746
151
Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
https://eduardogarcia.xyz/blog/dear-spotify
8 years ago
576
168
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-successful-startup-founder-is-45
491
69
Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/technology/jeff-hawkins-brain-research.html
479
351
The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (2016)
https://qz.com/766658/the-highest-paid-workers-in-silicon-valley-are-not-software-engineers/
429
96
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/oct/14/the-lost-art-of-concentration-being-distracted-in-a-digital-world
327
6
Show HN: Comprehensive Tutorials in Deep Learning Using TensorFlow
https://github.com/open-source-for-science/TensorFlow-Course
★ 16.3k Jupyter Notebook MIT– 8 years ago
308
178
The Google+ project and exec team
https://threader.app/thread/1049523067506966529
298
162
Disguised user location data collection on Huawei phone?
https://threader.app/thread/1051204370543648770
281
171
Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x83gyclt497fi8t/Ring%20Neighborhoods%20Portal_1.mp4?dl=0
250
183
I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)
https://www.kirkville.com/i-pay-for-news-why-do-i-still-see-ads/
243
115
Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its link-shortening system
http://fortune.com/2018/10/12/twitter-gdpr-investigation-tco-tracking/
240
158
How to Delete Facebook and Instagram from Your Life Forever
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/technology/personaltech/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-account.html
228
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Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]
http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/fmasci/home/astro_refs/Science-2013-Efron.pdf
221
277
In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent
https://www.recode.net/2018/10/13/17953004/wages-workers-silicon-valley-income-inequality
219
77
New York Times app autoplays video ads on articles even with paid subscription
https://twitter.com/james_k_nelson/status/1051404721473241088
217
125
Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance
https://www.aviation24.be/military-aircraft/belgian-air-component/air-force-f-16-destroyed-maintenance-collateral-damage-second/
208
129
The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-14/white-collar-crime-more-prosecutions-needed
192
76
Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodons-2-year-anniversary/
186
21
Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing Problem
https://www.wired.com/story/a-grad-student-solved-a-fundamental-quantum-computing-problem/
49
Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on what the roller-coaster ride felt like
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/andrew-mason-on-groupon.html
145
Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (1999)
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=qtime.htm&mode=original
79
Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/10/13/smart-home-surveillance-governments-tell-googles-nest-to-hand-over-data-300-times/
166
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Why Italy Could Be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/business/italy-debt-crisis-eu-brussels.html
40
Spreadsheet of Steven Pinker’s book recommendations
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQDca1iI1GgcMwBl65XRvJaAnZOv6sCjmAamy_7cioVMV4U_VnBksgZrIKTe5P4aneEXtion1ZA7iPe/pubhtml#
18
How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)
https://medium.com/intigriti/how-i-hacked-hundreds-of-companies-through-their-helpdesk-b7680ddc2d4c
160
30
How Intel Virtualisation Works
https://binarydebt.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/intel-virtualisation-how-vt-x-kvm-and-qemu-work-together/
152
Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/10/13/smart-home-surveillance-governments-tell-googles-nest-to-hand-over-data-300-times/amp/
34
Show HN: Lisp with copying GC in 537 lines of C (plus Lisp 1.5 on top)
https://github.com/krig/LISP
★ 535 Odin MIT– 8 years ago
111
Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html
75
Trees Could Change the Climate More Than Scientists Thought
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/how-forests-affect-climate-change/572770/?single_page=true
141
Why Zig When There Is Already CPP, D, and Rust? (2017)
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Already-CPP,-D,-and-Rust%3F
★ 42.8k Zig MIT– 8 years ago
137
41
Nginx C function
https://nginx-c-function.github.io
31
Internet Relay Chat turns 30–and we remember how it changed our lives
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2018/10/internet-relay-chat-turns-30-and-we-remember-how-it-changed-our-lives/
130
78
Carlsberg glues beer cans together as it abandons plastic rings
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/07/carlsberg-glues-beer-cans-together-becoming-first-brewery-abandon/
126
82
The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/tech/amazon-sellers-marketplace/index.html
121
99
Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
https://verummeum.com/blog/2018/10/14/portable-package-formats/
119
29
Human Retinas Grown in a Dish Reveal Origin of Color Vision
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/11/656560767/human-retinas-grown-in-a-dish-reveal-origin-of-color-vision
114
Where Oil Rigs Go to Die (2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/02/where-oil-rigs-go-to-die
54
Your Kickstarter idea on sale in China before you’ve finished funding it (2016)
https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it/
100
81
US senator urges investigation into Google+ bug ‘coverup’
https://sociable.co/business/us-senator-google-coverup/
