1057
388
Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping-and-technically-prohibited-it/
6 years ago
710
379
Off-Facebook activity
https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/
666
571
Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopify
602
220
Being a Noob
http://paulgraham.com/noob.html
575
122
Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
https://snikt.net/blog/2020/01/29/building-a-simple-vpn-with-wireguard-with-a-raspberry-pi-as-server/
510
76
Pandas 1.0
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew/v1.0.0.html
473
Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming
https://theartofmachinery.com/2020/01/27/systems_programming_probability.html
447
54
Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia
https://github.com/typesense/typesense
★ 25.7k C++ GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
422
804
Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178292
377
81
A Graph of Related Subreddits
https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=programming
373
176
Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-cruz-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms/story?id=68611065
366
138
Godot 3.2
https://godotengine.org/article/here-comes-godot-3-2
359
178
Russia blocks ProtonMail
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-protonmail/russia-blocks-encrypted-email-service-protonmail-idUSKBN1ZS1K8
345
Starlink Is a Big Deal
https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/
328
406
Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month
https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Illinois-governor-signs-law-capping-insulin-costs-at-100-per-month-567282431.html
312
49
RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation
https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/01/29/rstudio-pbc/
306
149
Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
284
256
iOS 13's Music App Sucks
https://samuelstevens.me/writing/ios-13s-music-app-sucks
279
133
A Tour of Standard ML
https://saityi.github.io/sml-tour/tour/00-00-welcome.html
277
100
Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/technology/facebook-privacy-lawsuit-earnings.html
275
135
State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization
https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/1133484519942774784
270
151
Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
https://dino.im/blog/2020/01/dino-0.1-release/
264
105
MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
https://reverb.com/news/what-will-midi-2-dot-0-mean-for-musicians
231
162
Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can damage undeveloped film
https://www.dpreview.com/news/4631062971/kodak-alaris-warns-the-tsa-s-new-airport-ct-scanners-can-damage-undeveloped-film
214
66
SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years
https://flaviocopes.com/blog-seo/
210
37
Archive of old military maps published
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/01/29/huge-archive-of-old-military-maps-published/
208
333
Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4
https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b3cf7f5e-546a-4a65-9888-c928b914b529
Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle
https://twitter.com/adrjeffries/status/1222277544730337280
204
123
How Sustainable Is a Solar Powered Website?
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html
199
372
Nuclear power is the only green solution (2004)
http://www.jameslovelock.org/nuclear-power-is-the-only-green-solution/
173
244
The Failure of the iPad
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2020/01/29/the_failure_of_the_ipad/
160
118
Who Says Tcl Rules?
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Who+says+Tcl+rules...?V=56
159
128
Proposals for Go 1.15
https://blog.golang.org/go1.15-proposals
142
13
Google YOLO clickjacking (2018)
https://blog.innerht.ml/google-yolo/
15
Off-Facebook Activity Is a Welcome but Incomplete Move
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/facebook-history-welcome-incomplete-move
130
139
Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or shrinking them
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSWhyNoRealReshaping
126
Warren Buffett throws in the towel on newspaper empire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/warren-buffett-throws-in-the-towel-on-his-newspaper-empire
125
161
Home Price-to-Income Ratios
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/home-price-income-ratios
63
London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/london-to-deploy-live-facial-recognition-to-find-wanted-faces-in-crowd/
116
42
C++20 Reference Card
https://www.bfilipek.com/2020/01/cpp20refcard.html
115
45
Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers (2003) [pdf]
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/threads-hotos-2003.pdf
114
50
New brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brain-networks-come-online-during-adolescence-to-prepare-teenagers-for-adult-life
104
16
Ishikawa diagram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram
90
Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO
https://www.ifre.com/story/2220833/banks-race-to-sell-first-post-crisis-managed-synthetic-cdo
98
78
The sad state of screen sharing on desktop Linux
https://anthony.som.codes/blog/2020-01-28-screen-sharing-on-linux/
93
Cartesio – Low-cost Cartesian plotter robot
https://robottini.altervista.org/cartesio-low-cost-cartesian-plotter-robot
91
4
Telescope captures most detailed pictures yet of the sun
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/29/solar-telescope-captures-most-detailed-pictures-yet-the-sun
88
53
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
Netflix original series no longer get time to breathe
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21078363/bojack-horseman-finale-season-six-date-netflix-raphael-bob-waksberg
