558
205
For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/world/europe/britain-burning-coal-electricity.html
9 years ago
453
315
The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/19/the-u-s-wind-industry-now-employs-more-than-100000-people/
358
160
“Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/ebiz/
330
141
APFS filesystem format
https://blog.cugu.eu/post/apfs/
310
71
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The Tragedy of Google Books
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/#?single_page=true
308
189
Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
https://medium.com/@kristopolous/stop-guessing-languages-based-on-ip-address-3862464b97c7
255
247
We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-just-breached-the-410-ppm-threshold-for-co2/
244
154
What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a25120/landlord/
228
89
I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and Tech Industry
https://hbr.org/2017/04/i-joined-airbnb-at-52-and-heres-what-i-learned-about-age-wisdom-and-the-tech-industry
227
77
Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+
https://www.bonobo-project.org/
207
24
PX8 – A PICO-8 compatible fantasy console written in Rust
https://github.com/Gigoteur/PX8
★ 902LuaMIT–9 years ago
202
130
Hype Driven Development
https://blog.daftcode.pl/hype-driven-development-3469fc2e9b22
170
153
An experienced Javascript developer’s account of learning React
https://medium.com/@gianluca.guarini/things-nobody-will-tell-you-about-react-js-3a373c1b03b4
168
56
Mine3D: A Web 3D Minesweeper Game
http://egraether.com/mine3d/
167
18
ARM Releases Machine Readable Architecture Specification
https://alastairreid.github.io/alastairreid.github.io/ARM-v8a-xml-release/
152
69
Alphabet claims Uber was hiding the self-driving tech that it allegedly copied
https://www.recode.net/2017/4/21/15390074/alphabet-uber-hiding-self-driving
147
49
Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604242/googles-new-chip-is-a-stepping-stone-to-quantum-computing-supremacy/
136
85
Emacs 25.2 released
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
135
103
Former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/21/tech-industry-coding-kentucky-hillbillies
119
31
Show HN: Securely Handle Encryption Keys in Go
https://github.com/libeclipse/memguard
★ 2.7kGoApache-2.0–9 years ago
123
Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173656
5
Spending time alone is the best way to get real rest–even for extroverts
https://qz.com/794329/spending-time-alone-is-the-best-way-to-get-real-rest-even-for-extroverts
101
81
MUJI Hut: A 9.1-sqm Minimalist Cabin
https://www.muji.com/jp/mujihut/en.html
95
Physicists demonstrate new way to violate local causality
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-physicists-violate-local-causality.html
93
74
Is it time to break up Google?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-google.html
92
60
Palantir No Longer Works With The NSA
http://sfist.com/2017/04/21/palantir_no_longer_works_for_the_ns.php?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds
Google's controversial groundwater withdrawal sparks question
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/google-s-controversial-groundwater-withdrawal-sparks-question-of-who-owns/article_bed9179c-1baa-11e7-983e-03d6b33a01e7.html
91
13
Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
http://kaitai.io/
90
21
Show HN: Replacing WordPress with GitHub Issues-like Blog Comments
https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/blog/23#comment-0
88
108
The End of IKVM.NET
http://weblog.ikvm.net/2017/04/21/TheEndOfIKVMNET.aspx
87
R 3.4.0 released
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html
86
53
GitLab 9.1 Released with Service Desk, Canary Deployments, and Burndown Charts
https://about.gitlab.com/2017/04/22/gitlab-9-1-released/
51
UK launches program to explore removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere
https://www.carbonbrief.org/uk-launches-world-first-research-programme-into-negative-emissions
82
A Brief History of CNNs in Image Segmentation: From R-CNN to Mask R-CNN
https://blog.athelas.com/a-brief-history-of-cnns-in-image-segmentation-from-r-cnn-to-mask-r-cnn-34ea83205de4
80
Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170418-sheep-are-not-stupid-and-they-are-not-helpless-either
78
44
The Deep Space of Digital Reading
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-deep-space-of-digital-reading-rp
76
15
Tumor Biology retracting 107 papers after authors faked peer review process
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/107-cancer-papers-retracted-due-to-peer-review-fraud/
75
96
Tomorrow's Cities: Singapore's plans for a smart nation
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39641262
59
High Performance TCP Proxy Server
http://www.partow.net/programming/tcpproxy/idx.html
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