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Mozilla WebThings
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/
7 years ago
528
298
How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer
525
297
Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-million-users-email-contacts-without-permission-2019-4
406
112
First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus
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360
124
Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71262
357
36
Advanced NLP with SpaCy
https://course.spacy.io/
349
The Healing Power of Gardens
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The Mueller Report [pdf]
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Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole
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301
65
Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library
https://github.com/Microsoft/BlingFire
★ 1.8k C++ MIT– 7 years ago
115
Keeping master green at scale
https://eng.uber.com/research/keeping-master-green-at-scale/
257
169
IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery
https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/18/ibm-halting-sales-of-watson-for-drug-discovery/
244
283
What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/whats-new-in-ubuntu-1904-disco-dingo.html
240
2
Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-asked-some-users-for-their-email-passwords-th-1834129792
206
67
Optimizing M3: Halving Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking the Go Compiler
https://eng.uber.com/optimizing-m3
87
Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18485599/facebook-instagram-passwords-plain-text-millions-users
181
146
How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch
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Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video]
https://purl.stanford.edu/jq248bz8097
172
Do people become happier after 40?
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/04/12/do-people-become-happier-after-40
162
A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4180
167
30
Crystal 0.28.0 Released
https://crystal-lang.org/2019/04/17/crystal-0.28.0-released.html
160
213
Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device
https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-student-destroys-59-university-computers-using-usb-killer-device/
158
122
Mercury – Banking built for startups
https://mercury.co/#
142
Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694091
131
189
Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47970788
121
123
Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/her-facebook-life-looked-perfect-madison-holleran-suicide-highlights-how-social-media-masks-mental-illness-1.3071302
120
48
AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8452
117
Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47956760
114
28
Show HN: hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles
https://hncynic.leod.org/
111
World's tallest tropical tree discovered and climbed in Malaysian Borneo
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/worlds-tallest-tropical-tree-discovered-climbed-borneo/
107
60
How much can forests fight climate change?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00122-z
7
The Power of Lifetimes
http://pling.jondgoodwin.com/post/lifetimes/
106
The Saltiest Users on HN
https://www.hackersalt.com/
103
Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update
https://bluesabre.org/2019/04/18/xubuntu-19-04-the-exhaustive-update/
100
38
Working memory revived in older adults by synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits
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97
19
Collapsing Towers of Interpreters (2018) [pdf]
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95
125
People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco
https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-human-poop-problem-2019-4
Bézier Curves and Surfaces: The Utah Teapot
https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/advanced-rendering/bezier-curve-rendering-utah-teapot
91
49
Designing a Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon
https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/04/moon-village-som-mit-esa-space-urbanism-planning-habitat/587482/
88
5
Two Winning Pwn2Own JIT Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2019/4/18/the-story-of-two-winning-pwn2own-jit-vulnerabilities-in-mozilla-firefox
15
Sensei's Library
https://senseis.xmp.net/
77
Social media is spreading 'toxic positivity'
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/toxic-positivity
84
Facebook now says its password leak affected ‘millions’ of Instagram users
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/instagram-password-leak-millions/
83
6
Microsoft Helped Build China’s Surveillance [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rpqq_hHr1o
82
Interface Dispatch (2018)
https://lukasatkinson.de/2018/interface-dispatch/
78
70
The Parker “51” (2018)
http://www.richardspens.com/ref/profiles/51.htm
76
Positional-only Parameters for Python
https://lwn.net/Articles/785245/
132
At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/sports/colorado-football.html
75
Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/wipro-intruders-targeted-other-major-it-firms/
74
‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/18/our-lying-eyes/
72
Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-18/the-future-of-wearable-tech-is-called-a-hearing-aid
23
Creating Heatmap from Scratch in Python (2018)
http://www.geodose.com/2018/01/creating-heatmap-in-python-from-scratch.html
34
Another ZFS Port on Linux
https://www.crossmeta.io/another-zfs-port-on-linux/
47
The Linux Edge (1999)
https://blog.corememory.io/the-linux-edge.html
13
Logic Puzzle: The Joy of Recursion
https://www.quantamagazine.org/logic-puzzle-the-joy-of-recursion-20190417/
64
51
BYD, the World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/the-world-s-biggest-electric-vehicle-company-looks-nothing-like-tesla
63
0
Sampling a Procedural Sky
https://sergeneren.com/2019/04/17/sampling-a-procedural-sky/
9
Modern Clowning in Los Angeles
https://www.dorsia.io/cities/los-angeles/articles/clown-schools-los-angeles
62
40
Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?
https://quillette.com/2019/04/16/why-are-women-under-represented-in-physics/
61
Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive over Decades-Old Fire
https://www.quantamagazine.org/heat-loving-microbes-once-dormant-thrive-over-decades-old-fire-20190416/
58
1
A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation
https://securecomputation.org/