594
383
Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-apple-tax-on-its-853m-in-annual-ios-revenue/
7 years ago
468
79
The Elements of UI Engineering
https://overreacted.io/the-elements-of-ui-engineering/
408
68
Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
https://letsencrypt.org/2018/12/31/looking-forward-to-2019.html
390
132
Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18793849
374
296
Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2018/12/federal-judge-finds-state-law-governing-who-is-an-engineer-violates-free-speech.html
325
362
Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/28/living-paycheck-paycheck-is-disturbingly-common-i-see-no-way-out
312
62
An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
http://web.mit.edu/6.034/wwwbob/svm-notes-long-08.pdf
307
197
“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”
https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1079759096272818178
292
140
The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands
https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-uncharity-of-college-the-big-business-nobody-understands
277
149
When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/31/679832549/when-too-cute-is-too-much-the-brain-can-get-aggressive
269
135
People with Depression Use Language Differently
https://theconversation.com/people-with-depression-use-language-differently-heres-how-to-spot-it-90877
247
196
Long Life Vehicle
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/object-spotlight/llv.html
198
40
Build your own IoT/MQTT node for less than $2
http://albert-david.blogspot.com/2018/12/build-your-own-iotmqtt-node-for-less.html
191
291
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/waymo-self-driving-cars-arizona-attacks.html
178
10
Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/30/680994535/nancy-grace-roman-mother-of-hubble-space-telescope-has-died
172
130
Russian Cosmonauts Say That the Hole in the Soyuz Was Drilled from the Inside
https://www.universetoday.com/140996/russian-cosmonaut-says-that-the-hole-in-the-iss-was-drilled-from-the-inside/
171
107
What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
https://www.crummy.com/writing/segfault.org/Bus.html
161
93
Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795498
152
72
Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to distant probe
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46699737
146
102
Potholes to avoid when migrating to IPv6
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/30/v6/
Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died