500
186
Why Not to Use Quora
https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/
7 years ago
448
168
Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
433
189
Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-nearly-indestructible-and-universally-lethal-seed-the-eyes-of-victims/
202
Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648127
419
349
Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/technology/amazon-server-chip-intel.html
405
100
Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46502820
340
99
The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cold-start-problem-how-to-build-your-machine-learning-portfolio-6718b4ae83e9
315
234
Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/10/google-employees-demand-the-end-of-forced-arbitration-across-the-tech-industry/
306
84
On Shutting Down
https://blog.ycombinator.com/shutting-down/
295
111
Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps
https://appcodelabs.com/7-easy-steps-to-apple-airplay-on-raspberry-pi
261
126
Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
52
IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained
https://achainofblocks.com/2018/10/05/ipfs-interplanetary-file-system-simply-explained/
238
139
House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf]
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208
26
REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor
https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/
199
213
Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube
https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/09/netflixs-biggest-competition-isnt-sleep-its-youtube/
194
122
Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-social-features-joins-the-fediverse/
193
Verizon says to shed 10,400 jobs by mid next year
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-verizon-layoffs/verizon-says-to-shed-10400-jobs-by-mid-next-year-idUSKBN1O91VM
188
61
AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?
https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp13-what-just-happened/
179
89
Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs
https://www.fewbutripe.com/2018/12/05/seemingly-impossible.html
178
75
Making Penicillin at Home
https://www.doomandbloom.net/making-penicillin-at-home/
170
37
Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html
169
53
Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18650646
167
91
Reflections on DOOM's Development
https://rome.ro/news/2018/12/10/reflections-on-dooms-development
163
79
Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix
https://www.zdnet.com/article/malicious-sites-abuse-11-year-old-firefox-bug-that-mozilla-failed-to-fix/
162
217
LED Strain
http://ledstrain.org
157
Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-recovering-madoff-money/
155
22
Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme
http://alex-charlton.com/posts/Prototype_to_polish_Making_games_in_CHICKEN_Scheme_with_Hypergiant/
143
151
The cult of Stanley Kubrick
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/12/10/the-cult-of-stanley-kubrick
142
85
The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete (2016)
https://mwi.usma.edu/effective-weapon-modern-battlefield-concrete/
137
118
Open Location Code
https://github.com/google/open-location-code
★ 4.3k Java Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
132
64
The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003)
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html
128
113
Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/12/05/souljaboy-is-selling-some-kind-of-game-consoles-but-people-are-suspicious
Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/17/kelly-slaters-shock-wave
72
Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-apple/qualcomm-wins-import-ban-against-several-apple-iphones-in-china-idUSKBN1O91LD
124
25
Human-Centric Tools for Navigating Code [pdf]
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2018bDissertation.pdf
116
30
Designing Headers for HTTP Compression
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/11/27/header_compression
114
48
GoPro to move U.S.-bound camera production out of China
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gopro-china/gopro-to-move-u-s-bound-camera-production-out-of-china-idUSKBN1O91NG
112
58
Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game
https://geogee.me
106
Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/marriott-data-breach-response-risk-phishing/
104
7
Show HN: Failory 2.0 – Learn How to Build a Profitable Startup
https://www.failory.com
103
63
Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13683/intel-euvenabled-7nm-process-tech-is-on-track
97
The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2014)
https://pudding.cool/2017/02/vocabulary/
94
14
When Your Profiler Lies
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/when-your-profiler-lies/
93
23
Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/andy-warhol-pop-art-whitney/576412/
88
5
Super-solid helium state confirmed in beautiful experiment
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/researchers-find-super-solid-by-looking-at-a-normal-solid/
1
Using Bayesian Methods to Clean Up Human Labels
https://blog.dominodatalab.com/using-bayesian-methods-to-clean-up-human-labels/
83
8
Sliding Right into Information Theory
http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/747-Sliding_Right_into_Information_Theory
82
19
XNU target config for Raspberry Pi 3 (2016)
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4903.221.2/pexpert/pexpert/arm64/BCM2837.h.auto.html
81
South Korean law to punish boosters passes in the National Assembly
https://dotesports.com/overwatch/news/south-korean-law-to-punish-boosters-passes-in-the-national-assembly
10
Four Mentorship Archetypes
https://g-rand.com/2018/12/04/4-mentorship-archetypes/
71
Git v2.20.0
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/9/39
66
Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2018/12/10/tableau-software-threatened-rival-growing-at-80-just-raised-103m/#6ba06e92108e
70
Combining Golang and PHP can solve real-world development challenges
https://blog.spiralscout.com/php-was-never-meant-to-die-830de87915ee
69
18
How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_insanely_wealthy_people_buy_that_ordinary/cnnmca8/
50
Callbacks in C++ using template functors (1994)
http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/callback.html
