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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
https://www.quora.com/Why-can-t-a-bot-tick-the-Im-not-a-robot-box/answer/Oliver-Emberton?share=1
7 years ago
821
382
SQL: One of the most valuable skills
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/02/12/sql-most-valuable-skill/
728
221
Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/science/mars-opportunity-rover-dead.html
708
435
Whitespace killed an enterprise app
https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app-and-why-data-density-matters-b3afad6a5f2a
443
123
The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
https://hackaday.com/2019/02/13/the-impossible-tech-behind-spacexs-new-engine/
254
FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/429867-fcc-threatens-carriers-with-regulatory-intervention-on-robocalls
368
144
Earnest Capital is live
https://earnestcapital.com/is-earnest-capital-live-yet/
354
215
The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised
https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/
332
64
Leon: An open-source personal assistant
https://github.com/leon-ai/leon
318
260
Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
https://deskgap.com/
314
152
Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?
https://newrepublic.com/article/153095/fyre-festival-huge-scam-netflixs-fyre-documentary-scam-too
293
236
How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
https://www.recode.net/2019/2/12/18222558/kara-swisher-jack-dorsey-twitter-interview-conversation-karajack-livetweet
286
31
Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners
https://osandamalith.com/2019/02/11/linux-reverse-engineering-ctfs-for-beginners/
261
24
The Theory of Relational Databases (1983)
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maier/TheoryBook/TRD.html
228
311
Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes
https://itep.org/amazon-in-its-prime-doubles-profits-pays-0-in-federal-income-taxes/
225
33
Show HN: I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton
https://ericu.github.io/CellCulTuring/
211
5
Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/storage-algorithms
207
63
Handling 1M websocket connections in Go
https://github.com/eranyanay/1m-go-websockets
202
106
A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete
https://catonmat.net/proof-that-sed-is-turing-complete
171
29
Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
http://joshmillard.com/sgmenger/
166
247
Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/google-and-ibm-still-trying-desperately-to-move-cloud-market-share-needle/
161
54
Security.txt (2017)
https://securitytxt.org
159
116
Scientists Are Rethinking Animal Cognition
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/what-the-crow-knows/580726/
147
83
Ask HN: What's it like to work in the same company for decades?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19149509
145
183
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
143
Lessons from Google's Geographical GDPR Goof
https://www.dmnews.com/data/data-management/data-privacy/article/21047138/dont-be-stupid-3-lessons-from-googles-geographical-gdpr-goof
142
102
BuzzFeed Journalists Vote to Unionize in Wake of Layoffs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/buzzfeed-journalists-said-to-vote-to-unionize-in-wake-of-layoffs
138
41
Fast Perfect Hashing
http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2019/02/12/fast-perfect-hashing/
137
26
Red Team's SIEM
https://github.com/outflanknl/RedELK
136
UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/13/uk_counter_terror_act_royal_assent/
132
21
Ask HN: How to get better in advanced SQL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19150561
131
19
Memcached – Caching Beyond RAM: Riding the Cliff
https://memcached.org/blog/nvm-multidisk/
128
Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery
http://www.terrapattern.com/
124
Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-forests-carbon-sink-or-source-1.5011490
122
52
Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/ex-top-apple-lawyer-levoff-accused-by-sec-of-insider-trading
121
Tell HN: Node.js koa-router package transferred to unknown user
https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance/issues/77#issuecomment-463356844
120
99
You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-10-arm-raspberry-pi-3-installer,38604.html
119
38
Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/13/nasa-makes-final-attempt-to-communicate-with-mars-rover-opportunity
55
NIST Reveals 26 Algorithms Advancing to the Post-Quantum Crypto ‘Semifinals’
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/01/nist-reveals-26-algorithms-advancing-post-quantum-crypto-semifinals
78
Reddit Transparency Report 2018
https://www.redditinc.com/policies/transparency-report-2018
104
32
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (2009)
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
98
90
Logical difficulties in modern mathematics (2012)
https://njwildberger.com/2012/10/13/the-problem-of-rigour-in-modern-mathematics/
97
72
AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform: Call It Mirrorworld
https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform/
95
Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson
https://gigaom.com/2019/01/17/quantum-computing-capabilities-and-limits-an-interview-with-scott-aaronson/
The Alter Bible
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/279344/robert-alter-bible
Toyotas and Chevys Are Holding Up Better Than Most Luxury Brands
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/toyotas-and-chevys-are-holding-up-better-than-most-luxury-brands
45
Architecture for a JavaScript to C compiler
https://timr.co/architecture-for-a-js-to-c-compiler
79
We are not nearly as determined by our genes as once thought
http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it
58
Rappler CEO Maria Ressa Arrested for Cyber Libel
https://www.rappler.com/nation/223411-maria-ressa-arrested-for-cyber-libel-february-2019
23
Google will spend $13B on U.S. real estate in 2019
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/google-will-spend-13-billion-on-real-estate-moves-in-2019.html
76
Why Do the Northern and Southern Lights Differ?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-the-northern-and-southern-lights-differ/
74
15
The Miracle of Applied Mathematics (2001) [pdf]
http://www.colyvan.com/papers/miracle.pdf
73
146
Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/silicon-valley-is-using-trade-secrets-to-hide-its-race-problem
Xinjiang: Ex-Blackwater chief's security firm linked to China training centre
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47089665
71
107
How the H-1B Visa System Can Hurt American Workers (2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/11visa-listy.html
Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?