910
384
Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7
8 years ago
633
339
NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/spy-agency-nsa-collected-500-million-u-s-call-records-in-2017-a-sharp-rise-official-report-idUSKBN1I52FR
560
472
The rise of the pointless job
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job
558
157
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
445
154
Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
https://medium.com/@terrycrowley/never-write-your-own-database-736f704c780
440
103
What happens before main() is executed in C and why is it important?
http://mymicrocontroller.com/2018/04/03/what-happens-before-main-function-is-executed-in-c-and-why-is-it-important/
419
693
Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-canada-facing-brain-drain-as-young-tech-talent-leaves-for-silicon/
375
59
Moving Fast and Securing Things
https://slack.engineering/moving-fast-and-securing-things-540e6c5ae58a
369
135
A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (1998)
http://www.rocketroberts.com/stereo/stereo.htm
353
84
C Primer
https://www.enlightenment.org/docs/c/start
313
185
Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes
https://drewdevault.com/2018/05/03/Google-embraces-extends-extinguishes.html
277
166
Walmart Beats Amazon in $15B Flipkart Battle
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/flipkart-board-is-said-to-approve-15-billion-deal-with-walmart
255
139
Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]
https://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/solutions.pdf
248
116
AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/att-is-blocking-cloudflares-privacy-focused-dns-calls-it-an-accident/
241
244
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995260
216
180
How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/well/move/how-strenuous-exercise-affects-our-immune-system.html
201
41
The Kruskal Count Card Trick
http://faculty.uml.edu/rmontenegro/research/kruskal_count/kruskal.html
198
176
Say yes to the progressive web
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/say-yes-to-the-progressive-web-1805.html
189
28
Ascii Art Generator
https://asciiartgen.now.sh/
171
18
The extraordinary life and death of the world’s oldest known spider
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/01/the-extraordinary-life-and-death-of-the-worlds-oldest-known-spider/
Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes