1516
588
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/
7 years ago
936
367
Ending our Medium integration
https://write.as/blog/ending-our-medium-integration
735
310
Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps
640
258
Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/
559
174
Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch
547
54
Statistics Done Wrong
https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com
423
224
'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-karma/
419
71
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08416
406
350
Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing
https://thepointsguy.com/news/boeing-787-suffers-rare-dual-engine-failure-on-landing/
385
95
Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/
362
173
Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/
322
72
Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019
https://stjepang.github.io/2019/01/29/lock-free-rust-crossbeam-in-2019.html
319
324
Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031711
293
211
Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/facebook-earnings-q4-2018/
291
66
A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
https://www.wired.com/story/mastermind-excerpt/
281
32
8bit Workshop
https://8bitworkshop.com/
261
218
Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS
https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown
230
Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/business/foxconn-wisconsin-manufacturing.html
226
67
India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/state-bank-india-data-leak/
208
65
Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history
205
90
Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.9.0-released.html
199
100
Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/prison-voice-prints-databases-securus/
194
17
How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)
https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/how_i_ended_up_writing_my_own_kernel
192
31
A Primer on Type Systems
https://www.cs.uaf.edu/users/chappell/public_html/class/2018_spr/cs331/docs/types_primer.html
191
64
New tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of voter suppression
https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexitinc/paul-hilder/they-were-planning-on-stealing-election-explosive-new-tapes-reveal-cambridg
178
25
Simulating blobs of fluid
https://peeke.nl/simulating-blobs-of-fluid
157
81
The Space Shuttle’s Military Threat
https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/181657051514/my-favorite-part-about-the-economically-dubious
152
146
Amazon has forced attrition rates (someone has to go every year)
https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/al2p6q/7_months_into_fang_company_want_out/efad55p/
143
Gödel's Theorem
http://bactra.org/notebooks/godels-theorem.html
138
33
Everything You Need to Know About SVG
https://css-tricks.com/lodge/svg/
130
38
Scripting in Common Lisp
https://ebzzry.io/en/script-lisp/
126
51
'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190128125314.htm
Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++
https://tylerayoung.com/2019/01/29/benchmarks-of-cache-friendly-data-structures-in-c/
122
123
An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/review/roger-mcnamee-zucked.html
119
60
Launch HN: DevFlight (YC W19) – Helping open-source maintainers make money
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19037467
114
137
Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194028
112
40
Exclusive Design
https://exclusive-design.vasilis.nl/
106
96
Tesla Q4 2018 Earnings Letter
http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/0b913415-467d-4c0d-be4c-9225c2cb0ae0
97
10
Tor's Open Research Topics (2018)
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-open-research-topics-2018-edition
37
'Fuck ethics. Money is everything' FB employees react to scandal on gossip app
https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employees-react-teen-spying-app-blind/#X5hGityLeaqd
94
91
Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/29/magazine/china-globalization-kazakhstan.html
85
Intel Open Image Denoise: High-Performance Denoising Library for Ray Tracing
https://openimagedenoise.github.io/
42
What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/01/30/what-is-the-space-overhead-of-base64-encoding/
83
88
NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-insurers-can-evaluate-your-social-media-useif-they-can-prove-why-its-needed-11548856802
26
On Concurrency in Go HTTP Servers
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/on-concurrency-in-go-http-servers/
78
15
Reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex
http://naplab.ee.columbia.edu/reconstruction.html
77
2
The first synthetic element
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00236-4
16
Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike
https://github.com/hughpyle/ASR33/blob/master/asciiart/README.md
76
18
Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-sigma-derby
An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor