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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
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5 years ago
1986
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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/954028436/u-s-capitol-locked-down-amid-escalating-far-right-protests
1270
354
What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-software-industry/
435
115
Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
https://bert.org/2021/01/04/t2-pin-cracking/
432
504
Facebook senior software engineer interview
https://daqo.medium.com/facebook-senior-software-engineer-interview-the-only-post-youll-need-to-read-e4604ff2336d
421
203
GNU Units
https://www.gnu.org/software/units/
389
106
How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus
https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protomammals-were-born/
372
260
Memory access on the Apple M1 processor
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/06/memory-access-on-the-apple-m1-processor/
329
196
How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products
https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/privacy-policy?eea=0#privacy-policy-updates-how-we-work-with-other-facebook-companies
306
89
Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Advent-2020.ipynb
294
208
What I Use Instead of Google
https://kiramclean.com/blog/what-i-use-now-instead-of-google/
285
121
A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3-years-specmelt&num=1
283
51
The U.S. Is Building a Bike Trail That Runs Coast-to-Coast Across 12 States
https://www.ecowatch.com/great-american-rail-trail-2649733595.html
84
Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters
https://15.ai/
282
70
We Built a Facebook Inspector
https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/01/05/how-we-built-a-facebook-inspector
281
Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
https://www.reuters.com/article/tenstorrent-tech/moves-former-intel-tesla-chip-exec-jim-keller-joins-artificial-intelligence-startup-idUSL1N2JG2I6
277
331
US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55544496
271
374
London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing
https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/exclusive-london-will-be-overwhelmed-by-covid-in-a-fortnight-says-leaked-nhs-england-briefing/7029264.article
266
229
Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL
https://reslash.co
249
DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation
https://dosbox-x.com/
240
98
JetBrain's TeamCity May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack
http://nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html
220
Deleting Facebook permanently
https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=4054
224
321
Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55555269
214
97
PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC
https://peerjs.com/
223
Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cincinnati-built-a-subway-system-100-years-ago-but-never-used-it
197
122
Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon
45
Introduction to Window Functions in SQL
https://khashtamov.com/en/sql-window-functions/
185
110
Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
https://www.damninteresting.com/who-wants-to-be-a-thousandaire/
184
128
Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
162
Decoding the Peloton
https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/10/15/pelomon-part-i-decoding-peloton/
158
179
An Uncommon Cold
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
149
16
Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians arrested
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Dozens-of-Hong-Kong-pro-democracy-politicians-arrested
148
33
New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithms-finally-crack-nonlinear-equations-20210105/
138
76
Emacs Symbolic Integration
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Integration.html
129
31
NSA Wanted Backdoor Access in Linux, Says Linus Torvalds’ Father
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/nsa-ask-linus-torvalds-include-backdoors-linux-father-says-yes
127
30
Clojure, Faster
https://tech.redplanetlabs.com/2020/09/02/clojure-faster/
123
54
Show HN: v8-riscv — Port of JavaScript V8 engine to RISC-V
https://github.com/v8-riscv/v8
120
52
Startup Studios
https://latecheckout.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-startups-are-studios
117
13
A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community
https://orbit.love/blog/whats-your-communitys-nrg
32
Debugging Lisp (2015)
https://malisper.me/category/debugging-common-lisp/
25
Show HN: Experimental Semantic Code Explorer
https://artifacts.bypaulshen.com/code-explorer/02/
116
17
Show HN: Collection of free illustrations like undraw
https://www.vektors.pro/
109
18
Russian Software Company [JetBrains] May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html
108
64
The 100 Year Computer
https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer
104
4
Codebreaking: A Practical Guide
https://www.codebreaking-guide.com/
96
20
The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00863