900
429
Let’s talk about usernames
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames/
8 years ago
650
378
German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook/german-court-rules-facebook-use-of-personal-data-illegal-idUSKBN1FW1FI?il=0
552
349
Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
https://www.recode.net/2018/2/12/16998750/facebooks-teen-users-decline-instagram-snap-emarketer
531
94
Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
http://www.argmin.net/2018/01/25/optics/
399
532
The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/06/01/the-long-slow-decline-of-bittorrent/
358
Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-unilever-ads-google-facebook-20180212-story.html
359
150
Appropriate Uses for SQLite
https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html
355
84
Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
https://petapixel.com/2018/02/12/picture-single-atom-wins-science-photo-contest/
296
219
My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)
https://jmkorhonen.net/2018/01/12/my-professional-opinion-as-a-blockchain-researcher-i-dont-see-the-point/
286
223
How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/how-apple-plans-to-root-out-bugs-revamp-iphone-software
277
47
Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18517#issuecomment-365099814
★ 133.6kGoBSD-3-Clause–8 years ago
271
65
Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)
https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/
260
118
Hidden work when launching a SaaS
https://workshop.kwoosh.com/post/the-hidden-work-when-launching-a-saas.html
251
174
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-core-20180212-story.html
248
144
ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (2004)
https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/128-bit-storage:-are-you-high
129
Cloud TPUs in Beta
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/Cloud-TPU-machine-learning-accelerators-now-available-in-beta.html
206
The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/16/baby-advice-books-industry-attachment-parenting
198
138
Advantages of monolithic version control
http://danluu.com/monorepo/
194
37
Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2018/02/12/speeding-up-ruby-with-shared-strings.html
Inspector – A drop-anywhere C++ REPL
https://github.com/inspector-repl/inspector
★ 849C++MIT–8 years ago
191
82
Equifax under pressure after data breach update
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43033202
186
53
Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (2016)
http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
183
143
Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-laying-off-corporate-employees-in-rare-cutback/
180
3
The Tripartite Identity Pattern (2008)
http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/10/the-tripartite-identity-pattern/
169
I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month
https://dnote.io/blog/writing-everything-i-learn-coding-for-a-month/
163
38
Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
161
102
FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/fcc-report-finds-almost-no-broadband-competition-at-100mbps-speeds/?amp=1
159
26
Show HN: Turn your GitHub Gist into a live dashboard
https://github.com/kantord/just-dashboard
★ 1.5kTypeScriptMIT–8 years ago
155
Sweden tried to drop Assange extradition in 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-to-drop-assange-extradition-in-2013-cps-emails-show?CMP=soc_568
153
74
Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review
https://www.anandtech.com/print/12425/marrying-vega-and-zen-the-amd-ryzen-5-2400g-review
147
71
Who is the longest-serving programmer?
http://www.tnmoc.org/news/notes-museum/who-most-durable-programmer
30
Breaking Textbook RSA Used to Protect the Privacy of Millions of Users
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03367
142
56
1960s Kodachrome photos of London’s East End
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pictures-london-east-end-1960s-color
34
LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC
https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/llvms-garbage-collection-facilities-and-sbcl-s-generational-gc-a13eedfb1b31
117
The Meta-Problem of Consciousness [pdf]
https://philpapers.org/archive/CHATMO-32.pdf
134
31
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years–and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix It All
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell
128
28
Zombie Processes Are Eating Your Memory
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processes-are-eating-your-memory/
127
Launch HN: Haiku (YC W18) – Build and Design Cross-Platform UIs and Animations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360995
126
17
Background removal with deep learning
https://towardsdatascience.com/background-removal-with-deep-learning-c4f2104b3157
145
Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/instacart-has-raised-another-200m-at-a-4-2b-valuation/
113
Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Chinese-local-governments-rush-to-admit-fake-data
107
35
How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rakhine-events/
105
19
Haskell developer experience in NixOS
http://www.kuznero.com/posts/nixos/haskell-devexp-in-nixos.html
London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-43027472
103
45
Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
http://cs10.org/sp18/
101
10
Fish that walk on seafloor use same neurons and genes as land vertebrates
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/science/skate-walking-fish-evolution.html
95
GitLab Pages Security Issue Notification
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/02/05/gitlab-pages-custom-domain-validation/
11
C++ implementation of the Jupyter kernel protocol
https://github.com/QuantStack/xeus
★ 959C++BSD-3-Clause–8 years ago
89
Adventures in Autorouting (2017)
https://wp.josh.com/2017/10/23/adventures-in-autorouting/
86
120
Safe injection sites in San Francisco could be first in the US
http://fox59.com/2018/02/08/san-francisco-to-open-nations-first-heroin-injection-sites/
Can Eurostar Compete with Airlines on Speed and Price?
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/02/can-this-european-high-speed-train-compete-with-airlines/553061/
83
76
Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/7wwtqy/apple_homepod_the_audiophile_perspective/
22
Ask HN: Which books describe modern devops?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16357368
How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software