536
164
Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm628988.htm
7 years ago
521
308
AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones
https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/at-t-to-begin-upgrading-existing-lte-phones-to-5g-e
498
143
Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/wav2letter/
416
251
Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discord-raises-150m-surpassing-2b-valuation/
371
163
Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers
https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/21/indian-government-to-intercept-monitor-and-decrypt-citizens-computers/
340
269
Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)
https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
331
196
How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG
https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games
323
341
Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160882873380870
294
30
Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python
http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index.html
277
79
Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqVNuYol6o
265
148
Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake
https://gizmodo.com/viral-video-of-glitter-bomb-for-package-thieves-exposed-1831254130
247
212
Evaluation of five password managers
https://medium.com/@QuantopianCyber/head-to-head-evaluation-of-five-password-managers-8faa4851c767
245
92
Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-world-work-fourdayweek/burnout-stress-lead-more-companies-to-try-a-four-day-work-week-idUSKBN1OG0GY
Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V
https://drewdevault.com/2018/12/20/Porting-Alpine-Linux-to-RISC-V.html
239
76
An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions to 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7994/an-amoeba-based-computer-calculated-approximate-solutions-to-a-very-hard-math-problem
236
129
At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/blind-anonymous-app-data-exposure/
233
299
Electron 4.0.0
https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-4-0
231
85
Ask HN: How to shadow a CEO?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733535
229
109
Advocating for privacy in Australia
https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabill-australia/
223
222
FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch
https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1OJ2WT
206
210
I Do Not Like Go
https://grimoire.ca/dev/go
202
22
Fog Waves Are the Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years of Experimenting
https://www.boredpanda.com/fog-waves/
193
187
Great Pacific garbage patch cleanup fails to collect plastic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/20/great-pacific-garbage-patch-20m-cleanup-fails-to-collect-plastic
189
How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
http:////www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/06/how-a-shampoo-bottle-is-saving-young-lives
OUC coal plants linked to east Orange County cancer spike, lawsuit claims
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-ouc-coal-class-action-suit-20181218-story.html
181
232
Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners
https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/letter-from-the-chairman/investment-news
118
Germany closes its last hard-coal mine
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-30/germany-closes-last-coal-mine-despite-decades-of-supplies-needed
63
Star Control II
https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/star-control-ii/
145
99
Hyper.sh cloud service will shut down on Jan 15
https://hyper.sh/
139
59
A New Largest-Known Prime Number
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679207604/the-world-has-a-new-largest-known-prime-number
137
140
Huawei Could Divide the World
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/how-huawei-could-divide-the-world
134
61
Experiment: Recoil vs. Muzzle Velocity
https://blog.ammolytics.com/2018-12-12/experiment-recoil-vs-muzzle-velocity.html
133
124
Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers
123
32
Transparency Report: Government requests for customer data globally
https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/
117
16
What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
103
69
Facebook Alternatives
https://deletefacebook.wiki
102
The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/
100
67
Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/business/epic-systems-campus-verona-wisconsin.html
94
5
Arthur C. Clarke’s eccentric and influential predictions
https://rossdawson.com/futurist/best-futurists-ever/arthur-c-clarke/
36
Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/12/18/google-open-artificial-intelligence-lab-princeton-and-collaborate-university
88
1
The intertwined quest to understand biological intelligence and creating AI
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/the_intertwined_quest_for_understanding_biological_intelligence_and_creating_artificial_intelligence/
87
81
U.S. oil production to be equal to Russia plus Saudi Arabia by 2025
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iea-idUSKCN1OK0SJ
39
Mars Express gets festive: A winter wonderland on Mars
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Mars_Express_gets_festive_A_winter_wonderland_on_Mars
86
10
The benefits of migrating Gov.uk Pay’s codebase to the Gov.uk Design System
https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2018/12/21/the-benefits-of-migrating-gov-uk-pays-codebase-to-the-gov-uk-design-system/
84
51
Wells Fargo shifts many jobs overseas following layoffs in the US
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/banking/article222369295.html
80
25
Utility Ghost: Gamified redistricting with partisan symmetry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07377
119
Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/21/national/number-babies-born-japan-2018-lowest-since-records-began-population-decline-highest/#.XB0GwktKiUm
78
27
My Stepdad's Huge Dataset
https://logicmag.io/06-my-stepdads-huge-dataset/
43
USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/united-states-added-list-most-dangerous-countries-journalists-first-time-n949676
77
13
Let’s Try t-SNE
https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/lets-try-t-sne
75
Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-alexa-insight/kill-your-foster-parents-amazons-alexa-talks-murder-sex-in-ai-experiment-idUSKCN1OK1AJ
73
7
Emergence
http://emergence.maxcooper.net