636
502
Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/03/cause-of-death-united-states-medical-error
10 years ago
478
232
Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206
469
153
The Startup Zeitgeist
http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2016/05/the-startup-zeitgeist/
456
130
Uvloop: Fast Python networking
http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
405
104
I wrote a small piece on planned death
http://hintjens.com/blog:116
367
205
New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutting Coal
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-03/solar-developers-undercut-coal-with-another-record-set-in-dubai
303
201
78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis
http://www.curiousgnu.com/reddit-godwin
302
125
Nine years of censorship
http://www.nature.com/news/nine-years-of-censorship-1.19842
295
188
Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble
https://kalkis-research.com/google-end-of-the-online-advertising-bubble
284
228
FBI Harassment
https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment.html
249
187
Introducing docs.microsoft.com
https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/introducing-docs-microsoft-com/
221
158
Yes, All DRM
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/yes-all-drm
207
55
The curious case of slow downloads
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-curious-case-of-slow-downloads/
203
59
IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/technology/ibm-wants-everyone-to-try-a-quantum-computer.html
199
129
Google Deactivates Web Search API
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&rsz=small&safe=active&q=foobar&max-results=1&v=2&alt=json
183
53
Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability
https://medium.com/@jitbit/target-blank-the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever-96e328301f4c#.disn238f9
179
108
Refined Twitter
https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-twitter/blob/master/readme.md
★ 1.2k JavaScript MIT– 10 years ago
178
24
Simplevisor: Intel x64 Windows-specific hypervisor
http://ionescu007.github.io/SimpleVisor/
174
96
Cheap Solar Power
http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/blog-1/cheapsolarpower
172
107
Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/our-brain-uses-statistics-calculate-confidence-make-decisions
159
54
Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business: Interview with founder of Metafilter
https://medium.com/strong-words/a-lifestyle-business-can-kill-you-2e45add4107f#.y9m3egtzf
154
103
Why most mobile development projects fail
http://clean-swift.com/mobile-development-projects-fail/
148
32
The Bug in the Physical Building
http://two-wrongs.com/the-bug-in-the-physical-building
134
39
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
https://hackernoon.com/the-software-engineer-s-guide-to-asserting-office-dominance-ddea7b598df7#.961h4brcc
131
50
SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/05/03/spacex_announces_a_mission_to_land_on_mars_by_2018.html
52
Serializable, Lockless, Distributed: Isolation in CockroachDB
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/serializable-lockless-distributed-isolation-cockroachdb/
62
Select a document and have it certified in the Bitcoin blockchain
https://proofofexistence.com
123
91
We asked 15,000 people how they're learning to program
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/we-asked-15-000-people-who-they-are-and-how-theyre-learning-to-code-4104e29b2781#.tesff0l03
116
30
Growler: Asyncio Micro-Framework in Python
https://github.com/pyGrowler/Growler
★ 689 Python Apache-2.0– 10 years ago
115
The Impact of Index Investing: A Follow-Up
http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/followup/
111
28
Toil – A Python Workflow Engine
http://toil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
109
25
Non-Lexical Lifetimes Based on Liveness in Rust
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/05/04/non-lexical-lifetimes-based-on-liveness/
105
15
SLAyer
https://github.com/Microsoft/SLAyer
★ 324 OCaml – 10 years ago
102
40
A Child Thinking About Infinity (2001) [pdf]
http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/pdfs/dot2001l-childs-infinity.pdf
99
186
ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21646220-it-depends-what-you-study-not-where?%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc
94
27
Hedgehogs, the Keepers of Order and Knowledge in Slavic Fairy Tales
http://tinydonkey.fairytalereview.com/2016/04/hedgehogs-the-keepers-of-order-and-knowledge-in-slavic-fairy-tales/
38
Triplebyte Engineer Genome Project
http://blog.triplebyte.com/triplebyte-engineer-genome-project
90
Apple is now run by a guy who is more like John Sculley than Steve Jobs
http://recode.net/2016/05/03/apple-is-now-run-by-a-guy-who-is-more-like-john-sculley-than-steve-jobs/
84
89
No one wants yearly Android releases
http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-one-wants-yearly-android-releases/
81
Michael Bloomberg: Why Safe Spaces Are Terrible Mistakes
http://heatst.com/politics/michael-bloomberg-why-safe-spaces-are-terrible-mistakes/
36
A basic forking server in Oberon-2
https://github.com/norayr/voc/tree/master/src/test/server
★ 220 Oberon GPL-3.0– 10 years ago
76
48
Two Tesla Production Chiefs to Leave Ahead of Model 3 Ramp-Up
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-04/two-tesla-production-chiefs-to-leave-ahead-of-biggest-challenge-yet
74
Gor — Test your system with real data
https://gortool.com
73
65
How to Earn a Technical Co-Founder
http://humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop-asking-how-to-find
67
56
How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
https://medium.com/@josephswitzler/how-my-company-is-lowering-the-bar-to-increase-diversity-bfb887d0ad53
66
71
Ted Cruz Ends His Campaign for President
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/us/politics/ted-cruz.html?_r=0
20
SpaceX's spacesuits are getting design input from Ironhead Studio
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4hi1jo/spacexs_spacesuits_are_getting_design_input_from/