1798
487
Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea
7 years ago
959
290
Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-container/?src=recommended
424
100
Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53452713/why-is-2-i-i-faster-than-2-i-i-in-java
408
301
Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46401890
152
Spectrum is joining GitHub
https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-github~1d3eb8ee-4c99-46c0-8daf-ca35a96be6ce
382
173
Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude
https://qz.com/1480192/monarch-populations-in-the-us-west-are-down-86-this-year/
348
263
Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020
https://9to5google.com/2018/11/30/google-hangouts-shutting-down/
338
276
Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues/82
235
Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don't call back
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_finds_0_per_cent_success_rate/
261
101
Daniel Kahneman on when to trust intuitive judgment
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2018/11/16/daniel-kahneman-do-not-trust-your-intuition-even-f/?slreturn=20181030094020
254
39
The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf]
https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf
250
165
Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/30/its-the-only-way-forward-madrid-bans-polluting-vehicles-from-city-centre
246
205
Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/01/chip-wars-china-america-and-silicon-supremacy
240
125
Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/al-lowe-reveals-his-sierra-source-code-collection-then-puts-all-of-it-on-ebay/
51
LibrePCB: First stable release published
https://librepcb.org/blog/2018-11-25_release_0.1.0/
228
229
Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bogle-sounds-a-warning-on-index-funds-1543504551
212
177
Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/aws-is-competing-with-its-customers.html
211
56
Ask HN: What is the best online course you've ever taken?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566638
210
46
Show HN: End-to-end LTE example with Docker and emulated radio
https://github.com/pgorczak/srslte-docker-emulated
94
Show HN: Tabulator – Easy-to-use JavaScript library for interactive tables
http://tabulator.info/
196
Maximizing password manager attack surface
https://palant.de/2018/11/30/maximizing-password-manager-attack-surface-leaning-from-kaspersky
194
33
Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphone
https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
193
Ketamine might help prevent suicide
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/opinion/sunday/suicide-ketamine-depression.html
192
Why only 2% of Chinese pay any income tax
https://www.economist.com/china/2018/12/01/why-only-2-of-chinese-pay-any-income-tax
176
366
Sedans Aren’t Dead, American Sedans Are
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-29/chevrolet-sedans-suffer-while-toyota-and-honda-hang-on
171
Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project
https://patentpandas.org/stories/crowdfunding-backer-patented-my-project
167
127
Ansel Adams’ pictures of LA recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs
https://medium.californiasun.co/ansel-adams-los-angeles-32a812bdb7db
164
202
Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46363869
160
42
Maybe Not [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug
159
208
Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-26/poverty-in-america-greater-than-statistics-indicate
169
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples
https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/
156
158
Designing cities to counter loneliness? Let's explore the possibilities
https://theconversation.com/designing-cities-to-counter-loneliness-lets-explore-the-possibilities-104853
154
89
Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/technology/george-soros-facebook-sheryl-sandberg.html
145
36
WebSDR – Shortwave Radio on the Internet
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
144
91
Samsung's folding screen tech has been stolen and sold to China
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/tech/samsung-china-tech-theft/index.html
143
96
Boden cross-platform framework: Native C++11, native widgets, no JavaScript
https://github.com/ashampoosystems/boden
139
Airbnb Backyard will sell houses in 2019
https://www.fastcompany.com/90271599/exclusive-airbnb-will-start-designing-houses-in-2019
133
138
H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/H-1B-shift-may-favor-tech-companies-13434868.php
129
41
ObjectBox: Fast object-oriented database for Go
https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-go
30
An underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181129-the-underground-cathedral-protecting-tokyo-from-floods
120
2
Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter to Planetary Scale Applications [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vedKGBQkQ
113
Benchmark results of Kubernetes network plugins over 10Gb/s network
https://itnext.io/benchmark-results-of-kubernetes-network-plugins-cni-over-10gbit-s-network-36475925a560
111
20
AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-lambda-supports-python-37/
110
107
Retail Arbitrage at Walmart [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FknkqT5tHK8
Using Elasticsearch as the Primary Data Store in an ETL Pipeline
https://vlkan.com/blog/post/2018/11/14/elasticsearch-primary-data-store/
6
Portability of tar features
https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/articles/portability-of-tar-features.html
31
Uno: a uniq like CLI tool for log data
https://unomaly.com/blog/its-in-the-anomalies/
99
71
Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/29/scientists-discover-spider-species-that-feeds-its-young-milk
98
59
REST and long-running jobs (2014)
https://farazdagi.com/2014/rest-and-long-running-jobs/
52
Atom 1.33
https://blog.atom.io/2018/11/28/atom-1-33.html
121
How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/its-the-end-of-the-world-and-they-know-it-how-dystopian-fiction-shapes-political-attitudes/3853105561CB840EAB79258DC2575849
87
65
Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust/does-google-harm-local-search-rivals-eu-antitrust-regulators-ask-idUSKCN1NZ2ER
84
Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.html
Boden cross-platform framework: Native C++11, native widgets, no JavaScript