1675
246
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/
6 years ago
884
325
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html
665
308
Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm
492
242
Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50287391
491
194
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
https://dcurt.is/apple-tv-all-the-way-down
415
103
Pure CSS – Lace
https://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-lace/
372
354
I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191104-01/?p=103052
93
Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/algebraic-structures-what-i-wish-someone-had-explained-about-functional-programming/
349
165
The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
https://danco.substack.com/p/the-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-part?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MTQwNiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTYwNDE1LCJfIjoiR04vbWEiLCJpYXQiOjE1NzI4Mjk2NDksImV4cCI6MTU3MjgzMzI0OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg2MjMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.LEnAhs6P88d7mEmzqAZmdP2O767cIwRI73guebuO6L4
336
543
U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year
https://hechingerreport.org/university-of-chicago-projected-to-be-the-first-u-s-university-to-charge-100000-a-year/
332
196
The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back
https://medium.com/@lukethomas14/the-managers-schedule-is-holding-remote-work-back-f9c1302ac6f3
324
Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement
https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-separating-gifted-children-hasnt-led-to-better-acheivement/
316
191
Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead
298
109
Magnet doubles hydrogen yield from water splitting
https://cen.acs.org/articles/97/web/2019/06/Magnet-doubles-hydrogen-yield-water.html
296
39
A woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/health/alzheimers-treatment-genetics.html
295
43
Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework
https://tailwind.build/
291
476
Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/business/energy-environment/oil-supply.html
216
Designing the Facebook Company Brand
https://facebook.design/companybrand
288
26
RISC-V OS Using Rust: Memory Management Unit
http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/ch3.2.html
267
4
Research shows Bitcoin 2017 rally caused by single whale
https://cryptovest.com/news/bitcoin-btc-2017-rally-caused-by-single-whale-research-shows/
261
201
L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-04/los-angeles-suspends-uber-jump-scooters-bikes-data-privacy
233
48
Some Favorite Non-Technical Books (2018)
http://www.stroustrup.com/literature.html
225
37
Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed
http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/never-underestimate-the-intelligence-of-trees
211
87
DNS Wars
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2019-11/dnswars.html
185
350
Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/lone-bitcoin-whale-likely-fueled-2017-price-surge-study-says
184
113
What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (2016)
https://segment.com/blog/sql-vs-python/
178
55
FreeBSD 12.1
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html
175
115
The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper
https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/meet-the-salt-lake-tribune-501c3-the-irs-has-granted-nonprofit-status-to-a-daily-newspaper-for-the-first-time/
170
333
Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/technology/apple-california-housing-crisis.html
168
19
Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems
https://lightcommands.com/
163
5
Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/11/04/building-a-large-scale-distributed-storage-system-based-on-raft/
154
107
Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/science/voyager-2-interstellar-solar-wind.html
153
131
Krispy Kreme mule will be allowed to continue operating
https://www.facebook.com/343592209610103/posts/449232749046048
121
Visual Studio online available for public preview
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/
150
171
Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-bets-big-on-ubuntu-linux-laptops-for-developers/
144
20
Deep Learning in the Real World: Dealing with Non-Differentiable Loss Functions
https://fruty.io/2019/11/04/deep-learning-in-the-real-world-how-to-deal-with-non-differentiable-loss-functions/
135
75
Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (2015)
https://fortune.com/2015/04/02/quit-reasons/
132
56
GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
https://github.blog/2019-11-04-github-sponsors-is-now-out-of-beta-in-30-countries/
127
Build OpenJDK for a Nice Speedup
http://august.nagro.us/optimized-openjdk.html
Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features
https://www.illumos.org/
123
Roam – Tool for Thinking
https://roamresearch.com/
120
46
Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now
https://onebusaway.org/trip-planning-on-android-phone-turned-off-for-now/
100
YC, not Lambda School, is unbundling education
https://medium.com/swlh/y-combinator-not-lambda-school-is-unbundling-education-bd6fdf0c78d7
116
161
Uber Q3 Results
https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2019/Uber-Announces-Results-for-Third-Quarter-2019/default.aspx
104
64
A New Digital Manifesto
https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/
96
78
Bitcoin as a Game
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/11/bitcoin-11-years-in.html
92
49
Show HN: Perceptual hashing tools for detecting child sexual abuse material
https://github.com/thorn-oss/perception
★ 199 Python Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
ShareDrop – P2P File Transfer Using WebRTC
https://sharedrop.io
10
Laws, theories, principles and patterns that developers might find useful
https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws
★ 27k HTML CC-BY-SA-4.0– 6 years ago
91
51
If You Can Manage a Waffle House, You Can Manage Anything
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-can-manage-a-waffle-house-you-can-manage-anything-11572667205?mod=rsswn
How Big Is a Proton?
https://sparkonit.com/2019/11/04/how-big-is-a-proton/
89
Journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/decision-certain-draw-fire-journal-will-publish-heavily-criticized-paper-gender
What Shape Is the Universe, Closed or Flat?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-shape-is-the-universe-closed-or-flat-20191104/
94
GDPR fines were meant to rock the data privacy world
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/gdpr-fines
85
6
The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program
