827
294
VLC 3.0 release
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html
8 years ago
557
266
Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement
https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/
421
296
Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS
https://bgr.com/2018/02/09/amazon-delivery-service-swa-fedex-ups/
414
174
Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-service-outage-at-3-4m-ccu
381
561
Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/
345
126
Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/human-eggs-grown-lab-fertility-breakthrough-first-time-ivf-development-scientists-edinburgh-a8201001.html
333
155
Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases
https://medium.com/tableplus/modern-native-tool-for-relational-database-79efc35b647d
312
149
Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
https://www.wired.com/story/greedy-brittle-opaque-and-shallow-the-downsides-to-deep-learning/
291
106
“Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/study-death-always
278
248
Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen
http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/02/09/facebooks-desperate-smoke-screen/
226
43
Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-02-09/kpti-kaiser-meltdown-performance.html
216
147
GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
https://donatstudios.com/GithubsTotalSecurityFacepalm
203
120
QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification
https://lwn.net/Articles/745590/
197
77
“The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (2002)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292229/
196
152
What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/
187
204
Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/9/16994318/samsung-galaxy-s9-headphone-jack-dex-pad-photo-leak
180
50
JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp
http://tromey.com/blog/?p=982
161
72
Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02700
158
262
How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009)
https://www.si.com/vault/2009/03/23/105789480/how-and-why-athletes-go-broke
151
65
Financial Times journo's private messages quoted to her at China visa renewal
https://twitter.com/YuanfenYang/status/962002259407089664
150
168
A Sleeping Alexa Can Listen for More Than Just Its Name
https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/consumer-electronics/gadgets/beyond-the-super-bowl-a-sleeping-alexa-can-listen-for-more-than-just-her-name
104
Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown
http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2018/01/anatomy-of-a-ceph-meltdown.html
139
21
PostgreSQL 10.2 Released
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1829/
135
28
Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning
https://deepmind.com/blog/impala-scalable-distributed-deeprl-dmlab-30/
134
52
Creating a Linux Desktop App with Ruby
https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/01/25/creating-a-gtk-todo-application-with-ruby
32
Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications
http://blog.skylight.io/announcing-the-skylight-for-open-source-program/
100
IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur
https://shitcoin.com/iota-cannot-be-used-for-iot-loss-of-funds-may-occur-e45b1ed9dd6b?ho1
115
19
OpenBoard – An interactive whiteboard for schools and universities
http://openboard.ch/index.en.html
114
20
A short tale of a read overflow
http://antirez.com/news/117
112
58
How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/xw5yd7/how-iphone-iboot-source-code-leaked-on-github
71
Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5M
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/oxford-comma-maine.html
57
Researchers giving psilocybin to religious leaders (2017)
https://qz.com/879285/psilocybin-drug-trials-psychedelics-such-as-acid-lsd-might-not-only-make-us-more-spiritual-and-religious-they-make-us-healthier-too/
92
Facebooks crawls every page recorded by its tracking pixel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16339088
7
Closing out an incredible week in Rust
http://aturon.github.io/2018/02/09/amazing-week/
91
42
Tesla Roadster has been officially logged as a celestial object by NASA
https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/961611437796937728
87
Google fined in India for search bias
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/google-fined-in-india-for-search-bias-207314
29
Show HN: Automatic detection of non-colorblind safe colors
https://www.vis4.net/blog/2018/02/automate-colorblind-checking/
84
67
The fanciest shopping center in America is expanding
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-08/this-mall-is-only-for-the-rich-and-it-s-doing-fine
82
76
Learning Go as a Node.js Developer
https://nemethgergely.com/learning-go-as-a-nodejs-developer/
79
47
For first time a dedicated conversation on cryptocurrency in US congress
https://coingape.com/hodl-in-us-senate-thanks-to-cftc-chairman-christopher-giancarlo/
78
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)
https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning