854
330
Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/2/26/21153525/firefox-dns-encryption-amazon-go-browsing-shopping-privacy
6 years ago
741
295
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
https://www.wired.com/story/wireguard-gives-linux-faster-secure-vpn/
630
232
Windows93
https://www.windows93.net/
532
97
Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-have-i-been-pwned-and-its-ongoing-independence/
401
321
LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/
400
771
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465476
365
115
Payment Request API
https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/
329
154
Little known features of iTerm2
https://banga.github.io/blog/2020/03/02/little-known-features-of-iterm2.html
317
170
Rust Ownership Rules
https://www.geekabyte.io/2020/02/rust-ownership-rules.html
270
135
Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)
https://imgur.com/a/9FMo38g
267
175
Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)
https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
266
84
Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3372/no-facebooks-not-telling-you-everything
263
228
Jack Welch has died
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack-welch-legendary-ceo-of-general-electric-dies-at-age-84-11583158270
255
Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling
https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/qjde3p/coke-and-pepsi-are-getting-sued-for-lying-about-recycling
237
223
Pizza Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect
236
117
Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN)
https://mattslifebytes.com/2020/02/29/remote-access-to-production-infrastructure-death-to-the-vpn/?hn=1
229
Fork() can fail: this is important (2014)
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/08/19/fork/
A new Go API for Protocol Buffers
https://blog.golang.org/a-new-go-api-for-protocol-buffers
227
73
When Bloom filters don't bloom
https://blog.cloudflare.com/when-bloom-filters-dont-bloom/
217
150
Waymo raises first external investment round
https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/waymo-raises-first-external-investment.html
214
78
Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days
https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1233517884619546631
210
76
Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home”
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/keeping-our-employees-and-partners-safe-during-coronavirus.html
198
83
Show HN: A collection of support replies to make your support stand out
http://supportexamples.com/
196
98
CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot for now
https://peterwang512.github.io/CNNDetection/
178
39
Show HN: A front-end visual development tool for React applications
https://github.com/webcodesk/webcodesk-srv
★ 596 JavaScript GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
161
149
Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound
https://www.axios.com/robinhood-outage-stock-market-fbd81363-eb83-424f-8591-1bd4012a2c4f.html
160
Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22466994
159
122
British billionaire Hohn launches campaign to starve coal plants of finance
https://in.reuters.com/article/climate-change-coal-banks/british-hedge-fund-billionaire-hohn-launches-campaign-to-starve-coal-plants-of-finance-idINKBN20P0KB
156
74
Always Be Journaling (2018)
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2018/12/14/always-be-journaling/
92
Vitamin C and Immuno-Oncology
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/02/vitamin-c-and-immuno-oncology
146
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Summary
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html
143
62
Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg
https://graphcommons.com/stories/3f057b42-09fb-49af-aab4-f5243e48734d
141
55
Speeduino: Open-Source Engine Management
https://speeduino.com/home/
134
43
Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)
https://nextstrain.org/ncov
129
335
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465474
128
Earth may have been a 'water world' 3B years ago, scientists find
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/02/earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-3bn-years-ago-scientists-find
124
19
Capability Immaturity Model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Immaturity_Model
121
176
Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-pay-500-million-settle-154848278.html
So you wanna buy a used IP address block?
https://blog.strom.com/wp/?p=7561
120
35
Wicked problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
119
112
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/answers-to-frequently-asked-questions-about-tolkien-elves/
118
18
Kangaroo Rats
https://www.kqed.org/science/1957226/kangaroo-rats-are-furry-spring-loaded-ninjas
114
91
Ask HN: Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22468924
108
57
Rebekah Neumann's search for enlightenment fueled WeWork's collapse
https://www.bustle.com/p/rebekah-neumanns-search-for-enlightenment-fueled-weworks-collapse-22581874
104
12
Forensic analysis of the Windows telemetry for diagnostics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12506
101
95
Ask HN: How do you search for $string if a webpage “supports” infinite scroll?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22463905
29
New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect heat
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/new-sense-discovered-dog-noses-ability-detect-heat
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465475
33
Spying on Scammers [video]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-51660982/criminals-on-cctv-scammers-caught-red-handed
49
Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting
44
Wide Gamut Color in CSS with Display-P3
https://webkit.org/blog/10042/wide-gamut-color-in-css-with-display-p3/
75
20
The Perils of Rehydration – A Realization about Gatsby and React
https://joshwcomeau.com/react/the-perils-of-rehydration
70
How to Work During a Pandemic
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/01/how-to-work-during-a-pandemic/
69
32
It's Still About the Applications
https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/12/28/its-still-about-the-applications/
65
1
ARMv8-A system semantics: instruction fetch in relaxed architectures
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/iflat/
53
Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics
http://nautil.us/issue/82/panpsychism/is-matter-conscious-rp
63
Coronavirus may have spread undetected for weeks in U.S.
https://www.boston.com/news/health/2020/03/01/coronavirus-may-have-spread-undetected-for-weeks-in-u-s
