1307
503
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
https://www.neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/
9 years ago
476
352
USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion
https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/11/uss-mccain-collision-ultimately-caused-by-ui-confusion/
440
49
Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
419
66
What every systems programmer should know about lockless concurrency [pdf]
https://assets.bitbashing.io/papers/lockless.pdf
408
385
A regression is the kernel not giving the same result with the same user space
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02474.html
406
179
Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446847
348
165
A New Twist on Neural Networks
https://www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-twist-on-neural-networks/amp
324
233
'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41845445
320
147
Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c
305
190
What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
https://sqlite.org/affcase1.html
300
146
How Adversarial Attacks Work
http://blog.ycombinator.com/how-adversarial-attacks-work/
299
414
Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/bitcoin-surges-past-7-000-to-extend-record-rally-this-year
253
35
Simple Virtual Machine in C
https://github.com/rmccullagh/como-lang-ng/blob/master/vm/simple.c
★ 342 C GPL-3.0– 9 years ago
242
191
Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees
https://www.inc.com/business-insider/tech-employees-anonymously-rate-companies-work-facebook-google-netflix-twitter.html
240
101
My VM is lighter and safer than your container
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/02/my-vm-is-lighter-and-safer-than-your-container/
227
222
Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/02/561608576/massive-government-report-says-climate-is-warming-and-humans-are-the-cause
223
77
The End of Gratipay
https://gratipay.news/the-end-cbfba8f50981
218
81
Tor's Fall Harvest: The Next Generation of Onion Services
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-fall-harvest-next-generation-onion-services/#asn
201
Show HN: Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON
https://link.fish/api
189
125
Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japanese-firm-piala-inc-tokyo-non-smokers-extra-six-days-holiday-cigarette-break-a8028541.html
188
168
The Exercise Pill
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/a-pill-to-make-exercise-obsolete
178
130
What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/31/Stress/what-i-learned-from-losing-200-million
175
120
Bypassing Browser Security Warnings with Pseudo Password Fields
https://www.troyhunt.com/bypassing-browser-security-warnings-with-pseudo-password-fields/
171
199
Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%
https://twitter.com/AndrewBrobston/status/926141946015420416
162
23
Connecting to Google Sheets with Python
http://tinaja.computer/2017/10/27/gspread.html
161
64
MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/02/mysql-vs-mariadb-reality-check/
151
172
TransferWise announces $280M investment
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/transferwise-280-million/?ncid=mobilenavtrend
138
83
Yubico announces tiny, cheap YubiHSM 2
https://www.yubico.com/2017/10/yubihsm-2-providing-root-trust-servers-computing-devices/
137
134
Why Timber Towers Are on the Rise in France
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/10/why-timber-towers-are-on-the-rise-in-france/544098/
181
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
129
Show HN: Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome
https://www.apify.com/jancurn/url-to-pdf
128
40
What boredom does to you
http://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/what-boredom-does-to-you?utm_source=frontpage&utm_medium=mview&utm_campaign=what-boredom-does-to-you
57
Show HN: React PWA – A scalable Progressive Web Application foundation
https://www.reactpwa.com
123
100
A “Silicon Valley” actor is terrified by what’s happening in Silicon Valley
https://qz.com/1118377/silicon-valley-actor-kumail-nanjiani-is-terrified-by-tech-industrys-blase-attitude-toward-privacy-and-other-issues/
122
31
The freakishly strong base
http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-freakishly-strong-base/
118
9
New Species of Orangutan Is Rarest Great Ape
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/new-orangutan-species-sumatra-borneo-indonesia-animals/
115
November Workshop: Running the Pi-hole Network-wide Ad-blocker, and more
https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/2017/11/02/pi-hole-network-wide-ad-blocker/
33
Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00043
104
The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/the-underground-story-of-cobra-the-1980s-illicit-handmade-computer/
24
The new thermodynamics: how quantum physics is bending the rules
https://www.nature.com/news/the-new-thermodynamics-how-quantum-physics-is-bending-the-rules-1.22937
39
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change
99
71
The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-powerpoint
88
0
How I hacked Google’s bug tracking system itself for $15,600 in bounties
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/messing-with-the-google-buganizer-system-for-15-600-in-bounties-58f86cc9f9a5
87
20
The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers
https://www.wired.com/story/the-last-of-the-old-school-tech-reviewers/?mbid=synd_digg
86
48
SEC warns famous crypto-currency backers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41845185
82
155
House Republicans propose to scrap $7,500 electric vehicle credit
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-vehicles/house-republicans-propose-to-scrap-7500-electric-vehicle-credit-idUSKBN1D2282
United States Senate Committee Testimony of Twitter's Acting General Counsel
https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4766f54d-d433-4055-9f3d-c94f97eeb1c0/testimony-of-sean-edgett-acting-general-counsel-twitter.pdf
74
11
Julian Assange confirms Cambridge Analytica sought WikiLeaks' help
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/26/julian-assange-confirms-cambridge-analytica-sought-wikileaks-help
73
61
Towards a more powerful and simpler C++ with Herb Sutter
https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2017/11/towards-a-more-powerful-and-simpler-cpp-with-herb-sutter/
72
1
Show HN: Skymind Intelligence Layer Community Edition
https://skymind.ai/platform