1066
374
My Second Year as a Solo Developer
https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/
6 years ago
627
326
Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018)
https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
613
234
The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ban-end-end-encryption-without-actually-banning-it
611
156
Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/ajit-pai-carrier-sales-of-phone-location-data-is-illegal-fcc-plans-punishment/
589
131
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
543
40
California Attorney General delays .org sale
https://domainnamewire.com/2020/01/31/breaking-california-attorney-general-delays-org-sale/
499
129
Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet
https://ihateregex.io/
381
“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
https://telegra.ph/Why-Using-WhatsApp-Is-Dangerous-01-30-4
367
206
Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally
104
How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains
https://lithub.com/how-we-pay-attention-changes-the-very-shape-of-our-brains/
312
209
TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
https://blog.asana.com/2020/01/typescript-quirks
306
135
CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace
https://home.cern/news/news/computing/cern-ends-trial-facebook-workplace
295
90
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-20.04-Adds-WireGuard
287
145
Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf
272
26
SpiderFoot: OSINT collection and reconnaissance tool
https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot
262
508
EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/30/eu-lawmakers-snub-apples-pleas-overwhelmingly-vote-to-push-for-charging-cable-standard
258
126
UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange
241
70
Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project
https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
201
34
Writing a RISC-V OS in Rust: System Calls
http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/ch7.html
194
141
The Odin Programming Language
https://odin-lang.org/
169
125
“Unprecedented” locust invasion threatens crops in East Africa
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unprecedented-locust-invasion-approaches-full-blown-crisis/
159
101
An update to 37-year-old MIDI
https://qz.com/1788828/how-will-midi-2-0-change-music/
154
176
The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-one-word-you-never-hear-in-the-godfather/news-story/4301fd8014305c005f13eeaccdca51a2
151
100
Decentralize Messaging
https://rodarmor.com/blog/decentralize-messaging/
146
48
When to Overcommunicate
https://blog.glowforge.com/you-arent-communicating-nearly-enough/
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/the-fact-checkers-dilemma-humans-are-hardwired-to-dismiss-facts-that-dont-fit-their-worldview/
136
128
The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session
https://ma.ttias.be/exit-telnet-session/
Ask HN: Which are the best resources to learn software architecture?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202769
134
19
New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase
https://keybase.io/blog/crypto
33
Emilie du Châtelet and her work on Newton's Principia
https://narratively.com/the-pregnant-scientist-who-raced-against-death-to-transform-physics/
124
History of 1918 Flu Pandemic
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm
122
61
Pioneers vs. Process People
https://www.eidel.io/2020/01/31/pioneers-vs-process-people/
121
49
Critical flaw in Trezor hardware wallets
https://blog.kraken.com/post/3662/kraken-identifies-critical-flaw-in-trezor-hardware-wallets/
110
41
ACLU: ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays. We’re Suing
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-and-cbp-are-secretly-tracking-us-using-stingrays-were-suing/
103
MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem
https://om.co/2020/01/31/macbook-pro-16-has-a-fan-problem/
158
Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
92
64
Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem-20200130/
5
Why Citationsy.com Doesn’t Have a Cookie Notice
https://citationsy.com/blog/why-citationsy-doesnt-have-a-cookie-notice/
91
106
AGPL License
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
24
Show HN: DOME, a framework for making 2D games with Wren
https://domeengine.com
89
29
OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2020-January/021544.html
31
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488
88
42
News.gmane.org is now news.gmane.io
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/15/news-gmane-org-is-now-news-gmane-io/
87
23
Delayed Gratification: A Slow Journalism Magazine
https://www.slow-journalism.com/
Coronavirus: First case confirmed in Santa Clara County
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/31/santa-clara-coronavirus/
EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard