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Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-apple-tax-on-its-853m-in-annual-ios-revenue

594
383
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018

753
211
Please do not attempt to simplify this code

github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e59395376fa191d7c56a74f53936b7653/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go

1552
627
New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers

nytimes.com/2018/12/24/well/mind/work-schedule-hours-sleep-productivity-chronotype-night-owls.html

478
270
DOOMBA

richwhitehouse.com/index.php?postid=72

687
36
Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

e-pluribusunum.org/2018/12/21/congress-made-open-government-data-the-default-in-the-united-states

1130
154
Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939

710
194
Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

1562
417
My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley

wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley

467
40
Robinhood launches 3% checking account

techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/robinhood-free-checking-and-savings-accounts

972
661
Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

namepros.com/blog/confirmed-duck-com-transfers-to-duckduckgo.1113728

1065
410
Firefox 64 Released

hacks.mozilla.org/2018/12/firefox-64-released

954
513
Why Not to Use Quora

waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora

500
186
JIRA is an antipattern

techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern

1012
367
Facial recognition: It’s time for action

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/12/06/facial-recognition-its-time-for-action

877
270
Goodbye, EdgeHTML

blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge

1178
657
Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-has-arrested-huaweis-global-chief-financial-officer-in

1081
586
Quora User Data Compromised

blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update?share=1

1254
505
I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier

cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html

574
312
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

jeremykun.com/2018/12/01/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics

937
214
Go 2, here we come

blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come

816
516
Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

nytimes.com/2018/11/28/sports/magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-world-chess-championship.html

569
215
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly

medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb

1652
840
Backdoor in event-stream library dependency

github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116

1034
491
Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research

newscientist.com/article/mg24032052-900-time-to-break-academic-publishings-stranglehold-on-research

697
300
Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup

blog.cloudflare.com/every-7-8us-your-computers-memory-has-a-hiccup

570
94
Thank you to dang and sctb

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512304

950
123
Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts

scientificamerican.com/article/silent-and-simple-ion-engine-powers-a-plane-with-no-moving-parts

662
223
The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public

longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public

479
237
AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details

fuse.wikichip.org/news/1815/amd-discloses-initial-zen-2-details

446
197
Story of a failed pentest

threader.app/thread/1063423110513418240

1147
167
International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

npl.co.uk/news/international-system-of-units-overhauled-in-historic-vote

834
576
Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html

892
217
Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy

529
174
Medium is a poor choice for blogging

medium.com/@nikitonsky/medium-is-a-poor-choice-for-blogging-bb0048d19133

909
374
Building your color palette

refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette

705
115
Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR

occrp.org/en/40-press-releases/presss-releases/8875-occrp-strongly-objects-to-romania-s-misuse-of-gdpr-to-muzzle-media?fbclid=IwAR3oyyn-S4AchYYnsQlw_jZASnHclQxLPwS66IsgF19W73WjtFXYU-FhuYM

723
190
Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too

torrentfreak.com/swedish-isp-protest-site-blocking-by-blocking-rightsholders-website-and-more-181102

455
116
Apple's New Map

justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps

1250
365
iPhones are allergic to helium

ifixit.org/blog/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium

1289
340
Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

cnbc.com/2018/09/05/facebook-exodus-44-percent-of-americans-age-18-29-have-deleted-app.html

1213
567
IBM acquires Red Hat

redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-hybrid-cloud-provider

2611
1052
Hubble is back

nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/update-on-the-hubble-space-telescope-safe-mode

768
117
Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI

blog.insightdatascience.com/generating-custom-photo-realistic-faces-using-ai-d170b1b59255

569
116
iPhones are hard to use

blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse

976
636
Who Are My Investors?

avc.com/2018/10/who-are-my-investors

500
253
Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews

theguardian.com/money/2018/oct/20/facebook-fake-amazon-review-factories-uncovered-which-investigation

598
313
Japan's Hometown Tax

kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax

847
249
What I loved about Paul Allen

gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Remembering-Paul-Allen?WT.mc_id=10_16_2018_10_PaulAllen_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW&linkId=58288095

964
114
Paul Allen has died

cnbc.com/2018/10/15/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-dies-of-cancer-at-age-65.html

2901
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Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network

globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/10/1619375/0/en/Microsoft-Joins-the-Open-Invention-Network-Community.html

809
371
Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe

1613
699
InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely

businessinsider.com/invision-startup-all-employees-work-remotely-2018-9

482
225
An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s

artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-artwork-banksy-shredded-selling-13-million-sothebys

621
290
Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack

lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/10/05/making-sense-of-the-supermicro-motherboard-attack

707
313
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple

bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

2493
770
Do You Really Know CORS?

performantcode.com/web/do-you-really-know-cors

603
124
Coders Automating Their Own Job

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795?single_page=true

991
485
More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued

blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued

689
100
Questions

patrickcollison.com/questions

1106
470
Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

1677
609
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information

gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-co-1828476051

1359
458
Why I’m done with Chrome

blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome

2357
838
Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china

541
289
Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/18/paradise-life-spanish-city-banned-cars-pontevedra

1240
679
EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680

1367
708
Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFy+Hv9O5citAawS+mVZO+ywCKd9NQ2wxUmGsz9ZJzqgJQ@mail.gmail.com

2585
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Apple's best product is now privacy

fastcompany.com/90236195/forget-the-new-iphones-apples-best-product-is-now-privacy

717
418
SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/seti-neural-networks-spot-dozens-of-new-mysterious-signals-emanating-from-distant-galaxy

798
528
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved

1737
1009
Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

recode.net/2018/9/10/17797720/amazon-is-stuffing-its-search-results-pages-with-ads

944
545
How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC

blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-handles-two-and-half-million-concurrent-voice-users-using-webrtc-ce01c3187429

649
244
Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms

techcrunch.com/2018/09/07/a-dozen-popular-iphone-apps-caught-quietly-sending-user-locations-to-monetization-firms

677
252
Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410

1572
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Google Dataset Search

toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch

1035
76
A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

independent.co.uk/life-style/fall-asleep-two-minutes-how-to-military-secret-trick-a8520991.html

829
224
How to teach yourself hard things

jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-practice

434
79
EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time

theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/eu-recommend-member-states-abolish-daylight-saving-time

602
362
Bullshit Jobs

slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/29/bullst-jobs-part-1-of-%E2%88%9E

964
556
Go 2 Draft Designs

go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft.md

909
473
Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System

twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376

948
555
Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

perens.com/2018/08/22/new-intel-microcode-license-restriction-is-not-acceptable

1318
484
Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Steam-Play-Proton-Linux

819
322
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality

techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/twenty-two-states-ask-appeals-court-to-bring-back-net-neutrality

675
242
Don’t Do This in Production

stephenmann.io/post/dont-do-this-in-production

696
284
NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082

931
507
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets

mchap.io/using-foia-data-and-unix-to-halve-major-source-of-parking-tickets.html

769
237
Thank you HN

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745688

1370
137
Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)

blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25

301
110
1/0 = 0

hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero

650
570
Julia 1.0

julialang.org/blog/2018/08/one-point-zero

915
434
Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

medium.com/the-set-list/google-amp-a-70-drop-in-our-conversion-rate-35fe3cb69c59

948
386
Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/trusted-by-all-major-root-programs.html

1532
144
You don’t need standups

medium.com/@jsonpify/you-dont-need-standup-9a74782517c1

677
333
Learning Math for Machine Learning

blog.ycombinator.com/learning-math-for-machine-learning

695
117
Amazon Dark Patterns

netinstructions.com/amazon-dark-patterns

1056
272
Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times

john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same-cd-300-times

761
246
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions?via=twitter_page

638
230
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know

711
263
Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software

1006
710
Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44952710

1104
472
Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neutered-employee-phishing

775
409
Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities

blog.ptsecurity.com/2018/07/intel-patches-new-me-vulnerabilities.html

633
327
How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

theoutline.com/post/5495/how-to-beat-linked-in-the-game

502
170
The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

717
207
Farewell, Google Maps

inderapotheke.de/blog/farewell-google-maps

1747
527
Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day

techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/prime-down-amazons-sale-day-turns-into-fail-day

646
360
Async and Await in Rust: a full proposal

boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2018-04-06-async-await-final

388
190
The hotel bathroom puzzle

nevalalee.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/the-hotel-bathroom-puzzle

561
260
“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-July/005664.html

2024
721
The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand

gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252

579
321
China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP

tomshardware.com/news/china-zen-x86-processor-dryhana,37417.html

458
297
EU copyright law proposal rejected

twitter.com/Senficon/status/1014814460488413185

1847
314
Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnwl-dwqx5xl0s65DE3wO8/edit

1207
245
How to get kids to pay attention

npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/621752789/a-lost-secret-how-to-get-kids-to-pay-attention

670
267
Why you should not use Google Cloud

medium.com/@serverpunch/why-you-should-not-use-google-cloud-75ea2aec00de

895
357
Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up

718
569
Norwegian Consumer Council report on how tech companies use dark patterns [pdf]

fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf

731
160
Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers

theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/25/mumbai-india-bans-plastic-bags-and-bottles

812
354
Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall

thehustle.co/why-nobody-ever-wins-the-mall-car-giveaway

1104
447
Twitter ‘smytes’ customers

techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers

1422
551
Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/technology/personaltech/firefox-chrome-browser-privacy.html

1558
722
Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide

blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide

1473
426
YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618

1129
250
Forgotten Employee (2002)

sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee

520
166
No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)

m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-law-the-real-reason-for-germany-s-industrial-expansion-a-710976.html

429
168
GitLab Web IDE

about.gitlab.com/2018/06/15/introducing-gitlab-s-integrated-development-environment

776
273
Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say

nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-manipulation.html

574
388
Hair Ice

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_ice

405
69
Alternatives to Google Products

restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives

1169
504
Why does a spray bottle work?

alexanderellis.github.io/blog/posts/check-valve

601
123
Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened

720
500
Hello, GitHub

natfriedman.github.io/hello

1498
644
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

2873
1436
MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/course/9-11-the-human-brain

709
69
Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox

trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2018Rome/Notes/FusionProject

757
239
Gnome has moved to GitLab

about.gitlab.com/2018/05/31/welcome-gnome-to-gitlab

640
201
Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/29/why-thousands-of-ai-researchers-are-boycotting-the-new-nature-journal

805
221
Python’s For - Else

book.pythontips.com/en/latest/for_-_else.html

469
242
The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill

azeria-labs.com/the-importance-of-deep-work-the-30-hour-method-for-learning-a-new-skill

1331
197
GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers

apility.io/2018/05/25/gdpr-lazy-block-eu-users-cloudflare-workers

755
1467
Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974

1314
710
Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions

ccn.com/bitcoin-gold-hit-by-double-spend-attack-exchanges-lose-millions

973
531
I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned

twitter.com/Suhail/status/998660806005768192

563
188
82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding

aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html

709
214
The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written

quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-software-code-ever-written/answer/John-Byrd-2

1493
481
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data

zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data

1630
625
Completely Silent Computer

tp69.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/completely-silent-computer

1087
489
John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories

m.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=100006735798590&story_fbid=2146412825593223

1075
366
Safe ways to do things in bash

github.com/anordal/shellharden/blob/master/how_to_do_things_safely_in_bash.md

892
240
Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely

foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane-emission

915
264
What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (2012)

javlaskitsystem.se/2012/02/whats-the-waiter-doing-with-the-computer-screen

471
186
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

1875
750
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming

byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming

2074
310
Subscription Hell

techcrunch.com/2018/05/06/subscription-hell

745
597
“Manager READMEs” from some tech companies

hackernoon.com/12-manager-readmes-from-silicon-valleys-top-tech-companies-26588a660afe

394
99
Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)

medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7

910
384
Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'

reuters.com/article/us-twitter-passwords/twitter-says-glitch-exposed-substantial-number-of-users-passwords-idUSKBN1I42JG?il=0

661
462
AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1

dslreports.com/forum/r31901625-New-BGW-210-700-Firmware-1-5-11

999
367
IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)

rogerschank.com/fraudulent-claims-made-by-IBM-about-Watson-and-AI

904
435
Make your own sourdough

github.com/hendricius/the-bread-code/blob/master/basics/sourdough.md

619
204
EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides

theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides

1022
314
Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App

matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app

738
198
Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online

msn.com/en-us/news/us/medicare-will-require-hospitals-to-post-prices-online/ar-AAwiccI

1015
544
Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours

doublepulsar.com/hijack-of-amazons-internet-domain-service-used-to-reroute-web-traffic-for-two-hours-unnoticed-3a6f0dda6a6f

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A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

cjr.org/the_profile/mariel-padilla-pulizter-cincinnnati.php

614
101
Apple open-sources FoundationDB

foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-is-open-source

2136
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No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login

freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/18/no-boundaries-for-facebook-data-third-party-trackers-abuse-facebook-login

601
117
Facebook Container for Firefox

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer

1274
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Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-information-request-privacy-breach-teen-speaks-out-1.4621970

793
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H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017)

propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it

631
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Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/12/non-profits-300-hepatitis-c-cure-as-effective-as-84000-alternative

874
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Fuchsia is not Linux

fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/the-book

784
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Productivity

blog.samaltman.com/productivity

1264
399
AV1: A new general-purpose video codec

people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/av1/demo1.shtml

909
243
Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is

baekdal.com/strategy/publishers-havent-realized-just-how-big-a-deal-gdpr-is

607
454
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user

jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user

1023
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Berkeley offers its data science course online for free

news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/berkeley-offers-its-fastest-growing-course-data-science-online-for-free

801
158
Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html

1368
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Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-plans-to-move-from-intel-to-own-mac-chips-from-2020

1302
1111
It's time to head back to RSS?

wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader

1501
491
FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services

fcc.gov/document/fcc-authorizes-spacex-provide-broadband-satellite-services

691
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Au Revoir

blog.docker.com/2018/03/au-revoir

898
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Avoid Else, Return Early (2013)

blog.timoxley.com/post/47041269194/avoid-else-return-early

682
578
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/facebook-scraped-call-text-message-data-for-years-from-android-phones

800
201
Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php

1149
100
Congrats Dropbox

blog.ycombinator.com/congratsdropbox

1543
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Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/users-abandon-facebook.html

706
328
Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

twitter.com/tempepolice/status/976585098542833664?s=21

1108
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Blocklist Facebook domains

github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporations/facebook/all

1349
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Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/self-driving-uber-car-kills-arizona-woman-crossing-street-idUSKBN1GV296

2361
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“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

reddit.com/r/google/comments/85atho/pinterest_needs_to_be_removed_from_google_imo

1155
268
Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture

theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/15/can-we-fix-it-the-repair-cafes-waging-war-on-throwaway-culture

571
364
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains

reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10S

827
562
ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live

community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579

1024
310
Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]

youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=AvFNCNOyZeE

796
85
A Career Cold Start Algorithm

boz.com/articles/career-cold-start.html

792
168
Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

petapixel.com/2018/03/07/two-photographers-unknowingly-shot-millisecond-time

1397
215
Coinbase Index Fund

blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbase-index-fund-3925fbf548db

509
321
Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe

techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/facebooks-tracking-of-non-users-ruled-illegal-again

1034
379
How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

medium.com/@konarkmodi/how-airlines-dont-care-about-your-privacy-case-study-emirates-com-6271b3b8474b

465
174
Machine Learning Crash Course

developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course

1926
222
Pricing low-touch SaaS

stripe.com/atlas/guides/saas-pricing

655
182
How poverty changes your mindset

review.chicagobooth.edu/behavioral-science/2018/article/how-poverty-changes-your-mind-set

777
522
Signal Foundation

signal.org/blog/signal-foundation

1314
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JupyterLab is ready for users

blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-is-ready-for-users-5a6f039b8906

958
248
Asciinema 2.0

blog.asciinema.org/post/two-point-o

412
46
MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images

bombich.com/blog/2018/02/15/macos-may-lose-data-on-apfs-formatted-disk-images

396
180
OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble

blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble

1062
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Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-view-image-button-from-search-results

658
374
Email is your electronic memory

blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-memory

1248
282
Who Killed the Junior Developer?

medium.com/@melissamcewen/who-killed-the-junior-developer-33e9da2dc58c

803
777
Let’s talk about usernames

b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames

900
429
Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

abe-winter.github.io/plea's/help/2018/02/11/slack.html

461
250
VLC 3.0 release

videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html

827
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Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html

806
812
John Perry Barlow has died

eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

1485
126
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

techcrunch.com/2018/02/06/spacexs-historic-falcon-heavy-successfully-launches?ncid=rss

2968
871
Modern CSS Explained

medium.com/actualize-network/modern-css-explained-for-dinosaurs-5226febe3525

762
137
50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F

450
38
John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google

spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/from-stanford-university-president-to-chairman-of-alphabetgoogle

455
101
Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice

med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/01/cancer-vaccine-eliminates-tumors-in-mice.html

942
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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-to-create-healthcare-company-jd1lraa9

1070
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Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

securityweek.com/microsoft-disables-spectre-mitigations-due-instability

757
315
Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases

twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/957317886112124928

695
267
The Follower Factory

nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html

432
165
NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive

skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/nasas-long-dead-image-satellite-is-alive

826
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Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

ac.els-cdn.com/S1064748117305110/1-s2.0-S1064748117305110-main.pdf?_tid=55b0e2e0-013c-11e8-b35b-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1516822117_7ded3d2cd7f5c27fedf6a8992e549857

726
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Ursula Le Guin has died

nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

1125
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The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

dwmkerr.com/the-death-of-microservice-madness-in-2018

993
441
Intel Has a Big Problem

bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it

780
337
Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-faster-firefoxs-new-streaming-and-tiering-compiler

912
220
Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/01/16/mozilla-files-suit-fcc-protect-net-neutrality

1360
186
Google Memory Loss

tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is-losing-its-memory

1377
539
CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

thedailybeast.com/ces-was-full-of-useless-robots-and-machines-that-dont-work

492
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Aaron, 5 years later

bensw.com/blog/Aaron-5-Years-Later

1009
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Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime

eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-down-violating-websites-terms-service-not-crime

689
161
The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900

759
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Why Am I So Lazy?

thecut.com/2018/01/ask-polly-why-am-i-so-lazy.html

472
230
Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash

zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/06/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash

781
268
Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown

raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown

1603
215
Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

2334
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The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches

pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table

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