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696
Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-the-government-from-offering-free-online-tax-filing-thank-turbotax
7 years ago
873
229
Netlify Dev
https://www.netlify.com/products/dev/
630
238
Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protections-against-fingerprinting-and-cryptocurrency-mining-available-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/
369
126
Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
https://github.com/jhuangtw-dev/xg2xg
★ 15.2k – 7 years ago
341
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Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/
292
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Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers
http://blog.zendrive.com/2019-distracted-driving-study-phone-addicts-are-the-new-drunk-drivers/
291
52
Announcing Building Git
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2019/04/08/announcing-building-git/
129
Show HN: Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff
https://ethical.net/resources/
288
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China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cryptocurrency/china-says-it-wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4
278
100
Monotype launches the first redesign of Helvetica in 35 years
https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/monotype-launches-the-first-redesign-in-35-years-of-the-worlds-most-ubiquitous-font-helvetica/
276
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Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47830256
260
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Show HN: A minimalist blog based on Tufte CSS
https://lawler.io
259
152
U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech/u-s-senators-introduce-social-media-bill-to-ban-dark-patterns-tricks-idUSKCN1RL25Q
254
85
Sweden will vote against the copyright deal/article 13
https://twitter.com/senficon/status/1115620746951262209
251
221
Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google
https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview
247
162
Cloud Run beta pricing
https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing
235
185
2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/04/09/the-2019-stack-overflow-developer-survey-results-are-in/
228
133
The key to loving your job in the age of burnout
https://qz.com/work/1571065/how-to-love-your-job-and-avoid-burnout/
226
289
San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/san-francisco-decline-failed-government-policies/
75
Withdrawing from the Microsoft MVP Program
https://www.osr.com/blog/2019/04/08/withdrawing-from-the-microsoft-mvp-program/
222
41
Clojure Concurrency Tutorial
https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-concurrency/
214
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Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
201
137
Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/announcing-cloud-run-the-newest-member-of-our-serverless-compute-stack
195
Can the Law Be Copyrighted?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/can-the-law-be-copyrighted/
194
77
Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today
https://kotaku.com/shenmues-much-hated-forklifts-feel-revolutionary-today-1833817433
192
23
DopplerFi – Communication Between BLE and Wi-Fi by Injecting Doppler Shifts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10948
186
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Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2019/04/opera-60-reborn-3-web-3-0-vpn-ad-blocker/
183
Show HN: Xmake, a modern C/C++ build utility
https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake
★ 11.9k Lua Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
140
Why airlines make flights longer on purpose
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190405-the-secret-about-delays-airlines-dont-want-you-to-know
179
161
Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/bank-of-america-is-raising-its-minimum-wage-for-employees-to-20-an-hour.html
174
61
Developer Survey Results 2019
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
168
Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math
http://m.nautil.us/blog/nassim-talebs-case-against-nate-silver-is-bad-math
158
59
Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/felicia-ferret-particle-accelerator-fermilab
150
63
Anthos – Build and manage modern hybrid applications
https://cloud.google.com/anthos/
145
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Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cybersecurity flaws
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/04/09/berkeley-high-student-tried-to-rig-his-own-election-exposing-flaw-in-districts-cybersecurity
139
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NSA-style backdoor in Huawei laptops found by Microsoft
https://www.scmagazineuk.com/nsa-style-backdoor-huawei-laptops-found-microsoft/article/1580647?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_qxEmmizNitJJhfiZVUhUFzBcCpckx0qp3FVFgtxqvB-oI6VMakcjZyItsxSy4F3pbJkQWc2KzjwrTLAEzbxo3DIXFrA&_hsmi=71312471
My Roommate's Tik Tok Fame Made My Life Hell (2018)
https://flip.lease/blog/my-roommates-tik-tok-fame-made-my-life-hell
131
43
Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
https://00f.net/2019/04/09/benchmarking-webassembly-using-libsodium/
125
33
Ask HN: Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these math topics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19612528
122
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Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/college-grads-sell-stakes-in-themselves-to-wall-street
118
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737 Max: 1960s Design, 1990s Computing Power and Paper Manuals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/business/boeing-737-max-.html
123
Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611067/chinese-tech-firms-are-throwing-out-applicants-over-the-age-of-30/
116
80
Winter Is Coming for Java Updates
https://www.azul.com/winter-is-coming-for-java-updates/
111
Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C
https://github.com/grassel/wac#wac---webassembly-in-c
110
105
Google Cloud CEO says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook
https://www.businessinsider.de/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-oracle-strategies-2019-4
108
25
Electrical jolts to brain restored memory of elderly to that of 20-year-old
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/brain-jolts-revive-memory-in-elderly-turning-clock-back-four-decades/
68
New Satellite Photos Show Climate Change Is Sweeping Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-09/new-satellite-photos-show-europe-s-changing-climate
73
Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/roku-is-no-longer-a-neutral-platform-after-todays-roku-os-9-1-update/
90
Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge
https://www.neowin.net/news/these-are-the-google-features-that-microsoft-turned-off-in-chromium-edge
103
47
At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-phase-matter-confirmed-solid-and-liquid-same-time-potassium-physics/
34
The Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/the-untold-story-disappearance-of-fan-bingbing-worlds-biggest-movie-star
97
66
Microsoft CTO on the future of software engineering [audio]
https://om.co/2019/04/08/microsoft-cto-kevin-scott-on-the-future-of-software-engineering-and-the-better-world-ahead/
The Age of Robot Farmers
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/the-age-of-robot-farmers
96
Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/google-gives-aws-the-open-source-middle-finger/
94
60
World Happiness Report, 2019
https://kyso.io/becca/world-happiness
92
24
Astronomers spy an iron planet stripped of its crust around a burned-out star
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/astronomers-spy-iron-planet-stripped-its-crust-around-burned-out-star
87
67
It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
https://0x46.net/thoughts/2019/04/09/use-firefox/
27
Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm
39
The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (2017)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-future-of-computing-depends-on-making-it-reversible
84
50
Hacker from Russian crime group jailed for global blackmail conspiracy
https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/hacker-from-russian-crime-group-jailed-for-multi-million-pound-global-blackmail-conspiracy
3
TF-IDF in a Nutshell
https://manticoresearch.com/2019/04/09/tf-idf-in-a-nutshell/
82
57
I have been hired for more than 10 years, and I have this simple rule
https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1114643660912517120
79
The Death of an Adjunct
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter/586168/
76
22
Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/volkswagen-originalteil-sausages