928
352
The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
https://sha-mbles.github.io/
6 years ago
758
525
Firefox 72.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/
699
671
Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/apple-airpods-iphone-accessory-or-the-next-big-thing
502
194
Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)
https://humanparts.medium.com/i-am-a-little-too-fat-im-a-little-too-generous-i-think-i-know-why-e97cd25b7eeb
479
269
Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms
456
120
Translating Quake 3 into Rust
https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/
441
184
Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21981923
419
214
Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/zidar/files/slattery-zidar-taxincentives-2020.pdf
386
485
Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers
343
40
How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]
https://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf
318
173
Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System
https://jellyfin.org/
316
98
Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=07&month=01&year=2020
294
Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1214392496375025664
272
172
Loudness war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
265
174
Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/808575/9fd4fea3d86086f0/
234
102
Elixir lang 1.10.0-rc0
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.10.0-rc.0
225
230
Comma Two Devkit
https://comma.ai/shop/products/comma-two-devkit
217
90
Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go
https://github.com/cube2222/jql
202
115
The End of the Beginning
https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/
190
198
Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/01/07/arduino-goes-pro-at-ces-2020/
187
74
Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120224113551/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell
185
33
Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/urgent-important-rotate-your-amazon-rds-aurora-and-documentdb-certificates/
183
99
The Political History of Pad Thai
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3007657/history-pad-thai-how-stir-fried-noodle-dish-was-invented-thai
182
107
How to start a blog using Hugo
https://flaviocopes.com/start-blog-with-hugo/
170
69
ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/
165
Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51020564
163
53
Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-January/105156.html
157
37
Training GPT-2 to Play Chess
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/06/a-very-unlikely-chess-game/
149
16
Analyzing churn rates, free trials, and other metrics
https://jlongster.com/analyizing-profit-metrics
144
1
Firefox 72 – our first song of 2020
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/01/firefox-72-our-first-song-of-2020/
137
81
Finding unique items: hash vs. sort
https://douglasorr.github.io/2019-09-hash-vs-sort/article.html
106
Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019)
https://speakerdeck.com/k_tsj/pattern-matching-new-feature-in-ruby-2-dot-7
135
19
Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform
https://eng.lyft.com/introducing-flyte-cloud-native-machine-learning-and-data-processing-platform-fb2bb3046a59
129
The Wall, a modular microLED display
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/displays/direct-view-led/the-wall/
116
48
Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unusual-apples
Shenzhen’s economy under strain: blame the trade war?
https://www.gbabrief.com/2019/11/shenzhens-economy-under-strain-blame-the-trade-war/
140
How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
https://vmcall.blog/battleye-stack-walking/
95
72
The Build is Always Broken
https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-build-is-always-broken.html
91
67
Travelex being held to ransom by hackers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51017852
104
Announcing Bluetooth LE Audio
https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/bluetooth-technology/le-audio/
5
A surprising new source of attention in the brain
https://scitechdaily.com/a-surprising-new-source-of-attention-in-the-brain-raises-new-questions/
The Curious Case of WebCrypto Diffie-Hellman on Firefox
https://blog.intothesymmetry.com/2020/01/the-curious-case-of-webcrypto-diffie.html
Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs