1034
379
Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/facebooks-tracking-of-non-users-ruled-illegal-again/
8 years ago
596
154
A week-long programming retreat
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2110408722526967&id=100006735798590
558
168
History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
441
100
The Mystery of the Slow Downloads
https://panic.com/blog/mystery-of-the-slow-downloads/
408
164
Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency
https://engineering.instagram.com/open-sourcing-a-10x-reduction-in-apache-cassandra-tail-latency-d64f86b43589
401
64
Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space
https://marckhoury.github.io/counterintuitive-properties-of-high-dimensional-space/
398
Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows
http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chrome-for.html
391
222
MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/05/moviepass-ceo-proudly-says-the-app-tracks-your-location-before-and-after-movies/
332
99
Notes for new Make users
http://gromnitsky.users.sourceforge.net/articles/notes-for-new-make-users/
329
323
Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption Promised
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwkdx/eight-years-later-google-fiber-is-a-faint-echo-of-the-disruption-we-were-promised
327
204
Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/
320
225
Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor
https://github.com/atom/xray
★ 8.4k Rust MIT– 8 years ago
315
104
Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher
https://hearth.eternum.io/
272
56
Google's C++ Class
https://developers.google.com/edu/c++/
248
Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/sunday/loneliness-health.html
124
How generics were added to .NET
http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/03/02/How-generics-were-added-to-.NET/
221
83
Show HN: Hacking a Mercedes GLA Class Ride-on kids car
http://ihackshit.com/blog/?p=101
218
129
It’s time to ditch SMS-based 2 Factor Auth
https://dennisdel.com/blog/ditch-sms-2fa/
207
62
Founding Stories Are Myths
https://medium.com/@trevmckendrick/what-reed-hastings-sam-walton-can-teach-you-about-how-to-start-a-company-d38cfe0eafce
198
278
European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/05/european-union-plans-to-tax-tech-giants-on-local-revenue/
176
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy
172
59
81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDfIkXf3uzA
169
Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/business/dealbook/zagat-google-infatuation.html
71
P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing
https://mumbrella.com.au/pg-wpp-shit-hit-fan-digital-marketing-502769
57
Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/state-lawmakers-want-block-pornography-expense-your-free-speech-privacy-and-hard
142
92
American companies are suppressing wages for many workers
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-suppressing-wages.html
60
Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back
https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/3/5/pearsons-want-100-million-back-from-univeristy-of-chicago/
138
26
Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository
https://blog.github.com/2018-03-05-measuring-the-many-sizes-of-a-git-repository/
135
36
Elm, Elixir, and Phoenix: Reflecting on a Functional Full-Stack Project
https://teamgaslight.com/blog/elm-elixir-and-phoenix-reflecting-on-a-functional-full-stack-project
134
78
Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20180060860.PGNR.&OS=dn/20180060860&RS=DN/20180060860
127
31
Tracking where your time went with Lego workstream visualisation
https://code.joejag.com/2018/lego-workstream-visualisation.html
117
17
I am a “MasterChef” survivor
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/17/i-am-a-master-chef-survivor/
111
166
Income Inequality (2016)
https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality
68
Stigler Diet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler_diet
102
0
A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introduction-to-dataflow-graphs/
101
25
Sndio: a small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project
http://www.sndio.org/
58
A Year Away from Mac OS
http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/
The Investor Class Hates Pensions
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/investor-class-pensions.html
89
22
MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/
87
74
Technology firms as a threat to basic liberties
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/03/how-silicon-valley-went-from-dont-be-evil-to-doing-evil/
84
8
Crawling and Indexing: Technical SEO Basics That Drive Revenue
https://rozhon.com/blog/crawling-indexing-technical-seo-basics-that-drive-revenue/
114
Dorm living for professionals comes to SF
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/dorm-living-grown-ups-san-francisco.html
Here Come the Fake Videos, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/fake-videos-deepfakes.html?
82
9
Spooky action at a distance, how an AWS outage ate our load balancer
https://blog.hostedgraphite.com/2018/03/01/spooky-action-at-a-distance-how-an-aws-outage-ate-our-load-balancer/
Where are all the films about poor Americans?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/05/film-poverty-america-policy-oscars
