1681
302
Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744
8 years ago
1075
276
Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/06/delete-facebook-live-us-still-share-data
1053
256
I wandered off and built an IDE
http://blog.querystorm.com/index.php/2018/04/04/whynow/
433
465
Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopilot_barrier_lust_201812/
388
115
Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 engineering firefighter
https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/
355
111
Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html
352
319
Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic
https://www.cjr.org/innovations/google-journalistic-right-to-be-forgotten-by-claiming-its-journalistic.php
349
37
Japanese anime director Isao Takahata has died
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-43664515
347
173
FCC approves SpaceX plan for satellite broadband network
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network/
329
120
Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-messages
317
Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-marketplace-backpage-com-seized-by-u-s-justice-authorities-posting-idUSKCN1HD2QP
313
170
Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/nyregion/want-to-be-happy-think-like-an-old-person.html
303
219
Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain
https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec
291
63
Immutable.rs: immutable data structures for Rust
http://immutable.rs
281
77
Apps of a Feather
http://apps-of-a-feather.com/
280
82
AWS Explained: The Basics
https://www.inqdo.com/aws-explained-the-basics/
277
24
Destroy All Software screencasts free this week
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
270
125
Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/raspberry-pi-microsd-card-performance-comparison-2018
245
56
A Virtual Machine
http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/a-virtual-machine.html
233
131
The Stack Overflow Age
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow-age/
213
49
Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-06/retailer-data-breaches-stop-giving-them-a-free-pass
198
58
Before cancer kills, it cheats
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/harvard-talk-envisions-path-to-containing-cancer/
194
87
A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43648152
112
Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17206394/facebook-unsend-messages-feature-update-messenger-mark-zuckerberg
135
SpaceX can't broadcast Earth images because of a murky license
https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-cant-broadcast-earth-images-because-of-a-murky-license/
191
85
Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You
https://sonniesedge.co.uk/talks/dear-developer
190
83
Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03922-x
174
217
Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/well/older-americans-vitamins-dietary-supplements.html
155
16
Mill: Better Scala Builds
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/MillBetterScalaBuilds.html
148
Socioeconomic sorting at the metropolitan level is making America more polarized
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/how-your-social-class-affects-where-youll-move/557060/
144
46
Why Whales Got So Big
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/why-whales-got-so-big/557213/?single_page=true
141
90
NixOS 18.03 Released
https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-18.03
140
44
TMobile confirms they store passwords in plaintext, don't see why it's a problem
https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/981418339653300224
36
Myanmar group questions Zuckerberg’s claim on Facebook hate speech prevention
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/06/myanmar-group-blasts-zuckerbergs-claim-on-facebook-hate-speech-prevention/
130
66
Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy
https://robmaceachern.com/2018/03/31/apples-new-ad-conversion-tracking-will-benefit-user-privacy/
129
117
Great Vowel Shift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
127
35
Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/6/884/2223400
121
Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news
http://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/381871-free-speech-cannot-be-sacrificed-to-strike-fake-news
32
Multi-user VR experiences with A-Frame (2017)
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/multi-user-experiences-with-a-frame/
118
47
Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers
https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-security-to-compile-database-of-journalists-bloggers/
61
iOS, the Future of MacOS, Freedom, Security and Privacy
https://gist.github.com/desantis/5728d5536b6dfe37e781c0a4a0f32e54
116
91
Germs That Love Diet Soda
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/sunday/germs-microbes-processed-foods.html
107
48
New features from the last few versions of Git
https://blog.github.com/2018-04-05-git-217-released/
38
C++17 Compiler Bug Hunt
http://ithare.com/c17-compiler-bug-hunt-very-first-results-12-bugs-reported-3-already-fixed/
105
78
Ask HN: Do you have a software consultant or outsourcing horror story?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16772938
103
142
China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bible-sales.html