490
281
Docker not ready for primetime
http://blog.goodstuff.im/docker_not_prime_time
10 years ago
393
56
GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine
http://jakubdziworski.github.io/tools/2016/08/26/github-code-advances-search-programmers-goldmine.html
366
88
How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco
https://www.dataquest.io/blog/apartment-finding-slackbot/
294
199
There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616
283
261
Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)
http://yosefk.com/blog/why-bad-scientific-code-beats-code-following-best-practices.html
279
83
A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/?no-ist
276
164
The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-price-of-solar-is-declining-to-unprecedented-lows/
263
141
The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything
http://www.thefrenchnumber.fr
237
218
Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability
http://ziglang.org/
223
106
Ask HN: How do you handle DDoS attacks?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376596
221
Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376242
193
49
KickSat: open source spacecraft project
https://github.com/kicksat
191
99
WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/whatsapp-data-sharing-with-facebook-opting-out-of-new-terms-doesnt-actually-stop-facebook-taking-a7213221.html
189
94
Proposal to add optional social media account fields to US Customs arrival forms
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/06/23/2016-14848/agency-information-collection-activities-arrival-and-departure-record-forms-i-94-and-i-94w-and
46
An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248
172
78
The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015)
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-piracy-paradox-at-udemy/
165
58
Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/28/tim-berners-lee-open-web-mark-zuckerberg-facebook
161
40
FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03430
129
39
Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.
https://deploybot.com/
118
51
The same melodic sequence appears in a surprising number of recent pop songs
http://qz.com/767812/millennial-whoop/
115
57
Ask HN: What kind of projects should I build for a front-end portfolio?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379111
114
The Justice System That Lets Executives Escape Their Crimes
https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/super-court?utm_term=.qummYdw9L#.wrvWJzd93
How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-is-how-your-brain-becomes-addicted-to-caffeine-26861037/?no-ist
112
74
German economy minister says EU-US trade talks have failed
http://bigstory.ap.org/611ff828b5ed44d5ad56ab46e0781e52
RE:DOM – Tiny DOM library
https://redom.js.org
109
127
A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-sweden-disinformation.html?_r=0
8
Farmers Plant Beehive Guard Posts to Repel Elephants
http://99percentinvisible.org/article/invisible-fences-farmers-plant-beehive-guard-posts-repel-elephants/
107
64
Pythran: a Python to C++ compiler with a focus on scientific computing
http://pythonhosted.org/pythran/
100
The Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-premier-cru-john-fox/
95
“To a Top Scientist at Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia” (2009)
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/to-top-scientist.html
80
1Password – Standalone licenses vs. new subscription service
https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/67588/standalone-licenses-vs-new-subscription-service
90
3
Mapping the Mercantilist World Economy
https://ericrossacademic.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/mapping-the-mercantilist-world-economy/
17
User-friendly language for programming efficient simulations
http://news.mit.edu/2016/user-friendly-language-programming-efficient-simulations-0810
86
37
How Fuhu went bankrupt
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-fuhu-bankruptcy-20160824-snap-story.html
84
What it feels like to be the last gen to remember life before the internet
http://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet/
82
32
Optimizing matrix multiplication in C
https://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2016/08/28/optimizing-matrix-multiplication/
81
31
Changing the Culture of Python at Facebook [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtp9NgtXiA
79
77
The DNSSEC master key securing DNS is about to change
http://www.techworld.com/security/dnssec-master-key-securing-dns-is-about-change-should-we-be-worried-3645538/
75
48
Space: A sudden light
http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/space-2016#section-2?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/asuddenlight
73
Opera server breach incident
https://www.opera.com/blogs/security/2016/08/opera-server-breach-incident/
26
What It Takes for an Independent Record Store to Survive Now
http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9927-what-it-takes-for-an-independent-record-store-to-survive-now/
