YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737

Paying for Popularity Can Be Fraud https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-19/paying-for-popularity-can-be-fraud

EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/

Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/

A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered World War Three http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181108-the-wargame-that-could-have-ended-the-world

AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-global-accelerator-for-availability-and-performance/

WWF Report Reveals Staggering Extent of Human Impact on Planet https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/wwf-report-reveals-staggering-extent-of-human-impact-on-planet

The Secret Syndicate Behind Nancy Drew https://daily.jstor.org/the-secret-syndicate-behind-nancy-drew/

I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back https://www.fastcompany.com/90270691/i-still-miss-my-headphone-jack-and-i-want-it-back

East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (1985) https://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/1066411965004812288

How to Land on Mars https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/25/science/insight-how-to-land-on-mars.html

Don’t measure developers, measure projects https://anaxi.com/blog/2018/11/25/do-not-measure-developers-measure-projects/

Tipping Points, For-Profit Scientific Publishing, and Closed Science http://www.deepseanews.com/2018/11/tipping-points-for-profit-scientific-publishing-and-closed-science/

Hiroshima (1946) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

Smoking Banana Peels Is the Greatest Drug Hoax of All Time https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/smoking-banana-peels-1960s-donovan-mellow-yellow-hoax

Open Source is Not About You https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9

Use an AWS Transit Gateway to Simplify Your Network Architecture https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-an-aws-transit-gateway-to-simplify-your-network-architecture

Basic GPU design concepts https://iq.opengenus.org/basic-graphics-processing-unit-gpu-design-concepts/

Lessons Learned from Writing Over 300k Lines of Infrastructure Code https://blog.gruntwork.io/5-lessons-learned-from-writing-over-300-000-lines-of-infrastructure-code-36ba7fadeac1

BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) https://www.adminbyaccident.com/politics/abandon-linux-move-freebsd-illumos/

Building a towering millikelvin thermometer http://news.fnal.gov/2018/11/how-to-build-a-towering-millikelvin-thermometer/

Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X https://www.ipp.mpg.de/4550215/11_18

Half of lonely people think no one will notice if something bad happens to them https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/3439832/half-of-lonely-people-think-no-one-will-notice-if-something-bad-happens-to-them-experts-say/

60-degree angles on a lattice https://blog.plover.com/math/60-degree-angles.html

Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup https://hharnisc.github.io/2018/11/25/twenty-questions-to-ask-before-joining-a-startup.html

A lost language encoded in Inca cords https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931972-600-we-thought-the-incas-couldnt-write-these-knots-change-everything/

How Cheap Labor Drives China’s A.I. Ambitions https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/business/china-artificial-intelligence-labeling.html

A Break in the Quest for the Quantum Speed Limit https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/576484/

AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-transfer-for-sftp-fully-managed-sftp-service-for-amazon-s3/

The U.S. Housing Boom Is Coming to an End, Starting in Dallas https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-housing-boom-is-coming-to-an-end-starting-in-dallas-1543248073

If it’s not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package https://gist.github.com/dominictarr/9fd9c1024c94592bc7268d36b8d83b3a

How to Do Real Time Object Detection on Drones https://blog.nanonets.com/real-time-object-detection-for-drones/

Sequoia PGP: The Seeding Sees the Light of Day https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2018/11/26/initial-release/

StockX Is a Stock Market for Nikes and Rolexes https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-website-is-the-stock-market-for-nikes-and-rolexes-1543251772

Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go https://github.com/MagicalTux/goro

Lisbon after the Earthquake https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/lisbon-after-earthquake

A Sub-$1000, Non-X86 Motherboard https://hackaday.com/2018/11/26/a-sub-1000-non-x86-motherboard/

Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-machine-learning-university-now-available-to-all-developers/

Float Exposed http://float.exposed

Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion in social networks (2014) http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full

The Founder of Panera Bread Explains the Economic Forces That Led to Trump https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-founder-of-panera-bread-explains-the-economic-forces-that-led-to-trump

Phase-Separating Proteins May Protect and Regulate Cells https://www.quantamagazine.org/phase-separating-proteins-may-protect-and-regulate-cells-20181126/

Backdoor in event-stream library dependency https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116

Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/amazon-may-be-hiding-its-plans-to-test-new-wireless-tech-by-masquerading-as-a-massage-spa

Low versus high dead space syringes: user preferences and attitudes https://clahrc-west.nihr.ac.uk/research/projects/low-versus-high-dead-space-syringes-user-preferences-and-attitudes/

Cloud Source Repositories https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/

The greatest sales deck I’ve ever seen (2016) https://medium.com/the-mission/the-greatest-sales-deck-ive-ever-seen-4f4ef3391ba0

Creating Records That Will Last http://copar.org/bulletin14.htm

The Great Virginia Grape Heist https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/grape-theft-vineyard/573910/

What’s Next for Marketplace Startups? https://andrewchen.co/how-marketplaces-will-reinvent-the-service-economy/

The Science Is Clear: Dirty Farm Water Is Making Us Sick https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-is-clear-dirty-farm-water-is-making-us-sick/

OCaml for the Masses (2011) https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036

New AWS C5n Instances with 100 Gbps Networking https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-c5n-instances-with-100-gbps-networking/

Errors in Go: From denial to acceptance https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/errors-in-go-from-denial-to-acceptance

HSN-1000 Nuclear Event Detector (2005) [pdf] http://www.maxwell.com/images/documents/hsn1000_rev3.pdf

Intermittent fasting: No advantage over conventional weight loss diets https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181126115842.htm

Devsense commercial VSCode PHP debugger is obfuscated open-source library https://twitter.com/DevsenseCorp/status/1067136378159472640

Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better with GANs and AI Art https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/11/14/helena-sarin-why-bigger-isnt-always-better-with-gans-and-ai-art

Rivian unveils all-electric pickup truck with unbelievable specs https://electrek.co/2018/11/26/rivian-r1t-all-electric-pickup-specs/

Montezuma’s Revenge Solved by Go-Explore http://eng.uber.com/go-explore/

A Cavernous World under the Woods https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-cavernous-world-under-the-woods/

Mission Control Live Stream: NASA InSight Mars Landing [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGD_YF64Nwk

Ncc: Node.js Compiler Collection https://zeit.co/blog/ncc

Amazon launches a cloud-based robotics testing platform https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/26/amazon-launches-a-cloud-based-robotics-testing-platform/

Field of dreams: heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/23/world-ploughing-championships-no-till-farming

Causal Inference Animated Plots http://nickchk.com/causalgraphs.html

Visual overview of radiator valves used in Germany [pdf] https://www.eq-3.de/Downloads/eq3/download%20bereich/Ventilkompatibilitaeten-Model-N.pdf

A real-time chat app in 23 lines of Python and 35 lines of JavaScript https://github.com/dunglas/mercure/pull/32

The 4tH compiler https://thebeez.home.xs4all.nl/4tH/

EFF to Court: Remedy for Bad Content Moderation Isn’t Government Control https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/eff-court-remedy-bad-content-moderation-isnt-give-government-more-power-control

Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30M people within 6 months http://uk.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-warns-the-next-pandemic-disease-is-coming-2018-4

EventStorming: Continuous discovery beyond software modelling https://xebia.com/blog/eventstorming-continuous-discovery-beyond-software-modelling/

Hacker backdoors popular JavaScript library to steal Bitcoin funds https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-backdoors-popular-javascript-library-to-steal-bitcoin-funds/

Building an automatic chicken coop door opener https://www.iotforall.com/building-cheap-automatic-chicken-coop-door-opener/

The Monopolization of America https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/opinion/monopolies-in-the-us.html

New – Automatic Cost Optimization for Amazon S3 via Intelligent Tiering https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-automatic-cost-optimization-for-amazon-s3-via-intelligent-tiering/

Bias in student evaluations of teaching https://threader.app/thread/1066721849734615041

What was the role of the blacksmith in medieval society? http://www.medievalists.net/2018/11/role-blacksmith-medieval-society/

How Quincy, Florida Became a Town of Secret Coca-Cola Millionaires https://www.joshuakennon.com/how-quincy-florida-became-a-town-of-secret-coca-cola-millionaires/

DNS Queries over HTTPS https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484

The App Destroying Iran’s Currency – Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/22/the-app-destroying-irans-currency/

Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0204566

Some species of birds like to rub themselves with ants (2017) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mystery-bird-anting

NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7293

You should never spend $825K on a domain – but here’s why I’m glad I did https://medium.com/@karnsaroya/you-should-never-spend-825k-on-a-domain-but-heres-why-i-m-glad-i-did-7139f9c00728

Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/

Show HN: I Made the Tinder for Poetry, Quilius https://quili.us

Postcards That Captured America’s Love for the Open Road http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/11/20/postcards-captured-americas-love-open-road/viewings/glimpses/

Category Theory for Programmers – Scala Edition [pdf] https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/releases/tag/v1.1-rc

Comcast raises cable TV bills again–even if you’re under contract https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/comcasts-controversial-tv-and-sports-fees-rise-again-hit-18-25-a-month/

Paradoxes of Material Implication (1997) https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/mat-imp.htm

Compromised NPM Package: event-stream https://medium.com/intrinsic/compromised-npm-package-event-stream-d47d08605502

How China’s Rulers Control Society: Opportunity, Nationalism, Fear https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/25/world/asia/china-freedoms-control.html

Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-julian-assange-case-wikileaks-758883/

Latest Windows 10 update breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 apps in general https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/latest-windows-10-update-breaks-windows-media-player-win32-apps-in-general/

Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.3 (Delphi, C++) Product Feature Matrix [pdf] https://www.embarcadero.com/docs/rad-studio-feature-matrix.pdf

Today’s JavaScript trash fire and pile on https://medium.com/@cnorthwood/todays-javascript-trash-fire-and-pile-on-f3efcf8ac8c7

Heaps – Haxe game engine by the language’s creator https://heaps.io

Trump threatens a 25% tariff on the iPhone and Apple laptops https://www.fastcompany.com/90272668/trump-threatens-a-25-tariff-on-the-iphone-and-apple-laptops

Show HN: Not Some Cats – A collection of tools for web devs/designers https://notsomecats.com/

Elon Musk teases Mars breakthroughs as Starship design radically changes [video] https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-mars-breakthroughs-starship-design-radical-changes/

MIT researchers show how to detect and address AI bias without loss in accuracy https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/16/mit-researchers-show-how-to-detect-and-address-ai-bias-without-loss-in-accuracy/

1st anthropologist to visit says Sentinelese aren’t hostile (interview excerpt) https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/surprised-the-sentinelese-killed-someone-first-anthropologist-to-enter-north-sentinel-island/articleshow/66787948.cms

Planckian Dissipation, Strange Metals, and a Quantum Speed Limit https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/planckian-dissipation-strange-metals-superconductors-electron-speed-limit/576484/

Facebook spooked after MPs seize documents for privacy breach probe https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/26/facebook_dcms_document_cache_seized/

I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back https://www.fastcompany.com/90270691/i-still-miss-my-headphone-jack-and-i-want-it-back

The Time Between VC Rounds Is Shrinking https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-time-between-vc-rounds-is-shrinking/

How Surveillance Inhibits Freedom of Expression https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/how_surveillanc_1.html

Trump suggests US could slap 10% tariffs on iPhones https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/26/trump-says-us-could-slap-10percent-tariffs-on-iphones-laptops-from-china.html

Detroit Has Had It with Cars https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/detroit-has-had-it-cars

HTTP/3 explained – The book https://daniel.haxx.se/http3-explained/

Microsoft Pulling Even with Apple in Ranks of Biggest Companies https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/microsoft-pulling-even-with-apple-in-ranks-of-biggest-companies

Continuous Integration with Python: An Introduction https://realpython.com/python-continuous-integration/

The Hidden Dangers You Have Never Noticed: Target = “_blank” and “opener” https://www.tutorialdocs.com/article/html-opener-blank.html

The Perl Renaming Debate Highlights Tensions https://www.i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/12326-the-perl-renaming-debate-highlights-tensions.html

Show HN: Snigl – a Forth with a Lisp in C https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl

Show HN: I’ve made a GUI for my tool that cluster images by similarity https://github.com/victorqribeiro/groupImg

The Bitcoin Network at Risk https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-bitcoin-network-at-risk-bd54a1473a1d

Show HN: Tweet messages that unlock in the future http://trim.kim/OceanNotionEmotion

The World, Built by China https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/world-built-by-china.html

German eID card system vulnerable to online identity spoofing https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-eid-card-system-vulnerable-to-online-identity-spoofing/

List of Cognitive Biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Amazon CloudWatch Introduces Automatic Dashboards https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-cloudwatch-introduces-automatic-dashboards-to-monitor-all-aws-resources/