2195
363
A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
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7 years ago
876
306
Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
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663
278
World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
https://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/world-of-goo-update-10-years-later
544
487
Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)
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488
1009
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797594
460
314
Guardian records first operating profit since 1998
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48111464
450
213
Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/nasa-says-aluminum-fraud-caused-700-million-satellite-failures
399
41
Unraveling the JPEG
https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/
345
137
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/books/review/jenny-odell-how-to-do-nothing.html
328
118
Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/citrix-internal-network-breach/
280
126
Intermediate Vim
https://dn.ht/intermediate-vim/
244
138
System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances
https://blog.system76.com/post/184439321333/system76-news-platinum-luxury-bonus-april-edition
226
243
Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix
https://www.rocketleague.com/news/psyonix-is-joining-the-epic-family-/
216
466
Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/tesla-sued-in-wrongful-death-lawsuit-that-alleges-autopilot-caused-crash/
208
112
Don't Waste Time on User Onboarding
https://greaterdanorequalto.com/dont-waste-time-on-onboarding/
202
277
L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/college-admissions-scandal.html
115
Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is Elusive
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/facebook-s-zuckerberg-preaches-privacy-but-evidence-is-elusive
193
181
Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/try-not-to-get-bitten-by-a-snake-it-could-cost-you-143000/
192
44
Rails 6: B-Sides and Rarities
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/rails-6-b-sides-and-rarities
187
33
Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams (2018)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898
180
166
Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48118908
170
34
Wio: A Clone of Plan 9’s Rio for Wayland
https://drewdevault.com/2019/05/01/Announcing-wio.html
83
I forgot how to manage a server
https://ma.ttias.be/i-forgot-how-to-manage-a-server/
163
262
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797592
162
53
Everything Is Correlated
https://www.gwern.net/Everything
161
139
CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses
https://www.blog.google/technology/area-120/calljoy-small-business-phone-technology/
160
9
Making Sandspiel
https://maxbittker.com/making-sandspiel
156
114
Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few do (2018)
https://qz.com/work/1201384/everyone-claims-they-are-following-agile-methods-but-few-actually-do/
120
Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01313-4
155
116
Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/google-employees-are-staging-a-sit-in-to-protest-reported-retaliation/
153
63
Payment gateways for startups: a guide for founders
http://aynuriev.com/best-payment-gateway-startups/
150
Show HN: IPFS-Deploy – Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS
https://github.com/agentofuser/ipfs-deploy
146
98
The Race to Develop the Moon
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/the-race-to-develop-the-moon
144
3
Open-Sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI Tools for Adaptive Experimentation
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-ax-and-botorch-new-ai-tools-for-adaptive-experimentation/
142
71
Amazon Ring is hiring editors to push local crime news to its users
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/amazon-owned-ring-wants-report-crime-news/588394/
110
Benefits of a Monorepo
https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2019/benefits-of-a-monorepo/
141
57
The Search for the Extra Pedal (2017)
https://www.mclaren.com/formula1/inside-the-mtc/mclaren-extra-pedal-3153421/
135
11
An Introduction to Vectorization
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20190430-vectorize.html
134
45
Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/pluralsight-will-acquire-gitprime-for-170m/
129
99
'Healthiest hearts in the world' found
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39292389
128
26
European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01389-y
62
Review of Controls for Certain Emerging Technologies (2018)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies
117
113
Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/crime-legal/examining-carlos-ghosn-japans-system-hostage-justice/
New brand
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/new-brand
94
47
The Peter Principle Tested
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/the-peter-principle-tested.html
17
Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance [pdf]
https://www.cs.bu.edu/~jappavoo/Resources/Papers/unikernel-hotos19.pdf
88
5
Survey of Dropout Methods for Deep Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.13310
87
19
Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (2009)
https://steveblank.com/2009/12/07/someone-stole-my-startup-idea-–-part-2-they-raised-money-with-my-slides/
86
127
Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-la-2028-olympics-budget-20190429-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
51
Creating LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM
https://lfortran.org/blog/2019/04/why-we-created-lfortran/
85
131
A Facebook request: Write a code of tech ethics
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-godwin-technology-ethics-20190430-story.html
7
PyTorch adds new dev tools
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/pytorch-adds-new-dev-tools-as-it-hits-production-scale/
84
111
Diesel is not better for the environment than electric
https://innovationorigins.com/no-diesel-is-not-better-for-the-environment-than-electric/
Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is Elusive