1236
461
Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1210662988828442624
6 years ago
781
263
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/12/26/apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss/
552
238
Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1210242184341000192
551
131
Scaling React Server Side Rendering
https://arkwright.github.io/scaling-react-server-side-rendering.html
545
222
WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53968.html
544
264
What happens when your career becomes your whole identity
https://hbr.org/2019/12/what-happens-when-your-career-becomes-your-whole-identity
466
197
Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
376
200
Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-autos/new-turkish-electric-car-project-investment-seen-at-3-7-billion-idUSKBN1YV09E
343
167
C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
274
165
I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (2015)
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2015/01/19/speed-reading-redo/
256
53
36th Chaos Communication Congress – Streams
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/36c3
251
187
BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)
https://twitter.com/lelff/status/1210619413885575168
247
351
Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf]
https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/hfs/is-college-worth-it/emmons_kent_ricketts_college_still_worth_it.pdf
245
98
Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24252/20191111/scientists-likely-found-way-to-grow-new-teeth-for-patients.htm
244
76
Open Hardware on Its Own Doesn’t Solve the Trust Problem
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706
28
Show HN: CoreUI Icons – open-source icons with marks in SVG, Webfont and raster
https://github.com/coreui/coreui-icons/tree/1.0.0
231
446
I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/college-dreams-say-no-avoid-student-debt.html
227
Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books
https://eclecticlight.co/2019/12/26/publishers-determined-to-kill-electronic-books/
218
125
Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
http://news.mit.edu/2019/model-beats-wall-street-forecasts-business-sales-1219
206
189
The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1919/11/the-basic-problem-of-democracy/569095/
188
Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/perspectives/social-impact/sweet-streams-baby-netflixs-algorithms-genius-devious/
190
73
The Eternal Novice Trap
https://feoh.org/2019/12/27/the-eternal-novice-trap/
43
U.S. government removes detailed pollution map from internet
https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/toxmap-removed-federal-government/
66
What's Next for R?
https://qz.com/1661487/hadley-wickham-on-the-future-of-r-python-and-the-tidyverse/
177
219
Python Type Hints
https://kunigami.blog/2019/12/26/python-type-hints/
176
A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines
http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/ecs-outside-of-games/
365
The Two Kinds of Moderate
http://paulgraham.com/mod.html
164
61
Conclusions from analyzing Y Combinator’s investing history
https://medium.com/@efeng/seed-investors-are-favoring-enterprise-startups-and-other-conclusions-from-analyzing-y-110432adf199
153
89
The Value of Grey Thinking (2016)
https://fs.blog/2016/06/value-grey-thinking/
11
Homemade GPS Receiver (2011)
http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
151
33
Multics: An Ancestor of Unix
https://www.multicians.org/
149
To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down
https://blog.8tracks.com/2019/12/26/to-everything-there-is-a-season/
146
41
CapOneMe – a vulnerable cloud environment to demonstrate the Capital One breach
https://github.com/avishayil/caponeme
40
How Microbiomes Affect Fear
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-microbiomes-affect-fear-20191204/
144
19
Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/webassembly-compiler/
138
78
Kinematics of Reverse Angle Parking
https://observablehq.com/@mourner/kinematics-of-reverse-angle-parking
135
32
On June 11th, the Strand was designated a landmark
https://www.strandbooks.com/protect-strand
134
106
You can't just rename your IT Ops team and call it DevOps
https://www.datree.io/resources/devops-definition
133
42
Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules
https://in.reuters.com/article/turkey-wikipedia/turkish-court-rules-wikipedia-block-is-a-rights-violation-idINKBN1YU0PF
132
29
Emulating the Original Gameboy’s CPU
https://medium.com/@raphaelstaebler/building-a-gameboy-from-scratch-part-2-the-cpu-d6986a5c6c74
128
79
A charity that spends a sliver of its money on those it purports to serve
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/iupa-leorf-police-union-charity-telemarketers/
122
16
Linux: A Portable Operating System (1997) [pdf]
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kutvonen/index_files/linus.pdf
121
9
Meloader: Linux i386 tool to load and execute Intel ME modules
https://github.com/peterbjornx/meloader
120
My Semester with the Snowflakes
https://gen.medium.com/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes-888285f0e662
111
I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about it
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614934/teenagers-without-cell-phones/
24
Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror
118
109
Netflix was the top stock of the decade
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/23/netflix-was-the-top-stock-of-the-decade-delivering-over-4000percent-return.html
116
13
Bacteria can 'outsmart' programmed cell death
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-bacteria-outsmart-cell-death.html
115
50
Why tennis balls are yellow or green
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-reason-tennis-balls-yellow-green
85
Hacking Your Keyboard
https://blog.kaush.co/2019/12/25/hacking-your-keyboard/
114
Super Mario World Memory Map
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=memorymap&game=smw
110
Using GoAccess for self-hosted web analytics
https://b4d.sablun.org/blog/2019-12-23-own-your-website-stats/
17
Networking Guides for Linux Sysadmins
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/networking-guides
105
The Doors of Perception (1954) [pdf]
https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/HuxleyA1954TheDoorsOfPerception.pdf
104
14
Show HN: An experimental distributed SQL database from scratch in Go
https://github.com/tomarrell/lbadd
102
Interactive Lorenz Attractor
http://www.malinc.se/m/Lorenz.php
101
Porkchop plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkchop_plot
113
The 'folly' of buying a fixer-upper yacht
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-26/southwinds-restoring-an-old-yacht-with-mates/11798696
100
39
Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21888049
96
27
Stroom – a scalable data storage, processing and analysis platform
https://github.com/gchq/stroom
91
70
The Unix C library API can only be reliably used from C
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/CLibraryAPIRequiresC
Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules