1204
587
Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
https://blog.google/inside-google/alphabet/letter-from-larry-and-sergey
6 years ago
908
257
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
783
221
The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
https://twitter.com/jedisct1/status/1201927500223438854
603
185
BPF: A New Type of Software
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html
517
114
Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source
https://metaflow.org
488
186
A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)
https://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hackernews-lead-to-4-%c2%bd-new-unicode-characters/
429
203
Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/
419
97
My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
https://medium.com/@joshahowarth/how-my-show-hn-project-got-acquired-after-6-months-954f81ca6a18
327
638
We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring
http://blog.interviewing.io/we-ran-the-numbers-and-there-really-is-a-pipeline-problem-in-eng-hiring/
287
195
The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/3/20992885/best-amazon-cyber-monday-deals-alexa-private-label-brands
260
248
Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691802
250
129
Big Pile of Vim-Like
https://vim.reversed.top/
249
FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-health-fda-talc/
115
Firefox Full-device VPN
https://private-network.firefox.com/vpn
227
24
A Guide to Distributed Teams
https://increment.com/teams/a-guide-to-distributed-teams/
218
273
FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7746531/FBI-warns-citizens-connected-televisions-provide-hackers-window-homes.html
216
184
How to play with people who are better than you
https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Xc6GEBEAACgABJG_
214
352
Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/economists-are-rethinking-the-numbers-on-inequality
213
270
Four fired workers file charges against Google
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/google-is-no-longer-listening-four-fired-workers-file-charges-against-tech-giant
211
65
Firefox 71
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/firefox-71-a-winter-arrival/
210
80
Busyness leads to bad decisions
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191202-how-time-scarcity-makes-us-focus-on-low-value-tasks
206
179
Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694759
109
The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
https://www.taloflow.ai/blog/ominous-aws-bill
55
Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service
https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/
188
51
List of Fictional Microsoft Companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_Microsoft_companies
286
So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)
https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/challenges-of-opening-a-brewery-job-advice-beer-industry-collin-mcdonnell-henhouse.html
182
57
Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D
https://adventurekeep.com
174
87
The Principles of Versioning in Go
https://research.swtch.com/vgo-principles
158
66
The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes
https://onezero.medium.com/what-makes-it-possible-to-browse-the-internet-at-35-000-feet-1afaea83eb5
145
58
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/
141
43
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-autopilot-fully-managed-automatic-machine-learning/
137
157
Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-managed-apache-cassandra-service-mcs/
132
53
Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose EC2 Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-graviton2-powered-general-purpose-compute-optimized-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/
131
36
The Factorization of RSA-240
https://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=NMBRTHRY;fd743373.1912&FT=M&P=T&H=&S=
124
61
AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-now-available-from-a-local-zone-in-los-angeles/
123
48
Whoever built the Boston Marathon bombs is still on the loose (2018)
https://www.newsweek.com/2018/01/19/boston-marathon-bomb-maker-loose-776742.html
122
150
Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21692744
116
73
FBI asked Sony for data on user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjp73/fbi-asked-sony-playstation-4-user-data-cocaine-dealer
107
83
Simple Dynamic Strings library for C, compatible with null-terminated strings
https://github.com/antirez/sds
★ 5.4k C BSD-2-Clause– 6 years ago
106
10
RAWGraphs: a missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization
https://rawgraphs.io/
105
49
Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics
https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/
100
70
Inside Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires, Boeing Shakeup
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/12/01/inside-larry-pages-kitty-hawk-returned-deposits-battery-fires-boeing-cora/#40ad689758ab
88
The Intoxicating History of Gin
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/the-intoxicating-history-of-gin
98
38
Long S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
84
90k Packages Disappear Daily in NYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/nyregion/online-shopping-package-theft.html
82
Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook’s Fact-Checking Systems
https://onezero.medium.com/how-fake-news-is-still-fooling-facebooks-fact-checking-systems-fa8b0e0255b8
26
PG&E Had Systemic Problems with Power Line Maintenance, California Probe Finds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-had-systemic-problems-with-power-line-maintenance-california-probe-finds-11575338873?mod=rsswn
74
11
Amazon's on-site emergency care endangers its employees
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/02/amazon-warehouse-workers-safety-cyber-monday/
91
Why do holes horrify me?
https://mosaicscience.com/story/trypophobia-why-clusters-holes-horrify-fear-disgust/
72
17
Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects
https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-data-in-a-socially-responsible-manner.html
71
H-1B in 2020: Immigration Visa Faces Further Restrictions
https://insights.dice.com/2019/12/03/h-1b-2020-immigration-visa-restrictions/
29
What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/21/what-happens-when-you-add-a-new-teller/
25
Show HN: Referlist – Increase email sign-ups via word of mouth referrals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691720
69
8
Agner Krarup Erlang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agner_Krarup_Erlang
