794
331
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
https://signal.org/blog/skype-partnership/
8 years ago
709
82
Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16122999
465
129
Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/protecting-our-google-cloud-customers-new-vulnerabilities-without-impacting-performance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28The+Keyword+%7C+Official+Google+Blog%29
435
270
Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/dropbox-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-initial-offering
338
60
Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/steep-slopes-on-mars-reveal-structure-of-buried-ice
144
YC Bio
https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/
312
172
House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html
301
61
Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]
https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf
293
65
Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
https://www.maps.org/news/media/7012-press-release-pineapple-fund-offers-$4-million-matching-grant-to-maps
287
130
Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/website-glitch-let-me-overstock-my-coinbase/
266
187
GitHub down
https://github.com/#
264
190
Spectre and the end of langsec
http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end-of-langsec
261
107
The Making of Apple’s Emoji
https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee
238
118
MoneyGram Signs Deal to Work with Currency Startup Ripple
https://www.wsj.com/articles/moneygram-signs-deal-to-work-with-currency-startup-ripple-1515679285
224
122
The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/11/brutal-lifecycle-javascript-frameworks/
134
Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposition as CTO, any advice?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16125139
219
319
Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/chinese-workers-abandon-silicon-valley-for-riches-back-home
215
67
‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a15050414/incredible-hypatia-stone-contains-compounds-not-found-in-the-solar-system/
210
33
Understanding the React Source Code, Part 1
https://hackernoon.com/understanding-the-react-source-code-initial-rendering-simple-component-i-80263fe46cf1
206
137
South Korea justice ministry prepares to ban cryptocurrency trading
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-bitcoin-law/south-korea-justice-ministry-prepares-to-ban-cryptocurrency-trading-exchanges-raided-idUSKBN1F00B7
201
54
What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software
http://alexkudlick.com/blog/what-the-four-color-theorem-can-teach-us-about-writing-software/
183
63
Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
https://locusmag.com/2018/01/cory-doctorow-persuasion-adaptation-and-the-arms-race-for-your-attention/
5
Writing a C Compiler, Part 5
https://norasandler.com/2018/01/08/Write-a-Compiler-5.html
171
141
How Neglecting Minorities in Medical Research Has Led to Deadly Outcomes
https://www.hdphealth.com/how-neglecting-minorities-in-medical-research-has-led-to-deadly-outcomes-solving-a-1t-problem-1318
169
Turning brain signals into useful information
https://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21733192-once-data-have-been-extracted-brain-how-can-they-be-employed-best
164
6
The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2017
https://research.googleblog.com/2018/01/the-google-brain-team-looking-back-on.html
160
34
Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/01/10/attack-of-the-week-group-messaging-in-whatsapp-and-signal/
156
71
Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update
https://filecoin.io/blog/update-2017-q4/
153
100
Making tab switching faster in Firefox with tab warming
https://mikeconley.ca/blog/2018/01/11/making-tab-switching-faster-in-firefox-with-tab-warming/
166
The problem of game developers receiving abusive messages
https://medium.com/@morganjaffit/the-cost-of-doing-business-c09cc5cc8728
152
11
Show HN: TensorFlow-Resources – Organized and Useful Resources about TensorFlow
https://github.com/astorfi/TensorFlow-World-Resources
★ 21Python–8 years ago
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105
Elizabeth Warren's bill would fine the next Equifax for data breach
https://www.cnet.com/news/elizabeth-warren-equifax-mark-warner-credit-reporting-agencies-data-breach-bill-fines/
140
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Samsung is the latest OEM to unlock FM chips in new phones
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/samsung-will-start-unlocking-fm-radio-chips-in-new-phones/
138
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Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit
https://teslasuit.io/
132
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Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/169582189317/incident-report-npm-inc-operations-incident-of
126
Google managers kept blacklists of conservative employees
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/conservative-google-employees-are-blacklisted-lawsuit-alleges-2018-1
127
76
Huawei’s CEO going off-script to rage at US carriers was the best speech of CES
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16871538/huawei-ces-2018-event-ceo-richard-yu-keynote-speech
119
Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-secret-tool-for-keeping-the-cops-in-the-dark
116
42
Update Regarding ACME TLS-SNI and Shared Hosting Infrastructure
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-11-update-regarding-acme-tls-sni-and-shared-hosting-infrastructure/50188
113
Ask HN: How do I prepare for an interview for AMZ/GOOG/APL/FB?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126132
108
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Millennials Strike Back: An Esoteric Reading of the Last Jedi
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/01/millennials-strike-back-an-esoteric-reading-of-the-last-jedi
Unskilled and Unaware of It (1999) [pdf]
http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/teaching/p7536_heurbias/p7536_readings/kruger_dunning.pdf
Two suns? No, it's a supernova drawn 6,000 years ago, say scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/10/two-suns-no-its-a-supernova-drawn-6000-years-ago-say-indian-scientists
22
Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (1900)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US787412A/en?before=priority:19030101&after=priority:18900101
16
Detecting Spectre and Meltdown Using Hardware Performance Counters
https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/detecting-spectre-and-meltdown-using-hardware-performance-counters
A simple makefile is a unicorn
http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-simple-makefile-is-unicorn.html
21
Using Yelp Data to Predict Restaurant Closure
https://towardsdatascience.com/using-yelp-data-to-predict-restaurant-closure-8aafa4f72ad6
Simcoin – A Docker-Based Blockchain Simulation Framework
https://github.com/simonmulser/simcoin
★ 488PythonMIT–8 years ago
Two genes in Chromosomes 13 and 14, linked to Homosexuality
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15736-4
99
40
Neural Style Transfer for Musical Melodies
https://ashispati.github.io//style-transfer/
64
Why dolphins are deep thinkers (2003)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science
97
Peter Thiel submits bid for Gawker
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gawker-thiel/peter-thiel-submits-bid-for-gawker-faces-challenges-idUSKBN1F02V2
39
States Push Back After Net Neutrality Repeal
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/net-neutrality-states.html
95
10
Learning Tree-Based Deep Model for Recommender Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02294
94
12
SAFE Network: a decentralized data storage and communications network
https://safenetwork.org/
62
Cierge – passwordless authentication
https://pwdless.github.io/Cierge-Website/
29
OpenSSL wins the Levchin prize
https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/01/10/levchin/
85
37
In the eating disorder unit
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/01/09/hannah-brown/in-the-eating-disorder-unit/
81
Études for Elixir
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001642/index.html
78
Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/01/why-humans-need-rethink-their-place-animal-kingdom
231
Does Brexit end not with a bang but a whimper?
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2018/01/does-brexit-end-not-with-bang-but.html
75
88
Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/poverty-segregation-persist-in-u-s-schools-report-says
74
Ask HN: Best practice for estimating development tasks?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16122963
109
YouTube Drops Online Star Logan Paul from Premium Advertising
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/technology/logan-paul-youtube.html
Two suns? No, it's a supernova drawn 6,000 years ago, say scientists
