1665
315
Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042
8 years ago
745
514
Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
https://twitter.com/Lavrusik/status/981259304408788993
727
191
Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
https://medium.com/@umpox/be-careful-what-you-copy-invisibly-inserting-usernames-into-text-with-zero-width-characters-18b4e6f17b66
692
453
Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/spotify-opens-at-165-90-valuing-company-at-30-billion/
628
237
Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/apple-hires-googles-ai-chief.html
400
232
We might be swinging away from the newsfeed
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/4/2/the-death-of-the-newsfeed
396
136
Tell HN: 17 years on the same game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742689
386
343
Swedes turn against cashlessness
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/being-cash-free-puts-us-at-risk-of-attack-swedes-turn-against-cashlessness
363
125
A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance
361
121
Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/here-are-examples-of-everything-new-in-ecmascript-2016-2017-and-2018-d52fa3b5a70e
340
235
Cryptographic Right Answers
http://latacora.singles/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-answers.html
320
128
Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741116
264
Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (2010)
http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00.html
293
27
A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps
https://twitter.com/ptychomancer/status/980968298002006016
290
133
Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/3/17191944/google-ai-head-jeff-dean-reshuffle-john-giannandrea
255
43
Show HN: A site that lets you search and subscribe to “Who is hiring?”
https://whoishiring.me/
253
89
Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months
https://medium.com/@djhoulihan/no-panera-bread-doesnt-take-security-seriously-bf078027f815
246
291
Reddit’s Redesign
https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/?mbid=synd_digg
239
15
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware
https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/
238
141
Show HN: Travel spontaneously on a budget
http://www.wander.am
97
Feds: There are hostile stingrays in DC, but we don’t know how to find them
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-to-senator-malicious-use-of-stingrays-is-a-real-and-growing-risk/
190
Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12607/intel-expands-8th-gen-core-core-i9-on-mobile-iris-plus-desktop-chipsets-and-vpro/
173
One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means
https://work.qz.com/1241833/one-of-estonias-first-e-residents-explains-what-it-means-to-have-digital-citizenship/
227
71
AT&T stealing/misrouting 1.1.1.0/29 for some of their residential customers
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31901379-AT-T-gateway-5268ac-maybe-others-misrouting-1-1-1-0-24
215
103
Half of European flights delayed due to system failure
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43633094
209
109
Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/introducing-cloud-compute-services/
205
RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178
193
64
MesaLink: A memory-safe and OpenSSL-compatible TLS library
https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mesalink
★ 1.4k Rust – 8 years ago
180
63
Towards a Type System for Containers and AWS Lambda to Avoid Failures [pdf]
http://christophermeiklejohn.com/publications/hotedge-2018-containers-preprint.pdf
174
168
Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven
https://blog.philipphauer.de/moving-back-from-gradle-to-maven/
59
Mounting criticism of NIH's relationship with the alcohol industry
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/i-dont-f-ing-care-in-wooing-67m-from-big-alcohol-nih-nixed-critical-study/
161
Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16743055
159
69
Sunsetting Tor Messenger
https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-messenger
152
186
Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer
http://typicalprogrammer.com/working-on-an-ipad-pro-as-my-main-computer
148
49
Large crack in East African Rift is evidence of continent splitting in two
https://theconversation.com/large-crack-in-east-african-rift-is-evidence-of-continent-splitting-in-two-94056
143
41
Intel won’t release Spectre patches for some older chips after all
https://liliputing.com/2018/04/intel-wont-release-spectre-patches-for-some-older-chips-after-all.html
Tesla Q1 2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries
http://ir.tesla.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1062670
139
82
The invisibility of Sheryl Sandberg
http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/381404-the-infuriating-invisibility-of-sheryl-sandberg
25
Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2017.1783
131
51
The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge
https://gizmodo.com/the-first-3d-printed-steel-bridge-looks-like-it-broke-o-1824252512
124
54
Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/02/a-privacy-preserving-approach-to-dns/
118
87
SailsJS 1.0 – Rails-like JS Framework
https://sailsjs.com
115
83
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks and Overclocking Results
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-user-publishes-benchmarks-overclocking-results-ahead-of-launch/
US Navy remotely lands F/A-18 Super Hornet on carrier deck
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/us-navy-remotely-lands-fa-18-super-hornet-on-carrie-447225/
108
18
Apps and scripts that make exported Facebook data easier to handle and organise
https://exportfb.com/
107
13
Microsoft AI Interview Questions – Acing the AI Interview
https://medium.com/acing-ai/microsoft-ai-interview-questions-acing-the-ai-interview-be6972f790ea
106
24
Show HN: Diamond – Full-stack web-framework in D
https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond
★ 176 D MIT– 8 years ago
31
Common Lisp Standard Draft
http://cvberry.com/tech_writings/notes/common_lisp_standard_draft.html
102
153
MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610743/mit-severs-ties-to-company-promoting-fatal-brain-uploading/
100
50
Capacitor: Universal Web Applications
https://capacitor.ionicframework.com