1047
559
Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
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6 years ago
552
348
Why Google Did Android
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/02/09/Why-Android
491
367
Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/will-spotify-ruin-podcasting
450
129
Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/jules-vernes-voyages-extraordinaires.html
442
283
Mondragon Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
408
317
Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-military-personnel-charged-computer-fraud-economic-espionage-and-wire-fraud-hacking
139
Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/turing-nlg-a-17-billion-parameter-language-model-by-microsoft/
360
76
Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286340
355
221
JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language
https://white.ucc.asn.au/2020/02/09/whycompositionaljulia.html
338
126
ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
https://www.namecheap.com/blog/icann-allows-com-price-increases-gets-more-money/
316
176
“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/ey5eta/i_made_an_operating_system_ui_within_unity/
305
114
Performant Front-End Architecture
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/performant-front-end-architecture
296
327
Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
https://medium.com/@veeralpatel/things-ive-learned-about-state-management-for-react-apps-174b8bde87fb
269
54
Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math
https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/memory-bandwidth-napkin-math/
253
560
Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22290362
241
257
The Disneyfication of a University
https://academeblog.org/2020/01/30/the-disneyfication-of-a-university
218
20
Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/zero-deepspeed-new-system-optimizations-enable-training-models-with-over-100-billion-parameters/?OCID=msr_blog_zerodeep_tw
214
25
Show HN: Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats
https://geoman.io/
193
113
Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf]
https://plateau-workshop.org/assets/papers-2019/10.pdf
168
145
A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/
166
13
A new model and dataset for long-range memory
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/A_new_model_and_dataset_for_long-range_memory
162
81
Personal info of 6M Israelis leaked after Likud uploads voter info
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Personal-info-of-6m-Israelis-leaked-after-Likud-uploads-voter-info-617048
160
57
Tracking systems of TV streaming devices
https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/02/10/watching-you-watch/
61
Event-Driven Architecture
https://pradeeploganathan.com/architecture/event-driven-architecture/
155
Visual 6502 in JavaScript
http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
151
49
All about Birds
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide
21
Pgcat – Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication
https://github.com/kingluo/pgcat
105
When did Americans lose their British accents?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents
144
In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles
https://www.outsideonline.com/2407533/unicycle-travel-gear
138
191
Systemd Home Directories
https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/
131
36
Show HN: Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM
https://github.com/elpy1/ssh-over-ssm
30
Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams
128
86
Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s
https://www.inputmag.com/features/fax-on-the-beach-the-story-of-atts-eo-communicator-90s-ipad-flop
123
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A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/02/10/a-prospective-alzheimers-trial-reports
Fyne: Native Mobile UX in Go
https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne/releases/tag/v1.2.0
109
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People of Las Vegas
https://believermag.com/the-people-of-las-vegas/
108
73
Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/model-built-u-t-researchers-suggests-coronavirus-outbreak-began-november-has-yet-be-controlled
Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics
https://mathpendium.org/
102
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Companies that buy data derived from scraping the contents of email
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pkekmb/free-email-apps-spying-on-you-edison-slice-cleanfox
100
93
Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study
https://www.ryanckulp.com/leaving-san-francisco-meta-study/
99
71
Brandless has shut down
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-10/softbank-backed-brandless-shutters-less-2-years-after-investment
98
12
Send me your privacy abuse tipoffs
https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/07/send-me-your-privacy-abuse-tipoffs/
97
74
WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”
https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1226629008302931971
84
47
Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/kintaba-incident-alerts/
Taika Waititi Calls Out Apple's MacBook Keyboard Backstage at the Oscars
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/f1k4nd/taika_waititi_calls_out_apples_macbook_keyboard/
82
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Reflecting on the first two decades of our foundation
https://www.gatesnotes.com/2020-Annual-Letter?WT.mc_id=20200210000000_AL2020_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW
80
66
Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to native iOS dev?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288217
79
26
Debugging C++ Coroutines [pdf]
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2073r0.pdf
46
Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/trump-s-2021-budget-drowns-science-agencies-red-ink-again
9
The laser and microphone atop Mars 2020, NASA's next rover
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-laser-microphone-atop-mars-nasa.html
62
Long Term Support
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/12/17/long-term-support/
31
A document signed by a five year old, agreeing to be deported
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5000507-Stillman-Hellen-2.html#document/p1
2
Learn Python the NSA Way
https://twitter.com/chris_swenson/status/1225836060938125313
72
On Drafting an Engineering Strategy
https://www.paperplanes.de/2020/1/31/on-drafting-an-engineering-strategy.html
Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s