383
441
What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/07/evicted-poverty-and-profit-in-the-american-city-matthew-desmond-review
10 years ago
377
132
Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/spies-in-the-skies
302
27
Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (2014)
http://patshaughnessy.net/2014/10/13/following-a-select-statement-through-postgres-internals
300
94
Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP
http://composingprograms.com/
264
52
Top Hacker News Submissions by Year: 2009–2015
https://github.com/antontarasenko/smq/blob/master/reports/hackernews-top-submissions-by-year.md
★ 1.5k TSQL Apache-2.0– 10 years ago
247
209
Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/21/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens
237
56
Domino's: Pizza and Payments
http://www.ifc0nfig.com/dominos-pizza-and-payments/
199
124
Your Life
http://some1else.github.io/life/
193
171
Climate-Related Death of Coral Around World Alarms Scientists
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/world/asia/climate-related-death-of-coral-around-world-alarms-scientists.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
175
43
Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/880-Pwncloud-bad-crypto-in-the-Owncloud-encryption-module.html
173
How I’ve Avoided Burnout During Decades as a Programmer
http://thecodist.com/article/how-i-ve-avoided-burnout-during-more-than-3-decades-as-a-programmer
147
39
How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell
http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/
115
Airbus thinks it has found a way to alleviate jet lag
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/04/thatll-be-day?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/thatllbethedayairbusthinksithasfoundawaytoalleviatejetlag
144
45
Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465377
143
29
'Google Hobbies' proof of concept
https://blog.prototypr.io/google-hobbies-a-retrospective-on-a-new-feature-to-help-google-users-find-and-learn-new-skills-650947f0be#.c0si6ns7l
137
198
WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web
https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
136
85
The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06/inside-future-google-rackspace-power9-system/
133
123
A year after launch, it’s now clear that pretty much no one needs an Apple Watch
http://qz.com/658010/a-year-after-its-launch-its-now-clear-that-pretty-much-no-one-needs-an-apple-watch/
127
35
Algorithmically generated prior art
http://allpriorart.com/about/
122
Performance Culture
http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/04/10/performance-culture/
120
N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala
https://gist.github.com/pathikrit/6fa878fe87c6160a52c4c27dabbfa6df
49
The 3DS Cryptosystem
http://yifan.lu/2016/04/06/the-3ds-cryptosystem/
118
64
Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/StrategicScalaStylePrincipleofLeastPower.html
117
37
How Scams Worked in the 1800s
http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/385310877/how-scams-worked-in-the-1800s
105
38
The Last Days of BMX Superstar Dave Mirra
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/bmx-dave-mirra-last-days.html
100
Sample workflow for LP digitization
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sample_workflow_for_lp_digitization.html
98
70
GCHQ 'intervened' over Harry Potter leak
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36010426
89
9
GraphQL-enabled event sourcing engine
http://eventsourcing.com
Acetaminophen may hinder the brain's error-correction mechanisms
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20160308231517.shtml
82
6
Pelikan: Twitter's unified cache back end
http://twitter.github.io/pelikan/
19
Stdio or iostreams? – A Modest Alternative for C++
http://steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.com/2016/04/stdio-or-iostreams-modest-alternative.html
79
25
A C64 Games Mashup
http://level4.jojati.com/c64mashup/
76
Blogless – An articles-only publishing system for web writers
http://blogless.datenbrei.de
73
18
Managing Machines at Spotify
https://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/25/managing-machines-at-spotify/
72
58
Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-supermassive-black-holes-lurking-universe.html
68
24
Ammonia Is the Everest Base Camp for Clean Energy
http://thebreakthrough.org/issues/decarbonization/ammonia-is-everest-base-camp-for-clean-energy
67
46
Moleskine Smart Writing Set
http://www.moleskine.com/microsites/smartwritingset
42
Wikipedia Android app now requests identity permissions
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/4bMEBEkRoKA
Economists Adding Up at Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google
http://www.investors.com/news/technology/amazon-microsoft-among-techs-that-say-employing-economists-adds-up/
62
16
Meet the bughunters: the hackers in India protecting your data
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/02/meet-the-bughunters-the-hackers-in-india-protecting-your-facebook-profile
61
22
Making Salt Water Drinkable Just Got 99 Percent Easier
http://gizmodo.com/5990876/lockheeds-new-carbon-filter-takes-all-the-effort-out-of-desalinization
44
Analyzing the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in the U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/08/we-analyzed-the-names-of-almost-every-chinese-restaurant-in-america-this-is-what-we-learned/
59
Who will pay Puerto Rico's pensions?
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-puertorico-pensions/
77
The Weird Redemption of SF’s Most Reviled Tech Bro
https://backchannel.com/the-weird-redemption-of-sf-s-most-reviled-tech-bro-ce8dd1bfb705#.orgs4v304
4
The Haxe Code Cookbook
http://haxe.org/blog/the-haxe-code-cookbook
The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret
https://medium.com/internet-of-shit/the-internet-of-things-has-a-dirty-little-secret-28bce2d412b2#---0-91.rwny5cnj4
57
17
When the Oil Fields Burned
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/08/sunday-review/exposures-kuwait-salgado.html
69
Why you hate Comic Sans
http://designforhackers.com/blog/comic-sans-hate/
