jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Static typing will not save us from broken software
http://www.drmaciver.com/2016/10/static-typing-will-not-save-us-from-broken-software/
What is up with U.S. retail gasoline deliveries?
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=a103600001&f=m
The Search for Alien Tech
https://aeon.co/essays/technosignatures-are-a-sea-change-in-the-search-for-alien-life
Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
https://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2018/6/22/new-model-predicts-that-were-probably-the-only-advanced-civilization-in-the-observable-universe
Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
https://twitter.com/phlsa/status/754337623964053504
Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
https://montrealgazette.com/news/world/pfizer-is-testing-a-pill-that-if-successful-could-become-first-ever-home-cure-for-covid-19
Warts of Scala
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WartsoftheScalaProgrammingLanguage.html
Surviving a bad RNG
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/03/surviving-bad-rng.html
A.I. Is Learning from Many Humans
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/technology/ai-humans.html
How Amazon Crushed the Union Movement (2014)
https://time.com/956/how-amazon-crushed-the-union-movement/
Shortformer: Better Language Modeling using Shorter Inputs [pdf]
https://ofir.io/shortformer.pdf
React Armor: Protect your DOM from third-party tampering
https://github.com/elierotenberg/react-armor
Kala: A Modern Job Scheduler (written in Go)
http://github.com/ajvb/kala
My Struggle with the Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/im-terrified-tell-people-much-make
The future of college is online, and it’s cheaper
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/online-college-coronavirus.html
Hacking Ubuntu Touch
https://sturmflut.github.io/ubuntu/touch/2015/05/07/hacking-ubuntu-touch-index/
How Video Cards Work
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/HowVideoCardsWork
Deep Learning in Production Resource List
https://github.com/ahkarami/Deep-Learning-in-Production
Carrie Fisher’s Private Philosophy Coach
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/help-me-obi-wan-carrie-fisher-private-philosophy-coach
Death in Space
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/death-in-space.html
Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades
https://m.dw.com/en/germany-conducts-first-nationwide-emergency-warning-day-in-decades/a-54877137
Show HN: Simple Face Recognition Attendance System
https://github.com/natsu90/whoiscomingto.party
The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers
http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/abe-lincolns-whiskers
Skills a Designer Must Have when Working for a Startup
http://blog.stylej.am/5-skills-a-designer-must-have-when-working-in
Show HN: Spreadsheet_server
https://github.com/robsco-git/spreadsheet_server
The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See
http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/the-illusion-machine-that-teaches-us-how-we-see
How Graphics Cards Work
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/269335-how-graphics-cards-work
Paribus (YC S15) saves you money when items you purchased online drop in price
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/just-saved-146-amazon-purchase-without-lifting-finger-191223254.html
Twitter to ban unlabelled parody accounts
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63539617
A Rust curiosity: pointers to zero-sized types
http://www.wabbo.org/blog/2014/03aug_09aug.html
A reimplementation of NetBSD using a MicroKernel (2015)
http://theembeddedboard.review/a-reimplementation-of-netbsd-using-a-microkernel-part-1-of-2/
The Chromecast continues to be perhaps the best value in tech
http://www.writingabouttech.com/?p=713
Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted for Obamacare 'Tech Surge'
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-31/google-oracle-workers-enlisted-for-obamacare-tech-surge-.html
Growth vs. Retention
http://avc.com/2015/07/growth-vs-retention/
Fast integer overflow detection (2012)
http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/16/fast-integer-overflow-detection/
GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China
https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=github.com
Pro-SOPA Comcast just implemented SOPA-incompatible DNSSEC
http://www.itworld.com/security/240789/sopa-might-force-choice-stop-cyberspies-bank-robbers-and-id-thieves-or-stop-illegal-
The enterprise strikes back
http://sufficientlyadvanced.net/the-enterprise-strikes-back
Doom Emacs
https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Exoplanet building its own moons
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/23/exoplanet_ring_telescope/
Show HN: A 13.3" battery-powered e-paper picture frame to display digital art
https://blog.framelabs.eu/evolution/
Potential major security flaw on HP laptop?
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/potential-major-security-flaw-hp-laptop-discovered-rtl-sdr/
The Lowest Fare? Ask the Crowd
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/technology/flightfox-lets-the-crowd-find-the-best-airfares.html?_r=0
Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/a-humbled-kleiner-perkins-adjusts-its-strategy/
Severely injured worker sues Tesla
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/im-not-who-i-used-to-be-severely-injured-worker-sues-tesla/
Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betterme/id593717331?ls=1&mt=8
Dystopian B2B Bullshit Generator
https://phrasegenerator.com/b2b
Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/linux-kernel-team-rejects-university-of-minnesota-researchers-apology/
Accuracy takes power: a 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (2010)
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator?daysago=580
We Don't Do Daily Stand-Ups at Supercede
https://jezenthomas.com/why-we-dont-do-daily-stand-ups-at-supercede/
A Sleep Researcher's Attempt to Build a Bank for Dreams
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-stanford-doctor-s-attempt-to-build-a-bank-for-dreams
10 tips for writing perl one-liners
http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/05/top-10-perl-one-liner-tricks/
Rechargeable vs. Alkaline Batteries
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/smarter-living/wirecutter/are-rechargeable-batteries-better-than-alkaline.html
Map Vectorizer – Map polygon and feature extractor
https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer
Wolfenstein 1-D (2011)
http://www.wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/
Toyota Humanoid Robot Runs At 7 Km/hr - Awesome Vid
http://singularityhub.com/2009/07/29/toyota-humanoid-robot-runs-at-7-kmhr/
Paper Now: Create, edit and display a journal article entirely in GitHub
https://github.com/PeerJ/paper-now
The “Myths List” is a communication antipattern
http://cachestocaches.com/2019/8/myths-list-antipattern/
A Forgotten Pioneer of Vaccines
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/health/maurice-hilleman-mmr-vaccines-forgotten-hero.html?hp
‘The American dream is not working out here’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/27/silicon-aa-cost-of-living-crisis-has-americas-highest-paid-feeling-poor
Amazing Javascript Interface: Amiga Workbench
http://www.chiptune.com/
Technology has created a barrage of notifications and interactions
https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/
New Macbook Pro can't walk and chew gum at same time (watch wifi and USB = fail)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVjIjBMx6o
Predicting Expressive Speaking Style from Text in End-To-End Speech Synthesis
https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/text_predicting_global_style_tokens/index.html
A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge
http://www.marco.org/2013/01/31/iphone-plus-speculation
MMPX Style-Preserving Pixel Art Magnification [pdf]
https://casual-effects.com/research/McGuire2021PixelArt/McGuire2021PixelArt.pdf
13yo "Spider Boy" scales walls using recycled vacuums
http://inhabitat.com/2010/07/01/13-year-old-spider-boy-scales-walls-using-recycled-vacuums/
Apartments So Small They Can Only Be Photographed From Above
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/02/apartments-so-small-they-can-only-be-photographed-above/4780/
File Format Posters
https://github.com/corkami/pics/tree/master/binary
New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing
https://www.fast.ai/2019/07/08/fastai-nlp/
PostgreSQL Exercises
https://pgexercises.com/
Giving you more characters
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html
NPM registry in numbers
http://blog.futurice.com/npm-registry-in-numbers
Python 3.2.1 released
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2.1
Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/292771-apple-attempted-to-censor-critical-coverage-of-its-1000-monitor-stand
A SimCity Update
http://www.ea.com/news/a-simcity-update-and-something-for-your-trouble
Understand a little about TCP (2015)
https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-little-about-tcp/
Freestanding OCaml runtime
https://github.com/mato/ocaml-freestanding
VMware's Stumbling Cloud Adventure
http://chrisdodds.net/blog/vmwares-cloud-adventure
AudioTransmit – Transmitting data between computers using audio
https://www.x86matthew.com/view_post?id=audio_transmit
Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/
Study: Almost half of borrowers will default on student loans in coming years
http://www.wctrib.com/news/education/4523513-new-study-almost-half-borrowers-will-default-student-loans-coming-years
Users get message about sexual harassment scandal when trying to delete Uber
http://mashable.com/2017/02/22/uber-message-when-delete-account-susan-fowler-blog-post/
Stingrays Go Mainstream: 2014 in Review
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/2014-review-stingrays-go-mainstream
Heap Exploitation Part 1: Understanding the Glibc Heap Implementation
https://azeria-labs.com/heap-exploitation-part-1-understanding-the-glibc-heap-implementation/
Why Stashboard and Pingdom Weren't Enough: The Evolution of a Status Page
http://blog.balancedpayments.com/status-page
Facebook Files Patent to Secretly Watch Users Through Webcam
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-plans-to-watch-users-through-webcams-spy-patent-application-social-media-a7779711.html
Gazehawk Team (YC S10) Joins Facebook
http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/gazehawk-team-joins-facebook/
JavaScript caching framework for client side caching in the browser
https://github.com/d0ugal/locache
Even – Get your average pay, every payday
https://even.me/
The End of Net Neutrality? British Telecom ordered to block access to NewzBin2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14322957
CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1471959671413952514
Show HN: Cortex – Open-source alternative to SageMaker for model serving
https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex/tree/v0.15.1
29C3 presale has started
http://events.ccc.de/2012/11/03/ticket-sale-has-opened/
Ubuntu abandons its phone efforts, will switch back to Gnome – The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/4/5/15198178/ubuntu-abandons-phone-moves-back-to-gnome
Free is Killing Us. Blame The VCs
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/04/free-is-killing-us-blame-vcs.html
On Why Open Source Developers run Mac OS X
http://www.sharms.org/blog/2010/12/on-why-open-source-developers-run-mac-os-x/
Show HN: Logtrail – A Kibana plugin for logs that clones the Papertrail UI
https://github.com/sivasamyk/logtrail
Voice Synthesis for in-the-Wild Speakers via a Phonological Loop
https://ytaigman.github.io/loop/
I Am Sam Altman, Reddit Board Member and President of Y Combinator. AMA
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cudmx/i_am_sam_altman_reddit_board_member_and_president/
Exodus: Israeli Army's Elite Programmers Head to Silicon Alley
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/09/israeli-start-ups-skip-the-valley-go-direct-to-new-york/
Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished?
http://torrentfreak.com/should-bogus-copyright-takedown-senders-be-punished-120909/
Java 9 and IntelliJ IDEA
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2017/09/java-9-and-intellij-idea/
Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/07/apples-cdn-now-live.html
London Names Map
http://names.mappinglondon.co.uk/
Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020)
https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/
India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners, traders -source
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cryptocurrency-ban/india-to-propose-cryptocurrency-ban-penalising-miners-traders-source-idUSKBN2B60R0
A pop of color and more: updates to Android’s brand
https://www.blog.google/products/android/evolving-android-brand/
Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspapers
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
Pcileech WebRadar – browser based radar cheat for CS:GO
https://github.com/EngineOwningSoftware/pcileech-webradar/blob/master/readme.md
SSL/TLS and PKI History
https://www.feistyduck.com/ssl-tls-and-pki-history/
How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility
https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-constructor-theory-chiara-marletto-invokes-the-impossible-20210429/
Why 3D pie charts are bad
http://fury.com/2010/03/why-3d-pie-charts-are-bad/
Malcolm Cecil, Synthesizer Pioneer, has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/arts/music/malcolm-cecil-dead.html
Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL
http://wdobbie.com/post/war-and-peace-and-webgl/
JavaScript performance and a Webkit hotspot
http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/05/01/javascript-performance
Why do we keep repeating the Milgram experiments?
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-do-we-keep-repeating-the-milgram-experiments
Ubuntu 12.04 ARM Performance Becomes Very Compelling
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_omap4460&num=1
The Purple Crayon
http://clayallsopp.com/posts/harold-and-the-purple-crayon/
US Senate bill would legally require Apple to build a backdoor into iPhones
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/16/us-senate-bill-would-legally-require-apple-to-build-a-backdoor-into-iphones/
Git-random: Chrome extension replaces new tab with random GitHub user's profile
https://github.com/Idnan/git-random
Some languages pay closer attention to family ties than others
https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/06/02/some-languages-pay-closer-attention-to-family-ties-than-others
Centers of Population
https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/centers-population.html
Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14545
Open letter to Gitea
https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/
Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan
http://www.scribd.com/doc/121737673/Colligan-Affidavit
Cohabiting FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux on a Common ZFS Pool
https://ericmccorkleblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/cohabiting-freebsd-and-gentoo-linux-on-a-common-zfs-volume/
Zelda-style maps of New York City based on Open Street Map
http://8bitnyc.com/
The Julia Programming Language for Number Crunching
https://medium.com/@jshysing/the-julia-programming-language-for-number-crunching-87faad52ce08#.gf4qd530b
Product Demo Sucks Because It's Focused on Your Product
https://firstround.com/review/Your-Product-Demos-Suck-Because-Theyre-Focused-on-Your-Product/
Awk is the coolest tool you don't know
https://portal.drewdevault.com/2021/05/03/awk-is-the-coolest-tool-you-dont-know.gmi
FreeBSD Jobs: Arm Compiler and Toolchain Engineer
https://klarasystems.com/careers/arm-compiler-and-toolchain-engineer/
Retroshare: Secure Communication for Everyone
https://retroshare.cc/
Trout Tickling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_tickling
Corporate cultures in Japan
http://www.japansubculture.com/2010/05/shafuu-101-choosing-a-company-for-the-new-generation/
Serious Bug in MongoDB Geospatial distance calculation
https://blog.icod.de/2022/05/19/serious-bug-in-mongodb-geospatial-distance-calculation/
The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civilizations
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq
Lessons from ten nations about building affordable, low-carbon neighborhoods
https://www.sightline.org/2021/03/25/yes-other-countries-do-housing-better-case-1-japan/
Improving Floating Point Accuracy: A Look at Sums
http://alex.uwplse.org/2015/10/16/improving-accuracy-summation.html
Finding Friend and Foe in Multi-Agent Games
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02330
Improving a [web] design, step by step
http://www.attackofdesign.com/improving-a-design-step-by-step-part-1/
Strata Web Framework
http://stratajs.org/
Tri-County becomes the first electric co-op in Florida to tackle FTTH
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/tri-county-becomes-first-electric-co-op-florida-tackle-ftth
Back to the Future
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/03/back-to-the-future
Warriors to play without fans in crowd following San Francisco order
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28884486/warriors-play-home-games-fans-following-san-francisco-order
In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/arts/video-games/in-escape-rooms-video-games-meet-real-life.html
How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter
https://medium.com/javascript-scene/how-one-jira-ticket-made-my-employer-1mm-month-7-metrics-that-actually-matter-ffb5b2376a6b
Show HN: ES7 Decorator library adds types checking, memoization, and more to JS
https://github.com/mako-taco/DecorateThis
Brainwashing, Italian-Style: The Birth of “Plagio”
https://bitterwinter.org/brainwashing-italian-style-the-birth-of-plagio/
Goldman told TWTR Elon’s $54.20 offer was too low but has a sell target at $30
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514612329031233547
Google+ is now the second largest social platform by active users
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106382433884876652170/posts/hxWNwxYoLYQ
Show HN: Structure – IoT Developer Platform
https://www.getstructure.io/?ref=HackerNews
Unvalidated Redirect in Google (or How Google Sent Me To Bing)
http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/its-the-little-things-that-matter-or-how-goog
Math visualization: (x + 1)^2
http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/12/math-visualization-x-1-2.html
Python IDLE Reimagined
http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2014/11/20/idle-reimagined/
Using JAX in 2022
https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/why-you-should-or-shouldnt-be-using-jax-in-2022/
Kubuntu 13.10 Released
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-13.10
Pleroma 2.1
https://pleroma.social/blog/2020/08/28/releasing-pleroma-2-1-0/
Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion?
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/225512
$349 Ubuntu Linux Desktop
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/349-ubuntu-linux-desktop/x/4649707
Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/business/self-driving-tesla-fatal-crash-investigation.html
Interview with Patrick Collison – Co-Founder, Stripe [audio]
http://www.fromscratchradio.com/show/patrick-collison
Do Oil Companies Really Need $4B per Year of Taxpayers’ Money?
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/upshot/do-oil-companies-really-need-4-billion-per-year-of-taxpayers-money.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20160805&nl=dealbook&nl_art=5&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&_r=1&referer=
Toward a Pill That Helps Us Learn as Fast as Kids
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/toward-a-pill-that-helps-us-learn-as-fast-as-kids/359757/
A 13-year-old girl reportedly makes over $1,000 a day creating ASMR videos
https://www.businessinsider.com/mackenna-kelly-asmr-children-videos-2019-2
German Professor Who Is Hardcore Star Wars Fan Repaints Observatory as R2-D2
https://themindcircle.com/german-professor-star-wars-fan-repaints-observatory/
7 Minute Workout by Quick Fit
http://7minuteworkout.us/
The architecture and software behind Pipes
https://www.pipes.digital/blog/8/The%20Architecture%20and%20Software%20behind%20Pipes
A New York Farm Stand’s Success: An Eye for the Next Big Thing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/dining/norwich-meadows-farm-vegetables.html
The UK's “Chief Digital Officer” job has been open for over a year
https://www.zdnet.com/article/its-the-biggest-job-in-tech-so-why-cant-they-find-anyone-to-do-it/
Antivirus software deletes itself
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/20/sophos-antimalware-software-detects-malware-deletes-critical-binaries/
Freicoin - easy-to-use demurrage currency
http://freico.in
Jawbone denies 'abandoning' customers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39191057
Tesla is a Battery Company
http://blog.jeremyrwelch.com/tesla-is-a-battery-company
Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/tectonic-a-complete-modernized-self-contained-tex-latex-engine/11053
Modules, Monoliths, and Microservices
https://tailscale.com/blog/modules-monoliths-and-microservices/
Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/
A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-last-supper-woman-painter-florence
An Introduction to HTTPS, by 18F and DigitalGov University
https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/07/16/introduction-to-https-webinar/
Obesity is rising in Silicon Valley
http://fortune.com/2015/10/23/is-silicon-valley-bad-for-your-health/
Europe gas storage reserves – by country, updated daily
https://viborc.com/europe-gas-storage-reserves-capacities-by-country-daily/
Android OpenSSL has heartbeats disabled
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34212
Lavabit Security Misconfiguration
https://www.grepular.com/Lavabit_Security_Misconfiguration
Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/cisco-switches-to-weaker-hashing-scheme-passwords-cracked-wide-open/
Unicode Standard, Version 12.0
http://blog.unicode.org/2019/03/announcing-unicode-standard-version-120.html
Iceland played an unexpected and crucial role in the Second World War
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/that-time-hitlers-girlfriend-visited-iceland-and-the-british-invaded/
Optimistic UI and Reactive Programming with Elm
http://athiemann.net/2015/07/26/optimistic-ui-elm.html
PATH_MAX Is Tricky
https://eklitzke.org/path-max-is-tricky
In China's Orbit
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704104104575622531909154228.html?mod=WSJASIA_hpp_LEFTTopStories
Britain expels Russian diplomats over poisoning of ex-spy
http://thehill.com/policy/international/378317-britain-expels-russian-diplomats-suspends-high-level-contacts-over
Entering the next phase of Project Valhalla
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/valhalla-spec-experts/2018-October/000760.html
Textile Markup Language
https://textile-lang.com/
My experience as a business consultant in Dubai (2010)
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
Learning to Simulate
https://towardsdatascience.com/learning-to-simulate-c53d8b393a56
Dotsies (2012)
http://dotsies.org
Apple responds
http://yfrog.com/83n4fp
How to Read a Surface Weather Map
https://www.outsideonline.com/2414872/how-to-read-surface-weather-maps
Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems?
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/66
Why Teenagers Act Crazy
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/opinion/sunday/why-teenagers-act-crazy.html
Stanford engineers stop soap bubbles from swirling
http://news.stanford.edu/2016/09/13/stanford-engineers-stop-soap-bubbles-swirling/
The Facebook whistleblower is heroic and terribly wrong
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-facebook-whistleblower-is-heroic
Wallace and Gromit – The Great Train Chase (1993) [video]
http://www.aardman.com/celebrating-40-years/the-great-train-chase/
Kdb+ time-series database available on-demand; free 64-bit personal edition
https://kx.com/news/kx-extends-use-of-worlds-fastest-time-series-database-kdb-with-on-demand-offering-for-cloud-and-on-premises/
The Rise of the Platform Economy
http://issues.org/32-3/the-rise-of-the-platform-economy/