543
184
Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108296-first-farm-to-grow-veg-in-a-desert-using-only-sun-and-seawater/
10 years ago
523
211
Brain training exercises might just make you better at brain training exercises
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/10/07/brain-training-exercises-just-make-you-better-at-brain-training-exercises/
513
132
IP Spoofing
https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoofing/
456
131
Shenzhen I/O
http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/
443
241
A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
http://journal.burningman.org/2016/10/philosophical-center/tenprinciples/a-brief-history-of-who-ruined-burning-man/
432
60
How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps
https://medium.com/transit-app/how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-generated-transit-maps-12d0c6fa502f
425
368
Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/06/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-led-illegal-purge-of-male-employees-lawsuit-charges/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1475791811
419
122
Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book2016June9.pdf
371
66
Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/graph-powered-machine-learning-at-google.html
331
120
RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software
http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/10/rethinkdb-sagemath-andreessen-horowitz.html
318
214
Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/tim_bernerslee_just_gave_us_opening_stop_drm_web_standards
310
37
Hurricane Matthew Visualization
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=26.33;-79.10;6&l=gust&t=20161007/08&w=0xIAb9A9A
302
97
RethinkDB needs a new home
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1yY2qy25viVc8MiM0XCsyMCpbalgzXrpT3MQAd_d3C1-jhA/viewform?c=0&w=1
286
140
Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/vb.4/10103154531425531/?type=2&theater
246
64
Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
https://people.math.osu.edu/nevai.1/AT/ERDOS/erdos_washington_post.html
237
70
Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk
http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/10/Silkworms-eat-carbon-nanotubes-graphene.html
208
231
Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS
https://www.nexedi.com/blog/NXD-Apple.Lawsuit.Blog
206
102
Ask HN: Team for Hire?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12660702
202
88
Microsoft Stream
https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/
189
29
Netflix and Ch-Ch-Chilly
https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8#.vrhmwhsi2
