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IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-reforms-free-file-program-drops-agreement-not-to-compete-with-turbotax

1721
448
Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code

https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/encoding-wifi-access-point-passwords-qr-code/

685
227
My Business Card Runs Linux

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/

2595
397
Downsides to working at a tech giant

https://blog.garrytan.com/working-for-microsoft-cost-me-200-dollars-million

700
559
Fast

https://patrickcollison.com/fast

1314
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This Page is Designed to Last

https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/

1321
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/12/amazon-apple-google-and-the-zigbee-alliance-to-develop-connectivity-standard/

740
355
Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

807
822
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/nebraska-farmers-vote-overwhelmingly-right-repair

1536
429
JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

https://twitter.com/chetanp/status/1205907182396395525

1168
662
Having Kids

http://paulgraham.com/kids.html

1992
863
Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/

787
289
Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/learning-for-a-living/

1673
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ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-zedripper-part-1/

814
149
WireGuard is in net-next

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd

567
205
Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/verizon-yahoo-bad-form/

1393
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The Lesson to Unlearn

http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html

1333
565
The Great Cannon has been deployed again

https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again

1043
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Fight back against Google AMP (2018)

https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/

895
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

https://blog.google/inside-google/alphabet/letter-from-larry-and-sergey

1204
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy

https://telegra.ph/Private-Internet-Access-VPN-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-Israeli-spies-12-01

1004
359
The world needs more search engines

https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/the-world-needs-cliqz-the-world-needs-more-search-engines.html

795
519
Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)

https://0a.io/chapter1/calculus-explained.html

770
67
ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B

https://www.keypointsabout.org/blog/advancing-the-internet-societys-mission-into-the-future

994
247
Firefox Replay

https://firefox-replay.com/

1596
286
Lessons learned building an ML trading system

https://www.tradientblog.com/2019/11/lessons-learned-building-an-ml-trading-system-that-turned-5k-into-200k/

914
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Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA

https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/

1240
466
Interactive Linear Algebra

https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/

981
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Tesla Cybertruck

https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

1765
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Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/11/20/slack-rich-text-box/

2776
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How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf

907
344
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

https://twitter.com/DDoSecrets/status/1195899716653010945

1549
468
Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/userspace-usb-drivers

872
114
Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/

741
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Build Your Own React

https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/

1478
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16-inch MacBook Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-inch-macbook-pro-the-worlds-best-pro-notebook/

1840
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Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops

2063
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Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'

https://blog.nuclino.com/makers-don-t-let-yourself-be-forced-into-the-manager-schedule

798
386
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-208-million-its-collected-6-790-11553770803?mod=rsswn

914
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Async-await on stable Rust

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/11/07/Async-await-stable.html

1102
380
Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-saudi-arabia-by-digging-into-the-accounts-of-kingdom-critics/2019/11/06/2e9593da-00a0-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

712
323
Stripe CLI

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-cli

706
144
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/

1675
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Build Your Own X

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

867
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Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/01/google-to-acquire-fitbit-valuing-the-smartwatch-maker-at-about-2point1-billion.html

946
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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb

1324
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Twitter to ban political advertising

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952

2447
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Text Editing Hates You Too

https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/

875
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The “Talk”

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

877
112
An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools

https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools/

636
102
Perfectly Cropped

https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/

1232
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Firefox 70

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefox-70-a-bountiful-release-for-all/

1595
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NordVPN confirms it was hacked

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/

1368
642
Lesser Known Coding Fonts

https://vfoley.xyz/lesser-known-coding-fonts/

640
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My Favourite Git Commit

https://fatbusinessman.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit

1313
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TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

1519
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Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-October/004596.html

1438
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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

https://twitter.com/Timcammm/status/1183782929614409729

1385
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What’s New in Python 3.8

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html

833
367
Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era

896
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Why Enterprise Software Sucks

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776

1310
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Broken

https://tyler.io/broken/

1354
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Ken Thompson's Unix Password

https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html

2101
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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-hides-taiwan-flag-in-hong-kong/

1456
686
Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence

https://blog.stephsmith.io/learning-to-write-with-confidence/

529
83
Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access

https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/10/04/google-xiaomi-and-huawei-devices-affected-by-zero-day-flaw-that-unlocks-root-access/

411
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Pricing niche products

https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/

769
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Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption

1325
558
Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21133181

942
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WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo/wework-says-will-file-to-withdraw-ipo-idUSKBN1WF1NS

645
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Starship Prototype Unveiled

https://www.space.com/elon-musk-unveils-spacex-starship-2019-update.html

543
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Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/daim1y/ms_has_removed_the_use_offline_account_option/

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Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045

785
368
Programming Idioms

https://www.programming-idioms.org

532
150
WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-capitalism

1158
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Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bike-crash-left-spokane-man-unconscious-but-his-apple-watch-called-911

1105
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Serverless: slower and more expensive

http://einaregilsson.com/serverless-15-percent-slower-and-eight-times-more-expensive/

1787
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Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/all-the-lonely-people-are-men-a-fifth-have-no-friends-6rzvhl736

639
408
Pure Bash Bible

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

746
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Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml

1606
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Richard M. Stallman resigns

https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns

1747
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The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b

2010
451
France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency-france-german/france-and-germany-agree-to-block-facebooks-libra-idUSKCN1VY1XU

1255
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Get Started Making Music

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

1085
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California bans private prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/12/california-private-prison-ban-immigration-ice

1952
597
Edward Snowden: Permanent Record

https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden/dp/1250237238

759
429
Uber lays off 435 people

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/10/uber-lays-off-435-people-across-engineering-and-product-teams/

976
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Sunsetting Python 2

https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

1616
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Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986

https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781

545
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Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/business/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joichi-ito.html#

806
694
Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer

https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/

745
378
How to do a code review

https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/

1471
367
Google’s GDPR Workaround

https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/

1868
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Firefox 69.0 Released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/

563
300
Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/09/02/hong-kong-protestors-using-mesh-messaging-app-china-cant-block-usage-up-3685/#382a2076135a

609
216
Ask HN: How Do You Read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847508

686
247
A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html

804
182
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app

https://medium.com/@mmathieum/google-just-deleted-my-nearly-10-year-old-free-open-source-android-app-7fbc52edc50a

1400
581
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

https://kevq.uk/please-add-rss-support-to-your-site

904
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Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)

https://twitter.com/lizhenry/status/1165760903809130496

497
117
What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/1165493206441779200

1041
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Software Architecture Guide

https://martinfowler.com/architecture/

803
288
Introducing nushell

http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html

1477
369
Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

https://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2019/08/why-all-of-our-games-look-like-crap.html

762
540
16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614148/16-million-americans-will-vote-on-hackable-paperless-voting-machines/

567
491
IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/

587
277
I Miss Microsoft Encarta

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IMissMicrosoftEncarta.aspx

1198
406
We Have Ruined Childhood

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/childhood-suicide-depression-anxiety.html

571
484
WeWTF

https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf

840
278
Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-khara-moving-to-blender/

937
225
Cloudflare S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519222176/d735023ds1.htm

915
351
Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/health/tuberculosis-xdr-tb-cure.html

511
43
Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

https://sparktoro.com/blog/less-than-half-of-google-searches-now-result-in-a-click/

755
513
Ebola Is Now Curable

https://www.wired.com/story/ebola-is-now-curable-heres-how-the-new-treatments-work/

1232
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US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls

822
442
Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

https://www.quora.com/Experienced-programmers-and-computer-scientists-what-are-some-really-old-or-even-nearly-forgotten-books-you-think-every-new-programmer-should-read/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1

1181
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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news

1663
777
Why is modern web development so complicated?

https://www.vrk.dev/2019/07/11/why-is-modern-web-development-so-complicated-a-long-yet-hasty-explanation-part-1/

819
711
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)

https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/

1724
214
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

https://medium.com/@bellmar/all-the-best-engineering-advice-i-stole-from-non-technical-people-eb7f90ca2f5f

1230
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Hy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy

850
141
Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599752

486
239
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

692
640
Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage

https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-megapack-utility-scale-energy-storage

601
262
Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer

https://harry.garrood.me/blog/malicious-code-in-purescript-npm-installer/

521
267
Adblocking: How about Nah?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

918
534
Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-computer-science-conjecture-in-two-pages-20190725/

752
70
Saving Lydia

https://medium.com/lydian-accelerator/saving-lydia-62a1c0bdf0fb

639
111
Visual Information Theory (2015)

https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/

543
45
How is it like to be a dev in Iran

https://shahinsorkh.ir/2019/07/20/how-is-it-like-to-be-a-dev-in-iran

745
417
I work in an Amazon warehouse in West Sacramento

https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-journalism/

372
261
MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114

1336
453
What's Coming in Python 3.8

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793818/0c6f9dd271021cd4/

638
536
YouTube video has its own URL in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6L__oR1O9A

681
147
To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/to-break-google-s-monopoly-on-search-make-its-index-public

859
597
Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-uc-elsevier-20190711-story.html

626
297
Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage-on-july-2-2019/

698
149
I Can’t Stop Winning

https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/

786
214
Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5

1937
456
How to write idempotent Bash scripts

https://arslan.io/2019/07/03/how-to-write-idempotent-bash-scripts/

655
189
Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/05/goodbye-aberration-physicist-solves-2000-year-old-optical-problem/

845
207
California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/will-californias-new-bot-law-strengthen-democracy

709
264
Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/tx4pgxs6zxdr

631
310
The German Tank Problem

https://www.eadan.net/blog/german-tank-problem/

422
104
Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple

https://openid.net/2019/06/27/open-letter-from-the-openid-foundation-to-apple-regarding-sign-in-with-apple/

514
137
Microsoft's Linux Kernel

https://github.com/microsoft/WSLv2-Linux-Kernel

801
508
Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side

1091
542
Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386487/why-is-stack-overflow-trying-to-start-audio

909
402
Learning Synths

https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

969
172
Raspberry Pi 4

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35

2504
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Startup idea checklist

https://www.defmacro.org/2019/03/26/startup-checklist.html

1251
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Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

https://returntonow.net/2019/03/04/swedish-couple-builds-greenhouse-around-home-to-stay-warm-and-grow-food-all-year-long/

850
221
Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/hackers-farmers-and-doctors-unite-support-for-right-to-repair-laws-slowly-grows/

707
240
Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa

1014
590
Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

https://decrypt.co/7502/facebook-libra-coin-cryptocurrency-launch-calibra

1176
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Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-purging-touchscreens-from-its-vehicles

2220
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Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml

http://thume.ca/2019/04/29/comparing-compilers-in-rust-haskell-c-and-python/

783
370
Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

https://www.blog.google/technology/area-120/create-3d-games-friends-no-experience-required/

495
138
Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie

https://www.federaltimes.com/your-career/the-bureaucrat/2019/03/07/dear-bureaucrat-my-job-wants-me-to-lie/

587
436
Blender Is Free Software

https://code.blender.org/2019/06/blender-is-free-software/

730
326
Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/make-magazine-maker-media-layoffs/

682
308
Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/

1529
511
The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

https://www.city-journal.org/decline-of-family-loneliness-epidemic

1329
1183
Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/

1069
274
Apple Sign In

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-sign-in-privacy/

1145
528
Google Cloud Is Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421

1395
593
Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-is-preparing-antitrust-investigation-of-google-11559348795

870
414
"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"

https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089

1343
596
Switch from Chrome to Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/

3287
983
Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/

2093
877
I can see your local web servers

http://http.jameshfisher.com/2019/05/26/i-can-see-your-local-web-servers/

652
190
AMD Ryzen 3000 announced

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14407/amd-ryzen-3000-announced-five-cpus-12-cores-for-499-up-to-46-ghz-pcie-40-coming-77

657
339
Scrum is fragile, not Agile

http://www.dennisweyland.net/blog/?p=43

534
322
Self-distancing can help you make better decisions

https://effectiviology.com/self-distancing-rational-decisions/

518
114
I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code

https://djhworld.github.io/post/2019/05/21/i-dont-know-how-cpus-work-so-i-simulated-one-in-code/

892
172
How to do hard things

https://www.drmaciver.com/2019/05/how-to-do-hard-things/

1189
116
Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead

720
332
Can we all stop using Medium now?

https://www.webdistortion.com/2019/05/16/can-we-all-please-stop-using-medium-now/

925
327
I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page

https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page

1148
441
Going Critical

https://www.meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/

989
70
WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones

https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab

939
283
How I Run a Company with ADHD

https://www.andrewaskins.com/how-i-run-a-company-with-adhd/

784
495
Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

https://medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn-language-to-fluency-nearly-as-well-as-children-1de888d1d45f

751
335
GitHub Package Registry

https://github.com/features/package-registry

1181
373
HTTP headers for the responsible developer

https://www.twilio.com/blog/a-http-headers-for-the-responsible-developer

887
98
Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cbsa-boarder-security-search-phone-travellers-openmedia-1.5119017

950
457
Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This

1084
253
Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum

https://www.harshsikka.me/self-studying-the-mit-applied-math-curriculum/

714
96
A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

2195
363
Google Is Eating Our Mail

https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/

1931
685
MuseNet

https://openai.com/blog/musenet/

814
179
Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-diet

650
231
I Sell Onions on the Internet

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/

3015
435
Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

https://smartcar.com/blog/how-otonomo-is-cloning-our-product/

2292
603
Joe Armstrong has died

https://twitter.com/FrancescoC/status/1119596234166218754

1928
188
Mozilla WebThings

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/

621
153
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow

http://traffic-simulation.de/ring.html

752
159
Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/News-Events/News-and-Press-Releases/Press-Releases/Want-learn-new-skill-Take-some-short-breaks

596
120
South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/south-korea-recycling-food-waste/

538
163
Great developers are raised, not hired

https://sizovs.net/2019/04/10/the-best-developers-are-raised-not-hired/

620
329
Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-the-government-from-offering-free-online-tax-filing-thank-turbotax

1034
696
I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could

https://www.doximity.com/doc_news/v2/entries/18293779

729
317
Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-nuclear-power.html

712
712
You Are Not Google (2017)

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

1623
572
Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/us_border_patrol_search_demand_mozilla_cto/

594
360
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/

1920
605
Warp – Mobile VPN

https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/

1211
486
Productivity Is About Attention Management

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html

939
186
Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds-the-saudis-obtained-his-private-information

612
171
Apple Cancels AirPower Product

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-product-citing-inability-to-meet-its-high-standards-for-hardware/

637
480
Why Bother with What Three Words?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-words/

948
323
Facebook to ban white nationalist content

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/standing-against-hate/

890
1525
A guide to difficult conversations

https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-essential-guide-to-difficult-conversations-41f736e63ccf

1829
400
Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number

https://sucky.ninja/blog/twitter-locks-all-new-user-account-in-order-to-force-them-to-give-up-their-phone-numbers

713
361
Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

https://twitter.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1109114656944209921

586
135
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

1252
429
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/19/todays-firefox-aims-to-reduce-your-online-annoyances/

809
557
Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch

https://www.dailyesports.gg/remembering-atta-elayyan-christchurch-shooting-victim/

871
215
Thinkpad X210

https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/

1005
477
Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fdigital%2Fdatenschutz%2F2019-03%2Ftor-netzwerk-darknet-gesetzentwurf-strafverfolgung-internet-kriminalitaet-anonymitaet%2Fkomplettansicht&sandbox=1

763
173
Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

https://internalregister.github.io/2019/03/14/Homebrew-Console.html

2690
210
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/

2031
512
Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/

1057
383
Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/08/citrix_hacked_data_stolen/

531
196
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-amazon.html

733
711
800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service

https://securitydiscovery.com/800-million-emails-leaked-online-by-email-verification-service/

501
211
U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-numbers-showing-users-leaving-facebook-by-the-millions

1293
595
Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html

614
592
Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties

https://digit.fyi/teen-hacker-earns-1m-via-bug-bounties/

583
164
Lyft Files S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759509/000119312519059849/d633517ds1.htm

536
390
UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly

1743
233
Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

1269
140
The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities

https://snyk.io/blog/top-ten-most-popular-docker-images-each-contain-at-least-30-vulnerabilities/

562
159
My Twitch Live Coding Setup

https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2516672fb21

606
113
How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)

https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b

528
162
A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]

http://www.oldlinux.org/download/ECLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf

739
40
Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/

1308
393
U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/civil-asset-forfeiture-supreme-court.html

1426
423
Leukemia Has Won

https://alex.blog/2019/02/18/leukemia-has-won/

1012
184
I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/

873
113
Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch

http://blakesmith.me/2019/01/16/making-my-own-usb-keyboard-from-scratch.html

584
129
Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/dont-get-clever-with-login-forms/

1124
506
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/nyregion/amazon-hq2-queens.html

1066
964
Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

https://www.quora.com/Why-can-t-a-bot-tick-the-Im-not-a-robot-box/answer/Oliver-Emberton?share=1

1002
618
This person does not exist

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

872
236
Google Docs gets an API for task automation

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/google-docs-gets-an-api-for-task-automation/

594
191
On Being a Principal Engineer

https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html

893
331
Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

https://blog.usejournal.com/google-wrongly-terminated-our-new-business-via-our-google-play-developer-account-5f5b7b742542?gi=78a7126ab7f8

1668
498
Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/

799
931
No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f

2444
730
What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/05/what-happened-to-the-100000-hour-led-bulbs/

668
498
Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/firefox-66-to-block-automatically-playing-audible-video-and-audio/

1415
368
Event Sourcing is Hard

https://chriskiehl.com/article/event-sourcing-is-hard

485
157
Dotfile madness

https://0x46.net/thoughts/2019/02/01/dotfile-madness/

1146
514
New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/google-manipulates-users-into-constant-tracking

953
445
Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate

882
641
KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++

https://github.com/ssloy/tinykaboom/wiki

854
63
When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20027122/vanmoof-tv-on-box-damaged-bikes/

586
261
How to Be Successful

http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

894
299
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-why-are-eyeglasses-so-expensive-20190122-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

1158
588
Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

1527
739
I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

https://blog.usejournal.com/i-interviewed-at-six-top-companies-in-silicon-valley-in-six-days-and-stumbled-into-six-job-offers-fe9cc7bbc996

1012
692
Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over

https://newsroom.mastercard.com/2019/01/16/free-trials-without-the-hassle/

716
339
John C. Bogle Has Died

https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-c-bogle-founder-of-vanguard-group-dies-11547677745

1084
200
DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js/

961
468
GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it

https://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2019/01/13/godaddy-is-sneakily-injecting-javascript-into-your-website-and-how-to-stop-it/

949
302
SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-layoffs-20190111-story.html

613
528
I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi

https://onemileatatime.com/google-fi-review/

733
450
How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project

https://campfirelabs.co/blog-1/2019/1/10/how-i-built-a-5000-per-month-side-project

647
239
Sears has another chance to avoid closing down

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/06/sears-rejects-eddie-lamperts-bid-to-save-company-will-liquidate-.html

773
536
Announcing unlimited free private repos

https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

2867
684
Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-16/four-reasons-taxpayers-should-never-subsidize-stadiums

622
279
Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

https://www.atrium.co/blog/founders-should-build-website-not-mobile-app/

1620
559
China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/change4-success.html

1040
226
Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/?

1463
238
Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-worth-of-works-just-fell-into-the-public-domain/

727
307