910
625
We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/
8 years ago
474
87
Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies
https://frappe.github.io/charts/
469
203
Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative
https://www.airbornos.com/
429
309
Standalone Signal Desktop
https://signal.org/blog/standalone-signal-desktop/
399
163
Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/wakatime
336
73
Bottery – A conversational agent prototyping platform
https://github.com/google/bottery
★ 3.2kJavaScriptApache-2.0–8 years ago
324
190
Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15594975
303
122
Slack is offline
https://status.slack.com/?20171031
258
158
Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste [pdf]
https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste.pdf
224
146
I can no longer recommend MailChimp
https://www.grahamcluley.com/can-no-longer-recommend-mailchimp/
215
200
Effective Programs: 10 Years of Clojure
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/EffectivePrograms.md
★ 3k–8 years ago
211
81
Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line
https://medium.com/@nodejs/news-node-js-8-moves-into-long-term-support-and-node-js-9-becomes-the-new-current-release-line-74cf754a10a0
206
11
An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling
http://ofir.io/Neural-Language-Modeling-From-Scratch?a=1
205
180
Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/skipping-our-paywall-with-an-apology
196
226
Bitcoin Futures Could Open the Floodgates for Institutional Investors
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-31/bitcoin-futures-could-open-to-floodgates-of-institutional-money
195
94
A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-30/it-s-been-10-years-since-robots-proved-they-could-drive
187
131
An aspirin a day keeps many cancers away, study suggests
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/10/30/aspirin-day-keeps-many-cancers-away-study-suggests/
182
98
Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano
171
68
GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/GCP-arrives-in-India-with-launch-of-Mumbai-region.html
168
86
Do we need a third Apache project for columnar data representation?
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2017/10/apache-arrow-vs-parquet-and-orc-do-we.html
160
27
Hashcat – advanced password recovery
https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
159
161
Why TDD isn't crap
https://hillelwayne.com/post/why-tdd-isnt-crap/
154
34
Racket v6.11
http://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/10/racket-v6-11.html
152
22
An Early Engineer's Guide to Early Stock Option Exercise
https://medium.com/@aveshcsingh/should-you-early-exercise-dd9dfe25accb
151
25
Large cluster of domains sharing the same pair of 512bit ZSKs and RSA key oddities
https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2017-October/016878.html
144
108
Permissionless innovation
https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/permissionless-innovation-the-fuzzy-idea-that-rules-our-lives/
135
75
Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode
https://www.ecn.nl/news/item/batteries-with-50-per-cent-more-energy-one-step-closer/
96
Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/10/microsoft-presenter-gives-up-on-edge-installs-chrome/
128
64
Chip Hall of Fame: Atmel ATmega8
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/chip-hall-of-fame-atmel-atmega8
125
35
Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/10/eager-execution-imperative-define-by.html
123
40
Show HN: Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL
https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck/blob/master/README.md
★ 14.9kTypeScript–8 years ago
118
The concept of schizophrenia is dying
http://theweek.com/articles/731238/concept-schizophrenia-dying
117
53
G.E.R.T: Golang Embedded Run-Time
https://github.com/ycoroneos/G.E.R.T/blob/master/README.md
★ 855TeXBSD-3-Clause–8 years ago
115
66
Yahoo is now part of Oath
https://policies.yahoo.com/ie/en/yahoo/privacy/euoathnoticefaq/
113
39
Show HN: WebGL Voxel Engine
https://github.com/Lallassu/voxelengine3
★ 351JavaScriptMIT–8 years ago
112
47
Skulpt: client side Python without preprocessing
http://www.skulpt.org/
110
44
Renewed demand for the metal cobalt is breathing new life into Cobalt, the town
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-31/the-canadian-ghost-town-that-tesla-is-bringing-back-to-life?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
103
www.reddit.com/etc/passwd
https://www.reddit.com/etc/passwd
74
Machine learning of neural representations of emotion identifies suicidal youth
https://www.methodsman.com/blog/mri-suicide
99
23
Writing a 9P server from scratch (2016)
https://blog.aqwari.net/9p/
76
Assassin's Creed Origins is crippling gamers' CPUs due to anti-piracy DRM
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3020085/assassins-creed-origins-is-crippling-gamers-cpus-due-to-anti-piracy-drm-tools
91
102
What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/10/31/disliked-programming-languages/
32
OVH increases pricing with the rise of their next generation DDoS Protection
https://sinfulforums.net/t/ovh-increases-pricing-with-the-rise-of-their-next-generation-ddos-protection/90
61
“It's been great to see Wireguard mature over the years”
https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/posts/jD6N4BzToa3
84
6
Bug in Google's Bug Tracker Lets Researcher Access List of Vulnerabilities
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evbvqj/bug-in-googles-bug-tracker-lets-researcher-access-list-of-companys-vulnerabilities
83
28
Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud
https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs
★ 2.2kRustLGPL-3.0–8 years ago
82
Facebook’s 2016 Election Team Gave Advertisers a Blueprint to a Divided US
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/facebooks-2016-election-team-gave-advertisers-a-blueprint
80
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/income-povery.html
79
57
Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmz3yw/why-is-my-google-doc-locked-terms-of-service-bug
71
Testimony of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to US Senate
https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=212164DA-EF6F-42E4-91E6-F1544014D134
Slack outage: Connectivity issues
https://status.slack.com/2017-10/99f36bf8f86f6375
Show HN: Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL