807
822
Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
6 years ago
743
715
Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-google-fired-her-trying-notify-co-workers-n1103031
660
162
Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/over-100-pbs-local-stations-start-streaming-today-on-youtube-tv/
485
192
The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]
https://bunniefoo.com/bunnie/essential/essential-guide-shenzhen-web.pdf
449
299
23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/23andme-gsk-dna-data-deal,news-27685.html
441
94
Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812442
414
194
An opinionated approach to GNU Make
https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/make/
429
You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-might-be-buying-trash-on-amazonliterally-11576599910
406
121
#include </etc/shadow>
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/898-include-etcshadow.html
395
241
Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
https://breakoutstartups.substack.com/p/breakout-startups-23-mattermost
384
300
Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815123
380
289
LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/logmein-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-francisco-partners-and-evergreen-for-4-3b/
349
254
France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-amf-bloomberg/frances-amf-watchdog-fines-bloomberg-5-million-over-vinci-hoax-idUSKBN1YK1VN
321
99
Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL
https://blog.eventide-project.org/articles/announcing-message-db/
293
84
From Zero to Main(): Bare Metal Rust
https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/zero-to-main-rust-1
281
157
PIA open-sources and announces audit plans
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/12/dont-trust-verify/
259
313
Climbing the Wealth Ladder
https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/
248
55
The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days
231
267
Browser-based climate change simulation
https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7.6
224
336
Still Why No HTTPS?
https://www.troyhunt.com/still-why-no-https/
216
189
Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
https://blog.bolt.io/logitech-mx-master-3-vs-2s/
202
130
What's new in Java 12, 13 and 14
https://java.christmas/2019/17
172
197
A hiring test I'd like to run
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/12/a-hiring-test-id-like-to-run/
169
141
Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-261
166
51
Linux 3.8 introduced unprivileged user namespaces [pdf]
http://man7.org/conf/meetup/understanding-user-namespaces--Google-Munich-Kerrisk-2019-10-25.pdf
354
United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03882-w
155
132
Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/kurt-godel-incompleteness-theorems/
151
90
Thoughts on Forth Programming
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth.txt
111
“Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski
http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/dont-try-the-philosophy-of-the-hardworking-charles-bukowski.html
144
140
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/12/17/firefox-announces-new-partner-in-delivering-private-and-secure-dns-services-to-users/
143
108
What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-we-hacked-chevy-find-out/
70
‘The Far Side’ Is Back, Sort Of
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/arts/far-side-gary-larson.html
125
105
Keeping Top AI Talent in the United States [pdf]
https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/Keeping-Top-AI-Talent-in-the-United-States.pdf
34
A Predictive Database
https://aito.ai/blog/introducing-a-new-database-category-the-predictive-database/
116
59
DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543201#c4
36
Show HN: Ordinary Puzzles – An open-source mobile puzzle game
https://github.com/mmazzarolo/ordinary-puzzles-app
★ 507 TypeScript MIT– 6 years ago
113
23
Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater
57
One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/807218/7589bd420fa9cfbe/
The case for working with your hands (2009)
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html
107
74
Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate
https://github.com/saasforge/open-source-saas-boilerpate
★ 840 JavaScript MIT– 6 years ago
26
Show HN: Run – Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers
https://github.com/TekWizely/run
★ 494 Go MIT– 6 years ago
104
86
The World Wants More Danish TV
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/arts/television/denmark-netflix-labor-shortage.html
103
Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/ransomware-gangs-now-outing-victim-businesses-that-dont-pay-up/
102
58
Binary Authorization for Borg
https://cloud.google.com/security/binary-authorization-for-borg/
98
138
Will We Run Out of Helium?
https://www.thoughtco.com/will-we-run-out-of-helium-3975959
2
Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/google-reportedly-wants-to-be-top-two-player-in-cloud-by-2023.html
15
Bill Lorensen, co-creator of Marching Cubes, has died
https://discourse.vtk.org/t/bill-lorensen/2288
89
37
Dave Clark, The Man Who Built Amazon’s Delivery Machine
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-17/amazon-holiday-shopping-the-man-who-makes-it-happen
139
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics
https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-at-center-of-facebooks-internal-divisions-on-politics-11576578601
Is It Time for the US to Drag Jobs Out of Silicon Valley and into the Heartland?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/innovation/is-it-time-for-the-us-government-to-drag-tech-jobs-out-of-silicon-valley-and-into-the-heartland
83
California’s Assembly Bill 5 came for me today
https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2019/12/16/21024414/california-terrible-ab5-came-for-me-today-and-im-devastated
79
53
Ask HN: How do you keep your notes organized?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21810400
76
Commit messages are not titles (2015)
http://antirez.com/news/90
Federation is the Worst of all Worlds (2018)
https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/federation-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/