886
480
Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/782250/try_quickly_typing_1_2_3_into_the_ios_11/
8 years ago
805
154
Saying Goodbye to Firebug
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/saying-goodbye-to-firebug/
631
479
If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
http://blog.interviewing.io/if-you-care-about-diversity-you-should-stop-hiring-from-the-same-five-schools/
603
165
How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
https://blog.canny.io/saas-startup-ramen-profitability/
467
157
Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers
http://sci-hub.cc/
435
201
Speech Recognition Is Not Solved
https://awni.github.io/speech-recognition/
416
225
Gmail Launches Add-ons
https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/do-more-your-inbox-gmail-add-ons/
392
82
SSH Escape Sequences
https://lonesysadmin.net/2011/11/08/ssh-escape-sequences-aka-kill-dead-ssh-sessions/
373
60
Introduction to web scraping with Python
https://datawhatnow.com/introduction-web-scraping-python/
341
238
The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons
302
109
Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011)
https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/Nikola%20Tesla%20Part%2001%20of%2003/view
301
54
How we found rogerkver’s obfuscated wallet private key
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lets-enhance-how-we-found-rogerkver-s-1000-wallet-obfuscated-private-key-8514e74a5433
300
52
How Merkle Trees Enable the Decentralized Web
https://taravancil.com/blog/how-merkle-trees-enable-decentralized-web/
98
Dynamic Progamming: First Principles
http://www.flawlessrhetoric.com/Dynamic-Programming-First-Principles
284
169
AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amd-earnings-stock-price-q3-results-2017-10-1005485288
262
160
Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16497444/coda-spreadsheet-krypton-shishir-mehrotra
247
18
Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/portugal-bans-use-drm-limit-access-public-domain-works
66
The Future of Programming (2013)
http://worrydream.com/dbx/
214
188
America has a monopoly problem
https://www.thenation.com/article/america-has-a-monopoly-problem-and-its-huge/
212
243
How did we create a society where we can’t afford to live in our own country?
http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2017/10/24/how-did-we-create-a-society-where-we-cant-afford-to-live-in-our-own-country/
194
53
Faktory, a new background job system
http://www.mikeperham.com/2017/10/24/introducing-faktory/
189
127
A Grain That Tastes Like Wheat, but Grows Like a Prairie Grass
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-grain-that-tastes-like-wheat-but-grows-like-a-prairie-grass/
164
49
Why does one Nginx worker take all the load?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-sad-state-of-linux-socket-balancing/
113
Self-Control Relies on Glucose as a Limited Energy Source (2007)
http://fermatslibrary.com/s/self-control-relies-on-glucose-as-a-limited-energy-source-willpower-is-more-than-a-metaphor
148
102
C++17 Is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter
https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/10/cpp-17-herb-sutter-interview
146
The Battle That Created Germany
https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/the-battle-that-created-germany-841255
142
26
Remember that $86M license plate scanner I replicated? I caught someone
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/remember-that-86-million-license-plate-scanner-i-replicated-heres-what-happened-next-9f3c64e8f22b
141
Obscurity Is a Valid Security Layer
https://danielmiessler.com/study/security-by-obscurity/
140
45
How to get an open source community to be interested in helping you
https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2017/10/manipulating-maintainers
139
21
Attack of the week: DUHK
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/23/attack-of-the-week-duhk/
119
44
Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo packets (2016)
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
★ 3.4kCISC–8 years ago
117
91
Britain's 'concentration camp' in Russia
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41271418
71
How the LIDAR tech GM just bought probably works
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/a-deep-dive-into-the-tech-behind-gms-new-lidar-on-a-chip-company/
104
37
The Icon Journey
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/24/theicon
103
89
Facebook apologizes after wrong translation sees Palestinian man arrested
https://www.theverge.com/us-world/2017/10/24/16533496/facebook-apology-wrong-translation-palestinian-arrested-post-good-morning
50
Show HN: Product Substitutes – what software top companies are replacing
https://siftery.com/alternatives?src=hn
47
Short-Lived Certificates at Netflix
https://medium.facilelogin.com/short-lived-certificates-netflix-fd5f3ae5bc9
20
Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/
96
25
Astronaut Paul Weitz has died
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102317a-obituary-paul-weitz-astronaut.html
94
116
Neom – an entire new land, purpose-built for a new way of living
http://www.discoverneom.com/
93
19
Hadoop on IPFS [pdf]
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~hpaik/thesis/showcases/16s2/scott_brisbane.pdf
92
112
Patterns of Death in the South Still Show the Outlines of Slavery
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mortality-black-belt/
33
Xi's Key Milestone Positions Him to Rule China for Decades
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/xi-s-new-milestone-positions-him-to-rule-china-for-decades-more
88
IBM has simulated a quantum computer with 56 qubits on a classical computer
http://www.alphr.com/technology/1007446/ibm-has-just-achieved-an-impossible-step-in-quantum-computing
87
156
Useless design features in modern products
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171023-the-useless-design-features-in-modern-products
83
Webflow – Interactions 2.0
https://webflow.com/ix2
77
Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin to Work on Multiple Blockchains
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/bitcoin-pioneer-says-new-coin-to-work-on-multiple-blockchains
59
Boustrophedon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
78
72
Ask HN: Does a good desk setup make you more productive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543617
Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/delphi-buys-nutonomy-for-400-million-to-scale-and-deliver-autonomous-vehicles
If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools