2011
483
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html
10 years ago
620
339
SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses
http://www.factmag.com/2016/02/11/soundcloud-financial-report-44m-losses/
613
153
Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
http://hisham.hm/htop/
498
245
Investigate switching away from GitHub
https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/5205
★ 27.2k JavaScript MIT– 10 years ago
454
97
Gravitational waves detected by LIGO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12150944/Gravitational-waves-Einstein-was-right-and-this-announcement-is-the-scientific-highlight-of-the-decade.html
452
314
Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/
381
166
The curse of the gifted programmer (2000)
http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3
337
93
Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/458ao3/discussion_changing_time_date_settings_to_jan_1/
313
What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable
https://www.facebook.com/W8MSU/videos/vb.210772745607630/1110939655590930
296
156
Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat On Licensing Process
http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/zenefits-program-let-insurance-brokers-fake-training
266
134
Internet Access Is Finally Permanently Tax Free in the U.S.
https://medium.com/@RonWyden/internet-access-is-permanently-tax-free-finally-666eb9063cff
238
147
What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2015/10/what-do-you-mean-you-need-more-time/
235
Vanguard's Low Blow
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-10/vanguard-is-more-mutual-than-most-mutual-funds
232
65
What It Feels Like to Freeze on National Television
https://drbenjaminhabib.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/what-it-feels-like-to-freeze-on-national-television/
225
62
Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom
http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/02/open-source-is-now-ready-to-directly.html
224
72
Subuser turns Docker containers into normal Linux programs, limiting privileges
http://subuser.org/
221
57
Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data
https://medium.com/vijay-pandurangan/linux-kernel-bug-delivers-corrupt-tcp-ip-data-to-mesos-kubernetes-docker-containers-4986f88f7a19#.ay7af76xj
217
122
Show HN: HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments
http://www.hnreplies.com/
159
20
LIGO's vibration isolation system
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/vibration-isolation
158
28
Open-sourced Parse now supports push notifications
http://blog.parse.com/announcements/parse-server-push-notifications/
46
Securityheaders.io – Analyse your HTTP response headers
https://securityheaders.io/
137
177
For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark implications (2015)
http://calgaryherald.com/life/swerve/gifted-children-are-frequently-misunderstood
131
2
A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook
http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/
130
187
U.S. can't ban encryption because it's a global phenomenon, Harvard study finds
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/worldwide-survey-of-encryption-products/
25
How People Learn to Become Resilient
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-secret-formula-for-resilience
118
3
Gravitational waves from black holes detected
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440
117
Is it time to rethink recycling?
http://ensia.com/features/is-it-time-to-rethink-recycling/
111
Swirl: Learn R, in R
http://swirlstats.com/
55
A MOS6502 assembler implemented as a Rust macro
https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=a18d697454f9261b28ff&version=stable
103
Himawari.js: Download real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 satellite
http://jakiestfu.github.io/himawari.js/demo/
102
38
UCLA has published a powerful new image-detection algorithm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3032243/ucla-just-open-sourced-a-powerful-new-image-detection-algorithm.html
23
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
101
26
The Windows 3.x Showcase
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_win3_showcase&tab=collection
96
22
Scaling Zapier to Automate Billions of Tasks
http://stackshare.io/zapier/scaling-zapier-to-automate-billions-of-tasks?utm_content=stacksharedigest02052016&utm_medium=email
7
VP9 is now available in WebRTC
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/01/vp9-webrtc
18
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI
95
106
Deutsche Bank: Germany's Financial Colossus Stumbles
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/10/deutsche-bank-germany-financial-colossus-stumbles
94
29
Bacterial cells are small 'eyeballs', scientists discover
http://www.sciencealert.com/bacterial-cells-are-actually-the-world-s-smallest-eyeballs-scientists-discover-by-accident
85
35
What Little Babies See That We No Longer Can
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/what-little-babies-see-that-you-no-longer-can/
83
Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t, but that may soon change
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21690020-reproducibility-should-be-sciences-heart-it-isnt-may-soon
9
Gravitational Waves Exist: The Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them
79
60
Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/business/dealbook/pandora-is-said-to-have-held-talks-about-selling-itself.html
42
I’m a web developer and can't make anymore the simplest web app
https://medium.com/@pistacchio/i-m-a-web-developer-and-i-ve-been-stuck-with-the-simplest-app-for-the-last-10-days-fb5c50917df#.jqqrn0k9a
77
39
Startups Selling to Other Startups: A House of Cards?
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/startups-selling-to-other-startups-a-house-of-cards/
76
10
Microsoft TLS 1.2 downgrade bug and how it was fixed
https://blog.cloudflare.com/microsoft-tls-downgrade-schannel-bug/
73
27
Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113411831/why-ancient-roman-graffiti-is-so-important-to-archaeologists-010516/
67
The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-schism-over-bitcoin-is-how-bitcoin-is-supposed-to-work/
70
6
Progressively loading CSS – changes coming to Chrome
https://jakearchibald.com/2016/link-in-body/
C String Creation
http://maxsi.org/coding/c-string-creation.html
How an Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America's Master Builder
http://hackaday.com/2016/02/09/fazlur-khan-americas-master-builder/
30
For a non-expert, what's different between Bayesian and frequentist approaches?
https://www.quora.com/For-a-non-expert-what-is-the-difference-between-Bayesian-and-frequentist-approaches/answer/Jason-Eisner?share=1
64
127
Lesbians tend to earn more than heterosexual women
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21692938-lesbians-tend-earn-more-heterosexual-women-girl-power
