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445
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677
314
One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/family-tree-dna-fbi-investigative-genealogy-privacy
604
383
EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-japan-create-worlds-biggest-free-trade-zone/a-47319521
531
263
A small notebook for a system administrator
https://habr.com/en/post/437912/
509
74
Show HN: Learn React fundamentals
https://github.com/tyroprogrammer/learn-react-app
411
23
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https://paperswithcode.com/sota
115
AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income
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407
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055166
355
48
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https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLite
315
126
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https://danyspin97.org/blog/makefiles-best-practices/
312
109
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
282
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In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/france-comic-books-angouleme.html
281
56
EU charges eight banks over alleged government bond cartel
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust-banks/eu-charges-eight-banks-over-euro-government-bond-trading-cartel-idUSKCN1PP1UA
256
78
Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps
https://medium.com/@firt/google-play-store-now-open-for-progressive-web-apps-ec6f3c6ff3cc
254
128
New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People
https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2019/new_technology_uses_lasers_to_transmit_audible_mes/
245
246
Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsofts-resurgence-under-satya-nadella-11549022422
239
136
My First Year as a Solo Developer
https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-1/
237
Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/apple-ban-google-data-app/
235
46
Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Negotiations
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190130/10141941498/canadas-bell-tried-to-have-vpns-banned-during-nafta-negotiations.shtml
234
100
What we've learned about hiring engineering managers
https://circleci.com/blog/what-we-ve-learned-about-hiring-engineering-managers/
217
84
Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/
215
Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/huge-cavity-in-antarctic-glacier-signals-rapid-decay
186
55
Forget everything you know about 3D printing – the ‘replicator’ is here
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07798-9
180
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Dear web developers: set the font color, too
https://www.luu.io/posts/web-devs-font-color
175
90
Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away
https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-saudi-website-men-control-women-stop-escape-2019-1
170
323
Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/01/millardball-vehicles.html
148
61
Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/01/finding-kafkas-throughput-limit-in-dropbox-infrastructure/
147
Einsum Is All You Need – Einstein Summation in Deep Learning (2018)
https://rockt.github.io/2018/04/30/einsum
140
127
How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley
https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-negotiated-a-software-engineer-offer-in-silicon-valley-f11590f5c656
138
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Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/ubers-transit-offering-just-went-live-in-denver/
137
106
McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting Staff
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/mcclatchy-follows-buzzfeed-vice-and-others-in-cutting-staff-11070151
131
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Oracle's Newest Audit Tactic: Focusing on Java
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2019/01/31/oracles-newest-audit-tactic-focusing-on-java/#fc0556854960
129
89
Created a fake account and Facebook still figured out who I am. How?
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/am1hi0/a_created_a_fake_account_and_facebook_still/
87
Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy
https://machinelearningmastery.com/applied-machine-learning-is-a-meritocracy/
125
22
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https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson
120
37
Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld
https://www.filfre.net/2019/02/life-off-the-grid-part-2-playing-ultima-underworld/
118
207
The rise of alternative milks
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/29/white-gold-the-unstoppable-rise-of-alternative-milks-oat-soy-rice-coconut-plant
58
I scraped all of Fandango's movie listings
https://readypipe.com/blog/fandango-ticket-prices/
Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/snopes-pulls-out-of-its-fact-checking-partnership-with-facebook/
114
17
Counting solar panels in the U.S. with machine learning and satellite images
https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/18348/How-Do-You-Count-Every-Solar-Panel-in-the-US-Machine-Learning-and-a-Billion-Satellite-Images.aspx
111
Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vice-media-reorganize-lay-10-percent-staff-1181785
54
More bad news for controversial 20-year-old claim of dark matter detection
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/more-bad-news-for-controversial-20-year-old-claim-of-dark-matter-detection/
91
Phenylephrine Is No More Effective Than Placebo for Nasal Congestion (2015)
https://www.jwatch.org/na39054/2015/09/17/phenylephrine-no-more-effective-placebo-nasal-congestion
88
One Man's Quest to Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/01/690071045/one-mans-quest-to-prove-vermont-has-terrible-cell-service
53
The Death of a Dreamer
https://quillette.com/2019/01/30/the-death-of-a-dreamer/
The IPO of Virgin Trains U.S.A.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-01/two-billionaires-want-to-restore-the-glory-of-u-s-railroads
80
It’s Time to Ditch Google Analytics
https://www.fastcompany.com/90300072/its-time-to-ditch-google-analytics
79
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GNOME Shell and Mutter
https://feaneron.com/2019/01/31/gnome-shell-and-mutter-better-faster-cleaner/
McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting Staff