1224
496
Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
8 years ago
751
304
You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
https://twitter.com/rombulow/status/990684453734203392
608
344
Facebook announces Clear History feature
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104899855107881
587
1179
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967543
568
73
Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
https://snr.stanford.edu
478
239
Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635
472
316
C Is Not a Low-Level Language
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
432
306
Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/173476365679/medium-tries-to-prevent-people-reading-deleted
395
366
Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web
https://www.blog.google/topics/developers/introducing-app-more-secure-home-apps-web/
393
303
Facebook is launching a dating feature
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/facebook-is-launching-a-dating-app.html
360
72
TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming
https://tic.computer/
321
471
I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report
https://dogsnog.blog/2018/04/30/i-switched-from-iphone-to-android-1-week-report/
257
Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Heaviest Burden
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/01/606588504/americans-are-a-lonely-lot-and-young-people-bear-the-heaviest-burden
287
150
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/
271
51
A puzzle that tiles infinitely across both sides, based on the Klein Bottle
https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=7613
268
253
California Supreme Court Transforms the Test for Who Is an Employee
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/calif-supreme-court-changes-test-for-who-is-an-employee
266
339
YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-43956001
245
166
Oculus Go
https://www.oculus.com/go/
242
145
Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611012/computer-scientists-have-found-the-longest-straight-line-you-could-sail-without-hitting/
55
How to send local files to Chromecast with Python
https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/how-to-send-local-files-to-chromecast-with-python.html
197
7
The Internals of Postgres – Concurrency Control
http://www.interdb.jp/pg/pgsql05.html
190
88
Against Facebook
https://0xadada.pub/2018/05/01/against-facebook/
189
It’s COBOL all the way down
https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-way-down/
185
343
To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50% in 20 years
http://www.sfexaminer.com/solve-affordability-crisis-bay-area-housing-stock-must-grow-50-percent-20-years/
24
Painting made out of CSS rules
http://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-francine/
182
65
Linux RNG flaws
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1559
178
45
Towards λ-calculus
http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=lambdacode_inside_min
174
40
Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS
https://blog.github.com/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-https/
172
96
Void Linux project leader has disappeared
https://www.voidlinux.eu/news/2018/05/serious-issues.html
164
120
Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0501-vs-vector-borne.html
160
5
The Story of ISPC: Intel SPMD Program Compiler
http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html
154
53
EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180501085140.htm
151
30
Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q1-2018/
148
86
What's in those mysterious cabinets?
https://blog.plover.com/2018/05/01/#highway-stuff
48
KRust: A Formal Executable Semantics of Rust
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10806
140
18
Ruby’s Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web
https://bowild.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/rubys-rack-push-decoupling-the-real-time-web-application-from-the-web/
139
35
Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/kubernetes-state-of-stateful-apps/
137
9
Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects
https://blog.cmog.org/2018/04/25/photographing-glass-lighting-techniques-for-transparent-glass-objects/
135
43
Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway
http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/subway.html
133
Operator Framework: Building Apps on Kubernetes
https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operator-framework
132
2018 reform of EU data protection rules
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/justice-and-fundamental-rights/data-protection/2018-reform-eu-data-protection-rules_en
62
Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (1996)
http://discovermagazine.com/1996/apr/aninvisiblefire739
125
79
Customer takes Bell to court and wins
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-customer-wins-court-battle-over-contract-1.4635118
119
19
Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/particle-physics-resurrects-alexander-graham-bells-voice
113
11
Making art with SSH key randomart
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ssh-randomart-how-does-it-work-art
111
47
Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16970995
110
Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-digital-vigilantes-who-hack-back
103
The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)
https://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html
101
41
Apple deleted a job listing that hints at plans to cut Qualcomm and Intel chips
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-deleted-job-listing-shows-plans-design-5g-modem-2018-4
100
22
PragProg removes access to forums due to SESTA
https://forums.pragprog.com/fosta-sesta
The Peter Principle Isn't Just Real, It's Costly
http://www.nber.org/digest/may18/w24343.shtml
95
80
Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/
90
127
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967544
Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US