1562
417
Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
7 years ago
814
264
For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/?preview
715
253
MailChimp deleted my account with no warning
https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/12/mailchimp-deleted-my-account-with-no.html
597
319
Windows Sandbox
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sandbox/ba-p/301849?ranMID=43674&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ&epi=je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ&irgwc=1&OCID=AID681541_aff_7795_1243925&tduid=(ir__i0avhykzmgkfrw2i0ckzh9lp2u2xhyajo2v1pvjr00)(7795)(1243925)(je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ)()&irclickid=_i0avhykzmgkfrw2i0ckzh9lp2u2xhyajo2v1pvjr00
499
190
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html
465
143
Introducing Project Mu
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/19/%e2%80%afintroducing-project-mu/
428
238
Google Tech Dev Guide
https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/
424
583
What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/12/18/18134825/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america
416
84
Writing copy for landing pages
https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/landing-page-copy
414
175
Python gets a new governance model
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/775105/5db16cfe82e78dc3/
356
162
What I learned in ten years of blogging
https://ferrucc.io/posts/starting-a-blog/
339
237
Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/man-sues-feds-after-being-detained-for-refusing-to-unlock-his-phone-at-airport/
308
153
With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/all-out-of-faithbook/
297
81
Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18147616/facebook-user-data-giveaway-nyt-apple-amazon-spotify-netflix
290
86
LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware
https://blog.apnic.net/2018/12/18/librerouter-powering-community-networks-with-free-and-open-hardware/
284
191
Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207101
258
101
The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072422.html
256
Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
http://sh-meet.bigpixel.cn/
243
K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-regrets-inventing-keurig-coffee-pod-system-1.2982660
Go Modules in 2019
https://blog.golang.org/modules2019
235
116
Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045##
226
49
Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching
https://www.recode.net/2018/12/17/18140062/facebook-clear-history-update-privacy-targeting-data-collection
224
Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-says-the-us-wasted-trillions-on-warfare-instead-of-investing-in-infrastructure.html
200
149
Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-cant-we-find-planet-nine-20180703/
196
163
Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS 'bait' package off Washington Co. porch
https://kcby.com/news/local/amazon-delivery-driver-admits-to-taking-gps-bait-package-off-porch-in-washington-county
40
Kademlia: A Peer-To-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric (2002) [pdf]
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia-lncs.pdf
174
42
Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials
https://newatlas.com/ultrasound-dementia-alzheimers-human-trials/57725/
171
106
Der Spiegel published around 60 stories from a fraudster
http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-relotius-case-answers-to-the-most-important-questions-a-1244653.html
168
63
Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL
http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/aerospace-engineering/rocketry/jack-parsons-occult-roots-jpl/
88
Korg NuTube, vacuum tube for the 21st century
https://korgnutube.com/en/
167
145
Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-partners/
151
38
Download all of your GitHub data
https://blog.github.com/2018-12-19-download-your-data/
Elon Musk Unveils Boring Co's First Tunnel
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-elon-musk-tunnel-20181218-story.html
150
37
Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/searching-statically-linked-vulnerable.html
45
Real-time air pollution map
https://www.purpleair.com/map#1/25/-30
142
50
JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid
https://staltz.com/javascript-getter-setter-pyramid.html
139
87
Improving compression at scale with Zstandard
https://code.fb.com/core-data/zstandard/
130
108
US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46613564
128
58
OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible
https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop
125
53
Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Network Coverage
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/manhole-covers-serve-as-antennas-expanding-network-coverage
124
22
Show HN: CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs
https://coolql.cool
123
11
We Have Given People Amyloid Disease
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/12/17/we-have-given-people-amyloid-disease
121
Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/2018/12/18/unmanned-grocery-delivery-underway-arizona/38762315/
120
70
Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/exploring-container-security-let-google-do-the-patching-with-new-managed-base-images
118
66
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/675253856/an-epidemic-is-killing-thousands-of-coal-miners-regulators-could-have-stopped-it
114
6
Intro to Quantum Information Science
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3943
111
156
US Surgeon General Declares E-cigarette Epidemic Among Youth [pdf]
https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/documents/surgeon-generals-advisory-on-e-cigarette-use-among-youth-2018.pdf
92
Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-unicorns-are-going-public-at-near-record-pace-11545138000
103
35
Why are amplitudes complex?
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4021
3D airplane visualization
https://mdbootstrap.com/snippets/jquery/ascensus/212648
97
36
O-bahn Busway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway
The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/wework-keeps-pushing-now-landlords-rivals-are-pushing-back
Open-sourcing DeepFocus, an AI-powered system for more realistic VR images
https://code.fb.com/virtual-reality/deepfocus/
60
What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/27/what-no-python-in-rhel-8-beta/
For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain