668
498
What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
https://hackaday.com/2019/02/05/what-happened-to-the-100000-hour-led-bulbs/
7 years ago
567
488
Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/
482
176
Compounding Knowledge
https://fs.blog/2019/02/compounding-knowledge/
444
209
Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/why-am-i-seeing-this-ad/
422
175
With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/02/06/react-v16.8.0.html
388
307
Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190205-office-space-turns-20-how-the-film-changed-work
358
199
Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road
https://divineontheroad.com/build-a-van/
344
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Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/technology/instacart-doordash-tipping-deliveries.html
292
79
Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph
https://blog.nuclino.com/why-nasa-converted-its-lessons-learned-database-into-a-knowledge-graph
289
Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut
https://sourcehut.org/
288
184
Show HN: Startup with no website - [email protected]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094818
276
243
Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19100129
270
120
Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots/
267
57
Dutch radio amateurs image far side of the Moon using Chinese satellite data
https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2018/precious-earth-and-lunar-far-side/
251
53
Programming the Z3 SMT solver
https://theory.stanford.edu/~nikolaj/programmingz3.html
249
166
Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops
https://medium.com/@daniel_36042/jabra-we-know-our-bluetooth-headsets-dont-work-with-laptops-sorry-no-refunds-80ed4cb2fc6f
245
111
Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/weird-cultures-human-nature/
242
75
There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings
https://www.nate-crowley.com/single-post/2019/02/05/There-and-Snack-Again-How-to-eat-everything-in-Lord-of-the-Rings
224
60
Virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
218
87
Google now pays more money in EU fines than it pays in taxes
https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3070492/google-now-pays-more-money-in-eu-fines-than-it-pays-in-taxes
212
128
Ask HN: How are you getting through (and back from) burning out?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094945
204
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Patreon is about to eat itself
https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1092846201374892032
197
299
Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Payday Lending
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/691944789/consumer-protection-bureau-aims-to-roll-back-rules-for-payday-lending
196
254
America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-06/america-neglects-talent-of-too-many-of-its-best-and-brightest
195
Lyft lobbying to prevent Portland from regulating impact of ride-sharing
https://humantransit.org/2019/02/lyft-lobbying-to-keep-cities-from-governing-themselves.html
194
35
China hacked Norway's Visma to steal client secrets
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-norway-visma/china-hacked-norways-visma-to-steal-client-secrets-investigators-idUSKCN1PV141
193
54
Move Fast and Migrate Things: How We Automated Migrations in Postgres
https://benchling.engineering/move-fast-and-migrate-things-how-we-automated-migrations-in-postgres-d60aba0fc3d4?
190
47
What would a EvE online Internet look like?
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/eve-online-bgp-internet
186
140
List of stories set in a future now past
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_future_now_past
185
State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
https://danielcompton.net/2019/02/06/clojure-survey-2019
27
Inter – open source and legible typeface
https://github.com/rsms/inter
81
CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft (2018)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3292420
163
37
A Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-sum-product-problem-shows-how-addition-and-multiplication-constrain-each-other-20190206/
155
106
Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgerald-destroyer-crash-crystal/
153
171
Eating more fruit and vegetables 'improves mental wellbeing'
https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/eating-more-fruit-and-veg-improves-mental-wellbeing/
55
Seattle Surveillance Technologies Up for Public Review
http://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/privacy/surveillance-technologies
143
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There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/
142
Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding
https://mattermost.com/blog/mattermost-raises-20m-series-a-funding/
101
Notices have already been issued under Australia’s new encryption laws
https://www.innovationaus.com/2019/02/AA-bill-notices-already-issued
139
63
The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy
https://qz.com/1540608/the-problem-with-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-blitzscaling-growth/
138
23
Runtime verification in Erlang by using contracts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07937
135
41
Why Is My Perfectly Good Shellcode Not Working? Cache Coherency on MIPS and ARM
https://blog.senr.io/blog/why-is-my-perfectly-good-shellcode-not-working-cache-coherency-on-mips-and-arm
134
56
The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
https://mux.com/blog/the-low-latency-live-streaming-landscape-in-2019/
131
80
Show HN: Simple way to share state using React Hooks and Context
https://github.com/diegohaz/constate
125
89
DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/dns-servers-you-should-have-memorized/
124
49
FuckJerry’s Success Is Instagram’s Failure
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/how-instagram-enables-fuckjerrys-success.html
118
2
Learn Computer Graphics from Scratch
http://www.scratchapixel.com/
117
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Roger McNamee says the 'like' button was 'beginning of the end'
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/why-a-former-facebook-adviser-says-the-like-button-was-beginning-of-the-end-of-company-s-good-old-days-1.5007542
112
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An Introduction to the Mathematics of Uncertainty (2010) [pdf]
https://www.creighton.edu/fileadmin/user/CCAS/programs/fuzzy_math/docs/MOU.pdf
108
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Schools in England Introduce a New Subject: Mindfulness
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/world/europe/uk-mindfulness-children-school.html
104
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George Boole and the Calculus of Thought (2018)
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2018/02/george-boole-and-the-calculus-of-thought-5.html
103
The world might run out of people
https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-might-actually-run-out-of-people/
Ask HN: What big programming productivity gains you see happening in 5-10 yrs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096410
99
48
Apple Is Removing 'Do Not Track' from Safari
https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-removing-do-not-track-from-safari-1832400768
105
Instacart CEO apologizes for tipping debacle
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/instacart-ceo-apologizes-for-tipping-debacle/
93
The Thrill of Building Space Hardware to Exceptionally High Standards
https://hackaday.com/2019/02/04/the-thrill-of-building-space-hardware-to-exceptionally-high-standards/
92
16
Navigating Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP: Google Is Making Blockchains Searchable
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/02/04/navigating-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-how-google-is-quietly-making-blockchains-searchable/
91
28
Memory stick found in frozen seal faeces in New Zealand
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47135528
114
Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code from Python 2 to Python 3
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/02/incrementally-migrating-over-one-million-lines-of-code-from-python-2-to-python-3/
8
ClusterScope: Discover outdated images in your Kubernetes cluster
https://www.replicated.com/clusterscope/
76
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Cannabis Smoking Associated with Higher Sperm Count, Study Finds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-06/cannabis-smoking-associated-with-higher-sperm-count-study-finds
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