2017 Archive
6001.
WebAssembly: A New Hope (pspdfkit.com)
6002.
Smartphones can be fooled by fake, digitally composed fingerprints (nytimes.com)
6003.
Why Harvard Business School Is Under Fire (economist.com)
6004.
My CAD software called home, and no-one answered, so it shut down (reddit.com)
6005.
Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks (hacks.mozilla.org)
6006.
Darpa Funds Development of New Type of Processor (eetimes.com)
6007.
Ways we harden our KVM hypervisor at Google Cloud: Security in plaintext (cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
6008.
Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL (felixge.de)
6009.
Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot (hacks.mozilla.org)
6010.
Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes (theparisreview.org)
6011.
Launch HN: Sunu (YC S17) – Sonar wristband helping blind people navigate
6012.
Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (2015) (propublica.org)
6013.
Despite privacy outrage, AccuWeather still shares location data with ad firms (zdnet.com)
6014.
Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet (abc.xyz)
6015.
Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Released (blog.getbootstrap.com)
6016.
MNT Reform: DIY portable computer (mntmn.com)
6017.
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI (righto.com)
6018.
Missed optimizations in C compilers (github.com)
6019.
Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around (github.com)
6020.
Node v8.8.0 (nodejs.org)
6021.
Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate (blog.openai.com)
6022.
Supporting Hypothesis (stripe.com)
6023.
Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd edition (eloquentjavascript.net)
6024.
Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a spreadsheet (github.com)
6025.
Oj – Optimized JSON in Ruby (ohler.com)
6026.
Grenade: Deep Learning in Haskell (github.com)
6027.
Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA (ikea.com)
6028.
Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals (latimes.com)
6029.
CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10 (bloomberg.com)
6030.
Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com)