895
Debate on Instrumental Convergence Between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WxW6Gc6f2z3mzmqKs/debate-between-yann-le-cunn-stuart-russell-and-more-on?_ga=2.200766249.647243213.1570144399-1897572132.1531206705
Show HN: TerminalSplash – Browse and Submit Windows Terminal Themes
https://terminalsplash.com/
A new abnormal: It is still 2 minutes to midnight
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
International Day Against DRM 2019 Focuses on Education
https://torrentfreak.com/international-day-against-drm-2019-focuses-on-education-191012/
America’s Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/10/352872/
Western firms kowtow to China’s increasing economic clout
https://www.dw.com/en/western-firms-kowtow-to-chinas-increasing-economic-clout/a-50797033
Facebook to Pay $40M Under Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/facebook-pay-40-million-under-proposed-settlement-video-metrics-suit-1245807
Why Learn Vim in 2019?
https://www.vimfromscratch.com/articles/why-learn-vim-in-2019/
Diplomatic immunity for US suspect in teen’s death ’no longer pertinent’
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/13/uk/harry-dunn-immunity-intl-gbr-scli/index.html
Show HN: Swidi, a dice-rolling API and my first Python project
https://swidi.org/?
What if “dopamine fasting” isn’t Silicon Valley B.S.?
https://www.inverse.com/article/59978-dopamine-fasting-trend-neuroscience
The Pirate Bay database is corrupted live in production
https://i.imgur.com/ITNyUy6.png
Python Snippets You Should Learn Today
https://medium.com/better-programming/20-python-snippets-you-should-learn-today-8328e26ff124
Lyft follows Uber in suing NYC over cruising time caps
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-lyft-inc-lawsuit-newyork/lyft-follows-uber-in-suing-nyc-over-cruising-time-caps-idUSKBN1WR0NI
Albert Einstein-The World as I See It (Essay)
https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/einstein/essay.htm
Show HN: Chrome extension to remove annoying messages when booking hotels
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nosenseofurgency/bgfadnacgdbhjbhdgolhjaghmhbbbcio
Advanced Operating Systems (UNSW, Fall 2019)
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/current/
I knew my Airbnb would be watching me – but it still creeped me out
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/10/11/airbnb-surveillance-is-unsettling-even-when-disclosed.html
Introduction to Neuromorphic Computing
https://opensourc.es/blog/neuromorphic
Plasim climate model – climate model of intermediate complexity (download)
https://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/en/arbeitsgruppen/theoretische-meteorologie/modelle/plasim.html
Is Siraj a scam-artist? Plagiarism detected
https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1183338795116175366
Whats the Radius of a Day?
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/10/09/whats-the-radius-of-a-day
New cognitive technique can help reduce bedtime procrastination
https://solvingprocrastination.com/study-bedtime-procrastination-mcii-technique/
How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/how-to-perform-calendar-calculations-5617f35d3070
Architecting Vuex store for large-scale Vue.js applications
https://dev.to/haxzie/architecting-vuex-store-for-large-scale-vue-js-applications-4f1f
There’s an Automation Crisis Underway, It’s Just Mostly Invisible
https://gizmodo.com/the-trickle-down-disaster-of-automation-1838974516
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/598363/
How Italians Became ’White’
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html
Lecture Notes to the Masters Course Digital Signal Processing
https://dsp-nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/nbsphinx-experiment/index.html
Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon (German) folk dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=XaqR3G_NVoo
Chernobyl: The Retold Story by HBO
https://medium.com/@sellislem/chernobyl-the-retold-story-by-hbo-195ec5cca725
Set up digital workspace for your project
https://www.agrigoryan.me/post/digital-workspace-software-engineering-projects
You cannot cURL under pressure
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/you-cant-curl-under-pressure
8chan Is Back from the Internet Grave – and It Has a New Name
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yb44/8chan-is-back-from-the-internet-grave-and-it-has-a-new-name
World’s top three asset managers oversee $300B fossil fuel investments
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/12/top-three-asset-managers-fossil-fuel-investments
Safari sends some user IP addresses to Chinese conglomerate Tencent by default
https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-safari-ip-addresses-tencent/
Why Apple “Killed” the MacBook Pro
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/10/12/apple-macbook-pro-steve-jobs-tim-cook-powerful-macos-ios-iphone-defeat-broken
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My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
http://www.sullysullenberger.com/my-letter-to-the-editor-of-new-york-times-magazine/
First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856/
Flash Is Responsible for the Internet’s Most Creative Era
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era
Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?
https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202
More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive
https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/13/2500-more-ms-dos-games-playable-at-the-archive/
Facebook’s viewership metrics were inflated by 150 to 900%
https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1183207739675291654
Tilton
https://www.crockford.com/tilton.html
Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/clash-over-surveillance-software-turns-personal-in-germany
LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-profiles/microsofts-linkedin-loses-appeal-over-access-to-user-profiles-idUSKCN1VU21W
How to fuck up software releases
https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/12/how-to-fuck-up-releases.html
The boy behind the biggest coin-op conversion of the 80s
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-13-the-boy-behind-the-biggest-coin-op-conversion-of-the-80s
Why office workers can’t sleep and why that’s bad
https://lithub.com/why-office-workers-cant-sleep-and-why-thats-bad/
Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail
https://thehustle.co/costco-membership-economics/
Show HN: I’ve made a rotary dial number input, because why not?
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/dial
Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS and ML [pdf]
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-deep.pdf
Naming the ‘iPhone SE 2’
https://512pixels.net/2019/10/naming-the-iphone-se-2/
Unicorn Feces
https://www.profgalloway.com/unicorn-feces
Tracking PG&E outages by scraping to a Git repo
https://simonwillison.net/2019/Oct/10/pge-outages/
SoftBank Seeking to Take Control of WeWork Through Financing Package
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-seeking-to-take-control-of-wework-through-financing-package-11571002488?mod=rsswn
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Director of SEO
https://www.themuse.com/jobs/themuse/director-seo
SEC blocks the Telegram ICO – what this means, and what happens now
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/10/13/sec-blocks-the-telegram-ico-what-this-means-and-what-happens-now/
LXC 1.0 blog-post-series
https://stgraber.org/2013/12/20/lxc-1-0-blog-post-series/
The state of Android updates is still dire
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20847758/google-android-update-problem-pie-q-treble-mainline
Engineers without borders, silos, and vendor walls
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/13/firewall/
When GoFundMe Gets Ugly
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/gofundme-nation/598369/
Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs
https://blog.paperspace.com/paperspace-launches-gradient-community-notebooks/
Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007)
https://debugmo.de/2007/07/read-your-dvds-the-raw-way/
In praise of dissenters: It pays to encourage a variety of opinions
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/10/in-praise-of-dissenters
Baking a Better Loaf of Bread
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/oct/10/flour-power-meet-the-bread-heads-baking-a-better-loaf
Lessons Learned from Building an AI Writing App
https://senrigan.io/blog/how-writeupai-runs-behind-the-scenes/
Don’t build systems. Build subsystems
https://blog.jessitron.com/2019/10/13/dont-build-systems-build-subsystems/
What Happened to the West Village?
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/09/what-happened-to-the-west-village/
Show HN: Slouch Stoppah
https://slouchstoppah.com
Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]
https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/deep_learning_60min_blitz.html
Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/fracking-boom-tied-to-methane-spike-in-earths-atmosphere/
Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1183391221861027841
Show HN: Design System Playground
https://design-system-playground.netlify.com/
The Computer as a Communication Device
https://technicshistory.com/2019/10/10/the-computer-as-a-communication-device/
Restricting Manhattan’s 14th street to buses has been a success
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/nyregion/14th-street-cars-banned.html
Show HN: Webwide – a discussion community for web designers, devs and makers
https://hello.webwide.io
Heavier Than Air (1930)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1930/12/13/heavier-than-air
The Balloon Boy Hoax Solved
https://www.5280.com/2019/09/the-balloon-boy-hoax-solved
The Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie (2012) [pdf]
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/Talks/12-09-07_DMR.pdf
Category Theory for Scientists (2018) [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6946v1.pdf
The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/magazine/uss-wasp-lost-world-war-ii-aircraft-carrier.html
Mu: A Human Scale Computer
https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme
How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript
https://heap.io/blog/engineering/migrating-to-typescript
Hunting down Ken’s PDP-7: video footage found
https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-run-unix.html
Fortnite has been down for hours as millions of players stare at a black hole
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/13/20909812/fortnite-down-black-hole-chapter-2-the-end
Geneticists retract study suggesting first CRISPR babies might die early
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03032-2
Goodbye with Love
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dhf1vo/goodbye_with_love/
America Is Losing the Chinese Shopper
https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-losing-the-chinese-shopper-11570852805?mod=rsswn
Solving the Megaron Cube with Python
https://opensourc.es/blog/megaron-cube
Show HN: Text mining using web editor
https://textmine.co
How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs
https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(again)_on_Intel_CPUs
Computer Files Are Going Extinct
https://onezero.medium.com/the-death-of-the-computer-file-doc-43cb028c0506
Top Down Operator Precedence (1971) [pdf]
https://daesan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/top_down_operator_precedence.pdf
Apple is a hypocrite (and so are we)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-is-a-hypocrite-so-are-we/
The Necessity of Nuclear
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/divest-update/
Homemade IC (2018)
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
Are Hackintosh Users More Passionate About the Mac Than Apple?
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59x5dq/are-hackintosh-users-more-passionate-about-the-mac-than-apple
One device to drive them all (2016)
https://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/81-bmii-odtdta.html
AMP is joining the OpenJS Foundation incubation program
https://blog.amp.dev/2019/10/10/amp-is-joining-the-openjs-foundation-incubation-program/
Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/11/health/singapore-sugar-drink-ads-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Vulcain: A REST-Based Alternative to GraphQL
https://github.com/dunglas/vulcain
Millionaire buries $5M treasure in the mountains
https://www.science101.com/eccentric-millionaire-buries-treasure-incredible-discovery-2/
China’s Xi Warns of Shattered Bones for Resisters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-xi/chinas-xi-warns-attempts-to-divide-china-will-end-in-shuttered-bones-idUSKBN1WS07W
Moving Away from HDF5 (2016)
https://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/
Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/11/health/singapore-sugar-drink-ads-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Cassandra as a Service on AWS/GCP
https://www.datastax.com/constellation
Understanding the OWASP list
https://whitessource.com/owasp-top-10-vulnerabilities
A new hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips
https://www.wired.com/story/plant-spy-chips-hardware-supermicro-cheap-proof-of-concept/
Dallas school district starts video game teams on 64 campuses
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2019/10/13/friday-night-bytes-dallas-isd-starts-video-game-teams-on-64-campuses/
Introduction to TurboFan
https://doar-e.github.io/blog/2019/01/28/introduction-to-turbofan/
Kim Jong Un May Be Hiding a Hog Apocalypse from the World
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-12/kim-jong-un-may-be-hiding-a-hog-apocalypse-from-the-world
Kim Peek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek
Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State
https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/10/13/oop_and_essential_state.html
A father knitted his baby’s first year of sleep pattern data into a blanket
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/21/20699484/sleep-blanket-data-visualisation-seung-lee
The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h
https://web.archive.org/web/20131205042841/http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/2005/the-ugliest-c-feature-tgmathh/
Open Source Social Network
https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/
Reflections in a pop star’s eyes told a selfie stalker how to find her
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20910551/stalker-attacked-pop-idol-reflection-pupils-selfies-videos-photos-google-street-view-japan
The most important design guideline (2014) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tg1ONG18H8
Show HN: BuzMap – Global Unified Transit Map
http://buz-map.com/#7/52.416/-3.939
Silicon Valley Startups Awash in Dollars, Again (2007)
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/business/media/17bubble.html
Show HN: Nexrender – Data-Driven Render Automation for After Effects
https://github.com/inlife/nexrender
Frugal Computing
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/10/frugal-computing.html
In the rush to harvest body parts, death investigations have been upended
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-13/body-parts-harvesting-hinders-coroner-autopsies
A baby who was ‘born’ twice (2016)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/26/the-baby-who-was-born-twice/
The Moon made twice, at home
https://medium.com/@sulej.robert/the-moon-made-twice-at-home-a2cb73b3f1e8
Performance Analysis of Multithreaded Applications
https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/10/05/Performance-Analysis-Of-MT-apps
Notice of Retraction due to a programming error
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2752474
Most first-time visitors to Japan are struck by how clean the country is
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191006-what-japan-can-teach-us-about-cleanliness
Some (opinionated) guidelines for include file organisation in C/C++
https://upcoder.com/20/cc-include-guidelines
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eatrel
Facebook should ban campaign ads
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/13/ban-facebook-campaign-ads/
Designing File Formats (2005)
https://www.fadden.com/tech/file-formats.html
Show HN: bindPDF.app - Combine multiple PDF files into a single file on macOS
https://github.com/vishaltelangre/bindPDF
RGS4 maintains chronic pain symptoms in rodent models
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2019/07/12/JNEUROSCI.3154-18.2019
We build a lithium-ion car battery
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Kuo: iPhone SE 2 Launching in Q1 2020 with A13 at $399 Price
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/13/kuo-iphone-se-2-to-launch-in-q1-2020-at-399-price/
The Maraschino Mogul’s Life (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life
Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/799218/54a30b2467e46e16/
Uyghur scientists swept up in China’s detentions
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/there-s-no-hope-rest-us-uyghur-scientists-swept-china-s-massive-detentions
Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool
https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
Intel i9 9900k 40% Faster in Chrome Octane Bench with mitigations=off
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Sun Microsystems: A Look Back at a Tech Company Ahead of Its Time
https://thenewstack.io/sun-microsystems-a-look-back-at-a-tech-company-ahead-of-its-time/
What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/what-men-eat-and-drink-may-affect-their-babies-health/2019/10/11/33d4aefa-da42-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html
Happy 25th year, blogging
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/12/blogging-twenty-five-years-old-all-grown-up
Human intelligence: have we reached the limit of knowledge?
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-human-intelligence-limit-knowledge.html
The FBI Lost Our Son
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbi-lost-our-son-11570806358?mod=rsswn
Why Apple Killed the MacBook Pro
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/10/12/apple-macbook-pro-steve-jobs-tim-cook-powerful-macos-ios-iphone-defeat-broken/#423ae8a84895
Debate on Instrumental Convergence Between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WxW6Gc6f2z3mzmqKs/debate-between-yann-le-cunn-stuart-russell-and-more-on?_ga=2.200766249.647243213.1570144399-1897572132.1531206705
Show HN: TerminalSplash – Browse and Submit Windows Terminal Themes
https://terminalsplash.com/
A new abnormal: It is still 2 minutes to midnight
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
International Day Against DRM 2019 Focuses on Education
https://torrentfreak.com/international-day-against-drm-2019-focuses-on-education-191012/
America’s Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/10/352872/
Western firms kowtow to China’s increasing economic clout
https://www.dw.com/en/western-firms-kowtow-to-chinas-increasing-economic-clout/a-50797033
Facebook to Pay $40M Under Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/facebook-pay-40-million-under-proposed-settlement-video-metrics-suit-1245807
Why Learn Vim in 2019?
https://www.vimfromscratch.com/articles/why-learn-vim-in-2019/
Diplomatic immunity for US suspect in teen’s death ’no longer pertinent’
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/13/uk/harry-dunn-immunity-intl-gbr-scli/index.html
Show HN: Swidi, a dice-rolling API and my first Python project
https://swidi.org/?
What if “dopamine fasting” isn’t Silicon Valley B.S.?
https://www.inverse.com/article/59978-dopamine-fasting-trend-neuroscience
The Pirate Bay database is corrupted live in production
https://i.imgur.com/ITNyUy6.png
Python Snippets You Should Learn Today
https://medium.com/better-programming/20-python-snippets-you-should-learn-today-8328e26ff124
Lyft follows Uber in suing NYC over cruising time caps
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-lyft-inc-lawsuit-newyork/lyft-follows-uber-in-suing-nyc-over-cruising-time-caps-idUSKBN1WR0NI
Albert Einstein-The World as I See It (Essay)
https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/einstein/essay.htm
Show HN: Chrome extension to remove annoying messages when booking hotels
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nosenseofurgency/bgfadnacgdbhjbhdgolhjaghmhbbbcio
Advanced Operating Systems (UNSW, Fall 2019)
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/current/
I knew my Airbnb would be watching me – but it still creeped me out
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/10/11/airbnb-surveillance-is-unsettling-even-when-disclosed.html
Introduction to Neuromorphic Computing
https://opensourc.es/blog/neuromorphic
Plasim climate model – climate model of intermediate complexity (download)
https://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/en/arbeitsgruppen/theoretische-meteorologie/modelle/plasim.html
Is Siraj a scam-artist? Plagiarism detected
https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1183338795116175366
Whats the Radius of a Day?
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/10/09/whats-the-radius-of-a-day
New cognitive technique can help reduce bedtime procrastination
https://solvingprocrastination.com/study-bedtime-procrastination-mcii-technique/
How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/how-to-perform-calendar-calculations-5617f35d3070
Architecting Vuex store for large-scale Vue.js applications
https://dev.to/haxzie/architecting-vuex-store-for-large-scale-vue-js-applications-4f1f
There’s an Automation Crisis Underway, It’s Just Mostly Invisible
https://gizmodo.com/the-trickle-down-disaster-of-automation-1838974516
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/598363/
How Italians Became ’White’
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html
Lecture Notes to the Masters Course Digital Signal Processing
https://dsp-nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/nbsphinx-experiment/index.html
Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon (German) folk dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=XaqR3G_NVoo
Chernobyl: The Retold Story by HBO
https://medium.com/@sellislem/chernobyl-the-retold-story-by-hbo-195ec5cca725
Set up digital workspace for your project
https://www.agrigoryan.me/post/digital-workspace-software-engineering-projects
You cannot cURL under pressure
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/you-cant-curl-under-pressure
8chan Is Back from the Internet Grave – and It Has a New Name
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yb44/8chan-is-back-from-the-internet-grave-and-it-has-a-new-name
World’s top three asset managers oversee $300B fossil fuel investments
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/12/top-three-asset-managers-fossil-fuel-investments
Safari sends some user IP addresses to Chinese conglomerate Tencent by default
https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-safari-ip-addresses-tencent/
Why Apple “Killed” the MacBook Pro
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/10/12/apple-macbook-pro-steve-jobs-tim-cook-powerful-macos-ios-iphone-defeat-broken
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