404
201
4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference?
http://www.outsideonline.com/2096381/4wd-vs-awd-whats-difference
10 years ago
380
166
Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/co-founders-optional
330
134
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
226
45
Ntfy: A utility for sending notifications
https://github.com/dschep/ntfy
★ 4.9k Python GPL-3.0– 10 years ago
219
94
What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative
https://www.mattermost.org/what-slack-might-learn-from-its-open-source-alternative/
177
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To
https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-desktop-howto/
196
27
Fluid Simulation (with WebGL demo)
http://jamie-wong.com/2016/08/05/webgl-fluid-simulation/
191
53
Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/blob/master/README.md
★ 10.1k C – 10 years ago
181
114
Short-selling as a way to profit from security vulnerabilities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/in-an-unorthodox-move-hacking-firm-teams-up-with-short-sellers
178
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Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/08/26/why-china-wont-own-next-generation-manufacturing/
171
105
Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms
http://dannas.github.io/2016/08/27/review-of-seymor-paperts-mindstorms.html
83
Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’
http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mathematicians-hail-from-just-24-scientific-families-1.20491
170
135
Uber's Failure in Japan
http://www.disruptingjapan.com/how-ubers-failure-in-japan-can-help-startups-everywhere/
154
59
Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12372118
152
Why Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/08/26/the_bizarre_true_story_behind_the_this_is_a_work_of_fiction_disclaimer.html
147
93
Ask HN: Early signs that a company is failing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12373794
128
74
A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/watch-this-surveillance-master-dissect-a-murder-from-the-sky?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business
16
HTTP Observatory: analyze your website and review available methods to secure it
https://github.com/mozilla/http-observatory
★ 1.8k Python MPL-2.0– 10 years ago
122
88
Ask HN: I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12374445
119
68
Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_ec2_beta/
118
62
Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport
https://github.com/camwiegert/in-view
★ 4.6k JavaScript MIT– 10 years ago
117
15
The Traitorous Eight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
115
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G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up
http://nytimes.com/2016/08/28/technology/ge-the-124-year-old-software-start-up.html?referer=
14
Z3 SMT solver interactive tutorial
http://rise4fun.com/z3/tutorial/guide
113
20
SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacific
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-splashes.html
109
38
Certificate Authority Gave Out Certs for GitHub to a GitHub Account Holder
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160825/12181835347/certificate-authority-gave-out-certs-github-to-someone-who-just-had-github-account.shtml
107
40
Go's first commit
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8
★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause– 10 years ago
106
44
Programmer, interrupted (2013)
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/190891/programmer_interrupted.php
28
Run Chrome apps in Electron
https://github.com/koush/electron-chrome
★ 963 JavaScript – 10 years ago
54
In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used to Be (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/in-mathematics-mistakes-arent-what-they-used-to-be
97
26
Maru OS becomes an open source project
http://opensourceforu.com/2016/08/maru-os-becomes-open-source-project/
91
69
An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors/
89
8
Vagrant plugin for Xhyve
https://github.com/sirn/vagrant-xhyve
★ 169 Ruby – 10 years ago
86
6
IM2CAD – Reconstruct a scene that is as similar as possible to a photograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05137
22
Court Finds Sheriff’s Raid to Find Blogger Who Criticized Him Unconstitutional
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/26/sheriffs-raid-to-find-blogger-who-criticized-him-was-unconstitutional-court-rules/
78
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Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package?
http://www.practicalstats.com/xlsstats/excelstats.html
75
25
“Death of Satoshi Nakamoto” [pdf]
https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx201630-3.pdf
47
Ursula K. Le Guin, “the emissary from Orsinia,” challenges expectations
https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1180-ursula-k-le-guin-the-emissary-from-orsinia-crosses-borders-and-challenges-expectations
John Ellenby, Visionary Who Helped Create Early Laptop, Dies at 75
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/technology/john-ellenby-visionary-who-helped-create-early-laptop-dies-at-75.html
98
'Single currency experiment has been a disaster' admits economist Stiglitz
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/single-currency-experiment-has-been-a-disaster-admits-nobel-priz/
