2016 Archive
13951.
Why it's important to optimise the tricky parts of Ruby [video] (youtube.com)
13952.
Show HN: PDD – Probabilistic De-Duplication of Streams with Bloom Filters (github.com)
13953.
The mobile device lab at the Prineville data center (code.facebook.com)
13954.
Building a browser-based test automation server on the Google Cloud Platform (github.com)
13955.
Reverse Engineering Using Chrome (rudk.ws)
13956.
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics (quantamagazine.org)
13957.
Image-Match: Open-source scalable reverse image search (github.com)
13958.
Hylogen: Haskell EDSL for live-coding fragment shaders (github.com)
13959.
Dataflow as database (github.com)
13960.
Mediatek MT6261 ROM dumping via the vibration motor (sodnpoo.com)
13961.
Microsoft previews Project Springfield, a cloud-based bug detector (blogs.microsoft.com)
13962.
Show HN: Libtmux – A tmux workspace manager in Python (libtmux.git-pull.com)
13963.
AI and the Future of Civilization (edge.org)
13964.
New attack steals SSNs, e-mail addresses, and more from HTTPS pages (arstechnica.com)
13965.
IM2CAD – Reconstruct a scene that is as similar as possible to a photograph (arxiv.org)
13966.
Kenya’s M-Pesa has helped the poor, and the economy, while turning a profit (fortune.com)
13967.
The Story Behind the Cover for the Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (bunniestudios.com)
13968.
Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrödinger (1950) [pdf] (strangebeautiful.com)
13969.
Glibc bug allowing remote exploitation by rogue DNS servers (sourceware.org)
13970.
The Fed Wants to Test How Banks Would Handle Negative Rates (bloomberg.com)
13971.
Apple says Australia's banks pose a security threat to iPhones (afr.com)
13972.
The EU Is on the Verge of Collapse–An Interview with George Soros (nybooks.com)
13973.
Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (newyorker.com)
13974.
Why Gold? (kevinlawler.com)
13975.
Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander (nature.com)
13976.
Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Data Shows (wbur.org)
13977.
Who Invented Homework? (geekandnerd.org)
13978.
Lyft losing as much as $50M a month, president confirms (siliconbeat.com)
13979.
The CIA-backed startup that's taking over Palo Alto (cnbc.com)
13980.
Half the world to be short-sighted by 2050 (sciencedaily.com)