1081
586
Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-has-arrested-huaweis-global-chief-financial-officer-in/
7 years ago
738
477
Facebook's seized files published by MPs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695
689
509
Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/12/why-do-hospitals-hate-sleep-so-much/
664
139
Guide to scaling engineering organizations
https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/scaling-eng
443
240
Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-05/noncompete-agreements-are-bad-for-employees-and-the-economy
439
323
Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebooks-tensions-zuckerberg-sandberg
409
288
'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe
https://theconversation.com/bizarre-dark-fluid-with-negative-mass-could-dominate-the-universe-what-my-research-suggests-107922
357
127
Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click
https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/
345
433
Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/car-thefts-rising-1.4930890
327
170
Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
https://medium.com/waymo/waymo-one-the-next-step-on-our-self-driving-journey-6d0c075b0e9b
314
172
At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet
https://arcentry.com/blog/postgres-might-just-be-the-most-advanced-database-ever/#
281
84
Show HN: Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18606766
272
222
Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little
https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/
250
161
Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/
225
94
The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation
https://www.thecreepyline.com/
210
17
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained
http://arogozhnikov.github.io/2016/12/19/markov_chain_monte_carlo.html
200
173
Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon
https://9to5google.com/2018/12/05/google-allo-shutting-down/
198
114
Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608454
196
31
The Y Combinator Database
https://www.ycdb.co/
237
Why parking minimums almost destroyed my town and how we repealed them (2017)
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/22/how-parking-minimums-almost-destroyed-my-hometown-and-how-we-repealed-them
169
13
The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver
https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-websocket-upgrade-security-vulnerability/
166
215
Seagate Announces 16TB HDD
https://nexthive.com/seagate-biggest-hdd-16-tb/
165
41
Look ma, no locks
http://lucteo.ro/2018/11/18/look-ma-no-locks/
162
26
HTTPS in the real world
https://robertheaton.com/2018/11/28/https-in-the-real-world/
160
178
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/climate/greenhouse-gas-emissions-2018.html
154
81
An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (1978)
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5748/AIM-447.pdf?sequence=2
150
58
Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment
https://movaxbx.ru/2018/12/05/ransomware-infects-100k-pcs-in-china-demands-wechat-payment/
148
25
Mr. Wu
https://granta.com/mr-wu/
138
68
Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche
https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/
131
8
WALL·E – Typeset in the Future
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2018/12/04/walle/
125
147
Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everything as NSFW
https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/tumblr-nsfw-algorithm-flagging-2018/
123
Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content editing platforms
https://github.com/portabletext/portabletext
116
65
Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language
https://github.com/kocircuit/kocircuit
111
Firefox partners with ProtonVPN
https://premium.firefox.com/vpn/
110
80
First baby born after deceased womb transplant
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46438396
98
115
Googlers Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-05/googlers-write-to-ceo-demanding-equal-treatment-for-contractors
93
37
Best Practices for Using Functional Programming in Python
https://kite.com/blog/python/functional-programming
92
91
Type erasure and reification
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-erasure-and-reification/
88
19
Communicating Sequential Processes (1978) [pdf]
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Hoare78.pdf
87
PolicyKit: Users with UID greater than INT_MAX can execute any systemctl command
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74
30
React Redux 6.0 released
https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/releases/tag/v6.0.0
83
14
Creating Things That Matter [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SId3J8J7cPo&t=8s
78
24
Chrome: trick users into giving access to all files on local disk (2016)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=637098
34
Spooky Apollo: Apollo 8 and the CIA
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3617/1
SpaceX recovery attempt not successful: water landing instead of land
https://clips.twitch.tv/embed?clip=CleverSpineyEggPrimeMe
108
Economic Analysis of Medicare for All
https://www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-analysis-of-medicare-for-all
77
40
5th December 1978: Acorn Computers Ltd Formed in Cambridge, UK
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/936/Acorn-Computers-Ltd-formed-in-Cambridge-UK/
Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language