hackerNews

2

iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry (appleinsider.com)

768 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011603 449 comments

2

Things you can do with a browser in 2020 (github.com)

680 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020032303 370 comments

7

Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize? (item?id=22018946)

658 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011603 694 comments

2

Why I Keep a Research Blog (gregorygundersen.com)

574 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011506 65 comments

1

Visa Buys Plaid (www.wsj.com)

529 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011603 318 comments

2

How to Invest in Startups (blog.samaltman.com)

429 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011512 132 comments

3

On “1195725856” and other mysterious numbers (chrisdown.name)

415 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011503 69 comments

3

Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3 (gregoryszorc.com)

390 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011506 336 comments

13

The “No Code” Delusion (www.alexhudson.com)

352 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011503 303 comments

32

Please make your products work with URLs (anderspitman.net)

320 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011500 327 comments

1

3D Buzz is shutting down (www.3dbuzz.com)

296 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011515 37 comments

4

FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law (www.sciencemag.org)

284 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011603 63 comments

4

Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years (iai.tv)

275 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011503 302 comments

21

Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (endler.dev)

272 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011500 242 comments

8

Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware (ww.9to5google.com)

246 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011503 227 comments

6

New Machine Keeps Human Livers Alive for One Week Outside of the Body (www.media.uzh.ch)

242 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011603 44 comments

5

Online speech recognition with wav2letter anywhere (ai.facebook.com)

224 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011503 58 comments

4

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday (krebsonsecurity.com)

223 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011506 83 comments

13

The End of the Bonus Culture Is Coming to Wall Street (www.bloomberg.com)

214 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011500 209 comments

18

What to do if you’re stopped by the police (cassandraxia.com)

213 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011500 159 comments

13

Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast (martinheinz.dev)

206 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011503 150 comments

11

I reverse-engineered Instagram to find the real first post (birdeatsbug.com)

200 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011500 63 comments

45

Tesla Surges Above $500, Leaving Analyst Targets in the Dust (www.bloomberg.com)

188 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011409 332 comments

3

Toyota will transform 175-acre Japan site into a ‘prototype city of the future’ (www.theverge.com)

186 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011500 198 comments

57

Healthy habits add up to 10 disease-free years to your life, study reveals (www.nhs.uk)

183 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011415 153 comments

25

Education and Men without Work (www.nationalaffairs.com)

177 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011418 282 comments

7

What is music? A unified theory of music and dreaming (whatismusic.info)

175 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011506 63 comments

16

VC List (docs.google.com)

175 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011512 47 comments

9

The deepest hole we have ever dug (www.bbc.com)

171 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011418 102 comments

21

Show HN: Parsr – A toolchain to transform documents in usable structured text (http://par.sr)

170 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011503 22 comments

11

OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration (www.tiny.cloud)

166 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011503 34 comments

19

US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at increasing rate (2019) (america.cgtn.com)

165 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011506 258 comments

6

Show HN: HuggingFace fast tokenization library for deep-learning NLP pipelines (github.com)

162 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011500 41 comments

7

Atrium lays off lawyers, pivots to tools (www.axios.com)

160 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011503 71 comments

20

India's About to Hand People Data Americans Can Only Dream Of (www.bloomberg.com)

157 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011421 18 comments

14

Writing Software to Last 50 Years (bytes.yingw787.com)

154 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011603 125 comments

34

EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones (www.europarl.europa.eu)

151 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011415 166 comments

9

The Status of HTTP/3 (www.infoq.com)

150 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011503 112 comments

11

CleverCSV: A Drop-In Replacement for Python's CSV Module (github.com)

148 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011503 41 comments

13

Tradition Is Smarter (2018) (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

146 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011503 94 comments

22

Florida joins U.S. government in probing foreign ties of researchers (www.sciencemag.org)

145 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011415 83 comments

90

Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free? (thehill.com)

145 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011406 133 comments

23

Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says (www.nytimes.com)

129 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011506 67 comments

5

Away’s Former CEO Is Returning as Co-Chief (www.nytimes.com)

124 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011509 132 comments

18

React-Spring Visualizer (react-spring-visualizer.com)

117 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011500 7 comments

10

Most frequently checked-out books in the history of the New York Public Library (www.wsj.com)

110 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011503 70 comments

16

Emacs Lisp Animations (dantorop.info)

103 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011421 13 comments

32

Ask HN: What Tools Do You Use for “Data Munging”/“Data Merging” (item?id=22034101)

101 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011415 66 comments

15

A billionaire retailer whose shops had no stock (www.bbc.com)

95 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011506 44 comments

37

Highlights from Git 2.25 (github.blog)

91 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011500 22 comments

20

The Deadlock Empire – Slay Dragons, Master Concurrency (2016) (deadlockempire.github.io)

89 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011503 4 comments

12

Panopticon (en.wikipedia.org)

88 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011512 42 comments

25

Stripe launches Increment Magazine print subscription (stripe.com)

87 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011415 50 comments

33

Deep Borehole Disposal (en.wikipedia.org)

82 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011412 71 comments

12

The case for being a medical conservative (www.amjmed.com)

76 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011500 56 comments

17

Computer-Designed Organisms (https://cdorgs.github.io)

76 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011512 4 comments

15

Team Builds the First Living Robots (www.uvm.edu)

74 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011500 36 comments

15

Noether’s Theorem – A Quick Explanation (2019) (quantum-friend-theory.tumblr.com)

67 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011600 29 comments

13

Napoleon’s Vision for a New Imperial Rome (www.thehistoryblog.com)

64 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011518 33 comments

33

Why So Many Londoners Live in 'Two-Up, Two-Down' Housing (www.citylab.com)

63 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011515 85 comments

0

Are Daily Scrum meetings worth it? (blog.valuemotive.com)

61 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011400 84 comments

15

Konrad Hinsen, “Reusable vs. re-editable code” (2018) [pdf] (hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)

61 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011606 3 comments

18

Depending Less on Structure (lmatteis.github.io)

56 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011418 48 comments

36

RedHat urges US Supreme Court to support unrestricted use of software interfaces (www.redhat.com)

56 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011500 12 comments

19

The Teetering Towers of Abstraction (bit-player.org)

55 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020012403 4 comments

26

Vertex Delivered on Cystic Fibrosis (www.statnews.com)

54 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011500 22 comments

39

Trends for Social Networks, Messengers, and Digital Media (consumer.substack.com)

54 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011500 7 comments

29

A Look at Celerity’s Second-Gen 496-Core RISC-V Mesh NoC (fuse.wikichip.org)

51 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011421 14 comments

38

How hard can it be to move our developer account to our new not-for-profit? (ar.al)

47 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011503 19 comments

25

The Director’s Cut: On Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem (inference-review.com)

43 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011503 24 comments

23

Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning – the morning paper (blog.acolyer.org)

41 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011418 5 comments

22

How to Be Good: The Philosopher Derek Parfit (2011) (www.newyorker.com)

41 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011506 5 comments

40

Wireless camera that lasts a month on 2 AA batteries (github.com)

39 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011503 3 comments

64

Sitting on gas lift chairs can generate an EMI spike which blanks your monitor (twitter.com)

31 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011409 2 comments

20

A new approach to making airplane parts, minus the infrastructure (news.mit.edu)

29 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011500 9 comments

54

The Moral Hazard of Dealing with China (www.theatlantic.com)

29 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011406 5 comments

79

Ask HN: Anyone feel Stack Overflow is becoming less helpful and more snarky? (item?id=22037788)

28 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011412 14 comments

53

Avoiding Burnout as an Ambitious Developer (stackoverflow.blog)

27 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011500 0 comments

0

Iran Air Flight 655: US tried to cover up its own destruction of a plane (2014) (slate.com)

25 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011406 2 comments

29

A study of book parts, from frontispiece to endpapers (www.spectator.co.uk)

24 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011500 0 comments

68

Barr Asks Apple to Unlock iPhones of Pensacola Gunman (www.nytimes.com)

24 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011409 5 comments

32

K3c – Classic Docker for a Kubernetes World (github.com)

24 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011500 13 comments

69

Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”–but doesn’t seem to understand it (arstechnica.com)

23 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011406 12 comments

76

FEMA says it may bill fire victims if it can’t get $4B from PG&E (www.sfchronicle.com)

23 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011406 8 comments

54

Lawrence Lessig Sues New York Times for Defamation over Epstein Story (www.thedailybeast.com)

21 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011418 3 comments

65

23andMe sold the rights to a drug it developed from its genetic database (www.theverge.com)

20 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011406 7 comments

73

Schedule Changes with a Baby (twitter.com)

19 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011406 6 comments

56

Lawrence Lessig Sues New York Times over MIT and Jeffrey Epstein Interview (www.theverge.com)

19 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011415 3 comments

31

Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (2006) (xebia.com)

19 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011503 0 comments

82

Bryan Cantrill on Engineering Performance Management (twitter.com)

18 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011415 0 comments

62

Synthesizing Loop-Free Programs with Rust and Z3 (fitzgeraldnick.com)

18 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011500 0 comments

0

The Equality Conundrum: What kind of equality is good? (www.newyorker.com)

17 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011418 28 comments

67

Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates (www.theguardian.com)

16 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011409 6 comments

37

A study examined coordinated care for the most expensive patients (www.nytimes.com)

16 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011503 17 comments

58

Tips to be more productive with Kubernetes (www.learncloudnative.com)

16 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011503 2 comments

0

I broke Giant’s handheld scanner system by only buying two things (arstechnica.com)

15 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011406 2 comments

60

NYT: Russian hackers successfully targeted Ukrainian gas company Burisma (www.axios.com)

15 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011415 0 comments

0

New Plugin – Wordpress to Gatsby Exporter (tinacms.org)

15 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

76

ReDoomEd: Mac/Linux/BSD port of id Software’s 1993 Doom map editor for NeXTSTEP (twilightedge.com)

14 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011415 0 comments

69

“Apple Says ‘No ’” and What That Means for the Future of Better Blocker (ar.al)

14 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011421 8 comments

65

London’s New Artificial Trees Guzzle as Much Pollution as 275 Regular Trees (secretldn.com)

14 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011418 0 comments

31

Show HN: Werbot – a product for easy audit and control of access to servers (https://www.werbot.com)

14 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011503 14 comments

32

Cocktails in a Collector’s Museum: Lisbon’s Most Curious Bar (2014) (www.messynessychic.com)

13 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011503 0 comments

83

The psychology behind the placebo effect just got stranger (www.newscientist.com)

12 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011403 3 comments

43

Autostereogram (en.wikipedia.org)

12 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011500 4 comments

81

Ask HN: Should I make a lower cost replica of niche software? (item?id=22042168)

12 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011421 11 comments

82

Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis (gizmodo.com)

11 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

87

Ask HN: How to deal with big existing code base when you are new to the team (item?id=22034579)

10 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011406 13 comments

47

The Horsewomen of the Belle Époque (www.theparisreview.org)

10 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011415 0 comments

61

Why Customer Network is the next big thing that every startup needs to master (alexiskold.net)

10 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011412 3 comments

0

Dev says game started selling 400% better on Steam after releasing torrent (www.polygon.com)

10 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011409 5 comments

0

Oceans warming at the rate as if 5 Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second (edition.cnn.com)

10 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011421 0 comments

61

In Russia, hypersonic rivalry feeds suspicions and arrests (science.sciencemag.org)

10 points first seen 2020011421 last seen 2020011500 2 comments

0

A pragmatic approach to mobile architecture (iOS and Android) (medium.com)

9 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011406 0 comments

53

The Evolution of Disinformation: How Public Opinion Became Proxy (thestrategybridge.org)

9 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011503 3 comments

0

Privacy activists beg Google to ban un-removable bloatware from Android (www.theregister.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011409 0 comments

0

Boing Boing Was Hacked (boingboing.net)

8 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011409 0 comments

55

Measuring the Maturity of a CD Pipeline (qntm.org)

7 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011421 0 comments

90

Father and son team develop world's first colour 3D x-ray (www.stuff.co.nz)

6 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011409 0 comments

0

Elon Musk: Tesla's Full Self-Driving 'Feature-Complete' Is Coming 'Soon' (ww.electrek.co)

6 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011406 0 comments

0

Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots (www.theguardian.com)

6 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

0

AI Generated Voices (resemble.ai)

6 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

0

Show HN: Phase – Generate sounds from mathematical functions (bafs.github.io)

6 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011415 0 comments

0

Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 [pdf] (link.springer.com)

6 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011418 0 comments

0

Selecting a Database for an Algorithmic Trading System (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011409 0 comments

0

Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: A Primer (www.confluent.io)

5 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

82

Show HN: Nodi – an online node-based geometry design tool & platform (http://nodi3d.com)

5 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011421 0 comments

0

Academic research finds five US telcos vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks (www.zdnet.com)

4 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011406 0 comments

0

Silicon Valley Hustling (www.theparisreview.org)

4 points first seen 2020011406 last seen 2020011406 0 comments

0

Visa to Acquire Plaid for $5.3B (www.businesswire.com)

4 points first seen 2020011409 last seen 2020011409 0 comments

0

Encryption debate continues with William Barr pressuring Apple to unlock iPhone (www.vox.com)

4 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

0

Show HN: Dnsbeat – An Elasticsearch Beat to Monitor DNS Zones (github.com)

4 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

0

Melbourne's Air Quality Index (www.flawlessrhetoric.com)

4 points first seen 2020011415 last seen 2020011415 0 comments

0

Own Your Weird (www.tomasmartty.com)

3 points first seen 2020011400 last seen 2020011400 0 comments

0

Deploying ML Models in Distributed Real-Time Data Streaming Applications (www.kharekartik.dev)

3 points first seen 2020011403 last seen 2020011403 0 comments

0

Real Men Don’t Rent (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 6 comments

0

Do unscalable things, but then scale it (blog.garrytan.com)

3 points first seen 2020011412 last seen 2020011412 0 comments

0

Tail Risks Rising, Iran’s Economic Misery, and 737 Max/Min (www.northerntrust.com)

3 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011418 0 comments

0

Middle aged misery peaks at age 47.2, economist says (www.bloombergquint.com)

3 points first seen 2020011418 last seen 2020011418 0 comments