625
712
A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France
http://visa.lafrenchtech.com/
9 years ago
544
164
Stealing passwords from McDonald's users
https://finnwea.com/blog/stealing-passwords-from-mcdonalds-users
526
195
The lost letters of the English alphabet
https://omgfacts.com/we-used-to-have-6-more-letters-in-our-alphabet-a7e1a165853d#.cevdf6hzw
429
136
Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views
http://astronaut.io/
409
172
Gene Cernan has died
https://www.nasa.gov/astronautprofiles/cernan
378
165
Easy XMPP: What are we doing here?
https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2017-January/031903.html
363
125
Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/16/google_reveals_its_servers_all_contain_custom_security_silicon/
343
42
Keras will be added to core TensorFlow at Google
http://www.fast.ai/2017/01/03/keras/?href=
257
241
China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21714383-and-theres-lot-more-come-it-waste-money-china-has-built-worlds-largest
232
40
Exposing Digital Photography (2015)
http://digitalphotography.exposed/
230
63
80,000 Hours career plan worksheet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MBpwNLl3AgsKi4Yh4PZ2X30PYy4gV9xK2xgqXKevaVQ/edit
207
100
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 out now
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/compute-module-3/
200
173
Physicists taking jobs as Silicon Valley software engineers
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/move-coders-physicists-will-soon-rule-silicon-valley/
191
107
Modern Tech inside an Amish Horse-Drawn Buggy
http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-surprisingly-modern-tech-inside-an-amish-horse-drawn-buggy/
71
The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed
http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/01/13/the-first-humans-arrived-in-north-america-much-earlier-than-thought/
188
65
WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy
https://github.com/jlantunez/webslides/
★ 6.3k JavaScript MIT– 9 years ago
36
How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/how-a-robot-got-super-mario-64-and-portal-running-on-an-snes/
154
45
We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps
https://hackernoon.com/we-reverse-engineered-16k-apps-heres-what-we-found-51bdf3b456bb
146
15
SrsLTE: Open Source 3GPP LTE Library
https://github.com/srsLTE/srsLTE
★ 3.9k C++ AGPL-3.0– 9 years ago
30
Re-Frame: a Reagent Framework for Writing SPAs, in ClojureScript
https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
★ 5.5k Clojure MIT– 9 years ago
145
60
Ask HN: How to start a career as a generalist?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13409239
144
9
MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeiKm4sgNOknGvNjby9efdf
141
2017 Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2017-levchin-prize-real-world-cryptography-max-levchin
140
53
Established education providers v new contenders
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21714173-alternative-providers-education-must-solve-problems-cost-and
138
26
Show HN: JSON Browse – Fetch, filter and manipulate your JSON inside the browser
https://jsonbrowse.com/
137
48
Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (2003)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html
130
46
Wide Impact: Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Technique Being Exploited
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-uri/
126
49
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway
https://blog.csiro.au/australian-square-kilometre-array-pathfinder-finally-hits-big-data-highway/
112
18
Git-quick-stats – A simple and efficient way to access various statistics
https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats/
★ 6.9k Shell MIT– 9 years ago
109
155
Phone numbers are not proper verification
http://b1nary.ch/2017/01/16/phone-numbers-are-no-verification/
51
With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
http://www.pcmag.com/news/351027/google-raisr-intelligently-makes-low-res-images-high-quality
58
Certified Malice
https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/16/certified-malice/
105
28
AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-16/ai-pioneer-wants-to-build-the-renaissance-machine-of-the-future
24
Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/12/15/scientists-reverse-ageing-mammals-predict-human-trials-within/
104
69
Fighting the Borrow Checker
https://m-decoster.github.io//2017/01/16/fighting-borrowchk/
101
68
Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty
http://neurosciencenews.com/profanity-honesty-psychology-5944/
95
32
The importance of neutral null for understanding evolution
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5180405/
94
29
Before you start a company, answer these questions
http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/15/before-you-start-a-company-answer-these-questions/
92
72
“Genderless nipples” account throwing off Instagram's algorithm
http://www.papermag.com/this-genderless-nipples-account-is-throwing-off-instagrams-algorithm-2141925159.html
91
90
President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
http://www.arcgis.com/apps/TimeAware/index.html?appid=7219d04b9e0a491e9421999b2103a7f2
82
SpaceX Data Shows Loss in 2015, Heavy Expectations for Nascent Internet Service
http://www.wsj.com/articles/exclusive-peek-at-spacex-data-shows-loss-in-2015-heavy-expectations-for-nascent-internet-service-1484316455
81
In Snap IPO, New Investors to Get Zero Votes While Founders Keep Control
http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-snap-ipo-new-investors-to-get-zero-votes-while-founders-keep-control-1484568034
78
How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey (2014)
https://chomsky.info/20141201/