October 2015 Archive
1921.
California Leads the U.S. in Digital Privacy (eff.org)
1922.
Fossils help to reveal the true colours of extinct mammals for the first time (theconversation.com)
1923.
Ligra: A Lightweight Graph Processing Framework for Shared Memory (eecs.berkeley.edu)
1924.
There’s No Escaping Competition: People Need a Way to Decide Who Gets What (fee.org)
1925.
Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? (nymag.com)
1926.
Gains in Antarctic ice might offset losses (nature.com)
1927.
Research into fusion went down a blind alley; a means of escape may be at hand (economist.com)
1928.
Ask HN: Any advice for a programmer who has hit rock bottom?
1929.
Getting Over Taxis (medium.com)
1930.
Axel Springer bans adblock users from Bild online (theguardian.com)
1931.
Drone carrying drugs, hacksaw blades crashes at Oklahoma prison (reuters.com)
1932.
Action video games improve brain function more than so-called ‘brain games’ (psypost.org)
1933.
Show HN: Skod – FTP client for humans in C (github.com)
1934.
Why Jack Dorsey is ready to save Twitter (recode.net)
1935.
How to Avoid Spam Filters (mailchimp.com)
1936.
LinkedIn's Add Connection settlement (addconnectionssettlement.com)
1937.
Why can't we get rid of taxi medallions? (2012) (slate.com)
1938.
Show HN: Booky.io – Online bookmark manager (booky.io)
1939.
Why Peeple Is Dangerous to Survivors and, Really, Anyone (ellacydawson.wordpress.com)
1940.
Show HN: LJSON: JSON extended with pure functions (github.com)
1941.
Show HN: Guy Needs Gift – Side Project (guyneedsgift.com)
1942.
Not Your Father’s FORTRAN (hackaday.com)
1943.
Lawrence Lessig: I’m Trying to Run for President, but the Democrats Won’t Let Me (politico.com)
1944.
DNA extracted from ancient African skeleton shows mixing with Eurasians (news.sciencemag.org)
1945.
Elon Musk says Apple is the 'graveyard' for fired Tesla staff (theguardian.com)
1946.
CNN and NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack (theintercept.com)
1947.
“The Home Information Terminal – A 1970 View” by John McCarthy [pdf] (www-formal.stanford.edu)
1948.
66% of VPNs are not in fact broken (nohats.ca)
1949.
The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (1999) (schneier.com)
1950.
The electric eel's high-voltage discharges are subtle weapons (theatlantic.com)