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/
145
4
The Year in Math and Computer Science
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2018-20181221/
139
29
Abusing Amazon‘s Look Inside feature to leak unreleased content
https://justmaku.org/2018-06-19-amazon-leaking-ebooks
116
Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust
https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/comparing-pythagorean-triples-in-c-d-and-rust/
134
88
Don’t use JPEG-XR on the Web
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2018/dont-use-jpeg-xr-on-the-web/
133
148
Companies controlled by PE firms use bankruptcy to shed pension obligations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-a-grocery-chain-is-dismantled-investors-recover-their-money-worker-pensions-are-short-millions/2018/12/28/ea22e398-0a0e-11e9-85b6-41c0fe0c5b8f_story.html
131
16
Fuzzing Like It’s 1989
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/12/31/fuzzing-like-its-1989/
129
3
Personal Notes on Corman Lisp 3.1 Release
https://chaoticlab.io/lisp/update/2018/12/30/corman-3-1-release.html
115
91
FizzBuzz in ten languages
http://iolivia.me/posts/fizzbuzz-in-10-languages/
111
27
Ways the world improved in 2018
https://qz.com/1506764/ways-the-world-improved-in-2018-in-charts/
35
A month of Flutter: a look back
https://bendyworks.com/blog/a-month-of-flutter-a-look-back
112
A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China
http://blog.lerner.co.il/the-foreigners-guide-to-wechat-payments-in-china/
101
HAKMEM (1972) [pdf]
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6086/AIM-239.pdf?sequence=2
100
33
Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with GCC and Clang
http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/12/even-more-fun-with-building-and.html?m=1
51
Surprise DNA Results Are Turning Customer-Service Reps into Therapists
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-19/surprise-dna-results-are-turning-customer-service-reps-into-therapists
98
28
Writing and coding by voice with Talon
https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/writing-and-coding-by-voice-with-talon/
95
32
Ask HN: Getting into NLP in 2018?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795475
94
37
Six Degrees of YC Separation
https://medium.com/@kyle_mack/6-degrees-of-yc-separation-562be3a852c9
92
36
How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/how-to-memorize-the-largest-known-prime/
Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18796730
82
21
This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/this-clever-ai-hid-data-from-its-creators-to-cheat-at-its-appointed-task/
17
React.js cheatsheet
https://devhints.io/react
75
38
Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers
https://sephware.com
Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died
