740
355
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/12/amazon-apple-google-and-the-zigbee-alliance-to-develop-connectivity-standard/
6 years ago
738
384
Google claims copyright on employee side projects
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1207234468928356352
673
239
Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822225
566
275
Undocumented Catalina file access change
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/macl.html
487
259
PinePhone Review
https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/18/PinePhone-review.html
483
122
Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-17/why-we-forked-firefox-and-not-chromium.html
390
131
Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/samsung-chair-imprisoned-and-24-others-found-guilty-in-union-busting-case/
388
179
The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity
https://augustl.com/blog/2019/best_bug_predictor_is_organizational_complexity/
149
Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/
336
152
Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/googles-dangerous-monopoly-based
320
209
The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained
https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2019/12/11/21005008/michael-bloomberg-terminal-net-worth-2020
317
180
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation
https://sicp.comp.nus.edu.sg/
300
195
Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/18/depression-and-suicide-linked-to-air-pollution-in-new-global-study
252
288
Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5399491/tech-giants-sued-over-appalling-deaths-of-children-who-mine-their-cobalt-1.5399492
236
161
Who Was the Buddha?
https://aeon.co/essays/was-the-buddha-an-awakened-prince-or-a-humble-itinerant
230
132
Judge dismisses Wikimedia case against NSA over Upstream surveillance
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/judge-dismisses-wikimedia-case-against-nsa-over-upstream-surveillance/
225
134
A Failed SaaS Postmortem
http://Mattlayman.com/blog/2019/failed-saas-postmortem
224
Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/technology/fosta-sex-trafficking-law.html
222
A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Stories (2018)
https://hyperallergic.com/435183/freedom-on-the-move/
217
27
Eller’s Algorithm (2012)
http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/eller.html
216
205
Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America
https://www.share-now.com/ca/en/important-update/
202
91
Reject Google Nest or Amazon Ring Corp Surveillance and a Dystopic Future
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/google-nest-or-amazon-ring-just-reject-these-corporations-surveillance-ncna1102741
200
307
India builds detention camps for up to 1.9M people not on citizens register
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/assam-india-detention-camps-bangladesh-nrc-list-a9099251.html
197
42
A Tesla Valve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve
86
About Bokeh
http://www.bokehtests.com/styled/
148
90
The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
140
119
Red Hat Cloud Forms migrating to IBM Cloud Pak
https://blog.christophersmart.com/2019/12/19/red-hat-crippling-cloudforms-product-and-migrating-users-to-ibm/
139
47
Facebook fail to convince lawmakers it needs to track your location at all times
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/facebook-responds-to-senators-questions-on-location-tracking-policy.html
138
168
Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/health/teen-drug-use.html
137
76
German university issues 38k passwords by hand after malware infection
https://www.zdnet.com/article/more-than-38000-people-will-stand-in-line-this-week-to-get-a-new-password/
130
75
Make CPython segfault in 5 lines of code
https://gist.github.com/coolreader18/6dbe0be2ae2192e90e1a809f1624c694
125
30
Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp Timeline (2013)
https://paulhammant.com/2013/03/28/interface-builders-alternative-lisp-timeline/
123
Labor board rolls back employee email rights after Google recommendation
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/18/21028033/google-labor-board-employee-email-block-organizing
177
When will the Netherlands disappear?
https://www.politico.eu/article/when-will-the-netherlands-disappear-climate-change/
66
I don’t use Semantic Web technologies anymore, though they still influence me
http://www.lespetitescases.net/why-I-dont-use-semantic-web-technologies-anymore-even-if-they-still-influence-me
118
117
I thought I understood recursion
https://functional.christmas/2019/18
111
70
Australia’s hottest day on record
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50817963
126
Why there isn’t an Apache Arrow article in Wikipedia
https://www.dremio.com/why-apache-arrow-wikipedia/
105
SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-18/softbank-vision-fund-employees-depict-a-culture-of-recklessness
104
103
List of Statements Independent of ZFC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_independent_of_ZFC
93
107
New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-fed-again-upsizes-liquidity-plans-for-turn-of-the-year-11576187805
2
University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack
https://secalerts.co/article/university-issues-passwords-by-hand-to-38000-students-and-staff-after-cyber-attack/02eb06d2
92
49
The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game
https://thehustle.co/worst-video-game-in-history-et/
88
44
Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191212105854.htm
87
Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of California's AB5
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of-freelance-jobs-ahead-of-californias-ab5.html
85
22
Announcing the Second Edition of Infrastructure as Code
https://infrastructure-as-code.com/book/2019/12/10/announcing-second-edition.html
81
17
Gsuite suspended my account because I paid
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ecacki/gsuite_suspended_my_account_because_i_paid/
80
4
Efficient Alias of a Built-In Emacs Lisp Function
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/12/10/
78
12
V8 Release v8.0
https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-80
77
33
Infosys settles with California over alleged visa scam, tax evasion
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/17/h-1b-visa-indian-outsourcer-infosys-settles-with-california-over-alleged-visa-scam-tax-evasion/
74
Annual Returns on Stock, T.Bonds and T.Bills: 1928 – Current
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/histretSP.html
73
9
ARM64 CPUs speculatively execute instructions after ERET
https://twitter.com/openbsd/status/1207070753197363200
50
LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-lifelabs-pays-ransom-after-massive-data-breach-affecting-up-to-1/