594
360
Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/us_border_patrol_search_demand_mozilla_cto/
7 years ago
592
250
Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-02/zuckerberg-op-ed-new-rules-would-hurt-everyone-but-facebook
464
90
Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers
https://gimli.app/
448
343
Why there’s so little left of the early internet
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet
443
338
The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet
http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-energy-will-be-the-most-disruptive-yet/
398
151
Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
https://thetoolsweneed.com/privacy-is-just-the-first-step-the-goal-is-data-ownership/
387
164
The Lobster Programming Language
http://strlen.com/lobster/
368
128
Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/03/25/from-alert-to-driver-vulnerability-microsoft-defender-atp-investigation-unearths-privilege-escalation-flaw/
347
A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing its status as a VC
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/02/andreessen-horowitz-is-blowing-up-the-venture-capital-model-again/
317
84
Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication
http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190302235509
312
156
Show HN: Thoughter
https://aytwit.com/thoughter
304
145
25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds
270
98
Network Determines Success More Than People Realize
https://medium.com/swlh/your-network-determines-success-more-than-you-realize-41a3e889ecea
265
59
The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel?
https://blog.apnic.net/2019/04/03/the-future-of-undersea-internet-cables-are-big-tech-companies-forming-a-cartel/
236
97
Defence Against the Docker Arts
https://blog.heroku.com/defence-against-the-docker-arts
229
112
Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are Stealing Dragons
https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/indonesia-closing-island-protecting-endangered-komodo-dragons
221
179
Ruby's Creed
https://metaredux.com/posts/2019/04/02/ruby-s-creed.html
208
91
Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me
https://sergiomattei.com/posts/handling-the-jerks/
195
20
A Go implementation of Poly1305 that makes sense
https://blog.filippo.io/a-literate-go-implementation-of-poly1305/
189
96
Goldman Sachs will open-source some of its trading software
https://www.wsj.com/articles/goldmans-trading-floor-is-going-open-source-kind-of-11554285602
178
76
Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license plate readers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/04/02/judge-orders-fairfax-police-stop-collecting-data-license-plate-readers
168
42
Ask HN: Was GitHub Hacked or Me?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19566075
167
79
Why India's rich don't give their money away
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47566542
159
49
Chessvision.ai – Analyze chess position from websites, images or video
https://chessvision.ai/
157
43
Two More Cases of Third-Party Facebook App Data Exposure
https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak
239
Google’s new AI ethics board is already falling apart
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/3/18292526/google-ai-ethics-board-letter-acquisti-kay-coles-james
144
Boeing software under scrutiny as Ethiopia prepares crash report
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-software/exclusive-boeing-software-engaged-repeatedly-before-crash-sources-idUSKCN1RF0YU
155
52
EverCrypt, a cryptographic library that is provably secure against known attacks
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-evercrypt-library-creates-hacker-proof-cryptography-20190402/
153
73
Trinity Nuclear Test Site Open House – Saturday, April 6
https://www.wsmr.army.mil/Trinity/Pages/Home.aspx
45
Mozilla and independent researchers publish guidelines for an ad archive API
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/27/facebook-and-google-this-is-what-an-effective-ad-archive-api-looks-like/
146
86
Moving on from Rails and What’s Next
https://blog.seantheprogrammer.com/moving-on-from-rails-and-whats-next
26
Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status
http://www.slopefillers.com/nordic-valleys-traillift-status/
142
66
New year, same old plans
http://lighttable.com/2019/03/31/New-year-old-plans/
137
111
The Invigorating Strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-invigorating-strangeness-of-friedrich-nietzsche
136
Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some involved in developing it
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/a-lack-of-redundancies-on-737-max-system-has-baffled-even-those-who-worked-on-the-jet/
132
124
Electric Cars Hit Record in Norway
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/709131281/electric-cars-hit-record-in-norway-making-up-nearly-60-of-sales-in-march?t=1554317167022
130
Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190329-the-cold-war-era-drink-that-rivals-cola
122
18
Compiler Performance and LLVM
http://pling.jondgoodwin.com/post/compiler-performance/
121
72
Cog: Use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files
https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog/
120
9
Clojure from Scratch to GPU: A Simple Neural Network Training API
https://dragan.rocks/articles/19/Deep-Learning-in-Clojure-From-Scratch-to-GPU-12-A-Simple-Neural-Network-Training-API
118
82
Loop invariants can give you coding superpowers
https://yourbasic.org/algorithms/loop-invariants-explained/
117
Apache web server bug grants root access on shared hosting environments
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apache-web-server-bug-grants-root-access-on-shared-hosting-environments/
115
Usain Bolt’s Split Times and the Power of Calculus
https://www.quantamagazine.org/infinite-powers-usain-bolt-and-the-art-of-calculus-20190403/
113
65
Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time
https://www.talkshow.team
22
540M Facebook Records Exposed
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/facebook-records-exposed-server/
12
AmpliGraph: A TensorFlow-Based Library for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
http://ampligraph.org
107
6
A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes
https://distill.pub/2019/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes/
106
95
What happens after rich kids bribe their way into college? I teach them
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/what-happens-after-rich-kids-bribe-their-way-into-college-i-teach-them
99
40
Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclear Medicine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19565224
46
NVMe and an interesting technology change
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/NVMeAndTechChange
94
2
Shop3 – Hierarchical Task Planner in Common Lisp
https://github.com/shop-planner/shop3
47
Cone Programming Langauge
http://cone.jondgoodwin.com
69
No, Your Instagram ‘Influence’ Is Not as Good as Cash, Club Owner Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/world/phillipines-hotel-influencers-social-media.html
74
7
Multi-Level Intermediate Representation Compiler Infrastructure
https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir
39
Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (1946)
http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Tanks/
15
Password checkup: from 0 to 650k users in 20 days
https://elie.net/blog/security/password-checkup-from-0-to-650-000-users-in-20-days/
71
Git9: Git Reimagined for the Plan 9 OS
https://bitbucket.org/oridb/git9
70
27
Programmers and Musicians
https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/practice/
68
Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stupid crap anymore
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-people-take-me-much-too-seriously-i-cant-say-stupid-crap-anymore/
67
64
Justice Department Warns Academy over Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix
https://variety.com/2019/politics/news/doj-oscar-rules-changes-netflix-1203178413/
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