October 2014 Archive
1771.
Happy Anniversary to the Early Internet's First Network-Wide Crash (motherboard.vice.com)
1772.
Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (technologyreview.com)
1773.
Containers [pdf] (usenix.org)
1774.
Ask HN: Why learn non-JS languages/framework?
1775.
JavaScript Hacks for Hipsters (slideshare.net)
1776.
Volvo Bets Its Future on Small, Turbocharged Engines (wired.com)
1777.
Drug cheats in sport could benefit 'for decades', scientists find (bbc.com)
1778.
Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature in Facebook Messenger (techcrunch.com)
1779.
Elon Musk: With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon (washingtonpost.com)
1780.
Synergy (GPL'd Software KVM) switches to paid downloads (synergy-project.org)
1781.
Fountain aims to turn the answers game into a Siri-like smartphone experience (wired.com)
1782.
Show HN: File Permissions Ninja (file-permissions.ninja)
1783.
Nest Acquires Home Automation Hub Revolv, but Will Stop Selling It (recode.net)
1784.
Startups Spend with Abandon, Flush with Capital (online.wsj.com)
1785.
Show HN: A real-time Bitcoin transaction map (shuoyangdesign.com)
1786.
What's Perky? My Handmade Keyboard (homepage2.nifty.com)
1787.
Massive electrode array will do first large-scale recording of brain activity (kurzweilai.net)
1788.
Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art (bbc.com)
1789.
Apply to Be a 2015 KPCB Engineering Fellow (Due Oct 31st) (kpcbfellows.com)
1790.
Bloom Filters (jasondavies.com)
1791.
On the Pedagogical Motive for Esoteric Writing (2007) (pdf.yt)
1792.
CERN turns 60 (symmetrymagazine.org)
1793.
What’s All This Widlar Stuff, Anyhow? (1991) (electronicdesign.com)
1794.
Ranges in C++: Counted Iterables and Efficiency (ericniebler.com)
1795.
Pediff – tools for visually comparing web pages (github.com)
1796.
Usage Stalls for Twitter; Shares Drop (nytimes.com)
1797.
Maglev Train Seen Making Washington-to-Baltimore Trip at 311 MPH (bloomberg.com)
1798.
Ask HN: Which laptop brands are worth shortlisting for Windows work/development?
1799.
Are Ivy League schools overrated? (andrewgelman.com)
1800.
We are in the early days of online harassment being taken as a serious problem (theatlantic.com)