380
97
If the Waffle House is closed, it's Time to Panic (2016)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-waffle-house-is-closed-its-time-to-panic/
8 years ago
335
129
Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer
https://shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-dropbox-killer-1a9f27983d70
304
143
Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105601
268
192
Show HN: Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative
https://github.com/kbrsh/moon
★ 5.9kJavaScriptMIT–8 years ago
58
Better management of discarded produce could help forests regrow
http://www.upworthy.com/a-juice-company-dumped-orange-peels-in-a-national-park-heres-what-it-looks-like-now
258
137
Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting
http://www.nature.com/news/rumours-swell-over-new-kind-of-gravitational-wave-sighting-1.22482
256
280
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
245
124
New implementation of Git in OCaml
https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-git/pull/227
★ 370OCamlISC–8 years ago
221
181
Fun vs. Computer Science (2016)
http://prog21.dadgum.com/221.html
212
252
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting
199
66
Despite privacy outrage, AccuWeather still shares location data with ad firms
http://www.zdnet.com/article/accuweather-still-shares-precise-location-with-advertisers-tests-reveal/
197
82
Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/well/mind/maybe-we-all-need-a-little-less-balance.html
191
132
Honda system confused by Alonso taking Pouhon flat
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alonso-qualifying-spa-honda-mclaren-945396/
169
34
MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder
https://github.com/milostosic/MTuner
★ 2.7kC++BSD-2-Clause–8 years ago
166
226
Can we know what animals are thinking?
https://medium.economist.com/can-we-know-what-animals-are-thinking-83991bc994c4
154
122
Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell Me How
http://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163
147
49
Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (2006)
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge
144
39
Writing a formally-verified image browser in Coq and Haskell
http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/08/25/writing-a-formally-verified-porn-browser-in-coq.html
131
92
Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records
https://www.domdb.com/
126
165
Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
https://jakubmarian.com/where-in-europe-is-electric-car-a-good-idea/
123
101
Dylan: A New Language Is Blowin' in the Wind (1992)
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/1992/09/dylan_a_new_language.html
119
196
Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London nonstop
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-24/qantas-wants-to-fly-sydney-to-new-york-or-london-nonstop
118
228
The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro
https://chuqui.com/2017/08/the-life-and-death-of-the-touch-bar-revisiting-the-macbook-pro/
113
42
Vast deposits of lithium could change the global politics of battery production
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/will-supervolcanoes-help-power-our-future-180964635/?no-ist
111
69
Which job skills are most employable?
https://80000hours.org/articles/skills-most-employable/
104
32
Breaking up the Container Monolith
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/05/04/breaking-up-the-container-monolith/
Making Your Own Custom USB Cables
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44924.0
98
38
A data science investigation of IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Fandango
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/whose-reviews-should-you-trust-imdb-rotten-tomatoes-metacritic-or-fandango-7d1010c6cf19
Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy
https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-privacy
84
Car Wash Hack Can Strike Vehicle, Trap Passengers, Douse Them with Water
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxe33/car-wash-hack-can-smash-vehicle-trap-passengers-douse-them-with-water
83
3
A Comprehensive Study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types [pdf]
http://hal.upmc.fr/file/index/docid/555588/filename/techreport.pdf
81
55
London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Was No Ordinary Accident
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/08/grenfell-was-no-ordinary-accident/536907/
80
36
Please, John Oliver, Please Talk to a Real Nuclear Scientist
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/08/24/please-john-oliver-please-talk-to-a-real-nuclear-scientist/
79
15
Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
78
18
Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
https://blog.asmartbear.com/slc.html
76
Fast: A Transducer-Based Language for Tree Manipulation (2014) [pdf]
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~loris/papers/pldi14.pdf
75
HTC looks at option to sell or demerge Vive
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-24/smartphone-maker-htc-is-said-to-explore-strategic-options
72
Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look at the Only Statewide School Laptop Program
http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/do-laptops-help-learning-look-only-statewide-school-laptop-program#stream/0
25
“For many people, flexibility at work can be a liberation.”
https://www.sitra.fi/en/articles/for-many-people-flexibility-at-work-can-be-a-liberation-matthew-taylor-chief-executive-royal-society-of-arts/
Despite privacy outrage, AccuWeather still shares location data with ad firms