1447
356
Amazon's customer service backdoor
https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4#.lqxcfockn
10 years ago
412
237
Things every React.js beginner should know
https://camjackson.net/post/9-things-every-reactjs-beginner-should-know
384
94
Virginia Tech Professor Spent $147k to Help Uncover the Flint Water Scandal
http://www.attn.com/stories/5314/virginia-tech-flint-water-crisis
281
100
GoQt
https://github.com/visualfc/goqt
★ 1.4k Go BSD-2-Clause– 10 years ago
244
107
World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
https://torrentfreak.com/oldest-torrent-is-still-being-shared-after-4419-days-160124/
205
71
The China GPS shift problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China#The_China_GPS_shift_problem
196
81
Ask HN: How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963401
180
41
Universe Sandbox
http://universesandbox.com/
173
38
The Sega Saturn and Transparency
http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/sega-saturn-and-transparency/
152
121
MRI Scans of a person's brain
https://github.com/dcunited001/mri-scans
★ 185 MIT– 10 years ago
148
119
As Zika virus spreads, El Salvador asks women not to get pregnant until 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/as-zika-virus-spreads-el-salvador-asks-women-not-to-get-pregnant-until-2018/2016/01/22/1dc2dadc-c11f-11e5-98c8-7fab78677d51_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop_b
120
How the CIA Helped Produce 'Zero Dark Thirty'
https://news.vice.com/article/tequila-painted-pearls-and-prada-how-the-cia-helped-produce-zero-dark-thirty
144
118
Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More to Come)
http://recode.net/2016/01/24/also-out-at-twitter-engineering-head-roetter-and-more/
142
13
A Computer Scientist's guide to cell biology (2007) [pdf]
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/GuideToBiology-sampleChapter-release1.4.pdf
88
Economics Simulation
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics.ipynb
117
19
Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize floating point error
https://github.com/uwplse/herbie
★ 871 HTML – 10 years ago
114
28
Atlantis-style myths that turned out to be true
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160118-the-atlantis-style-myths-of-sunken-lands-that-are-really-true
106
47
“Power pose” research is the latest example of scientific overreach
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/01/amy_cuddy_s_power_pose_research_is_the_latest_example_of_scientific_overreach.single.html
11
Control objects with only the power of your mind with OpenBCI
http://iniwall.com/2015/11/27/control-objects-with-only-the-power-of-your-mind-with-openbci/
79
The Computer Revolution Has yet to Happen
https://medium.com/absurdist/the-computer-revolution-has-yet-to-happen-f1dbf983d477#.3czl0zgtl
95
20
Possible BGP hijack
https://bgpstream.com/event/17605
89
78
A Colleague Drank My Breast Milk and Other Wall Street Tales
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/a-colleague-drank-my-breast-milk-and-other-wall-street-tales.html?ribbon-ad-idx=15&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article
43
How I Simplified My Phone (2015)
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1389
22
Get the Strategy Right and the Execution Is Easy
http://avc.com/2016/01/get-the-strategy-right-and-the-execution-is-easy
87
48
More Details on the Insidious iOS Snap-To-Road “Feature”
http://regex.info/blog/2016-01-19/2666
85
60
A Drug to Cure Fear
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/a-drug-to-cure-fear.html?_r=0
46
Massachusetts Chief’s Tack in Drug War: Steer Addicts to Rehab, Not Jail
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/us/massachusetts-chiefs-tack-in-drug-war-steer-addicts-to-rehab-not-jail.html
Opam-ios: an OCaml compiler for iOS via opam, with example server code
https://github.com/fxfactorial/opam-ios
★ 78 – 10 years ago
39
Addressing the Chilling Effect of Patent Damages
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2016/01/22/addressing-the-chilling-effect-of-patent-damages/
MuseScore: Create, play and print beautiful sheet music
https://musescore.org/en
74
21
Herzog's wild ride through the web
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/24/lo-and-behold-reveries-of-the-connected-world-review-herzogs-wild-ride-through-the-web
Why Are So Many Zappos Employees Leaving?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/zappos-holacracy-hierarchy/424173/?single_page=true
70
26
Where Have All the Gophers Gone? Why the Web Beat Gopher for Mindshare (2008)
http://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm
54
As REI thrives, does it have members or merely shoppers?
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/as-rei-thrives-does-it-have-members-or-merely-shoppers/
69
58
When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a culturally universal short gap
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-incredible-thing-we-do-during-conversations/422439/?single_page=true
64
4
After Last Call: A Bartender Trades SoHo for Serbia to Reclaim His Mansion
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/nyregion/fanelli-cafe-manhattan-bartender-bob-bozic-reclaims-mansion-in-europe.html
62
15
Fledgling Languages List
http://fll.presidentbeef.com/
84
Michael Lewis: The Scourge of Wall Street
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/17/michael-lewis-big-short-wall-street-crash-book-film?CMP=share_btn_tw
5
Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers
http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/
14
COGENT: Certified Compilation for a Functional Systems Language
http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05520
65
The benefits of static typing without static typing in Python
http://pawelmhm.github.io/python/static/typing/type/annotations/2016/01/23/typing-python3.html
56
El Niño vs. the Drought
https://medium.com/@joshuajenkins/el-ni%C3%B1o-vs-drought-190fc3b131d9#.f1s8c1u1y
The Art of Tidying Up
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/01/tidying-up
55
Map of rail station usage in the UK: 1997 – 2015
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/maps/rail-usage.html
Rss-puppy: A watchdog tool for monitoring RSS feeds
https://github.com/buzzfeed-openlab/rss-puppy
★ 314 JavaScript MIT– 10 years ago