989
70
Going Critical
https://www.meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/
6 years ago
854
308
ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
https://www.cyberus-technology.de/posts/2019-05-14-zombieload.html
650
392
Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year
https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/
585
247
Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
https://github.com/stewartmcgown/uds
558
137
Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks
https://30hourjobs.com
556
173
AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/att-promised-7000-new-jobs-to-get-tax-break-it-cut-23000-jobs-instead/
509
244
Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/business/boeing-737-max-ethiopian-plane-crash.html
412
272
Oh shit, git (2016)
https://ohshitgit.com/
341
159
YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/06/how-youtube-lets-plays-are-preserving-video-game-history/
315
42
Erlang OTP 22.0 is released
http://www.erlang.org/news/132
340
Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/business/economy/nlrb-uber-drivers-contractors.html
301
138
Ask HN: Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19907732
300
289
America's loneliness epidemic: A systemic risk to organizations
https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2019/05/americas-loneliness-epidemic-hidden-systemic-risk-organizations
65
Dallas Has Now Lost 82 Cases Against Robert Groden (2016)
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-has-now-lost-82-cases-against-robert-groden-someone-call-guinness-8680799
282
28
CPU.fail
https://cpu.fail/
256
111
MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs
https://mdsattacks.com
237
252
Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/walmart-announces-next-day-delivery-firing-back-at-amazon.html
225
64
Rückzugsorte – Map of areas in Berlin which are the furthest away from a street
http://hanshack.com/rueckzugsorte/
221
106
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1804
219
37
How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-feynman-diagrams-revolutionized-physics-20190514/
218
FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations
https://www.mcnutt.in/forum-explorer/
205
Americans can opt out of airport facial recognition
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/americans-opt-out-facial-recognition-airport/
200
134
Apollo 10 Stopped Just 47k Feet from the Moon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/science/apollo-10-moon-nasa.html
199
120
San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by municipal agencies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html
97
A Norwegian town built a giant mirror to deflect the sun (2017)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun
196
84
What Happened with Supermicro?
https://hackaday.com/2019/05/14/what-happened-with-supermicro/
186
136
Disney Assumes Full Control of Hulu in Deal with Comcast
https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/disney-full-control-hulu-comcast-deal-1203214338/
183
50
Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
https://blog.cloudflare.com/better-http-2-prioritization-for-a-faster-web/
182
101
Open source Mali GPU drivers merged
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/8/1122
181
71
Git ransom campaign incident report
https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/14/git-ransom-campaign-incident-report-atlassian-bitbucket-github-gitlab/
178
A SHA-1 chosen-prefix collision attack
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sha-1-collision-attacks-are-now-actually-practical-and-a-looming-danger/
177
102
The Law of Leaky Abstractions
https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#the-law-of-leaky-abstractions
169
81
Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone
https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar-launch
167
5
New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/zombieload-flaw-intel-processors/
82
Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-boeing-engineers-say-relentless-cost-cutting-sacrificed-safety
163
Protothreads: Lightweight Stackless Threads in C
http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/index.html
150
A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas
https://www.thedrive.com/news/27945/a-single-component-can-brick-older-teslas-and-tesla-wont-fix-it
147
119
Ten Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans (2018)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/
System design interview questions for IT companies
https://github.com/checkcheckzz/system-design-interview
125
146
Google to push new ads on its apps
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-advertising-idUSKCN1SK1YK
122
Death rates from energy production per TWh
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
17
Chinese Window Lattice and CSS
https://yuanchuan.dev/2019/05/15/window-lattice-and-css.html
118
73
TXR – A Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging
http://www.nongnu.org/txr/
117
34
Drugmakers hiked prices 1k% in price-fixing scheme, states allege
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/drug-makers-hiked-prices-1000-in-massive-price-fixing-scheme-states-allege/
16
Rust 1.34.2
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/05/14/Rust-1.34.2.html
114
115
Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug
https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/03/last-week-on-my-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-killed-by-bug/
87
Tesla researcher is 'excited' about new battery tech developed by the Army
https://electrek.co/2019/05/13/tesla-battery-researcher-new-battery-tech-army/
105
23
Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof
https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqrh1m
The oldest vegetarian restaurant
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190513-the-worlds-oldest-vegetarian-restaurant
79
Free Solo and Economic Growth
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/05/free-solo-and-economic-growth.html
29
To see Google track you in real time, disable Play Services
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19914327
93
31
Blocking a protein curbs memory loss in old mice: study
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/05/blocking-protein-curbs-memory-loss-in-old-mice.html
20
ModelingToolkit.jl, an IR and Compiler for Scientific Models
http://juliadiffeq.org/DiffEqTutorials.jl/html/ode_extras/ModelingToolkit.html
Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says