650
231
Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-diet
7 years ago
639
72
Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/massachusetts-court-blocks-warrantless-access-real-time-cell-phone-location-data
576
279
Vim.wasm
https://rhysd.github.io/vim.wasm/
568
174
Name one thing in this photo
https://twitter.com/melip0ne/status/1120503955526750208/photo/1
562
302
Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/facebook-ftc-fine-earnings.html
322
121
Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741408
321
748
Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/business/tesla-earnings-elon-musk.html
310
159
QEMU v4.0.0 released
https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/
305
56
Private Key Extraction from Qualcomm Hardware-Backed Keystores
https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/private-key-extraction-qualcomm-keystore/?research=Technical+advisories
288
205
OpenBSD 6.5
http://openbsd.org/65.html
283
241
The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought
https://lithub.com/the-dark-ages-werent-as-dark-as-we-thought/
122
NYC scientist fired after raising questions about a DNA test gets $1M settlement
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/nyregion/dna-testing-nyc-medical-examiner.html
275
184
Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-surveillance-cameras-police-government.html
270
79
Brain signals translated into speech using AI
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01328-x
251
64
Show HN: Applying the Unix philosophy to neural networks
https://github.com/cloudkj/layer
244
163
Reasons not to reveal your DNA
https://internethealthreport.org/2019/23-reasons-not-to-reveal-your-dna/
239
222
The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/04/the-end-of-being-a-duke-professor-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-higher-education/
230
155
New version of Stripe Checkout
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout
218
62
Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsuit/
207
123
Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gold-africa-smuggling-exclusive/exclusive-gold-worth-billions-smuggled-out-of-africa-idUSKCN1S00IT
186
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Nim – Natively compiled language with hot code-reloading at runtime [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WgCt0Wooeo
185
112
NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program
https://bgr.com/2019/04/24/nsa-phone-surveillance-spying-program/
167
Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/04/24/why-do-people-with-depression-like-listening-to-sad-music/
178
148
Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/04/20/medical-records-on-the-blockchain-the-history-of-a-bad-idea/
173
80
Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-24/amazon-s-alexa-reviewers-can-access-customers-home-addresses
170
Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rivian-ford-motor/ford-motor-puts-500-million-into-electric-pickup-producer-rivian-idUSKCN1S01LD
168
46
Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4k-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt
https://mymodernmet.com/khuwy-egyptian-tomb-saqqara/
164
216
The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
https://www.wired.com/story/brave-browser-will-pay-surf-web/
91
Tibetan musical notation
http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/tibetan-musical-notation-is-beautiful.html
160
69
Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/26/18281325/ecuador-legalize-gangs
110
GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2019/04/2019-04-23-bilibili.md
87
Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?
https://lithub.com/are-these-bad-habits-creeping-into-your-writing/
157
97
Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition
https://beth.technology/how-snap-and-pinterest-hide-user-attrition/
154
James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interpreter by a bankrupt company
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bglvey/the_9bn_james_webb_space_telescope_will_run/
150
289
I'm Against Podcasts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/are-podcasts-killing-music-or-just-wasting-our-time/2019/04/17/0aa08770-5acc-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html
149
'Passengers are afraid of this airplane': How Boeing is handling 737 Max problem
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/the-national-737-max-boeing-1.5107529
146
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Notes on AI Bias
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/4/15/notes-on-ai-bias
144
21
A Linguistic Introduction to D3
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-linguistic-introduction-to-d3-js-7a40a980bf97?source=friends_link&sk=9de00ebcc6ceffcb0570982ce1799660
142
54
Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/24/databricks-open-sources-delta-lake-to-make-data-lakes-more-reliable/
65
The FreedomBox enables you to control your view of the internet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/put-the-internet-back-under-your-control-with-the-freedombox/
137
71
An Introduction to C and GUI Programming
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/an-introduction-to-c-gui-programming-the-new-book-from-raspberry-pi-press/
132
203
Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising next day turnaround
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/23/apple-stores-prioritizing-mac-keyboard-repairs/
126
88
Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Fan Port Hit with DMCA
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/341284/Super_Mario_Bros_Commodore_64_fan_port_hit_with_DMCA_takedowns.php
104
China’s Pig Pandemic
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-24/china-s-handling-of-swine-fever-outbreak-similar-to-sars
Revisting the gui.cs framework
https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2019/Apr-22.html
117
82
The wave of unicorn IPOs
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/04/17/the-wave-of-unicorn-ipos-reveals-silicon-valleys-groupthink
116
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Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21//research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf
113
75
An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-marketplace-sellers-black-hat-scams-search-rankings
70
The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
http://blog.interviewing.io/you-probably-dont-factor-in-engineering-time-when-calculating-cost-per-hire-heres-why-you-really-should/
39
Ireland blocks the world on data privacy
https://www.politico.eu/interactive/ireland-blocks-the-world-on-data-privacy/
New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48013519
Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-april-2019-release/
111
48
Tim Cook: Apple doesn't donate to political candidates and PACs shouldn’t exist
https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-apple-donates-0-to-political-candidates-2019-4
109
8
Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
https://blog.cloudflare.com/xdpcap/
107
81
Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/23/18507750/fortnite-work-crunch-epic-games
Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted
https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/bgq8l0/spent_50_hours_on_a_takehome_assignment_only_to/
103
47
Matrox History: A Computer Graphics Also-Ran’s Second Life
https://tedium.co/2019/04/23/matrox-graphics-history/
100
43
How to use Gmail more efficiently (2013)
https://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmail-more
63
Two Cathay Pacific captains lose eyesight during flights
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3007392/two-cathay-pacific-captains-lose-eyesight-during-flights
95
SoftBank to invest over $1B in German payment company Wirecard
https://world-news-monitor.com/top-news/2019/04/24/softbank-to-invest-over-1-bln-usd-in-german-payment-company-wirecard/
12
IPFS Camp 2019
https://camp.ipfs.io/
85
A drug rehab program has sent patients to work without pay
https://www.revealnews.org/article/they-worked-in-sweltering-heat-for-exxon-shell-and-walmart-they-didnt-get-paid-a-dime/
83
38
Facebook Reports First Quarter 2019 Results
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2019/Facebook-Reports-First-Quarter-2019-Results/default.aspx
14
How Germany used radio waves to guide night bombing raids in WWII
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/england-was-almost-destroyed-by-radio-waves-df70830e8593
IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In
https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/02/18/cloud-irregular-iam-is-the-real-cloud-lock-in/
We need a new generation of source control
https://www.rookout.com/cant-git-no-satisfaction-why-we-need-a-new-gen-source-control/
23
Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]
https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/physics/students/labs/skills/notebookskills.pdf
42
Caddy 1.0, Caddy 2, and Caddy Enterprise
https://caddyserver.com/blog/announcing-caddy-1_0-caddy-2-caddy-enterprise
Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising next day turnaround