894
299
How to Be Successful
http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful
7 years ago
805
453
AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii/
749
440
Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/google-urged-the-u-s-to-limit-protection-for-activist-workers
707
187
Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-re-affirming-its-commitment-to-open-source-and-accelerating-azure-postgresql-performance-and-scale/
683
213
Practical Linux Hardening Guide
https://github.com/trimstray/the-practical-linux-hardening-guide
587
127
Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
483
526
Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/
380
232
Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953
372
328
Oracle v. Google and the future of software development
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/our-fight-protect-future-software-development/
363
379
Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/apple-lays-off-over-200-from-project-titan-autonomous-vehicle-group.html
341
68
Design Patterns for Managing Up
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3308563
280
339
Deliveroo users are getting defrauded
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/security/2019/01/deliveroo-users-are-getting-defrauded-and-it-could-be-fined-millions
258
62
Right to Repair is already hurling into action in 2019
https://ifixit.org/blog/13003/right-to-repair-2019
245
136
Canada's New Food Guide
https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/
239
132
Office 365 is now on Mac App Store
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/the-mac-app-store-welcomes-office-365/
198
216
Special Cases Are a Code Smell
https://blog.conjur.org/special-cases-are-a-code-smell/
197
60
Movfuscator – Single instruction C compiler
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
192
34
Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018)
http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/
189
30
A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers (2017)
https://github.com/ARMmbed/littlefs
27
Let's Talk Concurrency with Sir Tony Hoare
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/let-s-talkconcurrency-with-sir-tony-hoare.html
183
237
BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce
https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-cut-15-of-its-workforce-11548286211
179
75
American justice system ignores science in the pursuit of convictions
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/we-are-going-backward-how-justice-system-ignores-science-pursuit-n961256
172
290
Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html
165
48
Compilers for Free
https://codon.com/compilers-for-free
164
32
Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning (2018)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10451
163
76
Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-confirms-bing-is-down-in-china/
116
DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video]
https://www.twitch.tv/StarCraft
155
79
Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
https://profsmallpine.com/writing/lessons-from-failed-docusign-integration
152
An investigative reporter has changed his tech habits after what he has learned
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/technology/personaltech/facebook-online-privacy.html
33
Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/
147
39
Tensorflow 2.0 Preview
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r2.0/api_docs/python/tf
144
45
Pear.php.net shuts down after maintainers discover serious supply-chain attack
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/pear-php-site-breach-lets-hackers-slip-malware-into-official-download/
7
Facebook lobbied in favour of upload filters
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/24/quisling-zuckermonsters.html
128
73
Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users
https://blog.confiant.com/confiant-malwarebytes-uncover-steganography-based-ad-payload-that-drops-shlayer-trojan-on-mac-cd31e885c202
121
40
Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/01/23/our-2019-developer-survey-is-open-to-coders-everywhere/
119
26
CockroachDB's Consistency Model
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/consistency-model/
54
InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-2-0-alpha-release-and-the-road-ahead/
118
How OneGraph onboards users who are new to GraphQL
https://www.onegraph.com/blog/2019/01/24/How_OneGraph_onboards_users_new_to_GraphQL.html
18
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html?m=1
GPUVideoDecode on Linux is impossible without patching
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440
117
23
Show HN: CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API with SPA support
https://github.com/cloudfetch/cloudquery
TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-network-load-balancers/
Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/gum-disease-causing-bacteria-could-spur-alzheimer-s
113
0
DLS – The digital logic simulator game
https://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls
4
Seeing Theory
https://seeing-theory.brown.edu
105
61
Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?
https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/why-are-pianos-traditionally-tuned-out-of-tune-at-the-extremes
101
66
1859 Carrington Event
https://hackaday.com/2019/01/22/the-1859-carrington-event/
Dirty lenses (2016)
http://kurtmunger.com/dirty_lens_articleid35.html
100
42
Lapis Lazuli: A Blue More Precious Than Gold
https://hyperallergic.com/315564/lapis-lazuli-a-blue-more-precious-than-gold/
98
58
Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/science/dna-crime-gene-technology.html
20
MDT9100
https://trmm.net/MDT9100
89
103
Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/how-period-tracking-apps-are-monetizing-women-s-extremely-personal-data
88
Mockingbirds show heightened aggression after lead exposure
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/maf-mtr012319.php
87
21
New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?image_id=586
69
Show HN: Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager built in ReasonML
https://github.com/Schniz/fnm
83
Theranos CEO Says 'I Don't Know' 600+ Times in Deposition
https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Business/theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-600-times-broadcast-deposition/story?id=60576630
Remastered 1964 films show origins of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2019-01-16-remastered-films-show-slac-origins.aspx
44
Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18195959/facebook-advocacy-groups-ftc-break-up-cambridge-analytica-scandal-data-breach
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