2010
451
The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b
6 years ago
642
413
Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-changed-search-algorithm-in-ways-that-boost-its-own-products-11568645345?mod=rsswn
553
225
Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1173669642629537795
495
269
100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/100-million-investment-reshape-economics-web/
471
477
Why Go and Not Rust?
https://kristoff.it/blog/why-go-and-not-rust/
425
72
Show HN: I built an online image editor using WebGL and CSS transforms
https://pqina.nl/doka/image-editor/
342
323
Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT
https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#16_September_2019_(Resignation)
334
162
Neovim v0.4.0
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/e2cc5fe09d98ce1ccaaa666a835c896805ccc196
326
253
Show HN: Darklang
https://medium.com/@darklang/unveiling-dark-e0be6f1e0b06
310
192
LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lastpass-bug-leaks-credentials-from-previous-site/
304
389
Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack
https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-headphone-jack-phones
273
184
EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
https://easydns.com/blog/2019/09/16/fechner-law-of-germany-threatens-to-bring-criminal-complaint-for-shielding-client-privacy/
258
137
Against Against Pseudoaddiction
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudoaddiction/
249
109
Facebook is trying to register BOOK as trademark in Europe
https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/018075708
226
119
Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1W00VF
224
99
Being ‘Indistractable’
https://onezero.medium.com/being-indistractable-will-be-the-skill-of-the-future-a07780cf36f4
216
182
Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy with $10B plan to settle claims
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-16/purdue-pharma-seeks-bankruptcy-to-short-circuit-opioid-suits-k0luhox6
213
63
How do managers get stuck? (2017)
http://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/09/how-do-managers-get-stuck.html
211
Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas
https://kanoki.org/2019/09/16/dataframe-visualization-with-pandas-plot/
208
36
Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken California privacy law
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/spouse-of-ring-exec-among-lawmakers-trying-to-weaken-calif-privacy-law/
205
59
A man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard (2016)
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/6/12098122/california-pipevine-swallowtail-butterfly-population
200
122
iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/get-popcorn-for-ios-13s-privacy-pop-ups-of-creepy-facebook-data-grabs/
199
123
What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?
https://vicki.substack.com/p/silicon-valley-runs-on-saudi
195
24
Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
https://blog.floydhub.com/attention-mechanism/
190
89
Linux Kernel 5.3
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/linux-5-3-kernel-release-features
187
255
Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/09/volkswagen-audi-porsche-vw-group-plans-one-os-to-rule-them-all/
158
E-books at local libraries: a fight between publishers and librarians
https://slate.com/business/2019/09/e-book-library-publisher-buying-controversy-petition.html
174
47
Show HN: Create font in your own handwriting style
https://copymonkey.xyz/
168
51
Rustler is a library for writing Erlang NIFs in safe Rust code
https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
163
76
An important quantum algorithm may be a property of nature
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614259/an-important-quantum-algorithm-may-actually-be-a-property-of-nature/
157
45
GraalVM: The holy graal of polyglot JVM?
https://www.transposit.com/blog/2019.01.02-graalvm-holy/?c=hn
Edward Snowden says he would like to return home
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-snowden-nsa-cbs-this-morning-interview-today-2019-09-16/
60
"Ecological grief" grips scientists witnessing Great Barrier Reef’s decline
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02656-8
155
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Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/07/20/australia-fast-4g/
87
Snowden calls on France’s Macron to grant him asylum
https://www.apnews.com/ce77f2972da445b2aae79a34c4437eb6
149
78
A nice app on Elm street
https://madewithlove.be/using-elm-with-react-a-nice-app-on-elm-street/
74
Square wants to be a bank but not be taxed like one
https://www.wsj.com/articles/square-wants-to-be-a-bank-but-doesnt-want-to-be-taxed-like-one-11568288012?mod=rsswn
131
Milton’s notes on Shakespeare appear to have been found
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/16/when-milton-met-shakespeare-poets-notes-on-bard-appear-to-have-been-found
115
Quds 1 missile
https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1208062/meet-the-quds-1/
86
How prices changed at a Walmart in a year
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/16/753712449/npr-shopping-cart-economics-how-prices-changed-at-a-walmart-in-1-year
Two-thirds of Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet may disappear in 80 years, says IPCC
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/15/tibetan-plateau-glacier-melt-ipcc-report-third-pole
110
Netflix acquires the global streaming rights to 'Seinfeld'
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2019-09-16/netflix-acquires-the-global-streaming-rights-to-seinfeld
104
Banks are getting back into the business of building mortgage bonds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-warm-to-mortgage-bonds-that-burned-them-in-2008-11568626202?mod=rsswn
Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing?
https://time.com/amazon-rainforest-disappearing/
18
What the Ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence
https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence
105
Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49692974
30
123-Reg and NamesCo registered millions of .uk domains without asking customers
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/16/123reg_namesco_uk_domains/
108
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G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Idled Plants
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/business/autoworkers-union-general-motors.html
73
Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/opinion/bottled-water-is-sucking-florida-dry.html
101
DNSCrypt encrypts communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver
https://dnscrypt.info
37
SVG Is Turing Complete
https://github.com/tom-p-reichel/svg-is-turing-complete
100
The married couples in Hong Kong who live apart
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190903-the-married-couples-in-hong-kong-who-live-apar
98
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Women make up 54% of new students entering Iranian universities
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/150023/Women-make-up-54-of-new-students-entering-Iranian-universities
97
34
Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist
https://tilde.club/
96
13
YC and Ginkgo Bioworks announce new partnership for synthetic biology startups
https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-and-ginkgo-bioworks-announce-new-partnership-for-synthetic-biology-startups/
Two-thirds of Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet may disappear in 80 years, says IPCC