882
641
Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate
7 years ago
472
298
Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/facebook-unsealed-documents-whales-mobile-games
469
613
U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-changes-visa-process-for-high-skilled-workers-11548879868
458
16
Interactive SICP
https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/
430
101
Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies
https://find.xyz/map/product-management-search-engine
342
150
The UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-spying-raven-specialreport-idUKKCN1PO1A6
331
152
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)
https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c
317
294
Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-sanctions-eu/germany-france-britain-to-launch-mechanism-for-trade-with-iran-idUSKCN1PP0K3
315
250
Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/apple-facebook-campus-permissions-revoked-teens-access-data-iphone-app
301
118
Ask HN: Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19048108
283
104
A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/a-gold-standard-study-finds-deleting-facebook-is-great-for-your-mental-health/
154
Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-cloud-firestore-general-availability-and-updates/
275
207
How many .com domain names are unused?
https://singaporedatacompany.com/blog/how-many-domain-names-are-unused
260
434
Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/google-facebook-fake-news-journalism.html
246
Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City
https://mwi.usma.edu/stealing-enemys-urban-advantage-battle-sadr-city/
160
Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes
https://www.gq.com/story/cal-newport-digital-minimalism
244
153
Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzvxv/criminals-hackers-ss7-uk-banks-metro-bank
239
100
A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-the-kgb-shipped-sidewinder-missile-by-mail-moscow-21673
225
76
Racket v7.2
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-v7-2.html
224
186
Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carstairs-westview-co-op-grocery-car-key-fob-1.4999558
218
36
Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018)
https://www.greghendershott.com/2018/05/extramaze-llc-using-racket-postgresql-aws-but-no-ads-or-js.html
201
108
Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (2012)
https://www.troyhunt.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know/
199
167
CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR
https://www.tonic.ai/blog/ccpa-will-hit-your-dev-team-harder-than-gdpr
187
234
Lombok makes Java cool again
https://bytes.grubhub.com/lombok-makes-java-cool-again-171102bdcc52
185
122
I lost my data trying to back it up
https://hamy.io/post/0010/how-i-lost-my-data-trying-to-back-it-up/
174
68
This is Your Brain Off Facebook - study offers glimpse of unplugging
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/health/facebook-psychology-health.html
172
117
Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/polar-vortex-weather-forecasting-good-now/581605/
169
57
Scott Alexander Reviews Thiel's Zero to One
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/31/book-review-zero-to-one/
211
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/02/cruel-and-unusual-punishment-2/
155
Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/google-for-consumers-will-shut-down-on-april-2nd/
159
144
Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=u7sRrC2Jpp4
158
44
How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9800-how_to_teach_programming_to_your_loved_ones
149
40
A proposed API for full-memory encryption
https://lwn.net/Articles/776688/
134
133
UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019
https://www.myuv.com/
132
110
Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47033704
128
127
Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?
https://www.space.com/43173-earth-magnetic-field-flips-when.html
123
52
Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/business/locast-streaming-free-network-tv.html
162
Lidar Is a Crutch
https://lidarmag.com/2019/01/27/elon-musk-is-right-lidar-is-a-crutch/
120
19
Faster hash joiner with vectorized execution
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vectorized-hash-joiner/
107
58
Five Corrections to The New York Times
https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/five-corrections-new-york-times
95
9
Pandas extension arrays
https://pandas-dev.github.io/pandas-blog/pandas-extension-arrays.html
94
32
A 500-Year-Long Science Experiment
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/500-year-long-science-experiment/581155/
88
12
Wake Word: An Algorithmic Nightmare Game
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18140796/wake-word-algorithm-text-game-ai-artificial-intelligence
64
Ask HN: Why is it easier to get a raise with a new job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19046852
85
43
The Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-scripto-the-app-that-stephen-colbert-helped-build-became-a-fixture-of-late-night-comedy-news
82
22
Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/rigetti-launches-the-public-beta-of-its-quantum-cloud-services/
80
78
Opinion: A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/ai-bias-healthcare.html
10
Data Structures for coding interviews
https://www.interviewcake.com/article/java/data-structures-coding-interview
Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018)