682
271
I no longer understand my PhD dissertation
https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/ai-no-longer-understand-my-phd-dissertation-and-what-this-means-for-mathematics-education-1d40708f61c#.ysddlmlsa
10 years ago
437
184
Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
https://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_engine_grant_agreement.pdf
353
304
Why GNU Emacs?
http://elephly.net/posts/2016-02-14-ilovefs-emacs.html
289
281
Why I don't like smartphones
https://www.devever.net/~hl/smartphones
240
41
Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery of gravitational waves
https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/
348
Ask HN: Is Python dying?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11100251
183
59
LyX – The Document Processor
http://www.lyx.org/
170
158
Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads
https://github.com/atemerev/skynet
★ 1k C# MIT– 10 years ago
155
25
EURion constellation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
148
82
A Modern App Developer and an Old-Timer System Developer Walk into a Bar
http://zhen.org/blog/two-developers-walk-into-a-bar/
112
55
Unicorns Seemingly Reach a Tipping Point
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/doomed-i-corns-unicorns-seemingly-reach-a-tipping-point/
110
81
Wherever oil goes, the stock market goes
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-11/oil-is-the-cheap-date-from-hell
102
35
What “Worse is Better vs. The Right Thing” is really about (2012)
http://yosefk.com/blog/what-worse-is-better-vs-the-right-thing-is-really-about.html
101
17
What I Wish I Had Known Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs (2013)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20131015161834-1213-what-i-wish-i-knew-before-pitching-linkedin-to-vcs?_mSplash=1&trk=mp-reader-card
93
2
Clojure Compilation: Parenthetical Prose to Bewildering Bytecode (2014)
http://blog.ndk.io/clojure-compilation.html
92
51
We Are Hopelessly Hooked
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/we-are-hopelessly-hooked/
89
21
Structured Concurrency
http://250bpm.com/blog:71
88
24
Trade Officials Sign the TPP but It's Still Up to Lawmakers to Reject It
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/trade-officials-sign-tpp-its-still-lawmakers-reject-it
85
22
Reasons to consider a cartogram
https://medium.com/@joshuatauberer/how-that-map-you-saw-on-538-under-represents-minorities-by-half-and-other-reasons-to-consider-a-4a98f89cbbb1
12
The researcher programmer, a new species? (2012)
http://dirkgorissen.com/2012/03/26/the-researcher-programmer-a-new-species/
80
86
Who killed Nokia? Nokia did
http://alumnimagazine.insead.edu/who-killed-nokia-nokia-did/
78
83
What the diamond industry is really selling
http://qz.com/614214/what-the-diamond-industry-is-really-selling/
75
The Yahoo Problem
http://sapan.svbtle.com/the-yahoo-paradox
73
20
Deploy a .onion Site in Less Than 5 minutes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098343
66
Trying to understand how the brain is computing the mind
http://edge.org/conversation/ed_boyden-how-the-brain-is-computing-the-mind
65
61
Ignore the GPS – That Ocean Is Not a Road
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/sunday/ignore-the-gps-that-ocean-is-not-a-road.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region
63
39
Go vs. Swift vs. C++ microbenchmark
http://lionet.livejournal.com/137511.html
The truth about sex robots
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160209-the-truth-about-sex-robots
Yahoo rolls back decision to combine Tumblr’s sales team with Yahoo’s
http://www.businessinsider.sg/yahoos-plan-to-combine-its-sales-team-with-tumblr-failed-2016-2/?op=1?r=US&IR=T#.VsDeUGQrLw4
58
46
C++ 11 Auto: How to use and avoid abuse
http://www.acodersjourney.com/2016/02/c-11-auto/
57
Creating a Computer Voice That People Like
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/technology/creating-a-computer-voice-that-people-like.html
6
Museum of Endangered Sounds
http://savethesounds.info/
50
All Late Projects Are the Same (2011) [pdf]
http://www.systemsguild.com/pdfs/DeMarcoNov2011.pdf
49
1
How to Write an LLVM Register Allocator
https://github.com/nael8r/How-To-Write-An-LLVM-Register-Allocator/blob/master/HowToWriteAnLLVMRegisterAllocator.rst
★ 279 Python – 10 years ago
48
3
Let's add a statistical profiler to Chicken Scheme
http://www.more-magic.net/posts/statistical-profiling.html
47
Mattel Is Using 3D Printing to Resurrect an Old Hit
http://fortune.com/2016/02/12/mattel-3d-printing-toys/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE
What should I learn next as a programmer?
https://medium.com/@_cmdv_/what-should-i-learn-next-as-a-programmer-477728c5c3c4
45
13
Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List [pdf]
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
4
What is Open Recursion? (2013)
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/08/26/what-is-open-recursion/
43
5
There’s still time to stop the TPP
https://blog.creativecommons.org/2016/02/12/theres-still-time-to-stop-the-tpp/
14
Rejit: a work-in-progress JIT-powered regex engine
https://github.com/kirbyfan64/rejit
★ 112 C MPL-2.0– 10 years ago