1043
181
Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments
http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
10 years ago
924
318
Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/15/making-gitlab-better-for-large-open-source-projects/
408
169
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-failing-the-stack-fallacy/
380
94
WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC
https://webtorrent.io/
358
162
Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924877
263
121
Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926038
222
157
Tech faces hour of reckoning as fundraising drops, layoffs rise
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/01/16/party-over-soaring-tech-valuations-big-funding-rounds/78028176/
211
SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35340734
214
44
Netboot
http://netboot.xyz/
213
275
All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-working-class-poverty/424341/?utm_source=SFFB&single_page=true
189
74
Org-Mode for Writing: Structure and Focus
https://awarewriter.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/org-mode-for-writing-structure-focus/
159
107
Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far
https://blog.serverdensity.com/launching-an-apple-tv-app-what-weve-learned-so-far/
54
Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the Open Payments Dataset
http://www.troyshu.com/blog/2016/01/15/pharma-paid-physicians-6-5b-in-2014-looking-into-the-open-payments-dataset/
147
28
Multiple cameras and motion detection on the Raspberry Pi
http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/01/18/multiple-cameras-with-the-raspberry-pi-and-opencv/
142
117
Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense
https://github.com/Tarsnap/libcperciva/commit/cabe5fca76f6c38f872ea4a5967458e6f3bfe054
★ 117 C – 10 years ago
129
Is Apple Using Swift?
https://medium.com/@ryanolsonk/is-apple-using-swift-4a6c80f74599
141
131
Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016
https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-01-19/richest-1-will-own-more-all-rest-2016
139
125
Before brogramming, table flipping, and beyond
http://technowoman.blogspot.com/2015/04/before-brogramming-table-flipping-and.html
137
12
C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/c11-threads-affinity-and-hyperthreading/
134
57
Ask HN: In a microservice architecture, how do you handle managing secrets?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927043
133
5
Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir
http://crypt.codemancers.com/posts/2016-01-15-visualizing-parallel-requests-in-elixir/
29
Voynich Manuscript: word vectors and t-SNE visualization of some patterns
http://blog.christianperone.com/2016/01/voynich-manuscript-word-vectors-and-t-sne-visualization-of-some-patterns/?a=b
22
STOKE – a stochastic optimizer for x86_64 assembly
https://github.com/StanfordPL/stoke-release
★ 329 – 10 years ago
120
95
Jewish problems (2011)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
118
123
Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet?
http://webappsec-test.info/~bhill2/DifferentTakeOnOE.html
Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator
http://cdmedia.github.io/cms.js/
115
25
Being a deaf developer
http://cruft.io/posts/deep-accessibility/
110
97
A reply to Russell Okung
http://paulgraham.com/okung.html
109
93
Never consider a travel planning startup
http://www.tnooz.com/article/why-you-should-never-consider-a-travel-planning-startup/
106
55
Autopwn every Android device on your network using BetterCap
http://www.evilsocket.net/2016/01/18/autopwn-every-android-device-on-your-network-using-bettercap-the-and-addjavascriptinterface-vulnerability/
40
Michael Bloomberg on starting a business during tough economic times (1982)
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/08/business/for-new-business-during-recession-start-must-be-lean.html
104
24
Introducing TrumpScript – Make Python Great Again
http://www.makepythongreatagain.org
102
How to Leverage Technical Debt
https://medium.com/startup-guide-anti-patterns/how-you-can-leverage-technical-debt-why-you-should-4ec48a387751
100
11
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html
98
99
Are cities the new countries?
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-35305586
65
Adobe tries to strong-arm me into keeping Creative Cloud
https://gist.github.com/roddds/a1f42bae598028ac7809
85
WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees
https://blog.whatsapp.com/615/Making-WhatsApp-free-and-more-useful
45
Probability of GUID collisions with different versions
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160114-00/?p=92851
92
Abusing Your Browser: Infinitely Large Favicons
https://ejj.io/abusing-your-browser-favicon/
91
19
Show HN: Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map
https://github.com/ben174/git-draw
★ 2.1k JavaScript MIT– 10 years ago
88
Recurrent Neural Nets for Speech Synthesis
http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02539
83
35
Creolabs: Language, IDE and UI framework for building native apps
http://creolabs.com/#download
81
42
The unsexy IoT
http://deepstream.io/blog/the-unsexy-iot/
80
38
How many hours a week should academics work?
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/how-many-hours-week-should-academics-work
78
13
Open Problems in Theoretical Computer Science
http://a3nm.net/work/research/questions/
76
39
The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/secrets-sherlocks-mind-palace-180949567/?no-ist
75
MIT Poker Course: Can a little calculus make a total novice into a gambling pro?
https://mentalfloss.atavist.com/secrets-of-the-mit-poker-course
72
6
‘Locked-in’ people show signs of awareness when faced with sums
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28789-locked-in-people-show-signs-of-awareness-when-faced-with-sums
71
17
OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
http://opentrons.com/
70
32
Why I Always Wanted to Be a Secretary
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/why-i-always-wanted-to-be-a-secretary.html
69
1
Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases [pdf]
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orestis/sigmod15.pdf
64
How I wrote a script to generate faces by inverting Haar cascades with Python
http://matthewearl.github.io/2016/01/14/inverse-haar/
Firm: a C library with graph-based IR suitable for compilers
http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/Index
60
Singapore witnesses the rise of the entrepreneur
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/money/article/without-fuss-or-fanfare-singapore-witnesses-the-rise-of-the-entrepreneur?platform=hootsuite
56
21
Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (1970) [pdf]
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf
France’s Economy Minister on French Startups
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/15/frances-economy-minister-emmanuel-macron-on-french-startups/
53
30
Peach App Token Reuse Flaw
https://www.hakobaito.co.uk/b/peach-app-token-reuse-flaw/