893
187
Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13849430
9 years ago
787
439
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing
456
35
Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (2015)
http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index.html
404
243
Paypal Horror Story 40k Frozen No Answers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13851120
385
242
I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-web-inventor-save-internet
380
218
New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21718519-new-ways-foot-hefty-bill-making-old-ships-less-polluting-green-finance?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/
326
49
Linting HTML using CSS
https://bitsofco.de/linting-html-using-css/
319
150
Silent Data Corruption Is Real
http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9769-silent-data-corruption-is-real
248
193
Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/if-you-think-youre-a-genius-youre-crazy-rp
120
Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
http://gomez.wtf/set-up-a-cheap-cloud-hosted-adblocker-in-an-hour-for-2-50-a-month/
159
Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/03/11/employees-who-decline-genetic-testing-could-face-penalities-under-proposed-bill/
228
127
We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software
https://spideroak.com/articles/why-we-will-no-longer-use-the-phrase-zero-knowledge-to-describe-our-software
215
138
I had an autoimmune disease, then the disease had me (2013)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/26/whats-wrong-with-me
200
157
Troubled covert agency responsible for trucking nuclear bombs across America
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nuclear-couriers-20170310-story.html
185
37
Intel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation
https://twitter.com/michaeldexter/status/840423816249589760
180
59
PyCharm Edu: Python IDE to Learn Programming Quickly and Efficiently
https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/
172
82
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Happiness [pdf]
https://www.gwern.net/docs/2016-levitt.pdf
5
An Encyclopedic Treatment of Type Design, Typefaces and Fonts
http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html
165
125
California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when factoring in cost-of-living
http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20/chad-mayes/true-california-has-nations-highest-poverty-rate-w/
115
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/11/employees-who-decline-genetic-testing-could-face-penalties-under-proposed-bill/
152
106
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
http://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
143
74
Iron law of prohibition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition
140
45
Parallel Python
http://www.parallelpython.com/
137
65
Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/03/06/japan-unveil-pascal-gpu-based-ai-supercomputer/
134
39
Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (1989)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html
130
68
Principle of Sufficient Reason
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sufficient-reason/
128
117
Opaque drug pricing in the U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-drug-pricing-evzio-20170217-story.html
In the Future, We’ll All Wear Spider Silk
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/in-the-future-well-all-wear-spider-silk
124
237
Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from JavaScript?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13849051
44
CudaText: A lightweight, cross-platform code editor
http://uvviewsoft.com/cudatext
109
47
EFF Applauds Amazon for Pushing Back on Request for Echo Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/eff-applauds-amazon-pushing-back-request-echo-data
108
Convertible and SAFE notes
http://avc.com/2017/03/convertible-and-safe-notes/
107
23
Clarence Thomas seems ready to stop civil asset forfeiture
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/6/14830278/civil-forfeiture-supreme-court
94
144
The line is blurring between city and suburb
http://www.businessinsider.com/death-of-suburbia-series-overview-2017-3?IR=T
19
Diego, A Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/americas/galapagos-islands-tortoises.html
119
Was object-oriented programming a failure? (2015)
https://www.quora.com/Was-object-oriented-programming-a-failure/answer/Wouter-van-Oortmerssen