861
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Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/technology/google-says-it-will-run-entirely-on-renewable-energy-in-2017.html?_r=0
10 years ago
745
338
I'm giving up on PGP
https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/
639
311
Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]
http://darkpatterns.org
568
287
It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
http://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code
512
325
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
434
106
Apple to Start Publishing AI Research
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-06/apple-to-start-publishing-ai-research-to-hasten-deep-learning
424
108
How to Ship Side Projects
http://blog.andyjiang.com/how-to-ship-side-projects/
406
293
Google Trusted Contacts
https://blog.google/products/maps/let-your-loved-ones-know-youre-safe-our-new-personal-safety-app/
379
68
Write a Shell in C (2015)
https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/
270
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Anil Dash Is the New CEO of Fog Creek Software
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/06/anil-dash-is-the-new-ceo-of-fog-creek-software/
255
71
Andrew Wiles: what does it feel like to do maths?
https://plus.maths.org/content/andrew-wiles-what-does-if-feel-do-maths
253
120
Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113766
243
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UBlock Origin for Safari
https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari
★ 2.7k JavaScript GPL-3.0– 10 years ago
239
37
QEMU Advent Calendar
http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/
228
104
Closure Compiler in JavaScript
https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/08/closure-compiler-in-javascript.html
220
29
Show HN: Victory – ReactJS library for building interactive data visualizations
https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory
★ 11.2k TypeScript – 10 years ago
208
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Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time
http://news.stanford.edu/2016/12/01/portions-brain-fall-asleep-wake-back-time-stanford-researchers-find/
205
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With Station F, Paris will have the world’s biggest startup campus
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/05/with-station-f-paris-will-have-the-worlds-biggest-startup-campus/
202
51
Analysis of longevity of code across many popular projects
https://erikbern.com/2016/12/05/the-half-life-of-code.html
194
128
An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
https://levlaz.org/an-ode-to-linux-desktop-users-everywhere/
48
GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform
https://www.grisp.org/
185
45
Show HN: Gomix the easiest way to build apps and bots
https://community.gomix.me
179
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ReMarkable Paper Tablet
https://blog.getremarkable.com/better-paper-better-thinking-432d8a283300#.g7jp42ohv
164
George Hotz Is Giving Away Self-Driving Software
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/qa-why-exhacker-george-hotz-is-giving-away-selfdriving-software
154
136
Ask HN: Are you more likely to apply for a job that discloses salary upfront?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13116133
151
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Milking the iPhone
https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2016/12/6/milking-the-iphone
147
My Voice Controlled Smart Mirror: A Postmortem
https://chrisuehlinger.com/blog/2016/08/20/voice-controlled-smart-mirror/
135
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A Simple Explanation: VLC.js
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5089
131
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Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road
https://neovim.io/news/2016/11/
130
Show HN: QueryStorm – A query IDE inside Excel
https://www.querystorm.com/
122
The sad truth about depressive realism (2006) [pdf]
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samuel_Hannah/publication/6441659_The_sad_truth_about_depressive_realism/links/0912f5106e6479973d000000.pdf?origin=publication_list
126
Seiko 80s Computer Watches (2005)
http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/nerdwatch/seiko-computer-watch-fun/
121
15
The Best Online Communities for SaaS Founders
http://www.marketingthatsells.net/blog/best-communities-saas-founders
119
Show HN: PullToRefresh.js
https://www.boxfactura.com/pulltorefresh.js/
Ask HN: As a single bootstrapper, how do you deal with the pressure?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13115952
117
28
The Orphaned Internet – Taking Over 120K Domains via a DNS Vulnerability
https://thehackerblog.com/the-orphaned-internet-taking-over-120k-domains-via-a-dns-vulnerability-in-aws-google-cloud-rackspace-and-digital-ocean/index.html
114
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Actually using ed (2012)
https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/
109
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Show HN: Styletron – Virtual CSS
https://ryantsao.com/blog/virtual-css-with-styletron
Experiments in Handwriting with a Neural Network
http://distill.pub/2016/handwriting/
39
Ships Buried Under San Francisco
http://www.upout.com/blog/san-francisco-3/map-shows-ships-buried-underneath-san-francisco-2
107
33
Method dispatch in Swift
https://www.raizlabs.com/dev/2016/12/swift-method-dispatch/
19
How to get a C64 on WiFi and start BBSing again
https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=159
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend some fulfillment alternatives to Amazon?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13115115
99
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Power Poser: When big ideas go bad
http://www.chronicle.com/article/When-Big-Ideas-Go-Bad/238544?key=yop9k7-B1QiWD6aZpWTJrwQaFFjhgu-cumdsNS97tdI-aTlXSFvHWZIy2iA1Y0UfSDdsb1ZES1NjYnd5QTllSDNlSG9LVjAzRUl3NVNrVGZhUzRMSWJ5Q1BGdw
94
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Infinit Joins Docker
http://blog.infinit.sh/infinit-joins-docker/
89
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Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier in Go
https://github.com/oklog/ulid
★ 5k Go Apache-2.0– 10 years ago
87
Amber Smalltalk
http://www.amber-lang.net/
41
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2801385
38
GitHub Major Service Outage
https://status.github.com/#06DEC2016
81
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“There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week."
https://facebook.com/groups/759985267390294?view=permalink&id=1424100054312142
80
24
Linux af_packet.c race condition local root exploit
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/607
A tool to make Windows builds reproducible
https://github.com/jasonwhite/ducible
★ 270 C MIT– 10 years ago
78
Nintendo Launches Vulnerability Rewards Program for Nintendo 3DS
https://hackerone.com/blog/Nintendo-3ds-Launches-bug-bounty-program-on-HackerOne
77
0
How we made diff pages 3 times faster
http://githubengineering.com/how-we-made-diff-pages-3x-faster/
75
Parallelizing Word2Vec in Multi-Core and Many-Core Architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06172
21
Treksit – Graph theory game
http://treksit.com/?graph
72
How publishers are defeating ad blockers and how ad blockers are fighting back
http://blog.bugreplay.com/post/153861574674/fkadblock-how-publishers-are-defeating-ad#
20
Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works
http://www.sciencealert.com/tests-confirm-that-germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works
70
43
Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away from Coding Schools
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-06/want-a-job-in-silicon-valley-keep-away-from-coding-schools
30
Our Multi-Tenancy Journey with Postgres Schemas and Apartment
https://influitive.io/our-multi-tenancy-journey-with-postgres-schemas-and-apartment-6ecda151a21f#.vfxsvbsrg
12
Why Did the Robot Do That? Increasing Trust in Autonomous Robots
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2016/12/why-did-the-robot-do-that.html
69
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Don’t assume that safety comes for free: a Swift case study
http://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/06/dont-assume-that-safety-comes-for-free-a-swift-case-study/
65
Jasonette – Native App over HTTP
http://jasonette.com/