1036
454
Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778836
10 years ago
548
149
Introducing Initialized Capital
http://initialized.com/
447
315
The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
https://jakubmarian.com/the-432-hz-vs-440-hz-conspiracy-theory
397
291
Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple/
382
293
Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/18/poor-kids-who-do-everything-right-dont-do-better-than-rich-kids-who-do-everything-wrong/
375
100
Building a Bank with Kubernetes [slides]
https://community.monzo.com/t/building-a-bank-with-kubernetes-presentation-tv/6434
368
239
Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37750798
355
142
Font Awesome 5
http://five.fontawesome.io
338
146
We Got Phished
https://www.exploratorium.edu/blogs/tangents/we-got-phished-2
336
235
Overview of JavaScript ES6 features
http://adrianmejia.com/blog/2016/10/19/Overview-of-JavaScript-ES6-features-a-k-a-ECMAScript-6-and-ES2015/#.WA4G-3dZebs.hackernews
305
234
Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/business/technology-apple-introduces-what-it-calls-an-easier-to-use-portable-music-player.html
282
85
How Snowden's Disclosures Made All Our Data Safer
https://pardonsnowden.org/news/snowden-effect-on-tech
258
102
To influence people don't try to persuade them, use ‘pre-suasion’ instead
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-cialdini-presuasion-20161023-snap-story.html
249
45
Capturing Millions of Packets per Second in Linux without Third-Party Libraries
http://kukuruku.co/hub/nix/capturing-packets-in-linux-at-a-speed-of-millions-of-packets-per-second-without-using-third-party-libraries
219
44
Show HN: A Simple Highway Simulator
http://muehlemann.com/highwaysim
204
247
“No, I'm the ex-CEO of Reddit because eventually there was too much bullshit.”
https://reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/58zaho/the_accuracy_of_voat_regarding_reddit_srs_admins/d95a7q2
199
92
One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level
https://killscreen.com/articles/doom-map-300-hours-make/
195
26
Games on GitHub
https://github.com/leereilly/games
★ 24.6k – 10 years ago
191
60
Operating Systems
https://xkcd.com/1508/
187
119
Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development (2015)
https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877#.aq7d22evm
24
Impossible Coin in Super Mario 64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPILIf7ru48
184
74
Web Bloat Score Calculator
http://www.webbloatscore.com
174
89
Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/is-your-site-leaking-password-reset-links
171
52
The New York Times is buying the Wirecutter for more than $30M
http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guide
157
116
A Taste of Haskell
https://hookrace.net/blog/a-taste-of-haskell/
145
16
Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/10/welcoming-adrian-cockcroft-to-tthe-aws-team.html
132
14
IHaskell – A Haskell kernel for Jupyter
https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell
★ 2.6k Jupyter Notebook MIT– 10 years ago
130
28
How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010)
http://norvig.com/lispy.html
128
Where are the Eyes is a program for detecting and mapping surveillance cameras
https://github.com/DaylightingSociety/WhereAreTheEyes
★ 242 Java BSD-3-Clause– 10 years ago
127
262
Sputtering Startups Weigh on U.S. Economic Growth
http://www.wsj.com/articles/sputtering-startups-weigh-on-u-s-economic-growth-1477235874
41
Keras-based molecular autoencoder
https://github.com/maxhodak/keras-molecules
★ 531 Python MIT– 10 years ago
124
170
Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161020-can-you-hurt-yourself-eating-chilli-peppers
121
37
What it means when a huge Antarctic glacier is unstable
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/10/21/scientists-just-showed-what-it-truly-means-when-a-huge-antarctic-glacier-is-unstable/?utm_term=.3c2b1868f451
108
4
Building your bot's brain with Node.js and spaCy
https://explosion.ai/blog/chatbot-node-js-spacy
105
49
Boycott Docker
http://www.boycottdocker.org
104
Varnish Explained
https://ma.ttias.be/varnish-explained/
Smartwatch sales are tanking
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/smartwatch-sales-are-tanking/?ncid=rss
97
15
The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast Support
https://github.com/insidegui/AppleEvents
★ 823 Objective-C BSD-2-Clause– 10 years ago
90
23
IPFS-Screenshot – Like Cloudapp but with IPFS
https://github.com/uptownhr/ipfs-screenshot
★ 125 Shell – 10 years ago
PCem – An emulator for various old PCs
http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
83
20
Living in China’s Expanding Deserts
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/24/world/asia/living-in-chinas-expanding-deserts.html
80
How HotelTonight Scaled Their Stack [audio]
http://stackshare.io/posts/how-hoteltonight-scaled-their-stack-from-mvp-to-ipo
79
17
OpenSSL SSL3_AL_WARNING undefined alert remote DoS
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224
72
71
Xiaomi Mi Air 13.3in Notebook Review
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-Mi-Air-13-3-inch-Notebook-Review.180561.0.html
Tesla plunges in Consumer Reports' rankings
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-consumer-reports-20161024-snap-story.html
69
43
The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161018-the-worlds-knowledge-is-being-buried-in-a-salt-mine