1931
685
Google Is Eating Our Mail
https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/
7 years ago
881
262
TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hides-its-free-file-page-from-search-engines
593
453
Slack S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764925/000162828019004786/slacks-1.htm
505
131
When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup
https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/posts/when-setting-an-environment-variable-gives-you-a-40-x-speedup
380
80
Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading
https://uppy.io/blog/2019/04/1.0/
347
20
Principles and Techniques of Data Science
https://www.textbook.ds100.org/
334
98
Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-25/n-y-opens-investigation-into-facebook-s-email-harvesting
330
137
Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014)
http://mjparnell.com/bullshit_science_ux_design/
324
206
Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02544
305
97
Show HN: Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture
https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron
302
82
How to Read a Schematic
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-read-a-schematic
287
412
Can Uber ever make money?
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/can-uber-ever-make-money
266
148
Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React
https://eng.uber.com/introducing-base-web/
253
117
A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension
https://www.fastcompany.com/90338929/the-former-lead-designer-of-gmail-just-fixed-gmail-on-his-own
237
34
Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
https://blog.yugabyte.com/6-technical-challenges-developing-a-distributed-sql-database/
234
109
Freelancer.com stole from me and ruined my life
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5cc32fe1a8436908c40f60eb
229
49
Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet
https://www.interviewcake.com/sorting-algorithm-cheat-sheet
226
54
Meditations on Moloch (2014)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
225
45
Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables
https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/f14/?r=1
191
227
Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-welcome-to-shanghai-the-capital-of-the-future/
211
Things Got Weird for Stablecoin Tether
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-26/things-got-weird-for-stablecoin-tether
118
Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756110
184
122
Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/04/26/two-la-universities-quarantine-more-than-students-staff-measles-outbreak/
182
35
WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page
https://github.com/vsoch/watchme
175
56
Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190994/imperial-launches-worlds-first-centre-psychedelics/
37
RePalm – Hardware Emulation of PalmOS
http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
172
47
The Metrics of Backpacks
https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/
170
27
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta
https://pragprog.com/news/coming-soon-the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition-in-beta
168
93
Many people are getting rare cancers in a small Georgia town
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/why-are-rare-cancers-killing-so-many-people-in-a-small-georgia-town/
161
40
After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/25/717225118/after-pentagon-ends-contract-top-secret-scientists-group-vows-to-carry-on
155
90
About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown
https://ifixit.org/blog/16189/about-our-galaxy-fold-teardown/
153
44
Hertz sued Accenture for failing a $32M “digital transformation” project
https://twitter.com/allafarce/status/1121174850226147328
151
Microsoft Is Winning the Techlash
https://www.axios.com/microsoft-is-winning-the-techlash-4d16b1ba-2da5-4f9b-8fd2-d591b0a3b2ea.html
150
78
E*Trade Is Close to Launching Cryptocurrency Trading
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-26/e-trade-is-said-to-be-close-to-launching-cryptocurrency-trading
143
86
California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-high-speed-rail-consultants-20190426-story.html
138
115
Cops can force your finger onto an iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/24/judge_forced_fingertoiphone_unlock/
71
Ask HN: As managers, how do you make sure your distributed team is aligned?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19761183
136
149
On Oliver Sacks and His Obsession with Weightlifting
https://lithub.com/on-oliver-sacks-obsession-with-weightlifting/
23
A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture
https://blog.felixangell.com/compilers-brief-and-brisk
134
263
How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/13/how-dream-cheap-streaming-television-became-pricey-complicated-mess/
132
An open-source collection of interview questions
https://counter-interview.dev/
130
79
Put Another Zero on Facebook’s Fine. Then We Can Talk
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/opinion/facebook-fine.html
38
Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Known to Science
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-dark-matter-detector-just-detected-one-of-the-rarest-events-ever-in-science
129
133
Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-system-automatically-fires-warehouse-workers-time-off-task-2019-4
128
Traccar – Modern GPS Tracking Platform
https://www.traccar.org/
127
67
Microsoft is now a $1T company
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18515623/microsoft-worth-1-trillion-dollars-stock-price-value
125
Librem 5 App Design Tutorial
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-app-design-tutorial-part-i/
70
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2019/04/24/treaty-new-echota/
52
Blood platelets activated during exercise increase neurogensis: mouse study
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/a-new-role-for-platelets--boosting-neurogenesis-after-exercise--65630
120
32
Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about protests when aged 16
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8926874/saudi-arabia-teenager-16-beheaded-protests-whatsapp/
96
Turnover Hits Apple’s Famed Industrial Design Team
https://www.wsj.com/articles/turnover-hits-apples-famed-industrial-design-team-11556225563
111
33
The Problem With Hexagons
http://general-staff.com/the-problem-with-hexagons/
18
Realsense T265 tracking camera
https://markku.ai/post/realsense-t265/
106
Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/t-magazine/craft-guild-la-friche-zaventem-ateliers.html
Show HN: Cedreo – Home construction drawings and 3D models
https://cedreo.com/en/
95
48
Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1138-y
89
29
The Newbie Photographer’s Survival Guide
https://phlearn.com/magazine/the-newbie-photographers-survival-guide/
88
“Let's bring a goddamn bookstore to the Bronx.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/nyregion/bronx-bookstore.html
84
25
Crustacean has never been seen away from Lake Merritt, but it's not from Oakland
https://baynature.org/biodiversity/enigmatica/
83
UBiome Offices Searched by FBI
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ubiome-offices-searched-by-fbi-11556301287
10
Boolean Circuits are Neural Networks
https://constantinides.net/2019/04/26/boolean-circuits-are-neural-networks/
26
A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-approach-to-multiplication-opens-the-door-to-better-quantum-computers-20190424/
Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/opinion/marcus-hutchins-wannacry.html
51
Living Wage Calculator
http://livingwage.mit.edu/
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta