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/
169
50
Mecanum wheel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
82
Version 6 of Angular Now Available
https://blog.angular.io/version-6-of-angular-now-available-cc56b0efa7a4
167
20
Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (2015)
https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structured-data-from-recipes-using-conditional-random-fields/
163
129
Things I’ve learned using serverless
https://read.acloud.guru/six-months-of-serverless-lessons-learned-f6da86a73526
155
118
The hell that is filename encoding (2016)
http://beets.io/blog/paths.html
183
China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments decline 21% in Q1 2018
https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/chinese-smartphone-market-suffers-hard-landing-shipments-decline-21-q1-2018
150
72
How much does Apple know about me? The answer surprised me
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/04/asked-apple-everything-had-me-heres-what-got/558362002/
141
149
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/05/criminal-gang-used-drone-swarm-obstruct-fbi-raid/147956/
137
49
FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in
https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-community-highlights-two-weeks-in/
136
We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (2016)
http://beets.io/blog/sqlite-performance.html
133
164
Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature This Year
https://www.wsj.com/articles/swedish-academy-wont-award-nobel-prize-in-literature-this-year-1525419104
130
60
Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot
https://blog.online.net/2018/05/03/introducing-scaleway-nextgen-nvme-cloud-servers-with-hot-snapshots/
128
70
Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform
https://www.wired.com/story/biology-will-be-the-next-great-computing-platform/
127
2
Testing distributed systems
https://asatarin.github.io/testing-distributed-systems/
A secondary market has emerged for buying and selling Telegram tokens early
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/03/telegrams-billion-dollar-ico-has-become-a-mess/
124
40
First impressions about Graal VM
https://blog.frankel.ch/first-impressions-graalvm/
121
36
Ask HN: Building a game for AI Research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991591
61
Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/03/magazine/money-issue-iowa-lottery-fraud-mystery.html
35
Judge the value of what you have by what you had to give up to get it
http://timharford.com/2018/05/judge-the-value-of-what-you-have-by-what-you-had-to-give-up-to-get-it/
13
Programming Language Theory in Agda
https://wenkokke.github.io/sf/
115
GDPR compliance as a service
https://gdpr-shield.io/
114
138
Lisp, Jazz, Aikido
http://programming-journal.org/2018/2/10/
111
'My £1,000 Macbook Air was stolen at airport security and no one cares'
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/my-1000-macbook-air-was-stolen-at-airport-security-and-no-one-cares
110
85
Oni – Modern Modal Editing
https://www.onivim.io/
108
8
How to Train and Build a Conversational News Chatbot
https://github.com/tzano/wren/blob/master/docs/news_assistant.md
★ 257 Python MIT– 8 years ago
55
Petition: Apple recall and replace defective Macbook Pro keyboard design
https://www.change.org/p/apple-apple-recall-macbook-pro-w-defective-keyboard-replace-with-different-working-keyboard
99
79
Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook
https://longreads.com/2018/05/01/searching-for-a-future-beyond-facebook/
96
122
“There is, unfortunately, no such thing as a truly neutral stance on inclusion”
https://lobste.rs/s/nf3xgg/i_am_leaving_llvm#c_ubyrb0
93
11
The Question of Quantum Supremacy
https://research.googleblog.com/2018/05/the-question-of-quantum-supremacy.html