961
468
DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js/
7 years ago
940
123
Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/14/elsevier-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal
777
1191
Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/world/europe/brexit-vote-theresa-may.html
601
150
35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt
575
75
Pink Trombone
https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
420
109
An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys
https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/
397
159
California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/science/monarch-butterfly-california.html
396
132
DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]
https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF
323
144
Security Checklist
https://securitycheckli.st/
310
125
President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill
https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/president-signs-government-wide-open-data-bill/
301
169
Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more
https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2019/1/14/pwn2own-vancouver-2019-tesla-vmware-microsoft-and-more
299
69
Show HN: Crowdsourced freelance contract template, written in plain language
https://web.archive.org/web/20190116003031/https://plainfreelancecontract.com/
266
160
Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30448878
258
255
Insect collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems
251
232
Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/ahead-of-ipo-airbnb-achieves-profitability-for-second-year-in-a-row/
248
153
China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46873526
243
32
Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer
https://github.com/foundationdb/fdb-record-layer
241
96
EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can
234
208
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/
205
355
Field notes: London, England (2018)
https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-london-england
202
88
More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind
https://scm.ncsu.edu/scm-articles/article/more-data-is-not-better-and-machine-learning-is-a-grind-just-ask-amazon
192
27
Some Lisp books (2012)
http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/25/some-lisp-books-and-then-some/
190
180
Avoiding a transit of the United States
https://wikitravel.org/en/Avoiding_a_transit_of_the_United_States
182
Performance Tuning for .NET Core
https://reubenbond.github.io/posts/dotnet-perf-tuning
175
49
Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/smarter-living/train-your-brain-like-a-memory-champion.html
171
63
Xapiand: A fast, simple, modern search and storage engine
https://kronuz.io/Xapiand/
121
Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (2017)
https://security.ias.edu/deep-packet-inspection-dead-and-heres-why
148
What software will you trust when you get senile?
https://www.lifepim.com/blog/5856_What_software_will_you_trust_when_you_get_senile
137
30
Bash scripting cheatsheet
https://devhints.io/bash
83
Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/776327/e0cf49b9b9976c5a/
131
156
U.S. Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/u-s-now-says-all-online-gambling-illegal-not-just-sports-bets
122
18
C64 / VIC20 / C128 PSU Open Sourced
http://www.retro-commodore.eu/2019/01/15/c64-vic20-c128-psu-open-sourced/
59
Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/snap-cfo-tim-stone-is-resigning/
120
36
New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/a7bb4a16-c86b-4019-b3f9-b0d663b87d30/new-method-for-compressing-neural-networks-better-preserves-accuracy#
113
20
Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/canary-analysis-lessons-learned-and-best-practices-from-google-and-waze
110
On Infrastructure at Scale: A Cascading Failure of Distributed Systems
https://medium.com/@daniel.p.woods/on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-cascading-failure-of-distributed-systems-7cff2a3cd2df
102
Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News
https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/doing-more-to-support-local-news
100
34
Icecast: Open Source multimedia streaming
https://icecast.org/
92
53
‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-review-the-new-big-brother-11547509779
85
Climate Concerns Are Pushing Oil Majors to Look Beyond Fossil Fuels
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-concerns-are-pushing-oil-majors-to-look-beyond-fossil-fuels/
91
28
Show HN: A tool that helps you focus on startup metrics that matter
https://unubo.com/views
89
82
A Founder's Farewell
https://urbit.org/posts/essays/a-founders-farewell/
81
11
OpenEdge – Extend cloud computing, data and service to edge devices
https://github.com/baidu/openedge
80
26
Intrinsic Value of a SaaS Business: A 20 Year DCF
https://www.selectsoftwarereviews.com/blog/2018/12/31/the-intrinsic-value-of-a-saas-business-a-20-year-dcf
76
51
Almost everyone developing Tor was or is funded by the US government (2014)
https://yashalevine.com/articles/tor-spooks
74
C++ : if constexpr isn't broken
https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2019/01/15/if-constexpr-isnt-broken/