1663
777
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news
7 years ago
838
356
Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
https://www.linuxjournal.com/
837
255
AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amd-alphabet/amd-lands-google-twitter-as-customers-with-newest-server-chip-idUSKCN1UX2KL
773
282
Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-million-reward-for-hackers-who-find-serious-iphone-vulnerabilities/#7b31cc2d3948
680
231
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/
650
244
Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10,356,024.PN.&OS=PN/10,356,024&RS=PN/10,356,024
425
501
Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/technology/uber-earnings.html
415
182
Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/walking-in-berlin-friedrichstrasse-tauentzienstrasse/595597
397
232
Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49252501
373
104
9th Circuit says users can sue Facebook over unlawful use of facial recognition
https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/federal-court-rules-facebook-users-can-sue-company-over-unlawful-use-face-recognition
362
138
Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/group-sex-app-leaks-locations-pictures-and-other-personal-details-identifies-users-in-white-house-and-supreme-court/
361
252
Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair
https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-iphones-now
346
68
One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO
https://madewithlove.be/one-job-many-roles-the-different-skills-needed-to-be-a-successful-cto/
321
116
NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28636123/exxonmobil-lawsuit-climage-change-new-york/
281
120
The Door Problem of Combat Design
https://gamasutra.com/blogs/AndrewYoder/20190808/348237/The_Door_Problem_of_Combat_Design.php
242
114
The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-death-of-social-reciprocity-in-the-era-of-digital-distraction/
209
Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn
https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2019-08-07-advice-to-younger-self
221
148
Racket: Lisp for Learning
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/795385/d7f8fe54132b2013/
214
88
What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NoSwapConsequence
213
37
How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
https://www.figma.com/blog/the-birth-of-inter/
204
57
Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/who-owns-your-wireless-service-crooks-do/
196
93
Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646918
193
50
Show HN: I wrote a book on Python regular expressions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20645319
188
144
You've heard of “yes men”. Now learn about “no men” (2011)
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/10/25/no/
184
16
Computer Science Illustrated (2014)
http://csillustrated.berkeley.edu/
118
'It's crazy': Chase forgiving all debt owed by its Canada credit card customers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/chase-bank-amazon-visa-marriott-credit-card-debt-1.5239411
178
75
Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xweqbq/microsoft-contractors-listen-to-skype-calls
177
253
Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders
https://www.thenation.com/article/svalbard-arctic-open-borders/
173
210
Tech backlash has come to Stanford
https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/stanford-tech-students-backlash-google-facebook-palantir.html
167
101
Old Paris Is No More
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/old-paris-no-more/
140
Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/07/luxembourg-to-be-first-european-country-to-legalise-cannabis
163
35
Living Off the Land in Linux
https://gtfobins.github.io/
151
327
TV detector van
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
27
Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components
https://retool.com/templates
133
13
First modern coreboot server platform
https://9esec.io/blog/first-modern-coreboot-server-platform/
123
42
How to Get into Farming with No Money (1980)
https://smallfarmersjournal.com/how-to-get-into-farming-with-no-money/
40
What Is Zig's Comptime?
https://kristoff.it/blog/what-is-zig-comptime/
92
As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/world/europe/scotland-heroin-deaths.html
112
15
Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace
https://blog.paperspace.com/building-a-state-of-the-art-bacterial-classifier-with-paperspace-gradient-and-fast-ai/
78
Show HN: JSON Pizza – Beautify your JSON quickly
https://json.pizza
107
The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/08/built-in-ci-cd-version-control-secret/
105
119
July Matched, and Maybe Broke, Record for the Hottest Month Since Analysis Began
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/july-matched-and-maybe-broke-record-hottest-month-analysis-began
23
USB-C Easy Bake Oven (2017)
https://www.reclaimerlabs.com/blog/2017/3/14/usb-c-easy-bake-oven
85
Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200B in I.O.U.s
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/business/china-cash-commercial-acceptances.html
100
Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
https://gekri.com
96
25
MPEG1 Single file C library
https://phoboslab.org/log/2019/06/pl-mpeg-single-file-library
Loops in Python – Comparison and Performance
https://www.blog.duomly.com/loops-in-python-comparison-and-performance/
82
33
Ask HN: Why are pay-walled articles allowed on Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647061