690
583
Chrome removes Backspace to go back
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608016
10 years ago
592
268
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/index.html
398
207
LinkedIn password leak
https://usblog.kaspersky.com/linkedin-password-leak/7160/
392
142
A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
https://github.com/BYVoid/Batsh
★ 4.3k OCaml – 10 years ago
391
435
Bootcamps vs. College
http://blog.triplebyte.com/bootcamps-vs-college
380
202
Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-coming-to.html
355
116
Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
https://www.troyhunt.com/going-dark-online-privacy-and-anonymity-for-normal-people/
305
165
Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools
https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/software-design-patterns-are-not-goals-they-are-tools/
299
167
Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results
http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-voids-two-years-of-edison-blood-test-results-1463616976
296
26
How I Accidentally Captured the SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing
http://petapixel.com/2016/05/18/captured-spacex-falcon-9-landing-front-milky-way/
245
76
Google's mapping cars discover hundreds of underground gas leaks
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/05/google-mapping-cars-show-locations-of-hundreds-of-dallas-underground-gas-leaks.html/
240
120
More contributions on your profile
https://github.com/blog/2173-more-contributions-on-your-profile
225
59
Anguish: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft
http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/05/anguish-invisible-programming-language-and-invisible-data-theft.html
220
127
Our best practices are killing mobile web performance
http://molily.de/mobile-web-performance/
217
111
Tips for beginning systems and software engineers
https://ilya-sher.org/2016/05/19/tips-for-beginning-systems-and-software-engineers/
213
36
Visual profiler for Python
https://github.com/nvdv/vprof
★ 3.9k Python BSD-2-Clause– 10 years ago
212
43
One Chart, Twelve Charting Libraries
http://lisacharlotterost.github.io/2016/05/17/one-chart-code/
103
Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11691818/barone-mocetti-florence
198
33
How the Gut Affects Mood
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gut-week-gut-brain-axis-can-fixing-my-stomach-fix-me/
187
Introducing the 2nd Generation Boosted Board
http://boostedboards.com/introducing-2nd-generation-boosted-board/
184
151
Keep your identity small (2009)
http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
177
124
Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb
http://fooledbyrandomness.com/SITG.html
170
77
From web dev to 3D: Learning 3D modeling
https://levels.io/from-web-dev-to-3d/
162
18
A Practical Guide to Lasers for Experimenters and Hobbyists
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/laserfaq.htm#faqtoc
28
So Far, So Good
http://hintjens.com/blog:119
159
35
Arbitrage Discovered (2015)
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-27/arbitrage-discovered
131
182
Deconstructing K&R C Is Dead (2015)
http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html
161
The brain is not a computer
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
129
Federal Judge Says Internet Archive's Wayback Machine a Legit Source of Evidence
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160518/08175934474/federal-judge-says-internet-archives-wayback-machine-perfectly-legitimate-source-evidence.shtml
122
72
Functional Programming, Abstraction, and Names
http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/abstraction.html?HN_20160519
53
Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distributed systems
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
106
Specifying JSON
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/30/JSON-Schema-funnies
71
The creation of stainless steel
http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/the-father-of-modern-metal
119
180
CEO Larry Page defends Google on the stand: “Declaring code is not code”
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/ceo-larry-page-defends-google-on-the-stand-declaring-code-is-not-code/
109
79
Git Reflow
https://github.com/reenhanced/gitreflow
★ 1.4k Ruby MIT– 10 years ago
108
New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard
http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/hardware/
93
Ransomware maker TeslaCrypt shuts down after releasing master key
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/ransomware-maker-teslacrypt-shuts-down-after-releasing-master-key/
104
54
Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for Some Types of Cancer
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/exercise-tied-to-lower-risk-for-13-types-of-cancer/?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
14
Principles of bot design
https://blog.intercom.io/principles-bot-design/
102
51
Swift: Things I really wanted that won’t make it
http://ericasadun.com/2016/05/19/swift-things-i-really-wanted-that-wont-make-it/
96
63
A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (2014)
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/yeah-i-still-use-shorthand-and-a-smartpen/373281/?single_page=true
95
Turbulent times for Formula 1 engines result in unprecedented efficiency gains
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/turbulent-times-for-formula-1-engines-result-in-unprecedented-efficiency-gains/
94
2016 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Scoreboard
https://icpc.baylor.edu/scoreboard/
91
55
Blue Feed, Red Feed
http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/
87
45
The curious case of the weapon that didn't exist
http://www.publicmedievalist.com/curious-case-weapon-didnt-exist/
84
75
Ask HN: Do you spend more time coding or debugging?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729806
114
Destruction of large numbers of jobs by robots unlikely, says new OECD Study
https://robotenomics.com/2016/05/18/robots-and-job-fears-new-oecd-study-says-automation-and-digitalisation-are-unlikely-to-destroy-large-numbers-of-jobs/
73
65
In Sharp Reversal, California Suspends Water Restrictions
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/california-suspends-water-restrictions.html
7
A YSlow Alternative for Making Web Pages Faster
https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/coach-yslow-alternative/
69
17
Space Invaders: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/space-invaders/
68
41
Hacker Releases a How-To Video Targeting Police
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/phineas-fisher-sme