1612
427
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
https://medium.com/@tristanharris/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3
10 years ago
373
182
Libui: GUI library in C
https://github.com/andlabs/libui
★ 10.8k C – 10 years ago
363
77
Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA
https://torrentfreak.com/fox-stole-a-game-clip-used-it-in-family-guy-dmcad-the-original-160520/
329
132
CSS coding techniques
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/05/css-coding-techniques/
321
233
Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-percent-of-manhattans-buildings-could-not-be-built-today.html
252
116
Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2
https://medium.com/@ustwogames/monument-valley-in-numbers-year-2-440cf5562fe#.phzgxwizd
248
150
If you care about privacy, you should not use Google Allo
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dont-use-google-allo
227
275
Moving Away from Python 2
https://asmeurer.github.io/blog/posts/moving-away-from-python-2/
223
120
Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (2014)
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25401
221
193
China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-19/china-seen-faking-488-million-internet-posts-to-divert-criticism
220
43
A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing?
215
234
Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5
https://bitmovin.com/google-replace-flash-with-html5/
202
69
Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/18/portugal-runs-for-four-days-straight-on-renewable-energy-alone
190
78
CSS Purge
http://www.csspurge.com/
187
249
Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures
184
19
Rendering a Buddhabrot at 4K and Other Bad Ideas
https://benedikt-bitterli.me/buddhabrot/
140
How Windows Everywhere finally happened
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/onecore-to-rule-them-all-how-windows-everywhere-finally-happened/
162
54
Shebang Quine
https://github.com/geon/shebang-abuse/blob/master/quine
★ 144 – 10 years ago
47
You are being followed: The business of social media surveillance
http://littlesis.org/news/2016/05/18/you-are-being-followed-the-business-of-social-media-surveillance/
161
Cutestrap: 8k CSS framework
https://www.cutestrap.com
141
94
Project Ara Lives: Google's Modular Phone
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/project-ara-lives-googles-modular-phone-is-ready/
38
What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
★ 43k – 10 years ago
125
97
Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36200530
119
48
Minecraft Server with a Bitcoin-denominated monetary system
http://bitquest.co/
112
What Americans ate on an average day, for the past several decades
http://flowingdata.com/2016/05/17/the-changing-american-diet/
108
80
uWebSockets: Scalable WebSocket server library for Node.js and C++11
https://github.com/alexhultman/uWebSockets
★ 18.8k C++ Apache-2.0– 10 years ago
104
Hello world in every programming language
https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world
★ 11.8k Assembly MIT– 10 years ago
103
One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06065
99
63
Cruise settles legal case involving cofounder
http://www.businessinsider.com/car-startup-cruise-settles-legal-case-involving-cofounder-2016-5?op=1
98
35
Lens of human eye can be fully regenerated, at least in newborns
http://evidenceba.se/answers/16-yes-but-for-now-it-was-only-achieved-in-infants-answer-to-can-lens-of-human-eye-be-regenerated-after-cataract-surgery
96
18
The pressure to publish pushes down quality
http://www.nature.com/news/the-pressure-to-publish-pushes-down-quality-1.19887
93
8
The Illumos Syscall Handler
http://zinascii.com/2016/the-illumos-syscall-handler.html
88
Tech firms may violate Palo Alto zoning: Writing code not allowed downtown
https://www.docdroid.net/IohgURu/the-daily-post-search-the-archive.pdf.html
92
51
Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?
http://meowni.ca/posts/emoji-emoji-emoji/
91
Majority of U.S. public school students are eligible for federal food program
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/majority-of-us-public-school-students-are-in-poverty/2015/01/15/df7171d0-9ce9-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html
90
40
Museum of Soviet arcade machines
http://www.15kop.ru/en/
89
16
Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console
https://github.com/thomaskcr/hn-saved-export
★ 51 – 10 years ago
85
57
Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease
http://apex.run/
83
Please don't send me smart replies
http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/19/google-smart-replies-are-dehumanizing/
82
17
Support for parallel ECDSA / RSA certificates
https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/814
29
How to ask for reviews without feeling icky about it
https://m.signalvnoise.com/getting-from-%EF%B8%8F-%EF%B8%8F-to-%EF%B8%8F-%EF%B8%8F-%EF%B8%8F-%EF%B8%8F-%EF%B8%8F-c65cc3bb7cb1#.rgrwe5cnw
14
Show HN: tesserocr – A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr
★ 2.1k Python MIT– 10 years ago
Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic
http://www.wsj.com/articles/balance-due-credit-card-debt-nears-1-trillion-as-banks-push-plastic-1463736600
76
37
Senate Passes Bill Exposing Saudi Arabia to 9/11 Legal Claims
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/us/politics/senate-passes-bill-that-would-expose-saudi-arabia-to-legal-jeopardy-over-9-11.html
74
Ways C compilers break for objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes
http://trust-in-soft.com/objects-larger-than-ptrdiff_max-bytes/
67
55
How Great Programmers Avoid Bugs
http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/4.html
66
15
Partnering with Microsoft to run Jenkins infrastructure on Azure
https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/05/18/announcing-azure-partnership/
65
32
RoboCop is real at the Stanford Shopping Center
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/20/robocop-robot-mall-security-guard-palo-alto-california
64
33
GitHub down
https://status.github.com/graphs/past_day
60
Agile is not a Fucking Noun
https://medium.com/@magdoub/agile-is-not-a-fucking-noun-e2064b241311
Nvidia-Docker: Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging Nvidia GPUs
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
★ 17.5k Apache-2.0– 10 years ago
62
7
Show HN: HTTP Prompt – An HTTP CLI with autocomplete and syntax highlighting
https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt
★ 9.1k Python MIT– 10 years ago
An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flipping (2005)
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/group-theory-in-the-bedroom/99999
What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting
https://medium.com/@glennbeck/what-disturbed-me-about-the-facebook-meeting-3bbe0b96b87f#.p9qj1m32z
27
Antibiotics Are Dead; Long Live Antibiotics
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26701
58
The Fading Dream to Liberate Africa’s Last Colony
https://newrepublic.com/article/133561/fading-dream-liberate-africas-last-colony
23
A former Facebook engineer on algorithmic ranking for Facebook Trending
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/algorithm-transparency-paying-attention-man-behind-curtain-koren?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-hero-14-null&midToken=AQE5WL03u_Wx3w&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=28uObBJ6PtfTg1