989
521
Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47941794
7 years ago
752
114
1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers
https://astrospace-page.blogspot.com/2019/04/1060-hours-image-of-the-large-magellanic-cloud-chile.html
717
280
How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
https://www.whenrulesdontapply.com/
579
360
Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47941181
528
195
LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/education/lebron-james-school-ohio.html
415
189
A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla
https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686
410
88
Ripgrep 11 Released
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/11.0.0
406
184
Mastodon and Keybase
https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone
387
127
Death by PowerPoint: The slide that killed seven people
https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/new-blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx
363
110
Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?
https://www.askamathematician.com/2019/04/q-why-was-it-so-hard-to-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-what-are-we-even-looking-at/
313
41
EFF’s Tweet About a DMCA Takedown Is Now Subject to an Overzealous Takedown
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/effs-tweet-about-overzealous-dmca-takedown-now-subject-overzealous-takedown
291
209
Baked MacBook Air: A cautionary recipe
https://www.woolie.co.uk/article/baked-macbook-air/
264
100
VW’s Former CEO Charged in Germany Over Diesel Rigging
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/ex-vw-ceo-winterkorn-charged-in-germany-over-diesel-rigging
261
GameBoy CPU Manual (2013) [pdf]
https://realboyemulator.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/gbcpuman.pdf
260
251
Jack Ma Again Endorses Extreme Overtime as Furor Rages On
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/jack-ma-again-endorses-extreme-overtime-as-online-furor-rages-on
245
99
Mass Production of iPhones to Start in India
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/foxconn-is-poised-to-begin-mass-production-of-iphones-in-india
98
Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in web pages
https://armin.dev/blog/2019/04/adblock-plus-code-injection/
238
65
What It's Like to View a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch
https://olivierforget.net/blog/2019/viewing-spacex-falcon-heavy-launch/
231
179
Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-wormholes.html
213
55
Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/hackers-could-read-non-corporate-outlook-comhotmail-for-six-months/
200
67
Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/experts-breach-at-it-outsourcing-giant-wipro/
117
Netherlands ACM launches investigation into abuse by Apple in its App Store
https://www.acm.nl/en/publications/acm-launches-investigation-abuse-dominance-apple-its-app-store
187
35
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/
66
Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret
182
139
Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/-flash-boys-trading-bots-are-running-wild-on-crypto-exchanges
174
4
A Specialized B-Tree for Concurrent Datalog Evaluation
https://souffle-lang.github.io/news/2019/02/20/ppopp19-paper/
168
51
Time protection: the missing OS abstraction
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/15/time-protection-the-missing-os-abstraction/
164
28
The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause
https://blog.jooq.org/2019/04/09/the-difference-between-sqls-join-on-clause-and-the-where-clause/
151
56
2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019
150
China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/04/china_spying_on.html
144
F-1 Thrust Chamber
http://heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-thrust-chamber.html
132
70
Responsible JavaScript: Part I
https://alistapart.com/article/responsible-javascript-part-1/
129
49
Virtually Unlimited Memory: Escaping the Chrome Sandbox
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/04/virtually-unlimited-memory-escaping.html?m=1
124
118
Going hungry affects children for their whole lives
https://mosaicscience.com/story/food-poverty-nutrition-health-austerity-child-development-diet-benefits/
Starz Doesn’t Like News About Leaked TV-Shows, Takes Down TorrentFreak Tweet
https://torrentfreak.com/starz-doesnt-like-news-about-leaked-tv-shows-takes-down-torrentfreak-tweet-190411/
120
10
Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Learning a Regression
https://dragan.rocks/articles/19/Deep-Learning-in-Clojure-From-Scratch-to-GPU-14-Learning-Regression
119
108
Google Fiber to pay nearly $4M to Louisville in exit deal
https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/google-fiber-to-pay-nearly-million-to-louisville-in-exit/article_d4c86640-5f85-11e9-8876-9f013c02d337.html
14
Improving Key Expiration in Redis
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/improving-key-expiration-in-redis.html
17
The Case for Formal Methods
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/038.html
113
60
Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/14/trivia-game-of-thrones/
50
Fukushima: Removal of nuclear fuel rods from damaged reactor building begins
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/fukushima-removal-of-nuclear-fuel-rods-from-damaged-reactor-begins
109
A look at IBM S/360 core memory: In the 1960s, 128 kilobytes weighed 610 pounds
http://www.righto.com/2019/04/a-look-at-ibm-s360-core-memory-in-1960s.html
106
96
Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of WhatsApp
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/darpa-wants-make-better-secure-version-whatsapp-3696558
8
Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks
https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks-uncertainty-estimation/
85
The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-discrete-time-physics-continuous-time-world.html
105
Under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47933521
36
Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio
https://vancouversun.com/life/food/sweet-iconic-nanaimo-bar-gets-its-own-stamp
104
Big Companies Thought Insurance Covered a Cyberattack
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/technology/cyberinsurance-notpetya-attack.html
103
47
Dog Breed Identifier: from Keras program to Android app
https://habr.com/en/post/447732/
97
42
K7 Tutorial
https://shakti.com/tutorial/
72
EU Council of Ministers Approves Copyright Directive
https://torrentfreak.com/eu-ministers-approve-copyright-directive-including-article-17-13-190415/
95
7
An eBPF overview, part 2: Machine and bytecode
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/04/15/an-ebpf-overview-part-2-machine-and-bytecode/
91
6
When Postgres blocks: tips for dealing with locks (2018)
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/02/22/seven-tips-for-dealing-with-postgres-locks/
87
Show HN: JavaScript plugin to build 360-degree images
https://github.com/scaleflex/js-cloudimage-360-view
Alternative Musical Keyboards
http://www.altkeyboards.com/
83
38
AMD Poised for Explosive CPU and GPU Sales Growth in 2019
https://hothardware.com/news/amd-poised-huge-cpu-gpu-sales-growth-2019-zen-2-navi
15
Israeli Scientists 'Print' World's First 3D Heart with Human Tissue
https://m.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-print-first-3D-heart-586902
82
18
The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190213-the-dramatic-hunt-for-the-fish-pirates-exploiting-our-seas
80
Swift Generics Evolution
https://www.timekl.com/blog/2019/04/14/swift-generics-evolution/
77
34
Show HN: Messing with Telnet
https://jott.live/markdown/telnet_writeup
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