1494
438
What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
https://privacylog.blogspot.com/2017/04/what-happens-when-you-send-zero-day-to.html
9 years ago
534
121
Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
488
152
Introducing Token
https://blog.tokenbrowser.com/introducing-token-2f2ceeab6d4c
464
222
Survivorship Bias
https://xkcd.com/1827/
451
135
Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163905
359
38
The glEnd of Zelda(): Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/zelda/
306
53
A Mind is Born
https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
295
143
Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives
http://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/
291
308
Lilium – Electric vertical take-off and landing jet
https://lilium.com/
284
54
Resources on creating programming languages
https://tomassetti.me/resources-create-programming-languages/
266
170
Theranos Secretly Bought Outside Lab Gear, Ran Fake Tests: Court Filings
https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-secretly-bought-outside-lab-gear-ran-fake-tests-court-filings-1492794470
208
151
The Evolution of Container Usage at Netflix
http://techblog.netflix.com/2017/04/the-evolution-of-container-usage-at.html
205
97
Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
23
Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages
https://github.com/Babylonpartners/fastText_multilingual
★ 1.2kJupyter NotebookBSD-3-Clause–9 years ago
200
15
Raw Linux Threads via System Calls (2015)
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/05/15/
190
122
Caddy 0.10 Released
https://caddyserver.com/blog/caddy-0_10-released#HNSaysPreviouslySubmittedButCouldNotFind
189
142
Louisiana’s Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/20/524896256/louisianas-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-disappearing-coastline
184
144
The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More ‘Meta-Ignorant’
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/07/the-internet-isnt-making-us-dumber-its-making-us-more-meta-ignorant.html
180
37
The Benefits of Solitude
https://thewalrus.ca/the-benefits-of-solitude/
174
Chicago's About to Get a Lot Less Orange
http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/April-2017/Its-Really-Hard-to-Figure-Out-What-Color-a-Citys-Streetlights-Should-Be
171
Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/04/net-neutrality-alive-well-canada-crtc-crafts-full-code-zero-rating-decision/
166
60
Show HN: WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any website
https://wrapapi.com/v2
165
137
I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices
https://ayende.com/blog/177921/i-was-wrong-reflecting-on-the-net-design-choices
164
50
Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014)
http://logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/snar2.html
157
175
Cap'n'Proto remote vuln: pointer overflow check optimized away by compiler
https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto/blob/master/security-advisories/2017-04-17-0-apple-clang-elides-bounds-check.md
★ 13kC++–9 years ago
148
Billionaire Mike Novogratz says 10% of his money is in Bitcoin and Ether
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/20/investing/mike-novogratz-bets-big-on-bitcoin-ether-blockchain/index.html
154
73
Uber is pushing anti-union propaganda to its drivers
https://theoutline.com/post/1417/we-listened-to-every-episode-of-uber-s-anti-union-propaganda-podcast
147
322
Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39579321
139
58
Mice treated with a protein from umbilical cord plasma showed improved memory
http://www.nature.com/news/young-human-blood-makes-old-mice-smarter-1.21848
98
Amazon Strategy Teardown
https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/amazon-strategy-teardown/
132
77
Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/mozilla-microsoft-rebuilding-their-browsers-foundations-without-anyone-noticing/
129
17
Automatic compilation of partially available C source code
http://cuda.dcc.ufmg.br/psyche-c/
124
88
Metaprogramming is less fun in D
https://epi.github.io/2017/03/18/less_fun.html
120
13
Show HN: Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint
https://recdnsfp.github.io/
108
64
Intel Shuts Down Lustre File System Business
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/20/intel-shuts-lustre-file-system-business/
18
Alexander Grothendieck, a genius of mathematics (2015)
https://al3x.svbtle.com/alexander-grothendieck
103
16
Type Systems as Macros
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5426
Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-21/tesla-s-musk-paid-at-least-593-million-in-income-taxes-in-2016
28
Knowing where you are: custom array indices in Julia
https://julialang.org/blog/2017/04/offset-arrays
7
How gut bacteria change cancer drug activity
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-gut-bacteria-cancer-drug.html
95
Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on new hardware
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3191427/microsoft-windows/developer-lifts-windows-7s-update-blockade-with-unsanctioned-patch.html
94
Most people prosecuted for terrorism since 2001 haven’t committed a violent act
https://trial-and-terror.theintercept.com/
93
Show HN: Deep Learning for Program Synthesis
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/deep-learning-program-synthesis/?wt.mc_id=MCR_378116_FB1
91
71
Power Outages Coincide in LA, New York, and San Francisco
https://www.inverse.com/article/30631-lax-sf-ny-power-outages
85
62
The SQL layer in CockroachDB
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/tech-notes/sql.md
★ 32.1kGo–9 years ago
81
65
Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/naked-mole-rat-oxygen-take-my-breath-awaaaaaaaay/523515/?single_page=true
Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages