677
252
Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/07/a-dozen-popular-iphone-apps-caught-quietly-sending-user-locations-to-monetization-firms/
8 years ago
510
222
Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/
482
300
My Story as a Homeless Developer
https://medium.com/@jessehorne/my-story-as-a-homeless-developer-5874731c42ed
401
125
Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/technology/alibaba-jack-ma-retiring.html
395
242
YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/world/europe/youtube-far-right-extremism.html
362
147
Firefox about:config privacy settings
https://gist.github.com/0XDE57/fbd302cef7693e62c769
341
227
Try OCaml
https://try.ocamlpro.com/
328
Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc
https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/09/07/intel-cant-supply-14nm-xeons-hpe-directly-recommends-amd-epyc/
281
157
Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure
https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-internets-most-successful-failure
273
106
EU copyright reform: the facts
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/07/eu-copyright-reform-the-facts/
261
152
Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wpa3
260
115
Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/06/huawei-caught-cheating-performance-test-for-new-phones/
138
Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/06/644935958/hospitals-prepare-to-launch-their-own-drug-company-to-fight-high-prices-and-shor
225
75
Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption
https://palant.de/2018/09/06/keybase-our-browser-extension-subverts-our-encryption-but-why-should-we-care
207
149
'Mindful people' feel less pain
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-mindful-people-pain-mri-imaging.html
205
79
Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/
198
118
On the Road to Pure Go X11 GUIs
https://p.janouch.name/article-xgb.html
188
52
AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions
https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-use-these-new-instructions/
186
Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast-cheap-internetone-billionaire-changed-all-that-1536159916
185
89
What went wrong at Social Capital
https://www.axios.com/social-capital-collapse-0c3257ab-b599-4047-b5cc-5d465419b373.html
180
22
Ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support)
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/0.10.0
★ 63k Rust Unlicense– 8 years ago
172
288
Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; Stock Plunges
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-07/tesla-chief-accounting-officer-dave-morton-resigns-jlrzkn5k
164
In the fundamental physics of the world, there is neither space nor time
http://nautil.us/issue/64/the-unseen/the-end-of-time
163
137
A Popular Mac App That Sent Users' Browsing History to China Has Been Removed
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/apple-removes-adware-doctor-browsing-history
72
How HTTPS works
https://howhttps.works/
39
Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-hidden-prime-crystal-like-materials.html
155
50
“Sand Dams” Are Transforming African Drylands
https://weburbanist.com/2018/09/04/fertile-grounds-low-tech-sand-dams-breathe-new-life-into-african-drylands/
154
78
Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but changed Earth's climate: study
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-farmers-glaciers-profoundly-earth.html
99
Go says Wat
https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-go-says-wat/
141
114
The mysterious case of missing URLs and Google's AMP
https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/amp-urls/
130
13
GRPC and JSON
https://grpc.io/blog/grpc-with-json
129
57
Tech companies in San Francisco
https://employbl.com/
124
177
Berlin Google Campus occupied
https://besetzen.noblogs.org/post/2018/09/07/google-campus-occupied-fuckoffgoogle/
123
34
Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (2015) [pdf]
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2c11/7c1456eb96bbea19aa3c8b018de4fc9387bc.pdf
120
133
Beleaguered Didi Is Said to Lose $585M in Just Six Months
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-07/beleaguered-didi-is-said-to-lose-585-million-in-just-six-months
24
Debugging a 3D graphics bug in an emulator
https://www.supermodel3.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1561
107
87
The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive reality
http://archive.is/y7W4k
101
40
Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says
https://www.fastcompany.com/90232670/quantum-computing-is-almost-ready-for-business-startup-says
86
Bump-Canceling Bunk Beds Promise Smooth Bus Rides
https://www.wired.com/story/cabin-bus-sleep-suspension-system
98
The Case Against Delaware (2002)
https://newrepublic.com/article/61902/rogue-state
95
Ask HN: Favorite books on how to be a good manager?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17931782
94
14
Stripe's take on software engineer efficiency made me angry
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1038047527898177536.html
93
51
Company Update
https://www.tesla.com/blog/company-update
84
67
Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45438736
83
29
Getting specific about generics
https://emilymaier.net/words/getting-specific-about-generics/