845
344
Freelancer.com has ruined my life
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/59fdae7d31302a07249dc4fe
8 years ago
645
99
What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U
527
64
Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
https://github.com/jhund/filterrific/issues/147#issuecomment-341867147
★ 910RubyMIT–8 years ago
494
210
Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads
https://twitter.com/virqdroid/status/926437790140772362
354
109
Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
http://tim.hibal.org/blog/alpha-zero-how-and-why-it-works/
295
117
Show HN: Server.js – A modern Express alternative
https://serverjs.io/
282
21
How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
https://bigishdata.com/2017/11/02/build-your-own-blockchain-part-3-writing-nodes-that-mine/
281
65
Evio – Fast event-loop networking for Go
https://github.com/tidwall/evio
★ 6kGoMIT–8 years ago
219
100
Who’s Sitting Next to You on the Subway? An R Train in September
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/whos-sitting-next-to-you-on-the-subway-we-asked.html
209
56
Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/internet-association-endorses-internet-censorship-bill
182
22
TensorFlow on a 256K RAM microcontroller
https://github.com/neil-tan/uTensor
★ 3C++Apache-2.0–8 years ago
176
61
14TB Hard Drives Now Available
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11901/western-digital-now-shipping-14tb-hgst-ultrastar-hs14
174
14
Understanding How Graal Works – A Java JIT Compiler Written in Java
http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/jokerconf17/
172
131
The Disappearing American Grad Student
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american-graduate-student-stem.html
80
Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (1997)
http://aelinik.free.fr/c/index.html
167
8
Profiling Go
http://www.integralist.co.uk/posts/profiling-go/
163
Create React apps using Kotlin
https://github.com/JetBrains/create-react-kotlin-app
★ 2.4kJavaScriptMIT–8 years ago
155
108
What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&pagewanted=all
147
79
The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html
146
102
Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624623
140
132
Can Germany Fix Facebook?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/germany-facebook/543258/?single_page=true
139
37
Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers – Jeff Bezos (1994)
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/mi.jobs/poXLCW8udK4/_GHzqB9sG9gJ
136
71
Diary of an African Cryptocurrency Miner
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-11-03/diary-of-an-african-cryptocurrency-miner
126
15
Render Multimedia in Pure C
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/11/03/
123
24
PeerPad – A realtime P2P collaborative editing tool powered by IPFS
https://peerpad.net/
49
The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/
115
47
The decentralized WeTransfer
https://github.com/alexsicart/Decentralized-Cloud
★ 867JavaScriptMIT–8 years ago
107
17
The Making of SciPy 1.0
https://www.numfocus.org/blog/scipy-1-0-16-years-in-the-making/
98
13
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Arrested in Corruption Crackdown
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/04/billionaire-saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-arrested-in-corruption-crackdown-local-reports.html
97
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold more than $1B worth of stock this week
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/3/16604990/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-stock-sale-1-billion
55
Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
https://www.indiehackers.com/@thefln/our-odd-startup-3-guys-no-vc-profitability-and-patience-8f3ae206de
27
Fengari: Lua for the Browser
https://fengari.io/
34
Stop supporting old releases
https://medium.com/@mikeal/stop-supporting-old-releases-70cfa0e04b0c
95
19
The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singles-news-1970s-personal-ads-dating
93
111
The Great College Loan Swindle
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-the-great-college-loan-swindle-w510880
85
A bug-fix 12 years in the making: Windows Unicode Support in OCaml 4.06.0
http://www.dra27.uk/blog/platform/2017/10/30/ocaml-unicode.html
82
68
GPS signal disturbed at altitudes above 2000-3000 feet over Norway [pdf]
https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/Norway-Comms-Auth-Report-GPS-Jamming-Sept-2017.pdf
How do you manage / plan your life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626233
Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience