1920
605
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/
7 years ago
788
413
Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/
777
260
Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/04/01/reducing-notification-permission-prompt-spam-in-firefox/
736
358
Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-some-new-users-email-passwords
696
368
French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-french-isps-to-block-sci-hub-and-libgen-190331/
623
266
Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/europe-night-train-sweden-eco-travel-sleeper-car-fossil-free/586228/
495
97
Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19551590
444
143
No one should have to travel in fear
https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-in-fear-b2bff4c460e5
436
134
Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information
https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/sci-hub-and-alexandra-basic-information/
361
53
From Show HN to Series D
https://segment.com/blog/show-hn-to-series-d/
347
316
Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
https://usefyi.com/evernote-history
72
Editor.js – Block Styled Editor
https://editorjs.io/
337
318
The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks
https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-macbook-keyboard-fiasco-is-surely-worse-than-apple-thinks/
320
61
YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
310
150
Why Do Buses Bunch?
http://setosa.io/bus/
309
159
Idaho sets record low solar price as it starts on shift to 100pct renewables
https://reneweconomy.com.au/idaho-sets-record-low-solar-price-as-it-starts-on-shift-to-100pct-renewables-38566/
230
99
Who has the fastest website in F1?
https://jakearchibald.com/2019/f1-perf/
227
141
How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram
https://medium.com/@chrisbuetti/how-i-eat-for-free-in-nyc-using-python-automation-artificial-intelligence-and-instagram-a5ed8a1e2a10
223
110
The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets (2015)
https://theintercept.com/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/
218
47
Rare Persian manuscripts dating back to 13th century now online
https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-036/
102
The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015)
https://jakubmarian.com/difference-between-violet-and-purple/
217
130
What comes after open source
https://words.steveklabnik.com/what-comes-after-open-source
204
93
Simplify Gmail: Bringing the Simplicity of Google Inbox to Gmail
https://simpl.fyi/gmail/
199
55
Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)
https://www.elastic.co/blog/averages-can-dangerous-use-percentile
180
82
Implementing API Billing with Stripe
https://www.daily.co/blog/implementing-api-billing-with-stripe
173
95
Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01026-8
149
Klotho – There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge Your Brain. Who Should Get It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/health/klotho-brain-enhancement-dementia-alzheimers.html
156
123
Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (2016)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26978184/
152
83
Why It’s Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find People
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/fcc-wireless-regulation.html
74
Patagonia Stops Selling Vests To Some Finance Firms
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change
24
Nikoli Puzzles
http://nikoli.co.jp/en/puzzles/
144
112
Google requiring contractors get health care coverage, parental leave
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/436939-google-will-require-healthcare-parental-leave-for-extended-workforce
133
Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F996icu%2F996.ICU%2Fpull%2F24904%23issuecomment-478881871
59
Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images
https://medium.com/@mpnet/trying-to-make-sense-of-compuserve-server-hard-disk-images-posted-on-archive-org-b1c62ce6012b
132
182
On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/on-demand-startups-are-hemorrhaging-tens-of-billions-a-year
126
81
Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/910982?nlid=129068_3901&src=wnl_newsalrt_190327_MSCPEDIT&uac=267659MN&impID=1919559&faf=1
119
Chef extends open-source licensing to all its software
https://blog.chef.io/2019/04/02/chef-software-announces-the-enterprise-automation-stack/
115
77
World's deepest pool to open in Poland
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-deepest-pool-scli-intl/index.html
111
163
Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/boeing-delays-737-max-software-fix-delivery/
109
18
Buster Keaton: Anarchitect
http://www.lapsuslima.com/buster-keaton-anarchitect/
107
How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/building-the-digital-iron-cage
104
64
Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/science/mars-methane-gas.html
19
Verilator: Fast, Free Verilog HDL Simulator
https://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilator
101
20
For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature Almanacs
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/miniature-almanacs
100
12
Amundsen – Lyft’s data discovery and metadata engine
https://eng.lyft.com/amundsen-lyfts-data-discovery-metadata-engine-62d27254fbb9
54
Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/mar-a-lago-zhang-chinese-secret-service.html
44
Show HN: Open-Source Business Intelligence for BigQuery – Looker Alternative
https://mprove.io
94
28
C++ State Machines
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/cpp_state_machines.html
92
60
Google+ cannot be used with customer or brand accounts anymore
https://plus.google.com/
69
The Art of DJing: Jeff Mills
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3436
91
Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source
https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-dozen-reasons/
89
26
Monte Carlo instead of Alpha-Beta for chess programs?
https://en.chessbase.com/post/monte-carlo-instead-of-alpha-beta
88
Domain-Oriented Observability
https://martinfowler.com/articles/domain-oriented-observability.html
A philosophy-quoting homeless man in China has fled internet fame
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-internet-was-obsessed-with-this-philosophy-quoting-homeless-man-in-china-now-hes-fled-the-fame/2019/04/01/519e43e2-5220-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html
86
Statistical mechanics of money (2000)
https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001432
7
Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-pytorch-biggraph-for-faster-embeddings-of-extremely-large-graphs
68
Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/18/18225231/emoji-emoticon-court-case-reference
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