432
165
The Follower Factory
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html
8 years ago
373
209
An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deep-roots-italian-song-sounds-like-english-american-medieval-comedy-nonsense
346
118
Terraforming 1Password
https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/01/25/terraforming-1password/
297
95
Finding Profitable Startup Ideas
https://capitalandgrowth.org/articles/770/how-to-find-profitable-business-ideas.html
250
52
If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker
https://kottke.org/18/01/if-you-watch-closely-enough-everything-is-a-speaker
244
83
Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset
https://hackernoon.com/craftsmanship-the-alternative-to-the-four-hour-work-week-mindset-e464a2dd34f4
229
18
Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)
http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/index.htm
226
149
USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17987/usaf-is-jamming-gps-in-the-western-u-s-for-largest-ever-red-flag-air-war-exercise
224
46
Principles of Chaos Engineering
http://principlesofchaos.org/
219
12
Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time
https://techandmortals.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/kaggle-learn-review-there-is-a-deep-learning-track-and-it-is-worth-your-time/
215
35
Data Science at the Command Line
https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/
194
86
Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/editor?pli=1&shellonly=true
192
99
Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits
https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-fails-to-perform-promised-audits-instead-they-have-a-shareholder-tell-everyone-its-all-965ae7037b5d
190
54
My Delorean runs Perl
https://opensource.com/article/18/1/my-delorean-runs-perl
186
106
Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
163
145
Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/comp.lang.misc/_QUzdEGFwCo
162
23
Postgres indexes under the hood
https://rcoh.me/posts/postgres-indexes-under-the-hood/
161
75
Ivy – A static website generator built in Python
http://mulholland.xyz/docs/ivy/
159
Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/01/the-biggest-wastes-of-time-we-regret-when-we-get-older/
154
207
The good guy/bad guy myth
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil
150
Understanding the C/C++ memory model
https://davmac.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/understanding-the-c-c-memory-model/
64
Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project
https://projectboard.xyz/
147
29
FOSDEM 2018 schedule
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/
132
‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/business/media/we-shall-overcome-copyright.html
122
24
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th
https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/956964986353528832
121
42
VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-new-vm-escape-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-virtualbox/
117
40
Online Communities Are the Best Thing About the Internet
https://biznology.com/2018/01/online-communities-best-thing-internet-not-worst/
115
87
Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP
https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/957381065190133767
110
8
Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation
https://blog.confiant.com/uncovering-2017s-largest-malvertising-operation-b84cd38d6b85
67
Towards LaTeX in the Browser
https://hackernoon.com/towards-latex-in-the-browser-2ff4d94a0c08
108
76
How Does MoviePass Make Money?
https://www.wired.com/story/moviepass-second-act/
105
What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/reader-center/arctic-winter-night.html
104
33
Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977
https://archive.org/details/SelectedPapers1977
82
Nicolas Cage DeepFake
http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/170154814961/nicolas-cage-deepfake-redditor-derpfakes-has
96
Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf]
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/mania13.pdf
88
48
MacOS High Sierra Kills Terminal FTP
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8093031
50
A Washington state bill that would make it easier to fix your electronics
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqa49/washington-right-to-repair-iphone-cpu-throttling
81
26
Show HN: Gymphy – Create Free Shareable Workout Plans
http://www.gymphy.com
A look inside Amazon’s Spheres as they get set to open
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/take-a-look-inside-amazons-spheres-as-they-get-set-for-next-weeks-opening/
Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400M
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/cryptocurrencies-drop-after-japanese-exchange-halts-withdrawals
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-be04d9e55235
74
57
Compared to paper towel, Dyson hand dryers blow 1300x as many viral germs (2016)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60x-more-viruses-most-at-kid-face-height-than-other-dryers/
73
27
Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-floodgates-are-open-increased-network-bandwidth-for-ec2-instances/
Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977
