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NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated

theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-israel-nsa-cheerleaders-discover-value-of-privacy-only-when-their-own-is-violated

597
119
In Memoriam: Ian Murdock

blog.docker.com/2015/12/ian-murdock

1457
366
Best things and stuff of 2015

blog.fogus.me/2015/12/29/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2015

451
85
Introducing d3-scale

medium.com/@mbostock/introducing-d3-scale-61980c51545f

328
73
Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015

act.eff.org/action/stop-patent-trolls-support-the-innovation-act-of-2015

501
96
AWS mistakes to avoid

cloudonaut.io/5-aws-mistakes-you-should-avoid

537
262
Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics

linkedin.com/pulse/facebook-misleading-indians-its-full-page-ads-free-basics-murthy

804
245
Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona

stavros.io/posts/open-letter-mozilla-bring-back-persona

905
237
'New' Python modules of 2015

blog.rtwilson.com/my-top-5-new-python-modules-of-2015

591
131
Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted

community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2015/12/20/cve-2015-7755-juniper-screenos-authentication-backdoor

407
170
Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/18/460281572/congress-sends-1-8-trillion-tax-and-spending-bill-to-president-obama

379
221
Instagram's Million Dollar Bug

exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php

1562
516
How Product Hunt really works

medium.com/@benjiwheeler/how-product-hunt-really-works-d8fdcda1da74

695
222
Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights

home-assistant.io/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs

561
293
Bullshit Startup Experiences

totalgarb.tumblr.com/tagged/startupbullshit

530
288
Introducing OpenAI

openai.com/blog/introducing-openai

1107
376
Who Y Combinator Companies Want

data.triplebyte.com/who-y-combinator-companies-want-c1880a08ac88

667
527
Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2015/12/saying-goodbye-to-carousel-and-mailbox

624
421
Survey of popular Node.js packages reveals credential leaks

github.com/ChALkeR/notes/blob/master/Do-not-underestimate-credentials-leaks.md

355
76
Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/12/05/open-source-chakra-core

852
268
Leaving the Mac App Store

blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store

884
401
A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted

aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/decade-old-gag-order-lifted

737
146
Pirated Courses on Udemy

medium.com/@robconery/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-piracy-5638b929ffca

701
236
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0

techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/android-studio-2-0-with-improved-android-emulator-and-instant-run

532
168
Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

hashbang.gr/breaking-the-4th-wall-with-minecraft

367
70
What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)

quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answer/Mick-Stute?amp;share=1&srid=RBKZ

476
224
VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html

1368
705
Opposition to Facebook's new internet.org

techinasia.com/talk/facebooks-internetorg-evil

280
136
Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

nytimes.com/2015/11/14/world/europe/paris-shooting-attacks.html

623
624
Gene Amdahl has died

nytimes.com/2015/11/13/technology/gene-amdahl-pioneer-of-mainframe-computing-dies-at-92.html

740
111
Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test

medium.com/@arikaleph/facebook-m-the-anti-turing-test-74c5af19987c

438
156
Why people keep trying to erase the Hollywood sign from Google Maps (2014)

gizmodo.com/why-people-keep-trying-to-erase-the-hollywood-sign-from-1658084644

370
179
The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyperlink

juliareda.eu/2015/11/ancillary-copyright-2-0-the-european-commission-is-preparing-a-frontal-attack-on-the-hyperlink

421
192
Thank you, Y Combinator

blog.garrytan.com/thank-you-y-combinator

515
73
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media

586
228
The Tech Bust of 2015

blog.samaltman.com/the-tech-bust-of-2015

562
175
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

drewdevault.com/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack.html

886
484
Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002

638
232
Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e8d7a2dfb485

1121
339
EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software

supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?id=1234&reset=1

730
107
Why Homejoy Failed

medium.com/backchannel/why-homejoy-failed-bb0ab39d901a

421
334
Stop forcing arbitrary password rules

ryanwinchester.ca/post/stop-forcing-your-arbitrary-password-rules-on-me

333
186
A story about <input>

meowni.ca/posts/a-story-about-input

693
181
Let's Encrypt is Trusted

letsencrypt.org/2015/10/19/lets-encrypt-is-trusted.html

1260
311
OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English

robb.weblaws.org/2015/10/17/os-x-el-capitan-license-in-plain-english

381
129
The Hostile Email Landscape

liminality.xyz/the-hostile-email-landscape

544
241
Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA

fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna

658
216
How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto

1005
246
Twitter announces layoffs

sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000156459015008360/twtr-ex991_6.htm

582
381
Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department

alexandercoward.com/BlowingTheWhistleOnUCBerkeleyMathematics.html

778
260
A global movement to ban urban billboards

theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-kick-ads-ban-urban-billboards

399
192
Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion

nytimes.com/2015/10/10/technology/twitter-expected-to-begin-layoffs-and-stop-headquarters-expansion.html?WT.nav=top-news&action=click&hp=&module=second-column-region&pgtype=Homepage&region=top-news

374
390
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared

eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared

667
180
Mercury Spill

jefftk.com/p/mercury-spill

764
359
YC Research

blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research

1776
370
New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft

875
949
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached

nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-is-reached.html?_r=0

478
371
Why the Internet Needs IPFS

techcrunch.com/2015/10/04/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late

341
148
Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-will-ban-sale-of-apple-google-video-streaming-devices

716
529
Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results

transportenvironment.org/press/some-mercedes-bmw-and-peugeot-models-consuming-around-50-more-fuel-official-results-new-study

462
324
Two HN Announcements

blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements

698
284
Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says

nytimes.com/2015/09/29/science/space/mars-life-liquid-water.html

1011
178
Google fixes nearly decade-old Linux kernel TCP bug

bitsup.blogspot.com/2015/09/thanks-google-tcp-team-for-open-source.html

355
46
'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules

latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html

872
196
When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup

medium.com/@michaeldouble/when-your-former-boss-sues-you-for-starting-a-startup-7a1a40e565a0

767
233
Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight

nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?WT.nav=top-news&_r=0&action=click&hp=&module=second-column-region&pgtype=Homepage&region=top-news

830
450
Statistics for Hackers

speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers

341
54
14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

techcrunch.com/2015/09/16/14-year-old-boy-arrested-for-bringing-homemade-clock-to-school

1952
946
Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership

recode.net/2015/09/15/nine-of-the-worlds-biggest-banks-form-blockchain-partnership

460
274
Our First Certificate Is Now Live

letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert.html

1131
255
Python 3.5.0

python.org/downloads/release/python-350

491
154
What Ever Happened to Google Books?

newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books?intcid=mod-latest

303
119
New human-like species discovered

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34192447

635
211
How we ended up with microservices

philcalcado.com/2015/09/08/how_we_ended_up_with_microservices.html

479
90
Node v4.0.0

nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.0.0

1248
267
The Pixel Factory

acko.net/files/gltalks/pixelfactory/online.html

739
47
The Website That Got Me Expelled

codeword.xyz/2015/09/05/the-website-that-got-me-expelled

639
281
Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business

backblaze.com/blog/dont-build-a-billion-dollar-business-really

476
267
New React Developer Tools

facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/09/02/new-react-developer-tools.html

487
126
Google’s look, evolved

googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-update.html

683
430
A native hypervisor is coming to OpenBSD

marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144104398132541&w=2

276
110
Phoenix 1.0

phoenixframework.org/blog

792
223
Who Hacked Ashley Madison?

krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison

410
293
Cat purr generator

mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/catPurrNoiseGenerator.php

289
47
Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game

kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-stockfighter-our-programming-game

365
155
Bootstrap 4 alpha

blog.getbootstrap.com/2015/08/19/bootstrap-4-alpha

655
208
Eve Version 0

chris-granger.com/2015/08/17/version-0

590
190
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html

708
424
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)

npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/10/18/236211811/brains-sweep-themselves-clean-of-toxins-during-sleep

445
184
Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to Microsoft

arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft

453
257
“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”

kickstarter.com/projects/45588301/woolfe-the-red-hood-diaries/posts/1168409

645
374
“Stop reverse engineering our code”

blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t

613
344
G is for Google

googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/google-alphabet.html

2228
562
Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks

hexahedria.com/2015/08/03/composing-music-with-recurrent-neural-networks

443
120
From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth

nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

437
153
Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment

casetext.com/posts/hawaii-bans-non-compete-and-non-solicit-clauses-in-high-tech-employment

533
173
The Web We Have to Save

medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

760
238
Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture

ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/living-in-switzerland-ruined-me-for-america-and-its-lousy-work-culture

427
432
I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults

965
574
Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win

blog.newegg.com/newegg-vs-patent-trolls-when-we-win-you-win

704
151
Using Google without a Google+ profile

googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/everything-in-its-right-place.html

589
273
One in every 600 websites has .git exposed

jamiembrown.com/blog/one-in-every-600-websites-has-git-exposed

424
205
In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me

washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-iraq-i-raided-insurgents-in-virginia-the-police-raided-me/2015/07/24/2e114e54-2b02-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

600
285
The Verge's web sucks

blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks

345
133
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-kepler-mission-discovers-bigger-older-cousin-to-earth

851
294
Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)

idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

988
233
YC Fellowship

blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship

998
378
Tell HN: Hello

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9910487

847
179
Dear Google Mail Team

plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/DiG9qANf5PA

719
260
Two.js

jonobr1.github.io/two.js

613
88
The Icy Mountains of Pluto

nasa.gov/image-feature/the-icy-mountains-of-pluto

591
136
Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-cause-issues-are-on-blocklist

931
377
The Really Big One

newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

612
274
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

nytimes.com/2015/07/11/technology/ellen-pao-reddit-chief-executive-resignation.html?_r=1

862
822
React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery

reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-people-who-know-just-enough-jquery-to-get-by

614
230
Facebook’s Piracy Problem

slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/07/freebooting_stolen_youtube_videos_going_viral_on_facebook.html

439
236
Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”

medium.com/@gavinschalliol/thomas-piketty-germany-has-never-repaid-7b5e7add6fff

427
337
Greece

interfluidity.com/v2/5965.html

236
200
Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_was_riama_along_with_a_number_of_other_large

963
593
Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan

universonline.nl/2015/07/02/dutch-universities-start-their-elsevier-boycott-plan

542
126
Safari is the new IE

nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie

753
356
Tota11y

khan.github.io/tota11y

747
91
Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates

hexatomium.github.io/2015/06/26/ms-very-quietly-adds-18-new-trusted-root-certs

286
136
Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=0&emc=edit_na_20150626&nlid=63565976&ref=headline

1905
1215
Atom 1.0

blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html

1096
442
What's Really Warming the World?

bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world

750
523
To Apple, Love Taylor

taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/122071902085/to-apple-love-taylor

891
512
Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears

rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html

530
109
How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1

quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-games-into-so-little-memory-twenty-five-years-ago/answer/Dave-Baggett?share=1&srid=z9ZA

934
247
From Asm.js to WebAssembly

brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly

897
331
Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909

550
176
LastPass Security Notice

blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html

544
305
Philae comet lander wakes up

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885

922
155
How to Make Almost Anything

fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.09

477
35
What Is Code?

bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code

1384
355
It's the Future

blog.circleci.com/its-the-future

583
139
“Swift will be open source later this year”

apple.com/live/2015-june-event/9d2ad033-d197-4009-96a7-2a97fd044cb7

1334
548
Chalkboard drawings frozen in time for 100 years discovered in Oklahoma school

washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/06/eerie-chalkboard-drawings-frozen-in-time-for-100-years-discovered-in-oklahoma-school

264
85
FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’

washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/04/fbi-official-companies-should-help-us-prevent-encryption-above-all-else

519
319
Let Snowden Come Home

newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/its-time-to-let-edward-snowden-come-home

785
296
Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell

blogs.msdn.com/b/looking_forward_microsoft__support_for_secure_shell_ssh1/archive/2015/06/02/managing-looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh.aspx

828
390
Section 215 Expires For Now

eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/section-215-expires-now

471
158
GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub

blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github

1038
169
Rearchitecting GitHub Pages

githubengineering.com/rearchitecting-github-pages

477
149
Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat

quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_native_l.html

605
505
John Nash Has Died

nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/famed_a_beautiful_mind_mathematician_wife_killed_in_taxi_crash_police_say.html

1282
249
Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com/2015/05/tracking-protection-for-firefox-at-web.html

491
288
Solved by Flexbox

philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox

671
123
Time-Lapse Mining from Internet Photos

grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse

408
36
Announcing Rust 1.0

blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html

1363
306
Lily – Drone camera

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9532777

1397
480
Postgres gets support for upsert

git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=168d5805e4c08bed7b95d351bf097cff7c07dd65

1003
109
U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court

reuters.com/article/2015/05/07/us-usa-security-nsa-idUSKBN0NS1IN20150507

653
143
I would have hired Doug, but...

liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.html

505
238
Cops: We Need Rights More Than You, Citizen

popehat.com/2015/04/29/cops-we-need-rights-more-than-you-citizen

411
163
Tesla Energy

teslamotors.com/presskit/teslaenergy

1162
566
Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

messages.yale.edu/messages/University/univmsgs/detail/121669

1014
89
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-shocks-the-world-with-visual-studio-code-a-free-code-editor-for-os-x-linux-and-windows

1608
543
The days are long but the decades are short

blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short

1163
387
Console.mihai();

incompleteness.me/blog/2015/02/09/console-dot-mihai

1445
50
Docker without Docker

chimeracoder.github.io/docker-without-docker

681
97
Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support

forums.getpebble.com/discussion/22081/apple-now-rejecting-apps-with-pebble-smartwatch-support

702
407
Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads

aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-reads

605
144
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000

washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

338
78
OS X Reviewed

hypercritical.co/2015/04/15/os-x-reviewed

461
109
Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw

huffingtonpost.in/2015/04/15/internetorg-withdrawal_n_7071532.html

602
195
To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)

hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-employees-work-from-home

543
225
Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)

improvingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/programmers-before-you-turn-40-get-a-plan-b

351
289
Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks

blog.easydns.org/2015/04/10/why-we-will-not-be-registering-easydns-sucks

320
119
Fearless concurrency with Rust

blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html

542
179
Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X

truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-api-to-root-privileges-in-apple-os-x

920
356
I Quit: What really goes on at Apple

roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple

1215
544
What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years

talkingquickly.co.uk/2015/04/what-id-tell-myself-about-startups

865
275
Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn

animalnewyork.com/2015/theres-a-massive-illicit-bust-of-edward-snowden-stuck-to-a-war-monument-in-brooklyn

696
360
Why the name?

wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName

352
93
Truecrypt report

blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/truecrypt-report.html

479
174
Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition

news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/new-admits-finaid-032715.html

597
273
Slack was hacked

slackhq.com/post/114696167740/march-2015-security-incident-and-launch-of-2fa

857
497
Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award

newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/michael-stonebraker-wins-turing-award-0325

528
74
I Gave My Child Autism

backfromnature.org/2015/03/i-gave-my-child-autism.html

241
124
Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper

npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/20/394340722/john-urschel-ravens-offensive-lineman-publishes-math-paper

495
124
Replacing Photoshop with NSString

cocoamine.net/blog/2015/03/20/replacing-photoshop-with-nsstring

680
126
We are under attack

en.greatfire.org/blog/2015/mar/we-are-under-attack

839
263
I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode

modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name

610
360
Khan Academy: Algorithms

khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/algorithms

358
69
SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls

github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/3cf493d4018042c70a4db733dd38f96896cd825f/src/os.h

792
108
Sir Terry Pratchett has died

bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

1019
223
Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

developer.olery.com/blog/goodbye-mongodb-hello-postgresql

802
374
Announcing Starfighter

kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter

932
400
On Secretly Terrible Engineers

techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers

463
379
This bakery will hire anyone

grist.org/food/felons-addicts-immigrants-this-bakery-will-hire-anyone

373
168
Fired

zachholman.com/posts/fired

1039
389
VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation

sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit

664
289
My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

vice.com/en_uk/read/the-night-my-girlfriend-forgot-who-i-was-944

605
194
IPython 3.0 released

ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/whatsnew/version3.html

342
37
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=tw-bna

1584
165
FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

techcrunch.com/2015/02/26/fcc-passes-strict-net-neutrality-regulations-on-3-2-vote

1489
711
It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

schneier.com/essays/archives/2014/02/its_time_to_break_up.html

638
133
Introducing Pebble Time

kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises

658
386
“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014

eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/laura-poitras-citizenfour-awarded-oscar-best-documentary-2014

647
156
“Just the Beginning of What We Can Do on Super Nintendo”

blog.attractmo.de/post/111642896790/this-is-just-the-beginning-of-what-we-can-do-on

310
49
Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/19/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-new-computers

1142
419
Whiteboard Clock

docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/197pwFltWL2HPnOAmC840sPHhjxqxiOnNVOuI_dnLLb4/pub

784
82
An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split

blog.anylistapp.com/2015/02/open-letter-to-tim-cook-regarding-app-store-revenue-split

389
216
“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last

870
362
Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815

1174
636
Deleting any Facebook album

7xter.com/2015/02/how-i-hacked-your-facebook-photos.html

506
97
Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY

blog.chromium.org/2015/02/hello-http2-goodbye-spdy-http-is_9.html

426
179
Modern SQL in PostgreSQL

slideshare.net/MarkusWinand/modern-sql

446
130
First Impressions Using React Native

jlongster.com/First-Impressions-using-React-Native

539
191
Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke

2088
453
CoreCLR is now open source

blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/02/03/coreclr-is-now-open-source.aspx

709
333
Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2

dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support

723
373
Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens

washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens

485
295
Screw motivation, what you need is discipline

wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-is-discipline

551
116
EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying

eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-battle-over-secret-legal-opinions-government-spying

582
64
Firefox Hello

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello

713
225
YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html

1035
393
EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/effs-game-plan-ending-global-mass-surveillance

678
151
I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure

aclu.org/blog/free-speech-national-security-technology-and-liberty/i-was-arrested-learning-foreign-language-t

485
227
Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter

eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/britons-you-have-72-hours-stop-snoopers-charter

700
105
What should I do about YouTube?

zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108898194009/what-should-i-do-about-youtube

1391
290
A better pull request

developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/01/a-better-pull-request

479
161
Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster

aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

812
309
New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle

spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html

463
273
Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

medium.com/@WhatALongHandle/hi-its-google-corporate-development-d0c77fd69191

1227
278
What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps

howtogeek.com/198622/heres-what-happens-when-you-install-the-top-10-download.com-apps?PageSpeed=noscript

740
384
We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2015/01/10/we-re-moving-to-github.aspx

493
220
How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator

medium.com/backchannel/how-i-f-ed-up-in-ycombinator-35a19e7ace68?hn=1

379
125
Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha

blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html

894
243
Intel Compute Stick

intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.html

929
335
Elon Musk AMA

reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk_ceocto_of_a_rocket_company_ama

569
152
A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building

stories.californiasunday.com/2015-01-04/begich-towers-whittier-alaska

673
177
Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future

medium.com/@hansdezwart/ai-weiwei-is-living-in-our-future-474e5dd15e4f

514
170