752
101
A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD
http://sashat.me/2017/06/03/roman-roads/
9 years ago
609
424
Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14516538
447
84
Redditors design worst volume sliders possible
https://www.designernews.co/stories/84443-redditors-design-worst-volume-sliders-possible
109
Rust Performance Pitfalls
https://llogiq.github.io/2017/06/01/perf-pitfalls.html
409
195
Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/4/this-is-why-infrastructure-is-so-expensive
352
312
Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16591160011
349
142
The Benefits of Talking to Yourself
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/smarter-living/benefits-of-talking-to-yourself-self-talk.html
69
How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life
http://mailchi.mp/mit/how-ocw-transformed-a-learners-life
343
120
Working with time in Postgres
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/06/08/working-with-time-in-postgres/
314
332
Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518093
278
107
Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/08/powering-twitch-and-medium-search-startup-algolia-raises-53-million/
263
103
Chinese authorities detain Apple employees suspected of selling customer data
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/06/08/china-uncovers-massive-underground-network-apple-employees-selling-customers-personal-data/
224
252
Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/05/why-apple-is-struggling-to-become-an-artificial-intelligence-powerhouse/?utm_term=.7607d61ec928
218
29
Announcing Rust 1.18
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/08/Rust-1.18.html
215
76
How to Version an API
https://fly.io/articles/pragmatic-api-versioning/
199
137
MIT Gets $140M Pledge from Anonymous Donor
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mit-gets-140-million-pledge-from-anonymous-donor-1496866275
190
73
Show HN: Retool: Excel-like, with higher order primitives
https://retool.in
182
Former Silicon Valley CEO Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding Employees of StartUp
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silicon-valley-ceo-indicted-allegedly-defrauding-employees-tech-company-start
180
129
Social media bubbles may threaten democracy
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-08/democracy-never-faced-a-threat-like-facebook
177
Intelligent Tracking Prevention
https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention/
172
40
Show HN: A password manager using Keybase for encryption and storage
https://github.com/woodruffw/kbsecret
★ 434RubyMIT–9 years ago
155
128
Mathematicians looking to make elections in the US more representative
http://www.nature.com/news/the-mathematicians-who-want-to-save-democracy-1.22113
153
171
Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
http://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/
143
30
Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub
https://pyup.io/posts/analyzing-django-requirement-files-on-github/
139
55
Mathematical Chronology
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/full.html
138
41
JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns
http://formidable.com/blog/2017/real-world-redux-saga-patterns/
136
36
Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/local-and-distributed-processing-in-cockroachdb/#
Ultraconserved words in use since the last Ice Age
http://www.dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2017/5/Study-Uncovered-Common-Words-Appear-Have-Survived-Mother-Language-Existed
127
52
Writing a Forth in Haskell
http://reinvanderwoerd.nl/blog/2017/06/08/writing-a-forth/
46
Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async
https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2017/06/08/speeding-up-rails-pages-with-render-async.html
121
135
U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing Away
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/07/531894461/u-s-pays-farmers-billions-to-save-the-soil-but-its-blowing-away
99
Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome
https://m.signalvnoise.com/celebrate-the-web-by-using-another-browser-than-googles-chrome-174a45991c42
119
UK sees longest period of negative power prices
http://www.argusmedia.com/news/article/?id=1474697
118
14
Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis
http://varianceexplained.org/r/hn-trends/
115
5
Google Cloud Public Datasets now hosts EPA and OpenAQ air quality data
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/us-epa-and-openaq-air-quality-data-now-available-in-bigquery
108
80
AI and Robotics in Agriculture in Japan [video]
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/rising/20170608/
100
88
Germany’s dividend-stripping tax scandal
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2017-06/cum-ex-scandal-tax-evasion-dividend-stripping-germany
12
Accelerating Neural Networks with Binary Arithmetic
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/accelerating-neural-networks-with-binary-arithmetic
87
The Future of the Word Processor (2016)
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-future-of-the-worlds-most-boring-software-the-word-processor
96
98
Living in 80 square feet (2010)
http://unschooled.org/2010/03/living-in-80-square-feet/
95
86
Fiduciary Rule Fight Brews While Bad Financial Advisers Multiply
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-07/fiduciary-rule-fight-brews-while-bad-financial-advisers-multiply
92
4
Scalable and Sustainable Deep Learning via Randomized Hashing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.08194
Data structure for triangle meshes
http://www.redblobgames.com/x/1722-b-rep-triangle-meshes/
91
94
Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-08/drew-houston-on-how-dropbox-bounced-back
90
61
Essential Raises $300M
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-07/android-creator-s-phone-startup-raises-300-million
17
“Platinum” malware continues to evolve, find ways to maintain invisibility
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/06/07/platinum-continues-to-evolve-find-ways-to-maintain-invisibility/
43
XSS Attacks: The Next Wave
https://snyk.io/blog/xss-attacks-the-next-wave/
20
The transgenic petunia carnage of 2017
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/how-transgenic-petunia-carnage-2017-began
77
'Scam baiters' get a kick out of conning the con artists
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39884625
83
“Make Our Planet Great Again”
https://www.makeourplanetgreatagain.fr
79
37
Doing things the wrong way to get the right result
https://madebymany.com/stories/swallow-your-developer-s-pride-and-just-do-stuff
6
Visual Studio Code 1.13
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_13
74
Many Canadians are living on credit rather than staying within their means
https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-middle-class-is-on-the-brink-of-ruin/
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