798
134
An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker
http://einaregilsson.com/an-easter-egg-for-one-user-luke-skywalker/
9 years ago
685
523
Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/93696/26528
277
Take Naps at Work
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html
521
185
Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL
https://blog.timescale.com/analyzing-ethereum-bitcoin-and-1200-cryptocurrencies-using-postgresql-3958b3662e51
433
268
My own private basic income
https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/karl-widerquist/my-own-private-basic-income
371
86
2D Syntax
https://docs.racket-lang.org/2d/index.html
354
122
Flawed reporting about WhatsApp
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/jun/28/flawed-reporting-about-whatsapp
335
65
Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
https://hackerhunt.co
322
205
Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
http://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-many-questions-and-this-is-what-the-result-looks-like
294
76
Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14652936
288
64
Ask HN: DevOps learning resources
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14652993
285
59
Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game
https://vim-adventures.com/
284
70
Denied Entry
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/28/denied-entry/
273
192
Ask HN: As an employee of a company, how do you assess its health?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14653564
270
83
Container Isolation Gone Wrong
https://sysdig.com/blog/container-isolation-gone-wrong/
264
201
Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training
https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/22/help-wanted-americans-dont-need-more-degrees-they-need-training/
257
231
Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from searches
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ruling-1.4181322
256
112
Zillow's second letter about McMansion Hell is still wrong
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170628/01531037682/zillow-still-doesnt-get-it-second-letter-about-mcmansion-hell-is-still-just-wrong.shtml
233
253
O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on its ecommerce store
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too
228
Seattle’s higher minimum wage is actually working fine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/27/seattles-higher-minimum-wage-is-actually-working-just-fine/
214
57
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn computer vision?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651665
209
98
EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/monsanto-accused-of-ghost-writing-papers-on-roundup-cancer-risk
49
Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf]
http://spw17.langsec.org/papers/chifflier-parsing-in-2017.pdf
199
161
How can Ethereum systematically scale better?
https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/scaling-ethereum-to-billions-of-users-f37d9f487db1
198
154
Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?
http://blog.sqlizer.io/posts/facebook-on-aws/
194
234
Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3341-1/
190
175
Increasing Rust’s Reach
http://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/27/Increasing-Rusts-Reach.html
182
140
Goodbye Mozilla
http://chrislord.net/index.php/2017/06/28/goodbye-mozilla/
179
62
Commander Keen Level Maps
http://www.commander-keen.com/level-maps.php
171
53
Why App Speed Matters: Revenue
https://fly.io/articles/why-fast-pages-are-important/
159
10
A Jordan Bookseller’s 24-Hour ‘Emergency Room for the Mind’
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amman-jordan-24-hour-bookstore
152
121
The internet as existential threat
https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/06/27/the-internet-as-existential-threat/
151
USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (2014)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/the-postal-service-is-losing-millions-a-year-to-help-you-buy-cheap-stuff-from-china/
147
19
Stanford Code From Cars That Entered DARPA Grand Challenges
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stanforddriving/
146
39
Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar (2012)
http://newatlas.com/cellulose-nanocrystals-stronger-carbon-fiber-kevlar/23959/
143
44
Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001)
https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/typecasting
136
61
Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-ipa-speaker/jkgihpigffcfeebgedpklldebdibbnne
119
ThinScript, an experimental programming language that can compile to WebAssembly
https://github.com/evanw/thinscript
★ 1.3k C – 9 years ago
118
67
Ends, Means, and Antitrust
https://stratechery.com/2017/ends-means-and-antitrust/
111
66
Internal documents shed light on the guidelines that Facebook’s censors use
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms
9
Developing Bug-Free Machine Learning Systems with Formal Mathematics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08605
110
13
The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/manhattan-project-library-charlotte-serber-oppenheimer-fbi
88
Pornhub now supports interactive toys
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/pornhub-now-supports-interactive-toys-proving-porn-paves-the-way
108
Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms
https://www.wired.com/story/wind-turbine-hack
103
80
Kids to learn how to code before high school in New Zealand
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/333999/kids-to-learn-how-to-code-before-high-school
35
Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons
http://benschmidt.org/Simpsons/
100
124
Walmart banned alcohol and swearing from Jet's offices and it was a big mistake
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-banned-alcohol-and-swearing-from-jets-offices-2017-6
101
Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/switch-chrome-firefox/
96
95
Elon Musk's Promises and Goals for Tesla, SpaceX, and More
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/
94
172
Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Range for IPO
https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-apron-chops-its-ipo-price-range-1498652104
89
CAP: Don't settle for eventual consistency
https://yokota.blog/2017/02/17/dont-settle-for-eventual-consistency/
Wikileaks reveals CIA's Elsa: a geo-location malware for WiFi / Windows
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Elsa
How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft
https://medium.com/@bob_parks1/how-not-to-encrypt-a-file-courtesy-of-microsoft-bfadf2b0273d