1519
447
TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
6 years ago
903
546
Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50048144
668
309
Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50080586
596
104
BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter
https://brachiograph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
436
185
Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook
https://digiday.com/marketing/after-mozilla-stopped-spending-on-facebook-the-company-increased-its-focus-on-offline-marketing/
427
157
Stupid Unix Tricks
https://sneak.berlin/20191011/stupid-unix-tricks/
403
258
Rejected from YC (Again)
https://veed.io/blog/rejected-from-yc#update
388
251
Python at Scale: Strict Modules
https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-modules-c0bb9245c834
355
91
Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL
https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta
★ 1.1k PLpgSQL GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
341
113
Zappos 2012 data breach settlement
http://www.zapposdatasettlement.com/frequently-asked-questions.aspx#a10
320
171
An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir
https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/btc-elixir-jose-valim
296
404
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4
115
New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/new-universe-miniproteins-upending-cell-biology-and-genetics?rss=1
272
78
Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage
250
38
DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/dns-domain-name-servers
224
90
OpenBSD 6.6
https://www.openbsd.org/66.html
223
124
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/
219
148
Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/16/770368584/eat-drink-and-be-wary-ex-cia-officer-reveals-how-eateries-are-key-to-spycraft
200
237
Haskell in Production
http://felixmulder.com/writing/2019/10/05/Haskell-in-Production.html
199
122
Loopless Programming
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Loopless
196
81
The “Windmill” Problem on the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64HUIJFTZM
188
107
Which Way Do You Run?
https://a16z.com/2019/10/17/how-to-be-effective-ceo-leader/
180
39
Show HN: Magic Sandbox – hands-on Kubernetes training on real infra
https://msb.com
169
12
Free for Developers
https://free-for.dev/#/
161
136
On Recent Controversial Events
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
160
77
Docker Compose reads your “.env” without opt-out
https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/6741
★ 37.3k Go Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
51
Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-49897431
144
54
Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations
https://erikbern.com/2019/10/16/buffet-lines-are-terrible.html
139
34
The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-earliest-unix-code-an-anniversary-source-code-release/
130
82
DoNotPay app waits on hold for you
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/avoid-waiting-on-hold/
126
67
AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasfearn/2019/09/12/artificial-intelligence-detects-heart-failure-from-one-heartbeat-with-100-accuracy/
119
8
Video Architecture Search
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/video-architecture-search.html
114
55
Niantic's apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go
https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-world-now-theyre-1838974714
16
New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
https://swift.org/blog/new-diagnostic-arch-overview/
106
J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/js-bach-rebel
99
Apple IIa – ROM for the Apple IIe That Compiles Basic (2018)
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/apple2a/
97
58
Number of Self-Published Titles Jumped 40% in 2018
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/81473-number-of-self-published-titles-jumped-40-in-2018.html
95
Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby
https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/10/08/debugging-unmanaged-and-hidden-memory-leaks-in-ruby
94
25
NBA commissioner Silver says Chinese government asked him to fire Rockets GM
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-says-chinese-government-asked-him-to-fire-rockets-gm-daryl-morey-after-tweet/
17
The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude Control (2017)
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-anniversary-computers-command-data-attitude-control/
Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-mystery-of-the-trump-chaos-trades
93
45
New bill ensures Jailtime for CEOs that lie
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5qd9/new-bill-promises-an-end-to-our-privacy-nightmare-jail-time-to-ceos-who-lie
85
27
Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrMfU2FtSBk
22
Show HN: Z shell configuration, zsh startup files, when they load, what they do
https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_zsh_config
★ 215 Shell – 6 years ago
84
43
Ask HN: What's your worst undefined C story?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21285728
