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824
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
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5 years ago
1183
616
Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082
577
151
Early Work
http://paulgraham.com/early.html
486
132
Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain
https://tomlehrersongs.com/
457
Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos
https://orca.security/cybersecurity-community-transparency/
441
208
Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
https://www.reuters.com/article/nokia-nasa-moon-idUSKBN2741JR
426
192
I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/i-miss-microsoft-encarta/
419
349
America's True Unemployment Rate
https://www.axios.com/americas-true-unemployment-rate-6e34decb-c274-4feb-a4af-ffac8cf5840d.html
380
194
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/#
356
142
Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/why-deep-learning-works-even-though-it-shouldnt/
355
174
Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/expanding-ais-impact-with-organizational-learning
348
230
Firefox 82
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/82.0/releasenotes/
343
296
Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/
339
181
Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-to-acquire-intel-nand-memory-business/
324
57
Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim
https://github.com/arturo-lang
320
169
Discipline Doesn’t Scale
https://www.sicpers.info/2020/10/discipline-doesnt-scale/
316
252
The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834571/e8d7adc0d9b669bc/
276
82
Just Write the Parser
https://tiarkrompf.github.io/notes/?/just-write-the-parser/
266
84
Fast UTF-8 validation
https://lemire.me/blog/2020/10/20/ridiculously-fast-unicode-utf-8-validation/
250
96
Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
https://retool.com/blog/retool-raises-50-million-led-by-sequoia/
245
137
Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/plan.md
242
116
Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
https://pitch.com/blog/pitch-launches
238
112
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/
224
35
A brief introduction to BEAM
https://blog.erlang.org/a-brief-BEAM-primer/
222
18
Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors
https://www.matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors
221
88
Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default
https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx
217
45
Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy
https://www.som.uci.edu/news_releases/Retinal-visual-function-restored-with-gene-therapy.asp
210
121
When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube
https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/google_cookie_wipe/
199
41
Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds
https://formito.com/tools/favicon
183
AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
https://toonk.io/aws-and-their-billions-in-ipv4-addresses/index.html
190
The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)
http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html
182
16
The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance
https://hakibenita.com/sql-medium-text-performance
180
292
My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
http://blog.alinelerner.com/ive-been-an-engineer-and-a-recruiter-hiring-is-broken-heres-why-and-heres-what-it-should-be-like-instead/
162
My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too
https://azumbrunnen.me/blog/my-chatbot-is-dead-%C2%B7-why-yours-should-probably-be-too/
166
76
Why does Instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?
https://twitter.com/jontyusborne/status/1318630035780071424
154
78
Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
https://medium.com/@sasha_f/why-mmap-is-faster-than-system-calls-24718e75ab37
152
Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/energy/renewables/why-does-the-us-have-three-electrical-grids
148
Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors
https://www.consolechat.io
107
Letter from Raspberry Pi Foundation over trademark use
https://twitter.com/RPiSpy/status/1318461482196176896
141
48
Galileo's Ground Segment Problem
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileos-ground-segment-problem/
140
128
Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54431056
109
NYC’s new digital subway map
https://www.curbed.com/2020/10/first-look-new-yorks-digital-subway-map-comes-alive-today.html
131
26
Julia GPU
https://notamonadtutorial.com/julia-gpu-98a461d33e21
126
129
Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nzs-newest-billionaire-covid-stranded-american-gaming-ceo-gabe-newell-applies-nz-residency
123
13
The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (2015)
https://pando.com/2015/07/01/cia-foia-google-keyhole/
122
6
FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/FermiNet
120
28
Differential Dataflow
https://timelydataflow.github.io/differential-dataflow/introduction.html
50
Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837200
113
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HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you
https://hnreplies.com/
102
54
Report on Investigation of Twitter’s July 15, 2020 Cybersecurity Incident
https://www.dfs.ny.gov/Twitter_Report
99
47
Python 3.9
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390/
98
17
Building Netflix's Distributed Tracing Infrastructure
https://netflixtechblog.com/building-netflixs-distributed-tracing-infrastructure-bb856c319304?source=rss----2615bd06b42e---4
91
38
Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Google
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-file-long-awaited-antitrust-suit-against-google-11603195203
90
77
The Long Road to HTTP/3
https://scorpil.com/post/the-long-road-to-http3/
60
Investors Extracted $400M from a Hospital Chain
https://www.propublica.org/article/investors-extracted-400-million-from-a-hospital-chain-that-sometimes-couldnt-pay-for-medical-supplies-or-gas-for-ambulances
85
32
DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federal antitrust law today
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/google-antitrust-doj-lawsuit/
87
Why build another website builder?
https://www.makeswift.com/blog/why-build-another-website-builder
83
34
Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (1969)
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/
81
22
PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts
https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument
80
0
We’ve Already Defunded the Police. But Only the Ones Policing the Rich
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/irs-doj-sec-defunding-bipartisan-support
Report on Investigation of Twitter’s July 15, 2020 Cybersecurity Incident