2031
512
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/
7 years ago
706
312
Graying Out
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/03/11/Lights-Going-Out
627
292
Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2019/03/12/boeing-737-max-8-pilots-complained-feds-months-suspected-safety-flaw
484
210
A JavaScript-Free Front End
https://dev.to/winduptoy/a-javascript-free-frontend-2d3e
394
82
Radicle: A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on IPFS
http://www.radicle.xyz/
393
303
FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-accuses-wealthy-parents-including-celebrities-in-college-entrance-bribery-scheme/2019/03/12/d91c9942-44d1-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html
354
352
Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/microsofts-new-skype-for-web-client-an-early-taste-of-the-browser-monoculture
350
348
E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/world/africa/boeing-ethiopian-airlines-plane-crash.html
340
151
Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/12/googles-new-voice-recognition-system-works-instantly-and-offline-if-you-have-a-pixel/
306
128
On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company
https://www.elastic.co/blog/on-open-distros-open-source-and-building-a-company
298
191
Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
https://lambdaschool.com/stipend
296
75
30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]
https://web30.web.cern.ch/
295
142
Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system
https://about.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2019/march/researchers-find-trapdoor-in-swissvote-election-system
255
257
On the death of my family's dairy farm
https://blog.abevoelker.com/2019-03-06/on-the-death-of-my-familys-dairy-farm/
223
59
Stephen Hawking commemorated on new 50p coin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-47527505
222
279
Where Warren’s Wrong
https://stratechery.com/2019/where-warrens-wrong/
213
29
A first-person engine in 265 lines (2014)
http://www.playfuljs.com/a-first-person-engine-in-265-lines/
152
Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors
https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2019/cloudflare-raises-usd150m-and-adds-to-board-of-directors/
211
98
KV Storage, the Web's First Built-In Module
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/03/kv-storage
206
97
Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20190312a/full/
200
53
Silence is golden, especially when you need to say something important
https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3310318
186
77
KeyDB: A Multithreaded Redis Fork
https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB
117
An Insulin Index of Foods (1994)
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/an-insulin-index-of-foods-the-insulin-demand-generated-by-1000-kj-portions-of-common-foods#email-newsletter
180
149
The Tragedy of Baltimore
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/magazine/baltimore-tragedy-crime.html
176
92
How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 Not So Easy Steps
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/technology/how-to-disappear-surveillance-state.html
175
Our Boss Will Call Your Boss
https://cepr.shorthandstories.com/haiti-contractors/index.html
173
39
Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator
https://ideaminr.com
172
64
Launch HN: Axdraft (YC W19) - Legal documents for startups in minutes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19372623
168
5
Compiler Basics: LLVM
http://notes.eatonphil.com/compiler-basics-llvm.html
167
86
Russia blocks ProtonMail
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/russia-blocks-protonmail/
165
147
Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/opinion/college-bribery-admissions.html
143
Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Ethiopian Airlines crash
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/airlines-and-regulators-ground-737-max-in-wake-of-ethiopian-airlines-crash/
159
73
The Web We Broke
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/
224
Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps and No Runaway Hit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-11/amazon-s-alexa-has-80-000-apps-and-no-runaway-hit
150
148
What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing-737-max-maneuvering-characteristics-augmentation-system-mcas/
57
Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances
https://www.scaleway.com/general-purpose-instances/
118
“HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”
https://twitter.com/ow/status/1105450808580231170
145
47
Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year's hack
https://www.zdnet.com/article/marriott-ceo-shares-post-mortem-on-last-years-hack/
32
Going beyond the Golden Ratio
http://extremelearning.com.au/going-beyond-golden-ratio/
141
81
On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
https://webkit.org/blog/8672/on-the-road-to-webrtc-1-0-including-vp8/
133
52
Did Sam Altman make YC better or worse?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/09/did-sam-altman-make-yc-better-or-worse/
132
67
Against Willpower (2017)
http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/against-willpower
130
63
Opioids and the Labor Market (2018)
https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/working-papers/2018-working-papers/wp-1807-opioids-and-the-labor-market.aspx
124
How Discord Went Mainstream
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671/
119
Leaderless Debian
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/782786/1b0334c3a2a9d8b1/
58
Chinese Data Breach Exposes 'Breed Ready' Status of Almost 2M Women
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/03/11/exposed-chinese-database-includes-breed-ready-status-of-almost-2-million-women/#6062b62817e7
116
Season of Docs
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/
61
The Triton malware is murderous and spreading
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613054/cybersecurity-critical-infrastructure-triton-malware/
113
198
To lure young talent, banks mimic tech workspaces
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-world-work-banks/to-lure-young-talent-banks-mimic-tech-workspaces-idUSKBN1QS0BB
112
14
Synthetic Sensors: Towards General-Purpose Sensing
http://www.gierad.com/projects/supersensor/
107
174
Zero Hedge Says Facebook Banned Users from Sharing Its Posts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/zero-hedge-says-facebook-banned-users-from-sharing-its-posts
96
18
Remembering the burglary that broke Cointelpro
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/mar/08/fbi-media-anniversary/
94
20
Open, Decentralized, Identity Ecosystem
http://identity.foundation/
69
UK has banned all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from British airspace
https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-bans-all-boeing-737-max-8-aircraft-from-airspace-2019-3
56
The Industrial Revolution of Shame
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/sunday/internet-shaming.html
Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
https://habr.com/ru/company/pvs-studio/blog/443400/
131
Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929318301245
83
Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal by 149 votes
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47547887
16
Colors and accessibility
https://color.review
76
Launch HN: Latchel (YC W19) – Rental Property Maintenance as a Service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19370333
Could an Eye Doctor Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before You Have Symptoms?
https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news-listing/could-eye-doctor-diagnose-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-you-have-symptoms
72
11
Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives
70
19
Programming in Rust: the good, the bad, the ugly
https://hackernoon.com/programming-in-rust-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-d06f8d8b7738
Singapore temporarily suspends Boeing 737 Max into and out of its airports
https://www.caas.gov.sg/about-caas/newsroom/Detail/caas-temporarily-suspends-operation-of-boeing-737-max-aircraft-into-and-out-of-singapore/
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