939
283
WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab
6 years ago
927
401
Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19900955
7 years ago
500
533
CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/12/co2-in-the-atmosphere-just-exceeded-415-parts-per-million-for-the-first-time-in-human-history/
463
266
Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2019/05/10/third-biggest-u-s-coal-company-files-bankruptcy/
455
383
Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/google-news-algorithm.php
450
485
Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive-idUSKCN1SJ0X1
448
342
Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed
https://www.wired.com/story/supreme-court-apple-decision-antitrust/
441
335
U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-23/u-s-farmers-need-a-better-way-to-fix-their-tractors
432
146
China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/2019-china-wikipedia-blocking/
384
49
Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/384864/stack-overflow-lets-facebook-track-us-across-their-sites?cb=1
359
178
Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/georgia-official-code-copyright.html
290
99
To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/02/to-message-bus-or-not-distributed-systems-design/
88
Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter
https://blog.evjang.com/2019/05/fun-with-snapchats-gender-swapping.html
286
36
Fundamental design principles for non-designers
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/fundamental-design-principles-for-non-designers-ad34c30caa7
273
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Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/well/family/adventure-playgrounds-junk-playgrounds.html
255
82
The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2003) [pdf]
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/thinking.pdf
253
267
California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-glyphosate-lawsuit/california-jury-says-bayer-must-pay-2-billion-to-couple-in-roundup-cancer-trial-idUSKCN1SJ29F
246
187
Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows-why-automotive-grade-matters
231
111
Numpy Clone in Common Lisp
https://github.com/numcl/numcl
214
338
Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ
212
31
Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/china-smart-city-exposed/
207
184
The humble receipt gets a redesign
https://www.fastcompany.com/90347782/the-humble-receipt-gets-a-brilliant-redesign
203
Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfair and Inefficient?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2733520
200
44
A Mechanised Cryptographic Proof of the WireGuard VPN Protocol
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02100345
194
162
Ethiopian Max Crash Simulator Scenario Stuns Pilots
https://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/ethiopian-max-crash-simulator-scenario-stuns-pilots
191
32
Systems thinking as important as ever for new coders
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/SystemsThinkingAsImportantAsEverForNewCoders.aspx
189
201
The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k years
http://nautil.us/blog/the-english-word-that-hasnt-changed-in-sound-or-meaning-in-8000-years
182
56
NetHack 3.6.2
https://www.nethack.org/v362/release.html
177
128
Yale's online class on “The Science of Well-Being”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/i-took-yales-most-popular-class-ever-and-it-completely-changed-how-i-spend-my-money.html
172
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Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied into spending money
https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/7/18534431/fortnite-rare-default-skins-bullying-harassment
169
126
Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48230157
167
11
Resilience engineering: Where do I start?
https://github.com/lorin/resilience-engineering/blob/master/intro.md
166
Free Public Transport in Estonia
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/05/11/free-public-transport-in-estonia
153
20
Show HN: Eigengrau's Generator – A procedural city generator for tabletop gaming
https://github.com/ryceg/Eigengrau-s-Essential-Establishment-Generator
152
38
Debugging in Vim
https://www.dannyadam.com/blog/2019/05/debugging-in-vim/
131
28
The Neko Virtual Machine
https://nekovm.org/
127
Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/12/it-could-change-everything-coin-found-off-northern-australia-may-be-from-pre-1400-africa
124
How to Join a Social Network in 1998
http://www.ironicsans.com/2019/01/how_to_join_a_social_network_i.html
65
Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/13/lenovo-thinkreality-ar-vr-headset-hololens-2/
30
Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera
https://github.com/revalo/pishot
120
19
San Francisco Police Raid Journalist's Home After He Refuses to Name Source
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/722745266/san-francisco-police-raid-journalists-home-after-he-refuses-to-name-source
110
Uber's Losses Reach Double Digits in IPO Debut
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-shares-decline-second-day-091656484.html
109
13
Bloom Filters by Example (2013)
https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/
105
Crimes in Concrete
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/crimes-in-concrete
133
The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/05/space-colony-design-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-oneill-colonies/589294/
104
58
Manning refusing to testify at grand jury probing WikiLeaks
https://apnews.com/ecaa198a17db40cf9e83115c6e853315
93
12
Memoirs from a Japanese Internet Cafe
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2019/05/12/voices/memoirs-japanese-internet-cafe/
69
The boring front-end developer (2014)
https://adamsilver.io/articles/the-boring-front-end-developer/
55
Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone
https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo-and-the-cloudflare-global-private-backbone/?a
90
26
Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell
https://github.com/andrewchambers/janetsh
89
37
A journey through internet garbage
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/8/18537279/chum-box-weird-sponsored-links-gut-doctor
86
23
Show HN: Dali – A pure-Nim indie assembler for Android dex and apk files
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4840
Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland
https://www.apnews.com/14f374e7c6a340e6bbf543223f968006
Begin Japanology – Name Seals / Hanko (2006) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaABnATXQbY
85
67
The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/09/the-fight-to-publish-allen-ginsbergs-howl/
84
25
The Gentrification of the Internet
http://culturedigitally.org/2019/03/the-gentrification-of-the-internet/
9
IRS Tax Calendar for Businesses and Self-Employed
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/irs-tax-calendar-for-businesses-and-self-employed
83
39
The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble?
https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-real-story-of-the-dutch-tulip-bubble-is-even-more-fascinating-than-the-myth-youve-heard-51557666037
Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition