685
308
Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14437921
9 years ago
424
599
Why do so few people major in computer science?
http://danwang.co/why-so-few-computer-science-majors?idk
405
98
Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
https://medium.com/@yolpogists/tallest-lego-building-with-4-pieces-ec99cb520928
401
119
Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wikipedias-switch-to-https-has-successfully-fought-government-censorship
391
162
MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
http://moonscript.org/
337
194
Unicode is hard
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/05/unicode-is-hard/
280
126
Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor
https://www.pipes.digital/
239
71
Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
https://github.com/aviaviavi/legion
★ 602 Haskell MIT– 9 years ago
216
64
Extracting Chinese Hard Subs from a Video, Part 1
http://www.kerrickstaley.com/2017/05/29/extracting-chinese-subs-part-1
200
157
Coffee from California
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/business/your-coffee-is-from-where-california.html?src=me
195
47
Green Threads Explained
https://c9x.me/articles/gthreads/intro.html
193
57
Writing a Unix Shell
https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/writing-a-unix-shell-part-1/
190
139
Browse Against the Machine
https://medium.com/the-official-unofficial-firefox-blog/browse-against-the-machine-e793c0fee917
185
13
Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor and Mod Loader [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixu8tn__91E
181
184
Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439137
167
45
V8, Advanced JavaScript, and the Next Performance Frontier [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFDJANJJLs
160
79
The scourge of web analytics
https://www.stavros.io/posts/scourge-web-analytics/
152
158
Ask HN: Ex-Founder. Should I take lowball buyout offer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439517
148
90
China has become a major player in AI
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/technology/china-us-ai-artificial-intelligence.html
140
24
Neil Hunt on Netflix and the Story of Netflix Streaming
http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2017/05/neil-hunt-on-netflix-and-the-story-of-netflix-streaming/
The state of JavaScript modules
https://medium.com/webpack/the-state-of-javascript-modules-4636d1774358
131
12
In Memoriam: Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017
https://cacm.acm.org/news/217652-in-memoriam-jean-e-sammet-1928-2017/fulltext
110
70
LibreOffice leverages Google’s OSS-Fuzz to improve quality of office suite
https://lwn.net/Articles/723566/
105
16
An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/29/an-empirical-study-on-the-correctness-of-formally-verified-distributed-systems/
103
122
The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/world-problem
94
39
How the failed deal with Waymo left Ford in the lurch
http://www.autonews.com/article/20170529/OEM/170529795/google-ford-deal-mark-fields
29
Harnessing the energy generated when freshwater meets saltwater
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-harnessing-energy-freshwater-saltwater.html
89
84
The Judy Malware: Possibly the largest malware campaign found on Google Play
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/05/25/judy-malware-possibly-largest-malware-campaign-found-google-play/
88
37
AES-GCM-SIV: AES-GCM with some forgiveness
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/05/14/aesgcmsiv.html
85
26
On Becoming the Enemy
http://bostonreview.net/politics/jason-stanley-becoming-enemy
81
An 1874 Type Catalog
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-worlds-most-beautiful-book/
32
Two Different Approaches to Saving Bees
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/27/530028003/two-scientists-two-different-approaches-to-saving-bees-from-poison-dust
78
101
The growth of the European startup scene
https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/05/22/europe-isnt-the-new-silicon-valley-its-better/
75
20
Mathematics of shuffling by smooshing
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150414-for-persi-diaconis-next-magic-trick/
73
34
Deep learning box for $1700
https://blog.slavv.com/the-1700-great-deep-learning-box-assembly-setup-and-benchmarks-148c5ebe6415
72
11
Fifty Years of Minimalism (2015)
http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_gph-apr15.html
69
100
Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone?
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/05/could-we-run-modern-society-on-human-power-alone.html
67
22
Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11441/dynamiq-and-arms-new-cpus-cortex-a75-a55
65
17
Hacking Soundcloud: Creating an Interactive Track
https://haywirez.com/hacking-soundcloud/
62
Could school subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39889523