902
608
Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
https://twitter.com/a_h_a/status/1075510422617219077
7 years ago
614
307
We should replace Facebook with personal websites
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites
498
412
Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
https://threatpost.com/amazon-1700-alexa-voice-recordings/140201/
370
176
China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-hpe-ibm-exclusive-idUSKCN1OJ2OY
364
243
VirtualBox 6.0 released
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v0
338
89
WireGuard for iOS
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-December/003694.html
301
186
Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts
https://letstalkalgorithms.com/analysis-of-2018-hacker-news-who-is-hiring-job-posts/
293
64
MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
https://ephtracy.github.io/
282
144
Gluten Free Antarctica
https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
244
130
Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/gates-bezos-among-billionaires-backing-alphabet-energy-spinoff
109
NHS.UK frontend
https://github.com/nhsuk/nhsuk-frontend
236
46
Nihon Noir
https://tomblachford.com/project/nihon-noir/
234
37
Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier
https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/505
225
111
The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/business/kiini-bikini-lawsuit-ipek-irgit-solange-ferrarini.html
220
182
Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You
https://www.sonniesedge.co.uk/talks/dear-developer
216
157
Lawmakers fed up with Zuckerberg
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/democrats-facebook-privacy-rules-1039884
211
Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-amtrak-sea-level/
202
47
Machine Learning for .NET
https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning/blob/master/README.md
201
90
FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internet
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/fbi-ddos-booter-sites-offline/
196
235
John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/
195
39
What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/and-after-what-we-learned-about-hemisphere-program-after-suing-dea
188
38
Grab is messing up OpenStreetMap data in Southeast Asia
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/grab-maps-osm-thailand-southeast-asia/
170
148
Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/corel-confirms-acquisition-of-parallels/
165
78
Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-qualcomm-court/german-court-rules-apple-infringed-qualcomm-patent-idUSKCN1OJ1RJ
161
30
MiSTer: Run Amiga, SNES, NES and Genesis on an FPGA
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
153
20
Topology of Numbers
http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/TN/TNpage.html
151
How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the real world [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD9cRbxWQx8
150
49
Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh
https://konghq.com/blog/kong-1-0-ga/
149
Dark Patterns
https://darkpatterns.org/
London Metro Police Deploy Facial Recognition Tech Sporting a 100% Fail Rate
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181218/16562041265/london-metropolitan-police-deploy-facial-recognition-tech-sporting-100-failure-rate.shtml
147
16
Work with Git Forges inside Emacs
https://emacsair.me/2018/12/19/forge-0.1/
141
42
Facts about smell (2014)
http://alicebartlett.co.uk/blog/five-facts-about-smell
136
57
Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46642760
134
26
Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/nevergrad/
124
88
On VBScript
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-vbscript.html
112
What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/magazine/what-happens-when-facebook-goes-the-way-of-myspace.html
119
A Lens-Less Camera Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/a-lensless-camera-built-specially-for-ai-and-computer-vision-programs-sorry-humans
117
Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings cause delays
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754
114
Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch
https://statsbotco.github.io/cubejs-client/aws-web-analytics/
108
86
Indian technology talent is flocking to Canada
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/12/22/indian-technology-talent-is-flocking-to-canada
106
5
Awesome Python Applications: 180+ case studies in shipping Python software
https://github.com/mahmoud/awesome-python-applications
105
8
Slack terminated an account because they thought it originated in Iran
https://twitter.com/aaomidi/status/1075621119028314112
103
65
Stanford professor: ‘The workplace is killing people and nobody cares’
https://www.fastcompany.com/90282735/the-workplace-is-killing-people-and-nobody-cares
102
How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/how-maths-most-famous-proof-nearly-broke-rp
101
31
A free and open Indoor Navigation Service with superb accuracy
https://anyplace.cs.ucy.ac.cy/
99
25
Visualizing the History of Fugazi
https://www.carniklirs.com/project/fugazi
97
145
Survey: 1 In 4 Adults Checks Phone Less Than A Minute After Waking Up
https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-quarter-checks-phones-less-than-minute-after-waking/
96
6
8bitworkshop IDE: Designing Hardware with Verilog
http://8bitworkshop.com/blog/release/2018/12/15/verilog-programming.html
94
146
Amazon’s Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/amazon-s-grocery-push-keeps-stumbling-after-whole-foods-purchase
24
Innocent New York man billed $4,600 for police rectal probe
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46637634
85
15
Script to do instant MD5 collisions of any pair of PDFs
https://github.com/corkami/pocs/blob/master/collisions/scripts/pdf.py
84
10
Announcing Rust 1.31.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/12/20/Rust-1.31.1.html
77
34
Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify?
https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/12/gentrification-london-ai-machine-learning/578329/
76
The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (1977)
http://reprints.longform.org/skull-and-bones-yale
75
23
Why Is America So Angry? The Real Roots of American Rage
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/charles-duhigg-american-anger/576424/
War Story – The Mystery of the Very Long GC Pauses in .NET Windows Service
http://tooslowexception.com/scenario-mystery-of-the-very-long-gc-pauses-in-net-windows-service/
73
Neurons That Tell Time
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-neurons-that-tell-time
70
35
Comma2k19 – A dataset of over 33 hours of commute in California's 280 highway
https://github.com/commaai/comma2k19
9
Two Intricate Calligraphy Pages from a 16-Century Manuscript Have Been Decoded
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/calligraphy-decoded/
69
Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/weakdh-cacm19.pdf
56
The day I found Saowen.com had stolen my content
https://nickmchardy.com/2018/12/the-day-i-found-saowen.com-had-stolen-my-content.html
67
Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18148957/apple-ipad-bend-pro-2018-shipping-manufacturing-confirmed
27
Gatwick Airport: Drones ground flights
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754
The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini