1065
410
Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
https://www.namepros.com/blog/confirmed-duck-com-transfers-to-duckduckgo.1113728/
7 years ago
790
337
An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
https://twitter.com/gbrockell/status/1072589687489998848
578
347
Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661546
561
249
Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/comcast-rejected-by-small-town-residents-vote-for-municipal-fiber-instead
542
150
Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662992
524
143
ATDT relief
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/11/ring/
494
74
Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1
https://archive.org/donate/
444
162
Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs
https://github.com/grafana/loki
395
66
Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ant-colonies-retain-memories-outlast-lifespans-individuals-180971022/
360
198
Write good git commit messages
https://juffalow.com/other/write-good-git-commit-message
228
Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-yahoo-aol-divisions-are-almost-worthless-n946846
303
107
Puzzle-solving 'doesn't slow down mental decline in older people'
https://www.nhs.uk/news/older-people/puzzle-solving-doesnt-slow-down-mental-decline-older-people/
289
251
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
http://250bpm.com/blog:4
273
302
Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/employees-at-amazon-s-new-nyc-warehouse-launch-unionization-push
260
76
The Onion Futures Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
204
Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?
https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/
250
91
Optician Sans – A free font based on the historical eye charts
https://optician-sans.com/
233
122
GitLab Serverless
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/12/11/introducing-gitlab-serverless/
226
180
How Sketch Took on Adobe
https://producthabits.com/how-sketch-took-on-adobe-by-making-a-faster-leaner-cheaper-image-editor/
223
205
Why Use F#?
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/
Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/index.html
220
194
After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/12/nvidia-perfect-storm/
149
The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/brexit-big-short-how-pollsters-helped-hedge-funds-beat-the-crash
196
165
The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html
195
157
Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/politics/trump-china-trade.html
189
101
How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks
https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/How-to-Grow-Neat-Software-Architecture-out-of-Jupyter-Notebooks
188
47
Let’s build a browser engine (2014)
https://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/08/08/toy-layout-engine-1.html
185
39
Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve
https://dan.langille.org/2018/10/02/running-freebsd-on-osx-using-xhyve-a-port-of-bhyve/
178
85
Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997636.aspx
174
28
Internet Search Tips
https://www.gwern.net/Search
77
A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-connection-between-the-gut-and-brain1/
160
88
Taylor Swift tracked stalkers with facial recognition tech at her concert
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137984/taylor-swift-facial-recognition-tech-concert-attendees-stalkers
153
27
First release of dav1d, the AV1 decoder
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2018/First-release-of-dav1d
145
123
Microsoft Edge
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge
144
86
For-Profit College Chain Closes, Shutting Out Nearly 20k Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/business/education-corporation-of-america-closing.html
31
Show HN: Free and open-source home for art made with code
https://shadergif.com/
11
A new neural network design could overcome challenges in AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612561/a-radical-new-neural-network-design-could-overcome-big-challenges-in-ai/
138
65
Writing a book in public
https://200wordsaday.com/words/i-am-writing-a-book-in-public-5585c109c5735a98
137
84
Show HN: Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts
https://www.strengthnws.com
130
33
Australia's tech industry savages Labor for backing bill
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/you-bunch-of-idiots-australias-tech-industry-savages-labor-for-backing-the-governments-encryption-bill-2018-12
36
Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brock/blog/storing_cpp_objects.php
109
135
Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/11/google-tvc-full-time-employees-training-document
108
22
How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (1985) [pdf]
https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r49.pdf
106
Response to 'Reasons why Lisp games suffer'
http://techsnuffle.com/2018/12/07/reasons-why-lisp-games-suffer-corrections
105
38
Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/now-you-can-train-ml-models-faster-and-lower-cost-cloud-tpu-pods
99
Archiving C64 Tapes Correctly
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1002
Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25438/huge-chaff-cloud-that-lit-up-radars-as-it-drifted-across-the-midwest-remains-a-mystery
103
How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities
http://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-one-plus-five-is-shaping-american_27.html
95
The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13699/intel-architecture-day-2018-core-future-hybrid-x86
20
Growth Ranker – Top-growing products on Indie Hackers
https://www.growthranker.com
93
57
I was a senior VP of tech at Starwood: here’s my take on the guest data breach
https://www.phocuswire.com/Marriott-data-breach-ex-Starwood-perspective
Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/climate/trump-clean-water-rollback.html
89
Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension
https://blog.atom.io/2018/12/12/facebook-retires-nuclide-extension.html
51
Tesla sues its alleged saboteur for $167M
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/12/tesla-seeks-167-million-damages-saboteur/
87
21
Berkson's Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
14
Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer
https://lemire.me/blog/2018/12/06/asking-the-right-question-is-more-important-than-getting-the-right-answer/
7
Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD (2017) [pdf]
https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf
82
32
Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999
https://24ways.org/2018/securing-your-site-like-its-1999/
81
6
Instead of Writing a Thousand Words, Part One: Ideas
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ideas-infographic/
80
56
In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence
https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-the-long-and-complicated-sentence/
8
Comixify: Transform video into a comics
https://comixify.ii.pw.edu.pl
An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth