967
243
An Experimental Course on Operating Systems
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140e/
8 years ago
788
317
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land-and-sea-to-conquer-the-world/
398
78
Advice for First Time Founders
https://blog.ycombinator.com/advice-for-first-time-founders/
379
144
Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d345pv/harvard-study-shows-why-big-telecom-is-terrified-of-community-run-broadband
365
278
New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices
https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/01/05/new-dhs-policy-on-demands-for-passwords-to-travelers-electronic-devices/
353
269
Half of the US government's financial assets are student loans
https://community.finimize.com/t/graphic-of-the-week/1044/25?u=anders_finimize
289
47
One model to learn them all
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/
284
454
Mothers who regret having children are speaking out
http://www.macleans.ca/regretful-mothers/
280
213
Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.html
247
Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kng57/dogecoin-my-joke-cryptocurrency-hit-2-billion-jackson-palmer-opinion
259
117
Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-security-issue-update-addressing-reboot-issues/
171
Firefox bullshit removal
https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5
36
DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs
236
107
Social Media: Making Us Dumber?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/social-media-dumber-steven-pinker.html
235
94
Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown as a developer
https://razorpay.com/blog/meltdown-paper-summary/
234
90
Why is the ocean salty?
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.html
233
MacBook Pro? No
http://shahidkamal.com/macbook-pro-no/
208
21
How to sleep a million years (2013)
https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-19-how-to-sleep-a-million-years/
197
115
How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific Fantasyland
https://slate.com/health-and-science/2018/01/oprah-winfrey-helped-create-our-irrational-pseudoscientific-american-fantasyland.html
69
Visualizing Meltdown on AWS
https://blog.appoptics.com/visualizing-meltdown-aws/
178
57
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017)
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
173
Create mixed reality models in PowerShell
http://www.cosmosdarwin.com/2018/01/12/create-mixed-reality-models-in-powershell.html
162
145
Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms
https://medium.com/@oquidave/online-shopping-in-africa-doesnt-work-because-of-this-web-form-e4974a8d165a
159
123
Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language
https://github.com/jjuliano/bato
★ 345RubyMIT–8 years ago
150
127
How to Interview Entry Level Software Engineers
https://technology.cloverhealth.com/how-to-interview-entry-level-software-engineers-daaecf9db97
149
67
Rat poison from pot farms is poisoning owls, study finds
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Rat-poison-from-pot-farms-poisoning-owls-study-12489063.php
Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html
143
33
A Security Issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology
https://business.f-secure.com/intel-amt-security-issue
140
45
H3: A Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System
https://github.com/uber/h3
★ 6.2kCApache-2.0–8 years ago
136
68
A proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones
https://www.wired.com/story/a-clever-radio-trick-can-tell-if-a-drone-is-watching-you/
128
Kotlin: The Problem with null
http://arturdryomov.online/posts/kotlin-the-problem-with-null/
126
22
Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]
https://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/reprints/IT44.6.2057-2078.pdf
119
27
Real World Crypto 2018
https://rwc.iacr.org/2018/
98
Ex-Google Employee's Memo Says Executives Shut Down Pro-Diversity Discussions
https://gizmodo.com/ex-google-employees-memo-says-executives-shut-down-pro-1821996513
112
26
Mechanical Computing Systems Using Only Links and Rotary Joints
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03534
106
'The desire to have a child never goes away': The Involuntarily Childless
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/02/the-desire-to-have-a-child-never-goes-away-how-the-involuntarily-childless-are-forming-a-new-movement
105
The browser “Brave” loads major news sites 2x – 8x faster
https://brave.com/
100
44
The Stress of Remote Working
https://hackernoon.com/the-stress-of-remote-working-38be5bdcf4da
93
Mr. Amazon Steps Out
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/jeff-bezos-amazon.html
86
40
Intel Security Issue Update: Initial Performance Data Results for Client Systems
https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-security-issue-update-initial-performance-data-results-client-systems/
81
35
Hacker News equivalent for other fields
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16133952
How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific Fantasyland