1652
840
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb
7 years ago
805
724
I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
https://www.fastcompany.com/90270691/i-still-miss-my-headphone-jack-and-i-want-it-back
760
267
How to balance full-time work with creative projects
https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-balance-full-time-work-with-creative-projects/
598
159
AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-and-process-data-from-orbiting-satellites/
420
152
EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/
418
337
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html
407
243
Fortran is still a thing
https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html
390
134
Dropping Acid
https://logicmag.io/06-dropping-acid/
372
212
YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737
368
110
Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/
357
171
NIST's answer to “Do you need a blockchain?”
https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed
321
One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)
https://sijmen.ruwhof.net/weblog/1623-one-of-the-worlds-most-visited-websites-that-nobody-is-aware-of
302
190
Rust 2018 survey results
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/27/Rust-survey-2018.html
281
131
Paying for Popularity Can Be Fraud
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-19/paying-for-popularity-can-be-fraud
259
180
South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-prisonstay-idUSKCN1NS0JB
252
5
Googlers are openly asking bosses to cancel the censored search engine for China
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/china-google-workers-letter-cancel-company-secret-dragonfly
250
81
Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive
228
191
China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists and Students
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/27/669645323/china-expands-research-funding-luring-u-s-scientists-and-students
226
88
ASRock motherboard destroys Linux software RAID
http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10174
214
101
FOSS is free as in toilet
http://unhandledexpression.com/general/2018/11/27/foss-is-free-as-in-toilet.html
207
133
Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273111
196
261
Helsinki to Begin Anonymous Recruiting
https://finlandtoday.fi/helsinki-to-begin-anonymous-recruiting/
42
WWF Report Reveals Staggering Extent of Human Impact on Planet
https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/wwf-report-reveals-staggering-extent-of-human-impact-on-planet
185
162
Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
https://deadspin.com/armageddon-looms-over-the-world-chess-championship-afte-1830671246
179
235
Students Evaluating Teachers Doesn’t Just Hurt Teachers, It Hurts Students
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Students-Evaluating-Teachers/245169
176
2
Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End to China Search Project
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-27/google-workers-sign-letter-seeking-end-to-china-search-project
173
75
Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transactions/
33
What's in a Docker image?
https://cameronlonsdale.com/2018/11/26/whats-in-a-docker-image/
169
140
How to Almost Learn Italian
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/language-apps-duolingo/573919/
168
170
Farm bankruptcies on the rise according to new Fed report
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/418263-farm-bankruptcies-on-the-rise-according-to-new-fed-report
167
25
European consumer groups want regulators to act against Google tracking
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-privacy/european-consumer-groups-want-regulators-to-act-against-google-tracking-idUSKCN1NW0BS
Google employees: We no longer believe the company places values over profits
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/read-google-employees-open-letter-protesting-project-dragonfly.html
165
83
A Business with No End
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/27/style/what-is-inside-this-internet-rabbit-hole.html
156
58
How to host your own distributed website in just a few seconds
https://blog.florence.chat/tutorial-how-to-create-your-own-distributed-website-in-just-a-few-seconds-5100ccf068bc
21
GDPR complaints against Google’s deceptive practices to track user location
https://www.beuc.eu/press-media/news-events/gdpr-complaints-against-google%E2%80%99s-deceptive-practices-track-user-location
135
20
Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (1993)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus
39
Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats
https://github.com/Spandan-Madan/Me_Bot
129
52
Two Cybercrime Rings and Eight Defendants Indicted for Digital Advertising Fraud
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-international-cybercriminal-rings-dismantled-and-eight-defendants-indicted-causing
126
151
The U.S. Housing Boom Is Coming to an End, Starting in Dallas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-housing-boom-is-coming-to-an-end-starting-in-dallas-1543248073
125
30
McKernel – A lightweight multi-kernel OS for high-performance computing
https://www-sys-aics.riken.jp/ResearchTopics/os/mckernel/
124
60
Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intelligence?
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/is-neuroscience-a-bigger-threat-than-artificial-intelligence/
123
Google Workers Protest Plans for Censored Search in China
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/27/671123903/we-re-taking-a-stand-google-workers-protest-plans-for-censored-search-in-china
119
Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple
https://stratechery.com/2018/antitrust-the-app-store-and-apple/
116
80
Inside Sellafield's death zone with the nuclear clean-up robots
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46301596
115
104
Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Practices [pdf]
https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/2018/11-15-Police-Force.pdf
114
18
Amazon Starts Selling Software to Mine Patient Health Records
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-starts-selling-software-to-mine-patient-health-records-1543352136
112
47
The FBI of the National Park Service
https://www.outsideonline.com/2353856/national-park-service-investigative-services-branch?src=longreads
103
34
Make School (YC W12) gains accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelor’s degree
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/27/make-school-accreditation/
98
95
Fact vs. Fiction: Truths from Inside the Shaolin Temple
https://radiichina.com/fact-vs-fiction-truths-from-inside-the-shaolin-temple/
96
49
Bitfinex will no longer treat Tether as 1:1 conversion
https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/1067429276335501313
13
On the rheology of cats (2014) [pdf]
https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-of-cats.pdf
92
55
Announcing the Winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2018-mit-media-lab-disobedience-award-921d58548dcb
91
14
AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-global-accelerator-for-availability-and-performance/
85
11
A state variable for crumpled thin sheets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-018-0072-x
Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple
