909
473
Go 2 Draft Designs
https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft.md
7 years ago
762
249
DuckDuckGo Raises $10M
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/while-google-is-attacked-over-privacy-concerns-and-perceived-bias-duckduckgo-raised-10m/
550
170
NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
https://nycmesh.net/
518
122
Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/blog-post-wyden-911-disruption-css
412
88
Write – A word processor for handwriting
http://www.styluslabs.com
388
383
How the Dutch created a casual biking culture
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/28/17789510/bike-cycling-netherlands-dutch-infrastructure
356
220
Ask HN: Have you built a house?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17857129
342
73
We are rewriting CodeMirror
https://codemirror.net/6/
332
123
Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter
https://twitter.com/SandboxEscaper/status/1034125195148255235
328
253
Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs-https/
316
364
Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack
https://khn.org/news/a-jolt-to-the-jugular-youre-insured-but-still-owe-109k-for-your-heart-attack/
312
106
JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUhkKGvjtV-dkAIsUXP-AL4ffI
306
333
Is Rails still relevant in 2018?
https://blog.eq8.eu/article/is-rails-still-relevant-in-2018.html
271
420
Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost
https://www.economist.com/international/2018/08/25/air-conditioners-do-great-good-but-at-a-high-environmental-cost
32
WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games
http://prilik.com/blog/wideNES
243
83
Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
https://home.cern/about/updates/2018/08/long-sought-decay-higgs-boson-observed
240
78
The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
239
109
Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/yahoo-bucking-industry-scans-emails-for-data-to-sell-advertisers-1535466959
235
60
RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything
https://docs.rsshub.app/en/
218
107
A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/24/a-majority-of-u-s-teens-are-taking-steps-to-limit-smartphone-and-social-media-use/
214
52
Salmon, a Python Mail Server
https://salmon-mail.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
205
196
California governor signs overhaul of bail system
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-jerry-brown-bail-reform-law-1535485040-htmlstory.html
198
68
LyX: combine the power of LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface
https://www.lyx.org
177
56
Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/trust-us-were-secretly-working-foreign-government-how-australias-proposed-crypto
171
76
“I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinking It Was Me”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/i-used-ai-to-clone-my-voice-and-trick-my-mom-into-thinking
156
4
Programming Language Foundations in Agda
https://plfa.github.io/
150
131
How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV
https://www.recode.net/2018/8/23/17770896/netflix-reed-hastings-ted-sarandos-streaming-tv-media-jason-hirschhorn-redef-peter-kafka-podcast
140
99
Building a Treasury Bond Ladder
https://terenz.io/blog/20180828_building_a_treasury_bond_ladder.html
127
90
Very Good Security
https://a16z.com/2018/08/28/very-good-security/
126
66
Service Workers
https://frontendian.co/service-workers
125
81
Goodbye VSCode, Hello Emacs Again
https://hotair.tech/blog/goodbye-vscode/
121
49
Cracking Litter Box DRM
http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/reverse-engineering-cat-genie-120-drm/
117
29
Q3VM – Lightweight, embeddable Quake III Interpreter/Virtual Machine
https://github.com/jnz/q3vm
★ 933CGPL-2.0–7 years ago
113
T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Data
https://www.databreachtoday.com/t-mobile-database-breach-exposes-2-million-customers-data-a-11420
111
47
OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ocr-software-dev-exposes-200-000-customer-documents/
84
Why We Should Watch Less News
https://medium.com/s/story/the-case-for-watching-less-news-8020c88fd5f
Magic Leap One now available for $2295
https://www.magicleap.com/magic-leap-one
103
44
Newly Discovered 'Rose Hip' Neurons May Be Unique To Humans
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/27/642255886/a-new-discovery-may-explain-what-makes-the-human-brain-unique
101
22
Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-building-a-resilient-web-with-webtorrent/
34
A collection of sysadmin test questions and answers for interviews/exams
https://github.com/trimstray/test-your-sysadmin-skills
★ 11.5kMIT–7 years ago
65
RedHat and SUSE Withdrawing Support for OpenLDAP
https://www.ostechnix.com/redhat-and-suse-announced-to-withdraw-support-for-openldap/
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/health/china-flu-virus-samples.html
46
I inspected the mastodon.social website
https://catalin.red/inspected-mastodon-social-website/
87
Trump Accuses Google of Burying Conservative News in Search Results
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/business/media/trump-google.html
86
39
Show HN: De-sk, modular office desk system
http://de-sk.co
132
‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/28/trump-wakes-up-googles-himself-and-doesnt-like-what-he-sees-illegal/
85
59
Rideshare boycott sparked by murders in China
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/didi-murder/568660/?single_page=true
Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs to Steal Data
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/novel-attack-technique-uses-smart-light-bulbs-to-steal-data/
48
Programming My Child
http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/david-auerbach-programming-my-child
79
3
How We Made Joins Faster, Part Three
https://crate.io/a/lab-notes-how-we-made-joins-23-thousand-times-faster-part-three/
Dear Venmo: Update Your Privacy Settings
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/08/27/dear-venmo-update-your-privacy-settings/
33
Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)
https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/
An introduction to the Julia language, part 1
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/763626/f2990348ebd06167/
77
14
A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer
https://thisissecurity.stormshield.com/2018/08/28/acridrain-stealer/
2
The Story of an American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-story-of-the-american-inventor-denied-a-patent-beca-1828329907
Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers