568
225
Why Use Postgres?
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/04/30/why-postgres-five-years-later/
9 years ago
461
170
First introduction to LaTeX
https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes
393
31
How to Read Mathematics
http://web.stonehill.edu/compsci/History_Math/math-read.htm
294
79
The psychological importance of wasting time
https://qz.com/970924/the-psychological-importance-of-wasting-time/
277
59
National Park Maps
http://npmaps.com/
274
228
Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons of gold in New York
http://norberthaering.de/en/home/32-english/news/787-bundesbank-gold
257
210
How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/books/review/golden-passport-duff-mcdonald.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&smvar=wknd&_r=0
236
200
Juice may taste good, but unlike the fruit, it’s not healthy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/26/people-think-juice-is-good-for-them-theyre-wrong/
232
186
How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon
http://reginaldlong.com/how-i-went-from-failing-every-interview-to-a-job-at-amazon/
208
91
Building a QNX 7 Desktop
https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
207
45
Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip from die photos
http://www.righto.com/2017/04/reverse-engineering-76477-space.html?m=1
133
How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway?
https://stefanheule.com/blog/how-many-x86-64-instructions-are-there-anyway/
204
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
195
114
The end of Academia.edu: How business takes over
https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/end-academiaedu-how-business-takes-over-again
190
301
Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/as-chromebook-sales-soar-in-schools-apple-and-microsoft-fight-back/
158
76
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14231642
149
25
LMDB – First version of Redis written in Tcl
https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e88a8
147
127
Microsoft phone revenue fell to $5M last quarter, from $1.4B two years ago
https://www.neowin.net/news/yep-it039s-dead-microsoft-phone-revenue-fell-to-5m-last-quarter-from-14bn-two-years-ago
144
The Ultimate in Garbage Collection (1995)
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ
134
67
Send and receive money with Gmail
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3141103?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
131
12
Show HN: Automatic Speech Recognition in TensorFlow
https://github.com/zzw922cn/Automatic_Speech_Recognition
★ 2.8kPythonMIT–9 years ago
93
Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know?
http://nautil.us//blog/is-quantum-theory-about-reality-or-what-we-know
122
16
Archive that can be reconstructed with total loss of file system structure
https://github.com/MarcoPon/SeqBox
★ 552PythonMIT–9 years ago
121
206
ESPN Can't Afford to Go on Like This
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-28/espn-can-t-afford-to-go-on-like-this
120
88
As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/world/asia/north-korea-economy-marketplace.html
119
18
Deep learning with convolutional neural networks for brain mapping from EEG
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05051
116
68
Hacker Leaks Episodes from Netflix Show and Threatens Other Networks
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/business/media/netflix-hack-orange-is-the-new-black.html
110
118
How I realised “Free Software” is a better term than “Open Source”
http://www.naughtycomputer.uk/free_software_better_than_open_source.html
109
Typefont – An algorithm to recognize the font of a text in a photo
https://github.com/Sirvasile/Typefont
106
11
Storyboarding in UX Design
https://uxplanet.org/storyboarding-in-ux-design-b9d2e18e5fab
102
63
Dammit LinkedIn, I'm a college dropout (2009)
http://paulholmes.ca/2009/11/20/dammit-linkedin-im-a-college-dropout/
97
42
Major Report Prompts Warnings That the Arctic Is Unraveling
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-report-prompts-warnings-that-the-arctic-is-unraveling1/
96
40
What about cartesian programming?
http://250bpm.com/blog:91
94
69
A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (2009)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886853/
89
20
x64asm: C++ Library with in-memory assembler, parser, and linker
https://github.com/StanfordPL/x64asm
★ 488C++Apache-2.0–9 years ago
86
28
Turkey Purges 4,000 More Officials, and Blocks Wikipedia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/world/europe/turkey-purge-wikipedia-tv-dating-shows.html
81
26
America’s once-thriving middle class is slowly fading away
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-middle-class-is-shrinking-yet-thriving-in-many-other-european-countries-2017-04-24
15
TypeScript Progressive Web App Quickstart
https://github.com/insprintorob/typescript-progressive-quickstart/
★ 192JavaScriptGPL-3.0–9 years ago
73
Read and understand code faster with programming ligatures in Fira Code font
https://visualstudioextensions.vlasovstudio.com/2017/05/01/improve-code-readability-with-programming-ligatures-in-fira-code-font/
72
17
Cracking My Own Reddit Password
http://haseebq.com/the-time-i-had-to-crack-my-own-reddit-password/
Juice may taste good, but unlike the fruit, it’s not healthy