2589
1283
Facebook-owned sites were down
https://www.facebook.com/
4 years ago
1226
260
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
623
411
It takes a PhD to develop that
https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-that/
602
274
Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1444367219509637123
584
311
What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/
571
181
Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/anti-competitive-browser-edges.html
527
144
Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum
https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-forum/
460
109
Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers
https://twitter.com/blazejkrajnak/status/1445063232486531099
432
231
Facebook employees badges aren't working, unable to enter buildings
https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1445099150316503057
410
125
McKinsey never told the FDA it was working for both the FDA and opioid makers
https://www.propublica.org/article/mckinsey-never-told-the-fda-it-was-working-for-opioid-makers-while-also-working-for-the-agency
371
152
Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28750538
335
183
Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?
https://durmonski.com/life-advice/curiosity-is-better-than-being-smart/
329
3
Whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/
315
18
What is BGP? – BGP routing explained
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/what-is-bgp/
289
189
Google keyword warrants give U.S. government data on search users
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/google-keyword-warrants-give-us-government-data-on-search-users/
285
134
Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous
https://durmonski.com/life-advice/following-people-online-is-dangerous/
282
114
Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/cloudflare-just-disrupted-3-industries-in-1-week-907e44a8f5
280
210
The big alcohol study that didn't happen
https://dynomight.net/alcohol-trial/
277
347
Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable
https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1445124247005933573
238
100
Plan 9 Desktop Guide
https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html#intro
182
FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/fcc-plans-to-rein-in-gateway-carriers-that-bring-foreign-robocalls-to-us/
224
26
Shaded Relief Maps in Blender
https://github.com/JoeWDavies/geoblender
216
204
The reputation economy is turning us into conformists (2017) [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-489-social_cooling#t=985
213
110
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/press-release/
202
146
Python 3.11
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/changelog.html
193
86
Teach Me PCB
https://teachmepcb.com
191
The Apple A15 SoC Performance Review: Faster and More Efficient
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-performance-review-faster-more-efficient
112
DeepMind AI predicts incoming rainfall with high accuracy
https://newatlas.com/computers/deepmind-ai-predicts-incoming-rainfall-high-accuracy/
184
64
BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_s_first_views_of_Mercury
248
Things Go needs more than generics
https://betterprogramming.pub/three-things-go-needs-right-now-more-than-generics-a6225d62f76b
180
192
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html
178
93
Databases, Types, and the Relational Model: The Third Manifesto [pdf]
https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf
169
99
Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf]
https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf
168
139
Android 12 is live in AOSP
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/10/android-12-is-live-in-aosp.html
161
12
Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems [pdf]
https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s11-bronson.pdf
136
206
Firefighters say they’re swamped by calls for routine care from senior homes
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/10/firefighters-say-theyre-swamped-by-calls-for-routine-care-from-senior-homes-setting-off-one-sided-political-battle.html
132
For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Harder to Ignore
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-04/artificial-intelligence-ain-t-that-smart-look-at-tesla-facebook-healthcare
113
16
Security Best Practices for Fintech Application Development
https://community.marqeta.com/t5/engineering-blogs/security-best-practices-for-fintech-application-development/ba-p/375
104
Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for ‘blue’
https://www.science.org/content/article/sunlight-affects-whether-languages-have-word-blue
97
85
New features coming in Julia 1.7
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/871486/e4ae97b79d72bb25/