1010
148
Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end
https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
7 years ago
936
569
Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
https://nest.com/whats-happening/
670
195
The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)
https://jaycarlson.net/microcontrollers/
654
449
Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/Flutter-io19.html
628
162
Open source collaborative text editors
https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/
531
438
What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after-my-13-year-old-son-joined-the-alt-right/
464
273
Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long
https://www.simplethread.com/dear-client-heres-why-that-change-took-so-long/
461
154
Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild
https://wp.josh.com/2019/05/06/breaking-news-google-adwords-exploit-seen-in-the-wild-yikes/
360
83
Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica
https://mathics.github.io/
352
130
Researchers identify sleep as a reason why personality traits predict longevity
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/05/01/researchers-identity-sleep-as-a-key-reason-why-personality-traits-predict-longevity
309
325
Pixel 3a
https://blog.google/products/pixel/io-pixel-3a/
289
146
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8?701f20000012hnlAAA#
241
293
To ORM or Not to ORM
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/to-orm-or-not-to-orm/
225
58
JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999
https://jsmpeg.com/
204
40
Smarter Training of Neural Networks
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/smarter-training-neural-networks
197
72
Show HN: Full Help – Self-hosted help desk and knowledge base software
https://www.fullhelp.com/en?ref=hacker-news
192
Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828
191
103
Networks of Low-Stakes, Casual Friendships
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/smarter-living/why-you-need-a-network-of-low-stakes-casual-friendships.html
189
277
How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/apple-store-locations-reviews-show-customer-service-in-decline
188
174
20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse
https://gizmodo.com/20-years-ago-microsoft-changed-how-we-mouse-forever-1834274151
184
108
Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/two-senators-say-a-5-billion-fine-isnt-enough-to-punish-facebook/
177
42
Being Glue
https://noidea.dog/glue
171
97
Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/kotlin-is-now-googles-preferred-language-for-android-app-development/
167
230
Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes
https://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_usa07.html
158
29
Show HN: 2M fully loaded concurrent WebSockets
https://oatpp.io/benchmark/websocket/2-million/
71
Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/googles-scalable-supercomputers-for-machine-learning-cloud-tpu-pods-are-now-publicly-available-in-beta
147
28
Refunds for 300M phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/lawsuits-att-verizon-t-mobile-sprint-broke-law-by-selling-location-data/
141
66
Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-experimental-device-electricity-coldness-universe.html
137
53
How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone
136
168
U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27795/the-air-force-just-shot-down-multiple-missiles-with-a-laser-destined-for-fighter-aircraft
135
95
Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/342130/Former_Fortnite_UX_lead_digs_into_ethical_game_design.php
134
57
Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-riot-games-walkout-protest-forced-arbitration-20190506-story.html
131
59
ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11
https://protonmail.com/blog/internet-explorer-support/
122
172
Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2019/05/07/detroits-led-streetlights-going-dark-after-few-years/3650465002/
121
84
Some AMD CPU's RDRAND might not return random data after a suspend/resume
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11810#issuecomment-489727505
60
Improving privacy and security on the web
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-security-on-web.html
43
Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB
https://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-time-series-data-and-timescaledb/6642/
120
129
Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings
https://investor.lyft.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lyft-announces-record-first-quarter-results
116
Czech Republic proposes the highest digital tax rate in Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-03/the-czech-republic-s-new-digital-tax-is-the-right-approach
11
Distributed consensus revised
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/07/distributed-consensus-revised-part-i/
114
16
Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing (2007) [pdf]
http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/RS/paper_rt07.pdf
48
Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-06/trump-could-cost-future-retirees-billions
107
37
WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks
https://paragonie.com/blog/2019/05/wordpress-5-2-mitigating-supply-chain-attacks-against-33-internet
Linux 5.1 Arrives
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-5-1-arrives/
100
31
Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns
https://zeltser.com/security-checklist-for-campaigns/
98
21
Google I/O Developer Keynote [video]
https://events.google.com/io/
101
GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank and Honda
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/gm-cruise-raises-1-5b-at-a-19b-valuation-from-softbank-and-honda/
Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847882
96
Active freelancer banned on Upwork after video verification process
https://medium.com/@mihajlomilenovic/upwork-banned-after-3-years-and-50k-earned-for-being-unshaven-6b1450af2572
92
24
When time became regular and universal, it changed history
https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universal-it-changed-history
90
12
A tectonic plate may have peeled apart
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/tectonic-plate-peeled-apart-could-shrink-atlantic-ocean-geology/
89
62
The Myth of Convenience
https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/05/06/the-myth-of-convenience/
64
Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0zZqHOZq7M
87
Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier
https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/05/07/cray-amd-exascale-frontier-at-oak-ridge/
Performance of nnn vs. ls
https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/performance
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