1043
431
The Great Cannon has been deployed again
https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again
6 years ago
632
306
No to Chrome
https://notochrome.org
623
201
Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
https://rufposten.de/blog/2019/12/05/privacy-analysis-of-tiktoks-app-and-website/
481
142
Building a Search Engine from Scratch
https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-from-scratch.html
478
105
Show HN: Space Invaders in C
http://blog.loadzero.com/blog/si78c/
385
338
W3C recommends WebAssembly
https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8123
384
225
Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
https://brave.com/brave-passes-10m-mau/
377
22
NanoNeuron – simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn
https://github.com/trekhleb/nano-neuron
376
190
Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
https://blog.elementary.io/introducing-elementary-os-5-1-hera/
358
96
Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study
https://www.jotaen.net/2e2Ff/sabbatical-self-study-reflection/
323
302
Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dented-reality-magic-leap-sees-slow-sales-steep-losses?pu=hackernewsfh62oc&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
314
165
British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50681489
296
137
Low-Cost VPS Testing
https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing
294
93
Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
https://aeon.co/essays/how-emotionally-focused-couple-therapy-can-help-love-last
277
75
France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights
https://juliareda.eu/2019/12/french_uploadfilter_law/
260
301
Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/bernie-sanders-releases-broadband-plan-targets-comcast-att-verizon.html
255
72
PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious
https://erthalion.info/2019/12/06/postgresql-stay-curious/
240
42
FTC rules 5-0 that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices [pdf]
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/d09389_comm_final_opinionpublic.pdf
237
101
Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs
https://easydns.com/blog/2019/12/06/its-called-f-you-money-for-a-reason-why-isoc-sold-org-to-vcs/
187
94
The Siege of Carrie Lam
https://idlewords.com/2019/12/the_siege_of_carrie_lam.htm
62
Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress
https://www.kokoanalytics.com/
186
25
Business Models
https://axial.substack.com/p/axial-business-models
177
A new way to make quadratic equations easy
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614775/a-new-way-to-make-quadratic-equations-easy/
152
128
If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/if-the-universe-is-13-8-billion-years-old-how-can-we-see-46-billion-light-years-away-db45212a1cd3
150
63
Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon
https://coffee-and-dreams.uk/security/2019/10/20/mitigating-a-ddos.html
148
48
Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/science/forests-fragmentation-wildlife.html
10
Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/bure.html
145
156
Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/freedom-of-expression-study.php
144
77
New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/rivers-could-generate-thousands-nuclear-power-plants-worth-energy-thanks-new-blue
143
112
Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down
https://www.profgalloway.com/twtr-enough-already
81
The Road to Valhalla
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/valhalla/sov/01-background.html
127
Unsolicited messages on Keybase
https://www.whiskey-tango.org/2019/11/keybase-weve-got-privacy-problem.html
126
45
A One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us
125
28
Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/building-ai-that-can-master-complex-cooperative-games-with-hidden-information/
124
Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery
https://www.thefoodcorridor.com/2019/12/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cloud-kitchens-aka-ghost-kitchens-in-2020/
120
98
The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7
116
32
Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file
https://github.com/photonlines/Go-Web-Server
115
54
JIT and Ruby's MJIT
http://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2019/7/18/jit-and-rubys-mjit
113
16
PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01703
110
102
Two Years of Vanlife: A Retrospective
https://faroutride.com/two-years-vanlife/
103
133
Deep Dive Into C# 9
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/deev-dive-into-c-sharp-9/
99
Math Whiz Trades Without Humans
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-05/math-whiz-trades-without-humans-to-build-a-700-million-fortune
88
34
Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/mint-late-stage-adversarial-interoperability-demonstrates-what-we-had-and-what-we
52
Setup for Your Next Golang Project
https://martinheinz.dev/blog/5
87
Turning .NET assemblies into FPGA hardware
https://github.com/Lombiq/Hastlayer-SDK
Ask HN: How can I tell if I am a good developer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725380
5
Machine Learning Christmas Calendar
https://ml.christmas/
76
An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0
74
Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
65
Verifiable Voting: A Primer
https://rcoh.me/posts/verifiable-voting-primer/
Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file