1254
505
Quora User Data Compromised
https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update?share=1
7 years ago
1061
733
Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10
874
375
Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
824
740
Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22browser%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22browsersDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222017-12%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-11%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D
687
508
Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18600220
669
267
Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to-fake-their-phones-portrait-mode/
545
327
Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/googles-cross-platform-flutter-ui-toolkit-hits-version-1-0/
423
257
Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/
413
53
Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
https://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-highlights-august-to-november-2018/
409
92
Hashicorp Vault v1.0
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-1-0
225
What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next
https://bratheory.com/what-we-learned-and-whats-next/
389
37
Tech company patterns
https://richg42.blogspot.com/2018/10/types-of-tech-companies.html
369
175
Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
http://darkreader.org/
350
165
Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/4/18124718/google-search-results-personalized-unique-duckduckgo-filter-bubble
337
199
China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/china-announces-new-punishments-for-intellectual-property-theft
309
125
A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/a-not-called-function-can-cause-a-5x-slowdown/
278
310
YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46427910
276
77
Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging cloud-native applications easier
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/microsoft-and-docker-team-up-to-make-packaging-and-running-cloud-native-applications-easier/
274
229
Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue
https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/04/fortnite-dev-launches-epic-games-store-that-takes-just-12-of-revenue/
237
170
Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit
https://scootertalk.org/viewtopic.php?p=1643&fbclid=IwAR0-b9xJKny5r5adXwc6gocfXbqZ9scA1fpgX5t8L7f7afbT9RZU33Exqnk#p1643
218
5
Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch
https://github.com/OpenMined/PySyft/tree/master/examples/tutorials
209
380
Leaving NYC for Nashville
http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/
207
120
A Cornell professor’s trick for getting 1700 peer reviewed publications
https://andrewgelman.com/2018/11/04/cornell-prof-not-pizzagate-guy-one-quick-trick-getting-1700-peer-reviewed-publications-cv/
196
126
Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (2016)
https://lithub.com/modern-china-is-so-crazy-it-needs-a-new-literary-genre/
185
36
Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane
https://blog.upbound.io/introducing-crossplane-open-source-multicloud-control-plane/
182
137
Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr
https://nl.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/hey-tumblr-users-here-is-why-movim-could-be-the-best-platform-to-migrate-to-BpGnsH
160
Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/29/edtech-unicorn-udacity-lays-off-125-people-in-global-strategy-shift/
173
27
Code2vec: learning distributed representations of code
https://code2vec.org/
161
106
Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/facebook-allows-competitors/
136
42
Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones OS
https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-stack-traces-kernel-panic-bare-bones-os.html
131
104
The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/new-word-processor-wars-fresh-crop-productivity-apps-trying-reinvent-workday/
130
38
Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership
https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-foundation-open-membership
122
253
Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/photons-quasars-and-the-possibility-of-free-will/
119
46
Searching the Creative Internet
https://crawshaw.io/blog/searching-the-creative-internet
118
82
Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data
https://business.nasdaq.com/mediacenter/pressreleases/1855930/nasdaq-acquires-quandl-to-advance-the-use-of-alternative-data
115
76
PC/GEOS
https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
114
Ask HN: What awesome stuff have you come across lately?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18604211
111
8
Yale scientists make a borophene breakthrough
https://news.yale.edu/2018/12/03/yale-scientists-make-borophene-breakthrough
108
The popularity of the Squatty Potty
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/30/bowel-movement-change-the-way-you-poo-squatty-potty-toilet
107
33
Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso
105
25
A history of the distributed transactional database
https://www.infoq.com/articles/relational-nosql-fauna
100
169
Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/ai-can-now-catch-lies-on-your-expense-report
98
69
Missing Emirati princess 'planned escape for seven years'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/04/missing-emirati-princess-latifa-al-maktoum-had-planned-escape-for-seven-years
Yak shaving and fixing
https://sophiebits.com/2018/12/03/yak-shaving-fixing.html
96
28
Screenshoteer – Command-line website screenshots and mobile emulations
https://github.com/vladocar/screenshoteer
90
How to drive in India (2015)
http://theforeignchallenge.com/how_to_drive_in_india/
88
Emacs Rocks
http://emacsrocks.com/
84
4
String Matching Based on Compile Time Perfect Hashing in Zig
https://andrewkelley.me/post/string-matching-comptime-perfect-hashing-zig.html
16
Kubernetes 1.13 released
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/12/03/kubernetes-1-13-release-announcement/
83
A 1,000-year-old road lost to time
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181203-a-1000-year-old-road-lost-to-time
Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
