1158
588
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-why-are-eyeglasses-so-expensive-20190122-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
7 years ago
680
234
Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
https://cloud.google.com/twitter/
488
472
New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
https://bartongeorge.io/2019/01/23/the-new-dell-xps-13-developer-edition-now-available-in-the-us-europe-and-canada/
452
131
Travis CI acquired by Idera
https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-01-23-travis-ci-joins-idera-inc
436
471
Why I use old hardware
https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html?
431
114
Chromecast Support for Firefox
https://hensm.github.io/fx_cast/
405
171
Our Software Dependency Problem
https://research.swtch.com/deps
373
261
Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
https://houseoflawandorder.com/the-alarming-decline-of-quality-youth-playtime/
335
239
Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/january-prize-spotlight-jeff-bezanson-steven-l-brunton-jack-dongarra-stefan-karpinski-and-viral-b-shah
334
270
Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/oracle-discrimination-400-million/
313
119
Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import
299
134
Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/01/23/queueing/
260
191
Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure
https://toxicbakery.github.io/vsts-devops/microsoft-devops-ci/
245
367
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
https://breakermag.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-absolutely-right-about-racist-algorithms/
233
54
Show HN: Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing
http://simpleoptout.com/
229
80
WasmWinforms – .NET WinForms in a browser
https://github.com/roozbehid/WasmWinforms
228
65
Don't Pay to Acquire Your First Users
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/dont-pay-to-acquire-your-first-users/
224
220
Particle physics may have reached the end of the line
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/particle-physics-may-have-reached-end.html?m=1
222
164
Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time
https://gizmodo.com/be-warned-customer-service-agents-can-see-what-youre-t-1830688119
221
173
Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/canadian-meat-giant-maple-leaf-debuts-new-plant-based-burger
207
14
DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations
https://julialang.org/blog/2019/01/fluxdiffeq
200
58
TypeScript Tricks: Type Guards
https://www.matthewgerstman.com/ts-tricks-type-guards/
193
99
Starting a Company Outside Silicon Valley Just Saved Me $1.1M
https://blog.getcrossbeam.com/vc-arbitrage
170
16
Neural ODE's: Understanding how they model data
https://jontysinai.github.io/jekyll/update/2019/01/18/understanding-neural-odes.html
168
64
7-zip broken password random number generator
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1087848040583626753.html
115
Nobody Cares About OAuth or OpenID Connect
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/01/23/nobody-cares-about-oauth-or-openid-connect
149
38
Launch HN: Upsolve (YC Nonprofit W19) – TurboTax for Bankruptcy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980861
143
100
Let’s stop copying C (2016)
https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/
186
Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites
138
108
Blocking website ads with a hosts file
https://debugandrelease.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-to-block-online-ads-with-hosts-file.html
137
86
Fearless Security: Memory Safety
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/01/fearless-security-memory-safety/
122
A new documentary addresses the stigma of menstruation in India
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/01/22/a-new-documentary-addresses-the-stigma-of-menstruation-in-india
120
51
HN on second day from launch
https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/https://news.ycombinator.com/
117
81
Una Corda, a piano with one string per note
https://www.klavins-pianos.com/products/una-corda/
110
17
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/the-secrets-of-lyndon-johnsons-archives
237
Capitalism and Inequality
https://avc.com/2019/01/capitalism-and-inequality/
107
202
Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/boeing-s-flying-car-takes-off-to-show-a-glimpse-of-the-future
87
Google, Facebook spend big on U.S. lobbying amid policy battles
https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKCN1PG2TD-OCABS
105
133
Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings
http://www.engadget.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-edge-mobile-fake-news/
103
18
Go 1.11.5 and Go 1.10.8 are released
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw
102
What are the limits of deep learning?
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/4/1074
101
126
Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a shorter option
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-the-canadian-researcher-who-coined-the-one-minute-workout-has-an-even/
70
Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest for quality (2016)
https://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-computer-industry-luminaries-salute-dave-cutlers-five-decade-long-quest-for-quality/
98
32
Jason Fried: “Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps”
https://www.recode.net/2019/1/23/18193685/venture-capital-money-kills-more-businesses-than-it-helps-says-basecamp-ceo-jason-fried
93
28
What developer advocates do
https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/what-exactly-do-developer-advocates-do?
77
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media
https://blog.ycombinator.com/tracking-political-manipulation-through-social-media-samantha-bradshaw/
76
CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00246-2
72
Indigenous civilizations are far older and more complex than history suggests
https://lithub.com/david-treuer-on-the-myth-of-an-edenic-pre-columbian-new-world/
75
eBay CEO Has a Stark Choice: Show Growth or Break Up Company
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/ebay-ceo-has-a-stark-choice-deliver-growth-or-break-up-company
74
2
Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017)
https://arcanesentiment.blogspot.com/2017/06/antedating-datatype-all-way-to.html?
73
90
No Pay Stub? No Problem. Unconventional Mortgages Make a Comeback
https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-pay-stub-no-problem-unconventional-mortgages-make-a-comeback-11548239400
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