738
157
Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
https://spa.mnesty.com/
8 years ago
558
129
Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16035402
446
822
LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192281169.html
409
132
Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25
https://blog.kroy.io/monitoring-home-power-consumption-for-less-than-25/
403
183
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
https://blog.ltse.com/the-long-term-stock-exchange-comes-to-life-c497f29bbc73
289
112
Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/
270
177
Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
264
66
Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
★ 203.3k HTML MIT– 8 years ago
256
118
IKEA Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
246
243
First 100 miles on my E-Bike
https://yilunzh.com/2017/12/30/first-100-miles-on-my-e-bike-what-i-learned/
239
17
Creating believable crowds in Planet Coaster
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/288020/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_Creating_believable_crowds_in_Planet_Coaster.php
224
35
Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game
https://github.com/simon987/Much-Assembly-Required
★ 958 Java GPL-3.0– 8 years ago
209
103
‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana
https://www.theroot.com/white-nigerian-prince-email-scammer-arrested-in-louis-1821658205
200
115
The Internet I Knew (2014)
https://flowerhack.dreamwidth.org/3230.html
193
7
Probability and Statistics Cookbook [pdf]
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~tdw/files/cookbook-en.pdf
187
123
People Walked Differently in Medieval Times
http://mentalfloss.com/article/505105/why-people-walked-differently-medieval-times
185
75
Coming Soon: Machine-Checked Proofs in Everyday Development
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9105-coming_soon_machine-checked_mathematical_proofs_in_everyday_software_and_hardware_development
87
How Taiwan transformed its health care system
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/upshot/the-leap-to-single-payer-what-taiwan-can-teach.html?referer=
171
127
Nepal bans solo climbers from Mount Everest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42521138
162
33
Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS [pdf]
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-basics.pdf
159
45
“Did you copy/paste the info? Facebook seems to read all pasteboard data”
https://twitter.com/alainparadis/status/947066227595214848
36
How to scam and get 67k all 5 Star reviews on the app store
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7mzib4/how_to_scam_200000_per_month_and_get_67882_all_5/
147
Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8968-are_all_bsds_created_equally
146
114
iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use
https://simplyfixit.co.uk/iphone-battery-slow-benchmarks/
143
84
Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites
https://www.fakespot.com/
20
How to draw oscilloscope lines with WebGL
http://m1el.github.io/woscope-how/index.html
138
65
The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-worst-job-in-technology-staring-at-human-depravity-to-keep-it-off-facebook-1514398398
133
31
How to make a rain on a windshield shader in ShaderToy [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52TMliAWocY
130
117
The Benefits of Economic Expansions Are Increasingly Going to the Richest
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/upshot/the-benefits-of-economic-expansions-are-increasingly-going-to-the-richest-americans.html
126
16
Stanford scholar gets six-figure settlement from James Joyce Estate (2009)
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/september28/shloss-joyce-settlement-092809.html
119
21
26k blockchain projects launched in 2016, 92% are now dead
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2017/11/09/deloitte-blockchain-26000-projects/
109
32
Brittleness comes from “One Thing”
https://blog.asmartbear.com/brittleness.html
101
Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8908-doping_your_fitbit
95
25
Bluetooth Low Energy WarDriving 101
https://www.davidsopas.com/ble-driving-101/
94
The Data That Threatened to Break Physics
http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-data-that-threatened-to-break-physics-rp
0
A history of S_IFMT
http://www.lubutu.com/soso/a-history-of-sifmt
91
55
The curious case of high blood pressure around the world
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/01/daily-chart-12