1630
625
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/
8 years ago
754
228
Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/16/17357592/net-neutrality-senate-vote-cra-reinstate-fcc-rules
704
244
Too Clever by Half
http://epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/
645
173
What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
https://blog.ghost.org/5/
633
274
How a domain registrar can kill your business
https://www.uptimechecker.io/blog/how-domain-registrar-can-kill-your-business
572
50
Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3220266
558
426
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
https://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html
458
141
Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5
http://demo.curious-expedition.com
447
241
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-economy-startups.html
419
130
HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud
https://www.howeycoins.com/index.html
381
190
A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git
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361
189
The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/996736533511266304
347
AI and Compute
https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/?
345
358
JavaScript is Good, Actually
https://ashfurrow.com/blog/javascript-is-good-actually/
342
191
Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/tarballs-the-ultimate-container-image-format/
318
155
Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law
https://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/stories/2018/5/051618/
273
208
Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings
https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper
★ 748 JavaScript MIT– 8 years ago
265
40
Statistics, Fast and Slow
http://timharford.com/2018/05/statistics-fast-and-slow/
258
71
Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081900
236
58
ClassicKit – A collection of UI components for iOS influenced by Windows 95
https://github.com/Baddaboo/ClassicKit
★ 2.1k Swift – 8 years ago
199
16
Finland offers free online Artificial Intelligence course to anyone, anywhere
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finland_offers_free_online_artificial_intelligence_course_to_anyone_anywhere/10206283
186
105
Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
https://medium.com/@yoavanaki/apartment-baiting-with-facebook-ads-1e5cff81d6b2
176
195
IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices from every office
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/10/ibm_bans_all_removable_storage_for_all_staff_everywhere/
169
22
Verizon AS701 blocking Tor consensus server tor26 (86.59.21.38)
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-May/015218.html
149
178
Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/8jzddx/reddits_redesign_increases_power_usage_of_our/
147
104
A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017)
https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/look-back-bloomberg-keyboard/
144
Elon Musk hires 2 Newfoundland interns who solved problems at Tesla factory
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/elon-musk-tesla-newfoundland-interns-hired-1.4663270
202
Rust programs versus Go
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/rust-go.html
139
69
Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte
https://lemire.me/blog/2018/05/16/validating-utf-8-strings-using-as-little-as-0-7-cycles-per-byte/
128
9
Lightweight Concurrency in Lua
http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/05/16/lightweight-concurrency-in-lua
125
111
How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy?
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-deaths-make-a-natural-disaster-newsworthy
121
78
Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images
https://www.screely.com/
120
95
Why read old philosophy?
https://meteuphoric.com/2017/01/04/why-read-old-philosophy/
117
72
Hacker News Points Inflation
https://taimur.me/hn-inflation/
115
13
Mice with 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/functional-3d-printed-ovary-transplanted-mice-180963337/?no-ist
109
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California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit
http://cityobservatory.org/californias-next-bold-step-on-climate-should-be-building-near-transit/
107
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https://aeon.co/essays/is-there-any-evidence-linking-creativity-and-mood-disorders