661
462
Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-passwords/twitter-says-glitch-exposed-substantial-number-of-users-passwords-idUSKBN1I42JG?il=0
8 years ago
544
598
Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
https://nytimes.com/2018/05/03/us/california-today-stripe-yimby-housing.html
481
188
De-Googling my phone
https://piware.de/post/2018-05-01-android-degoogle/
433
332
Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?
http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2018/is-there-a-fix-for-impostor-syndrome
427
195
Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/607823388/pocket-cast-acquired
426
102
Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal
https://news.yale.edu/2018/05/02/yale-physicists-find-signs-time-crystal
386
255
Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/19/wolves-of-instagram-jordan-belmont-social-media-traders
376
105
High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2018-04-high-speed-networking-open-source-kernel-bypass
342
114
7-Zip: From Uninitialized Memory to Remote Code Execution
https://landave.io/2018/05/7-zip-from-uninitialized-memory-to-remote-code-execution/?hn
324
121
100 prisoners problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_prisoners_problem
306
70
The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/watch-the-life-cycle-of-hiv-in-colorful-new-detail/
286
397
Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/musk-says-don-t-buy-volatile-tesla-stock-investors-take-heed
274
154
Stack Overflow for Teams
https://stackoverflow.com/teams
263
186
Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/three-day-no-meeting-schedule-for-engineers-fca9f857a567
248
94
GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL
https://github.com/github/gh-ost
★ 13.3k Go MIT– 8 years ago
245
54
Impact – HTML5 Game Engine
https://github.com/phoboslab/impact
★ 2.1k JavaScript MIT– 8 years ago
223
40
A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
216
124
NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor
https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/02/nasa-completes-full-power-tests-small-nuclear-reactor/
191
234
How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/26/17282378/romaine-lettuce-recall-ecoli-yuma
190
110
The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725
176
67
Show HN: LayerJS – A simple UI composition and navigation library
https://layerjs.org
172
34
Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Introducing-Asylo-an-open-source-framework-for-confidential-computing.html
158
22
GDPR made searchable by Algolia
https://gdpr.algolia.com
156
44
Yubikey/Smartcard backed TLS servers
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/tls-https-server-from-a-yubikey
19
GitHub provides an RSS feed for all user-facing changes made on the platform
https://blog.github.com/changelog/
152
27
A Call of Duty exploit
https://momo5502.com/blog/?p=34
147
61
The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/helium-filled-hard-drive-failure-rates/
146
30
GDPR compliance checklist
https://gdprchecklist.io/
145
97
Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-firing/facebook-employee-fired-over-bragging-about-access-to-user-information-idUSKBN1I334E
144
20
Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)
https://frankchimero.com/blog/2016/new-yorker/
143
142
The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe
http://thesoundingline.com/map-of-the-day-the-unemployment-rate-in-every-region-of-europe/
127
81
A Dying Scientist and His Rogue Vaccine Trial
https://www.wired.com/story/infectious-rogue-vaccine-trial
123
179
Mobile phone cancer warning as malignant brain tumours double
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/05/02/mobile-phone-cancer-warning-malignant-brain-tumours-double/
48
Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Android phone
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/drive-by-rowhammer-attack-uses-gpu-to-compromise-an-android-phone/
56
Everest: A lightweight REST API client written in JavaFX
https://github.com/RohitAwate/Everest
★ 825 Java Apache-2.0– 8 years ago
112
16
Wikipedia: List of lists of lists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
108
NYC Renters Paid Extra $616M Thanks to Airbnb, Study Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/nyc-renters-paid-extra-616-million-thanks-to-airbnb-study-says
107
Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
https://altair-viz.github.io/
78
A growing number of philosophers are conducting experiments to test arguments
https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-the-armchair-must-philosophy-become-experimental
95
37
How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-build-secret-nuclear-city
92
Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions
https://refjar.com
89
109
Tesla is hit by $2B patent troll case from Nikola Motors
https://electrek.co/2018/05/02/tesla-semi-patent-troll-nikola-motors-design/
41
The Micronesian island of Yap has stone money too heavy to move
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180502-the-tiny-island-with-human-sized-money
80
Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Cuts the Multiverse Down to Size
https://www.livescience.com/62459-hawking-final-paper-physics.html
87
6
German CT-Magazine says 8 new Spectre Vulnerabilities are found in Intel CPUs
https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Super-GAU-fuer-Intel-Weitere-Spectre-Luecken-im-Anflug-4039134.html
62
Hominin head-scratcher: who butchered this rhino 700k years ago?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/05/02/hominin-butchered-rhino/
134
Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16982575
59
Tech conferences moving north as Trump policies turn off attendees
http://business.financialpost.com/technology/tech-conferences-moving-north-as-trump-policies-turn-off-attendees
74
9
Design for an Audience
http://style.org/ku/
73
10
Spectre-NG Multiple new Intel CPU flaws revealed, several serious
https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Exclusive-Spectre-NG-Multiple-new-Intel-CPU-flaws-revealed-several-serious-4040648.html
72
3
Linux System Monitoring with eBPF
https://www.circonus.com/2018/05/linux-system-monitoring-with-ebpf/
15
An Overview of Micron’s Automata Processor (2016) [pdf]
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/wang_APoverview_CODES16.pdf
68
33
C64 Keyboard Prototype
http://www.breadbox64.com/blog/c64-keyboard-prototype/
47
Ask HN: Of your hard learned lessons, which do you wish could’ve been easier?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16983434
66
The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civilizations
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq