944
545
Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
https://www.recode.net/2018/9/10/17797720/amazon-is-stuffing-its-search-results-pages-with-ads
7 years ago
580
285
The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-effectiveness-of-publicly-shaming-bad-security/
543
180
Dry Water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water
453
152
India’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/11/uidai-s-aadhaar-software-hacked-id-database-compromised-experts-confirm_a_23522472/
301
391
The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/the-real-cost-of-the-2008-financial-crisis
290
291
Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Questions
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apps.12163
280
612
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-poverty-homeless.html
275
217
The “Developer Experience” Bait-And-Switch
https://infrequently.org/2018/09/the-developer-experience-bait-and-switch/
234
715
How America lost its love for the stick shift
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/audi-kills-manual-transmission-cars-america-lost-love-for-stick-shift.html
229
167
Federal chokehold on marijuana stymies studies on epilepsy, autism
https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/federal-chokehold-marijuana-stymies-studies-epilepsy-autism/
219
Poor mental health at work 'widespread'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45470517
213
54
PostgreSQL 11 and Just in Time Compilation of Queries
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/09/11/postgresql-11-just-in-time/
193
23
Middle Earth Map Style
https://adventuresinmapping.com/2018/09/10/middle-earth-map-style/
185
176
Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recognition Boarding
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/09/dulles-airport-surprises-passengers-facial-recognition-boarding/151095/
183
334
Why Is College in America So Expensive?
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/?single_page=true
182
66
Google Photos API
https://developers.google.com/photos
173
67
Argue with your customers
https://www.rockstarcoders.com/customer-feedback/
164
113
Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for electric vehicles
https://electrek.co/2018/09/11/solid-state-battery-startup-bmw-hyundai-samsung-breakthrough-electric-vehicles/
70
Switzerland: Welcome to the Drone Valley
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/swiss-innovation_welcome-to-the-drone-valley/44375836
161
178
The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/the-us-has-spent-1point5-trillion-on-war-since-september-11-attacks.html
157
24
Ten years of V8
https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/09/10-years.html
153
138
Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon
https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-amazon-competition-ecommerce/
Protecting Mozilla’s GitHub Repositories from Malicious Modification
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/09/11/protecting-mozillas-github-repositories-from-malicious-modification/
150
Project Python – Free Interactive Book That Introduces Python Programming and CS
http://projectpython.net/chapter00/
149
35
The Commons Clause doesn't help the commons
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/51177.html
146
34
MS Paint IDE
https://ms-paint-i.de/
144
74
SQLite: Infinite loop due to the ‘order by limit’ optimization
http://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/info/9936b2fa443fec03ff25
102
Ericsson and T-Mobile ink $3.5B deal for 5G
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/11/ericsson-and-t-mobile-ink-3-5-billion-deal-for-5g/
51
Show HN: Mindstamp – Make Any Video Interactive in Seconds
https://mindstamp.io
120
50
Cannabinoids promote neuron growth and have antidepressant-like effects (2005)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253627/
118
145
Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers. Make Macros Instead (2014)
https://jlongster.com/Stop-Writing-JavaScript-Compilers--Make-Macros-Instead
116
65
Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter
https://www.zdnet.com/article/exploit-vendor-drops-tor-browser-zero-day-on-twitter/
114
31
Lumen: A Lisp for Lua and JavaScript
https://github.com/sctb/lumen
★ 568JavaScriptBSD-2-Clause–7 years ago
109
16
A micro manual for Lisp – Not the whole truth (1978) [pdf]
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/pub/misc/micromanualLISP.pdf
106
10
A Template for Understanding How the Economic Machine Works (2011) [pdf]
https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/A_Template_for_Understanding_-_Ray_Dalio__Bridgewater.pdf
105
71
Taking back control of my digital life
https://screamingatmyscreen.com/2018/5/taking-back-control-of-my-digital-life/
97
Robotic 'trees' can turn CO2 into concrete
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/11/robot-trees-co2-into-concrete-climate-change/
94
9
OpenSSL 1.1.1 Is Released
https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/09/11/release111/
91
DeveloperHub.io: Create beautiful product documentation, hassle-free
https://developerhub.io
88
We Can Stop Pretending LTE-M Is a Low-Power WAN
https://medium.com/@patburns/the-joke-is-over-we-can-stop-pretending-lte-m-is-a-lpwan-683020fcb3b5
87
32
How does Tidelift pay maintainers?
https://tidelift.com/about/lifter
84
45
Launch HN: Sterblue (YC S18) – Software for drones to inspect power lines
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17962004
83
5
Google’s location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/11/googles-location-privacy-practices-are-under-investigation-arizona/
81
61
Ask HN: Washed up at 40 when you're crazy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958648
78
30
Tolstoy’s ‘Resurrection’ is strikingly similar to how we treat prisoners today
https://macroaffairs.com/tolstoy-resurrection-prison-industrial-complex/books/
77
2
The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design [pdf]
http://colingray.me/wp-content/uploads/2018_Grayetal_CHI_DarkPatternsUXDesign.pdf
103
The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again (2016)
https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/marriage-decision.html
73
6
Ada on FPGAs with PicoRV32
https://blog.adacore.com/ada-on-fpgas-with-picorv32
72
British Airways: Suspect code that hacked fliers ‘found’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45481976
62
Number of hedge fund startups lowest in nearly two decades
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-shrinking-hedge-fund
36
Robinhood Making Millions Selling Out Their Millennial Customers to HFTs
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4205379-robinhood-making-millions-selling-millennial-customers-high-frequency-traders
42
Hundreds of Roman gold coins found in basement of old theater
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/roman-gold-coins-italy-cressoni-theater-trnd/index.html
Single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-gene-mutation-humans-optimal-long-distance.html
99
American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-11/fast-food-s-got-a-netflix-problem-as-americans-prefer-to-dine-in
40
Kansas-born woman told birth certificate not proof of citizenship for passport
https://www.kctv5.com/news/kansas-woman-told-birth-certificate-wasn-t-enough-to-prove/article_144c19aa-b50f-11e8-94f5-6b921312a97a.html
64
20
More than ‘know thyself’: on all the other Delphic maxims
https://aeon.co/ideas/more-than-know-thyself-on-all-the-other-delphic-maxims
27
The use of embeddings in OpenAI Five
https://neuro.cs.ut.ee/the-use-of-embeddings-in-openai-five/
India’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm