662
302
This AI Boom Will Also Bust
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/12/this-ai-boom-will-also-bust.html
10 years ago
385
217
Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
https://www.prerender.cloud/blog/2016/12/03/chrome-memory-54-vs-55
351
118
How I Wrote the Screenplay for “Arrival” and What I Learned Doing It
http://thetalkhouse.com/how-i-wrote-arrival/
334
128
Ask HN: Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095595
321
71
Leaflet: An open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
http://leafletjs.com/
303
82
Show HN: Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people
http://handicareers.com
296
157
Practical Common Lisp (2005)
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
273
85
The world’s worst air force
https://hushkit.net/2016/12/03/the-worlds-worst-air-force/
31
A Crash Course in X86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers (2013) [pdf]
https://sensepost.com/blogstatic/2014/01/SensePost_crash_course_in_x86_assembly-.pdf
205
61
24 days of Rust – Rayon
https://siciarz.net/24-days-rust-rayon/
202
55
DynASM
http://luajit.org/dynasm.html
196
54
Jid – Drill down JSON data incrementally
https://github.com/simeji/jid
★ 7.1k Go MIT– 10 years ago
192
98
Big Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/business/energy-environment/how-big-banks-are-putting-rain-forests-in-peril.html?_r=0
189
21
Ripgrep code review
http://blog.mbrt.it/2016-12-01-ripgrep-code-review/
162
37
Don’t prematurely obsess on a single “big problem” or “big theory”
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/dont-prematurely-obsess-on-a-single-big-problem-or-big-theory/
159
152
MakerBot's bold bet that 3D printers would become common
https://backchannel.com/the-3d-printing-revolution-that-wasnt-60b000c3a3ed#.chdpvs3bi
144
168
Who Lives with Their Parents?
https://priceonomics.com/who-still-lives-at-home-with-their-parents/
141
84
C++ confessions of a C developer
http://undo.io/resources/blog-articles/cpp-confessions-of-a-c-dev/
139
4
Learning Exploitation with Offensive Computer Security 2.0
http://howto.hackallthethings.com/2016/07/learning-exploitation-with-offensive.html
135
22
LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012)
http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector
131
David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO
http://www.wsj.com/articles/zenefits-ceo-david-sacks-is-expected-to-step-down-1480730433
130
19
Guy Debord’s Situationist Board Game
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/class_warfare_radical_french_philosopher_guy_debords_situationist_board_gam
129
12
Adventures in the land of substrings and RegExps
http://mrale.ph/blog/2016/11/23/making-less-dart-faster.html
Magic Leap – Separating Magic and Reality
http://www.kguttag.com/2016/11/20/magic-leap-separating-magic-and-reality/
127
20
Chrome 55 chooses HTML5 over Flash by default, drastically reduces RAM usage
http://www.techspot.com/news/67268-chrome-55-now-available-loads-html5-over-flash.html
125
Macchiato: ClojureScript on the Server
http://yogthos.net/posts/2016-11-30-Macchiato.html
42
So Long, Whitechapel Bell Foundry
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/02/so-long-whitechapel-bell-foundry/
124
Employee #1: Kickstarter – AMA and Interview
https://blog.ycombinator.com/employee-1-kickstarter/
122
88
Prop 13, Or, California's Progressive Blindspot Illuminated
http://sfbamo.com/news/editorial-prop-13-or-the-california-progressive-blindspot-illuminated/
121
48
InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality
https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-1-1-released-with-up-to-60-performance-increase-and-new-query-functionality/
119
30
Golang: sub-millisecond GC pause on production 18gb heap
https://twitter.com/brianhatfield/status/804355831080751104
114
Bookdown – Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
https://blog.rstudio.org/2016/12/02/announcing-bookdown/
83
Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161201-quantum-gravitys-time-problem/
111
Show HN: Gransk – Document processing for investigations
https://gransk.com/
108
Regional Security Office Ghana Shuts Down Fake US Embassy
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/263916.htm
107
18
Thoreau Was Actually Funny
http://lithub.com/thoreau-was-actually-funny-as-hell/
46
ECMAScript bind operator proposal
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bind-operator
★ 1.7k – 10 years ago
95
7
Testing with realistic network conditions
http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/testing-with-realistic-networking-conditions/
94
Bitcoin Beat the Trough of Sorrow
http://blog.deepgram.com/bitcoin-beat-the-trough-of-sorrow/
93
29
Hard Truths and Happiness
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/2016/12/03/hard-truths-and-happiness-by-john-sellars/
90
52
Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction
http://monsterfeet.com/grue/
89
16
NORAD's Santa Tracker Began with a Typo and a Good Sport (2014)
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport
87
33
Missing Detroit: My Dad and the disease of blight
http://beltmag.com/missing-detroit-my-dad-and-the-disease-of-blight/
38
People susceptible to the placebo effect may be limiting drug approvals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/health-science/wp/2016/12/02/people-susceptible-to-the-placebo-effect-may-be-keeping-us-from-getting-new-drugs/
86
15
Computer Vision in 1982 Using Altair Computers and a Cromemco Cyclops Camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5oVHNfbf8
Record Query – A tool for doing record analysis and transformation
https://github.com/dflemstr/rq
★ 2.2k Rust Apache-2.0– 10 years ago
81
67
How a Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment (2014)
https://priceonomics.com/how-a-lawsuit-over-hot-coffee-helped-erode-the-7th/
78
17
Emacs-jit: Emacs with an Emacs Lisp JIT compiler
https://github.com/burtonsamograd/emacs-jit
★ 143 Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0– 10 years ago
