733
450
I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
https://onemileatatime.com/google-fi-review/
7 years ago
718
309
Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/
551
226
Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881649
527
281
Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/
478
201
A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station
https://kotaku.com/the-year-long-undercover-plot-to-blow-up-eve-onlines-m-1831574442
438
430
Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it
https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/article-13-almost-finished/
417
89
NetHack beaten in 7 minutes 15 seconds real time
https://pellsson.github.io/
413
257
Startups Rejecting Venture Capital
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/technology/start-ups-rejecting-venture-capital.html
344
117
Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997
https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine
★ 885 C GPL-2.0– 7 years ago
343
215
Bungie departs from Activision
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/bungie-takes-back-its-destiny-and-departs-from-activision/
322
164
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)
http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
320
213
EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/11/flipping-the-bird.html
294
234
BitPatron – A Bitcoin Censorship-Free Patreon Alternative
https://bitpatron.co/
155
Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bnyv/google-demanded-tmobile-sprint-to-not-sell-google-fi-customers-location-data
276
185
Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/improbable-and-epic-games-establish-25m-fund-to-help-devs-move-to-more-open-engines-after-unity-debacle/
268
70
PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP
https://phpapprentice.com/
244
25
Michael Atiyah has died
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/31190
235
57
Explore ISS on Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5602853,-95.0853914,2a,75y,212.04h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1szChzPIAn4RIAAAQvxgbyEg!2e0!3e5!7i10000!8i5000?shorturl=1
232
Language Server Protocol implementation for Swift and C-based languages
https://github.com/apple/sourcekit-lsp
★ 3.8k Swift Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
230
22
An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html
225
41
Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1984) [pdf]
https://1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/thinking-forth-color.pdf
203
129
Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/776435/664f2f0b0b6fc9f5/
202
98
Airbnb Is Moving Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-airbnb-is-moving-10x-faster-at-scale-with-graphql-and-apollo-aa4ec92d69e2
195
270
Google cans the Chromecast Audio
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/11/google-cans-the-chromecast-audio/
191
134
Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his camera
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/man-says-ces-lidars-laser-was-so-powerful-it-wrecked-his-1998-camera/
170
14
Metasploit 5.0 Released
https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/01/10/metasploit-framework-5-0-released/
205
How much Americans make in wages
https://howmuch.net/articles/how-much-americans-make-in-wages
163
228
South Korea's program of higher wages and taxes – so far, it's not working
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/business/south-korea-economy.html
148
17
One-Shot Training of Neural Networks Using Hypercube-Based Topological Coverings
http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02878v1
139
Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensing/actuation network
https://framagit.org/Gabe/farmnet
18
Donald Knuth – The Joy of Asymptotics (2000) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2W1y0a7PhU
138
35
Mathematicians Seal Loophole to Breaking RSA Encryption
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-seal-back-door-to-breaking-rsa-encryption-20181217/
128
26
The Dark Side of Zero Knowledge: Masking the initial setup in Zk-SNARK
https://blog.smartdec.net/the-dark-side-of-zero-knowledge-undetectable-backdoor-in-zk-snark-a9093ffe49bf
124
65
Ode to the 767
http://www.askthepilot.com/ode-to-the-767/
123
27
How to get your money’s worth from your startup lawyer
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/how-to-get-your-moneys-worth-from-your-startup-lawyer/
122
75
The Holes in the Map: England’s Unregistered Land
https://whoownsengland.org/2019/01/11/the-holes-in-the-map-englands-unregistered-land/
116
8
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (2014)
http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html
112
101
A DNS hijacking wave is targeting companies at an almost unprecedented scale
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/a-dns-hijacking-wave-is-targeting-companies-at-an-almost-unprecedented-scale/
105
33
Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-10/google-board-sued-for-hushing-misconduct-claims-against-rubin
100
24
Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/debussy-stephen-walsh-review/579601/
97
16
uLisp: Lisp for microcontrollers
http://www.ulisp.com/show?3J
95
20
Ottoman-Era Photographs Take on New Meaning in Their Digital Life (2018)
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/ottoman-era-photographs-take-on-new-meaning-in-their-digital-life/
93
181
Yellow vests knock out 60% of all speed cameras in France
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46822472
92
Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/02/silicon-valley-evolving-focusing-employees/
86
76
Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race (2018)
https://hyperallergic.com/476788/vintage-soviet-santa-postcards-were-propaganda-for-the-space-race/
84
55
Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013)
https://shanetully.com/2013/12/writing-a-self-mutating-x86_64-c-program/
83
30
Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-flee.html
82
13
How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-we-fine-tuned-haproxy-to-achieve-2-000-000-concurrent-ssl-connections-d017e61a4d27
56
Huawei finds itself in the crosshairs of Western security agencies
https://spectator.us/huawei-chinese-intelligence-front/
79
63
A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/down-syndrome-baby/
78
1
An Explanation of the Rendering Equation [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo_MTI-d28s
77
60
List of hilarious and useless things at CES
https://threader.app/thread/1083476320808398849
73
54
Train ferry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_ferry
71
As Xenophon saw it
https://aeon.co/essays/the-ancient-greek-rebel-leader-who-saw-socrates-solo-dancing
120
Ask HN: What would your ideal issue tracker look like?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885942