April 2016 Archive
1981.
Circumventing Ubuntu Snap confinement (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
1982.
ELIZA: Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication (1966) [pdf] (web.stanford.edu)
1983.
Initial release of IdeaSpace – Open source CMS for the virtual reality web (ideaspacevr.org)
1984.
Thoughts about Pi (colorforth.com)
1985.
Blue Origin has launched and landed its reusable rocket for the third time (theverge.com)
1986.
Burr/Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill – It's More Ridiculous Than Expected (techdirt.com)
1987.
Benchmarking 32bit integer key compression for a C++ Btree (upscaledb.com)
1988.
Ask HN: What ever happened with the Rap Genius/Heroku routing controversy?
1989.
A Methodology for Retiring Products (neovintage.org)
1990.
Awesome Python: A curated list (python.libhunt.com)
1991.
Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04 (insights.ubuntu.com)
1992.
View from Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America (nytimes.com)
1993.
The Guardian wants to engage with readers, but how we do it needs to evolve (theguardian.com)
1994.
The Case for the PS4K (gamasutra.com)
1995.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Compensation Soars 69 Percent to $42.1M (hollywoodreporter.com)
1996.
Junk Food Is Bad for Plants, Too (nautil.us)
1997.
RestCommander: Fast Parallel Async HTTP Client as a Service (github.com)
1998.
Making a Video Course – Behind the Scenes (ifdattic.com)
1999.
The Healthiest Old Person on the Planet Explains How to Stay in Shape (vice.com)
2000.
Happy Hacking Easter – Story of privacy violation into an eggshell (blog.hacktivesecurity.com)
2001.
Use-Case 2.0 (queue.acm.org)
2002.
Mapping with the stars: Nuns instrumental in Vatican celestial survey (catholicnews.com)
2003.
SpaceX’s SuperDraco Thruster (arstechnica.com)
2004.
Why JavaScript development is crazy (planningforaliens.com)
2005.
Reading an iOS Stack Trace (apteligent.com)
2006.
Badlock vulnerability disclosed (badlock.org)
2007.
Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand (jackgmarch.com)
2008.
Why Write in English? (nybooks.com)
2009.
You Can't Do Software Estimates at All (chrismm.com)
2010.
The New Man of 4chan (thebaffler.com)