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The Rent-Seeking Is Too Damn High
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rent-seeking-is-too-damn-high/
10 years ago
284
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SSH: Best practices
https://blog.0xbadc0de.be/archives/300
271
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The Rich Are Already Using Robo-Advisers, and That Scares Banks
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-05/the-rich-are-already-using-robo-advisers-and-that-scares-banks
258
143
America Is Flint
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/opinion/sunday/america-is-flint.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
257
129
Records: Python library for making raw SQL queries to Postgres databases
https://github.com/kennethreitz/records
★ 7.2k Python ISC– 10 years ago
201
50
How We Release So Frequently
http://engineering.skybettingandgaming.com/2016/02/02/how-we-release-so-frequently/
189
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Disappointed with Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/world/middleeast/europe-migrant-crisis-reverse-migration.html
186
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CSS Variables landing in Chrome 49
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/02/css-variables-why-should-you-care
170
57
Building a business, not just an app
https://stratechery.com/2014/pleco-building-business-just-app/
166
3
Git-blame-someone-else – Blame someone else for your bad code
https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else
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163
51
What Have We Learned from This Open Source Project?
http://taskwarrior.org/docs/advice.html
146
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The Error Model in Midori
http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/
140
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Amplifying C (2010)
http://voodoo-slide.blogspot.com/2010/01/amplifying-c.html
136
27
GitHub-backup: backs up everything GitHub knows about a repository or a user
https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup
128
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Ask HN: What's going on at IBM?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11055365
121
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Requiem for GitHub
http://hintjens.com/blog:111
120
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Who Goes Nazi? (1941)
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
187
Driving Is Losing Its Allure for More Americans
http://www.wsj.com/articles/driving-losing-its-allure-for-more-americans-1453285801
119
20
The Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/watch-the-destruction-of-pompeii-by-mount-vesuvius-re-created-with-computer-animation-79-ad.html
113
37
Usborne 1980s computer programming books for kids become free downloads
http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/feature-page/computer-and-coding-books.aspx
111
38
Dataset: databases for lazy people
https://github.com/pudo/dataset
★ 4.8k Python MIT– 10 years ago
106
2
Deep Learning Glossary
http://www.wildml.com/deep-learning-glossary/
102
31
Saying 'no' to keep crap out of products
https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/the-art-of-saying-no-db012a22cd28#.sbmur7q01
99
45
The Surprisingly Innovative Future of Wood
http://gizmodo.com/these-gorgeous-buildings-showcase-the-surprisingly-inno-1757398349
89
4
Writing a compiler in Ruby, bottom up (2008)
http://hokstad.com/compiler
86
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Mediatek MT6261 ROM dumping via the vibration motor
http://www.sodnpoo.com/posts.xml/mediatek_mt6261_rom_dumping_via_the_vibration_motor.xml
85
29
Polygon Shredder
https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/polygon-shredder/
67
Living with and building for the Amazon Echo
https://medium.com/@sicross/living-with-and-building-for-the-amazon-echo-525caea9f280#.fzbce5e7h
16
The Powder Toy
http://powdertoy.co.uk
79
78
Tracking North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-4 Satellite Using OSINT
http://phasenoise.livejournal.com/2381.html
58
Why do Chinese websites look so busy?
https://econsultancy.com/blog/67466-why-do-chinese-websites-look-so-busy
72
43
Logging vs. instrumentation
http://peter.bourgon.org/blog/2016/02/07/logging-v-instrumentation.html
71
104
What it would take to actually institute Universal Basic Income
http://qz.com/611644/we-talked-to-five-experts-about-what-it-would-take-to-actually-institute-universal-basic-income/
70
Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160202-scientists-debate-signatures-of-alien-life/
YouTube removes all_comments feature
https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/youtube/lZayXDopTXw
65
5
Eric Hunsader wants to upend the world of high-frequency trading
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-man-wants-to-upend-the-world-of-high-frequency-trading-2016-02-02
Show HN: Tracing You, a website that tries to “see” where its visitors are
http://tracingyou.bengrosser.com
FOQ – Frequently Obnoxious Questions When Doing an Open Source Project
http://taskwarrior.org/docs/foq.html
62
News of Nvidia’s Pascal tapeout and silicon is important
https://semiaccurate.com/2016/02/01/news-of-nvidias-pascal-tapeout-and-silicon-is-important/
7
Curated List of Online Courses on Marketing, Design and Self-Improvement
http://goround.me/streams/growth
60
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A waterless toilet that turns poo into power
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/07/waterless-toilet-turns-your-poo-into-power-nano-membrane-technology
25
Show HN: Hangman in 3 lines of Python
http://danverbraganza.com/writings/hangman-in-3-lines-of-python
22
What computer science can teach economics (2009)
http://news.mit.edu/2009/game-theory
What 74 Years of Crossword History Says About the Language We Use
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/07/opinion/what-74-years-of-times-crosswords-say-about-the-words-we-use.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
How Long Can AWS Keep Climbing Its Steep Growth Curve?
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/02/01/how-long-can-aws-keep-climbing-its-steep-growth-curve/
56
1980's speech synthesis chips
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/1980%27s-speech-synthesis-chips-%28lots-of-videos%29/
54
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Badgers are driving hedgehogs extinct
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/badgers-and-hedgehogs/
