895
379
Fight back against Google AMP (2018)
https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/
6 years ago
624
317
Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/
616
130
Sinkholed
https://susam.in/blog/sinkholed/
424
285
Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjp53/how-ring-went-from-shark-tank-reject-to-americas-scariest-surveillance-company
419
181
Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topic/4476-tron-evolution-securom-drm-expiration-makes-game-unplayable-9-years-after-release
355
288
United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-united-arlns-fleet-airbus/united-orders-50-new-airbus-long-range-jets-to-replace-boeing-757s-idUSKBN1Y800N
344
532
Generating a Java program with 90% less code
https://www.unitily.com/articles/boilerplate.html
161
Google has handed information related to my account to the DoJ
https://twitter.com/SomersetBean/status/1201589695894958087
313
How I Switched to Plan 9
http://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/03/0/
305
94
Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
https://palant.de/2019/12/03/mozilla-removes-avast-extensions-from-their-add-on-store-what-will-google-do/
292
202
How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?
https://medium.com/@aldamiz/how-to-proceed-when-you-run-out-of-cash-but-you-still-believe-76de86b839f2
265
211
Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/google-funded-duolingo-first-1-billion-start-up-from-pittsburgh.html
263
132
Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
https://www.parrot.vc/
256
29
Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/04/collects-location-data/
248
114
Say it's 1962, you're lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1201956309941116928
247
219
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming
246
62
Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/using-webassembly-from-dotnet-with-wasmtime/
231
184
Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-graviton2-powered-general-purpose-compute-optimized-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=launch_reInvent&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=Global&sc_outcome=awareness&trk=AWS_reInvent_2019_launch__TWITTER&sc_content=AWS_reInvent_2019_launch_&linkId=78151855
216
149
Craigslist releases new mobile app for iOS and Android
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/craigslist/id1336642410
206
78
The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-iphone-11-pros-location-data-puzzler/
197
How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/how-randomizers-are-breathing-new-life-into-old-games/
179
90
Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5
178
86
'Shockingly High' Number of Injuries at Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse
https://gothamist.com/news/new-report-shows-shockingly-high-number-injuries-amazons-staten-island-warehouse?mc_cid=e5fbebb334&mc_eid=54f18bcf45
27
An industrious mouse tidies up a retired electrician’s tool shed each night
https://petapixel.com/2019/04/20/trail-camera-catches-mouse-secretly-cleaning-mans-shed-every-night/
176
81
Kill Sticky Headers (2013)
https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
155
139
C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
https://cforall.uwaterloo.ca/
152
60
Selling Juicer
https://www.goddamnyouryan.com/blog/selling-juicer/
151
136
Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B
https://www.carbonite.com/news/article/2019/11/carbonite-to-be-acquired-by-opentext-for-23-dollars-per-share
140
Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs
https://www.ifixit.com/News/apples-activation-lock-will-make-it-very-difficult-to-refurbish-macs
147
44
Show HN: Learn When to Quit
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/googol
145
402
Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-12-04/github-open-source-developers-ice-contract
135
11
Dgsh – Directed Graph Shell
https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/
20
Hyperbolic Cellular Automata Simulator
https://dmishin.github.io/hyperbolic-ca-simulator/index.html
134
Explore Magic Cap, a Smartphone OS from a Decade Before the iPhone
https://learn.adafruit.com/magic-cap-the-smartphone-os-from-the-90s?embeds=allow
131
119
What’s Wrong with Bayes
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/03/whats-wrong-with-bayes/
111
Merck’s NotPetya attack: Was it an act of war?
https://www.inquirer.com/wires/bloomberg/merck-cyberattack-20191203.html
129
23
A Distributed Meeting Primer
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-distributed-meeting-primer/
124
267
Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads
http://adskippro.com
123
118
The Consumer Electronics Hall Of Fame: Sony Trinitron (2018)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/the-consumer-electronics-hall-of-fame-sony-trinitron
43
Breast Cancer Linked to Permanent Hair Dye and Chemical Hair Straighteners
https://www.newsweek.com/breast-cancer-linked-permanent-hair-dye-chemical-hair-straighteners-study-almost-50000-women-1475328
116
Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)
http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2018/08/13/security-programming-languages-issue/
109
28
FIND3: High-precision indoor positioning framework
https://github.com/schollz/find3
105
Using Bee Stings to Treat Lyme Disease
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/can-bee-stings-treat-lyme-disease/
104
42
TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are
https://tailscale.com
101
26
Show HN: The Program – my series launched on HN, now featured on Apple Podcasts
https://programaudioseries.com/
99
34
About Windy (2018)
https://community.windy.com/topic/4/about-windy/6
69
Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014)
https://www.technologizer.com/2014/06/05/where-have-you-gone-peter-norton/
97
The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010)
https://www.gpsworld.com/origins-gps-part-1/
The Cannonball Record has been broken again
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a30085091/these-guys-just-drove-an-e63-amg-across-america-in-a-record-27-hours-25-minutes/
96
242
The unending quest to explain consciousness
https://www.bookforum.com/print/2604/the-unending-quest-to-explain-consciousness-23772
93
It’s crunch time for Getty Images, and for photographers
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/its-crunchtime-for-seattle-based-photo-giant-getty-images-and-for-photographers/
91
Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701092
88
Google halts political ads in Singapore as election looms: documents
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-singapore-election/google-halts-political-ads-in-singapore-as-election-looms-documents-idUSKBN1Y80JM
87
9
Rock the Cash Box: Writing a Host Processor for a ATM
https://medium.com/@spiceywasabi/7724332663d2
13
The Neural Network Zoo (2016)
https://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/
31
What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/03/what-would-happen-if-we-randomly-gave-poor-families-now-we-know/
85
Strongly Typed Events
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/12/02/Strongly-Typed-Events
84
How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn
https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/04/how-segment-survived-its-brush-death-become-customer-data-management-unicorn/
83
55
A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/12/02/a7-how-apples-custom-64-bit-silicon-embarrassed-the-industry
17
Segmentio/encoding: optimized drop-in replacement for Go's encoding/JSON package
https://github.com/segmentio/encoding
10
Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial
https://playermissile.com/dli_tutorial/
80
Genius used watermarks to catch Google stealing its content
https://twitter.com/ASankin/status/1202032481135996928
98
What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in
http://nautil.us/issue/78/atmospheres/is-net-zero-emissions-an-impossible-goal
Amazon RDS Proxy for AWS Lambda
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-rds-proxy-with-aws-lambda/
71
12
SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway's Game of Life
https://www.partnershiponai.org/safelife
49
Never Use toString() for Behaviour
https://java.christmas/2019/4
AGI Has Been Delayed
http://rodneybrooks.com/agi-has-been-delayed/
Controlling attention with brain waves
http://news.mit.edu/2019/controlling-attention-brain-waves-1204
68
Robert Boyle’s to-do list (2010)
https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2010/08/27/robert-boyle-list/
It’s crunch time for Getty Images, and for photographers