695
267
Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/957317886112124928
8 years ago
503
438
With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
https://theconversation.com/with-teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-five-years-theres-a-likely-culprit-86996
368
178
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad has died
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42851668
349
117
I think I found a Mac kernel bug?
https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/01/28/mac-freeze/
325
103
Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government
https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-warned-chinese-companies-of-chip-flaws-before-u-s-government-1517157430
300
407
After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany-vicodin.html
268
91
How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-schopenhauers-thought-can-illuminate-a-midlife-crisis
247
168
‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/first-jackpotting-attacks-hit-u-s-atms/
234
67
Introduction to OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf]
https://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf
201
177
ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/1/26/16932350/ice-immigration-customs-license-plate-recognition-contract-vigilant-solutions
193
200
Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin
http://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/46820/Three-months-in-hell
188
140
Show HN: How to store a set of four 5-bit values in one 16-bit value
https://github.com/isometric/BucketCompressionTrick
★ 283C++–8 years ago
182
32
Exploring what loneliness does to the human body
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/why-is-loneliness-so-toxic/article37734381/
172
23
OverTheWire: Wargames to learn and practice security concepts
http://overthewire.org/wargames/
171
96
Boring Flamethrower
https://www.boringcompany.com/flamethrower/
159
6
Hacker101: A free class for web security
https://github.com/Hacker0x01/hacker101
★ 14.4kSCSS–8 years ago
149
29
An island that switches countries every six months
http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42817859
119
15
Distribution vs. Innovation
https://a16z.com/2015/11/05/distribution-v-innovation/
116
93
Progressive web apps are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem
https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-are-coming-to-ios-11-3-cupertino-we-have-a-problem-2ff49fd7d6ea
115
76
How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.html
114
18
A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lost-mystery-manuscript-australia-secondhand-bookshop-alice-wonderland
111
19
Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017)
http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/claude-shannon-the-las-vegas-cheat
110
Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature (2013)
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/functioning-mechanical-gears-seen-in-nature-for-the-first-time
13
Elephants Are Scared of Bees
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/science/bees-elephants-.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
107
86
Pebble is dead and hardware buttons are going with it
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/27/16936922/pebble-smartwatch-hardware-button-physical-controls
105
Ursula K. Le Guin on “Spare Time”
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/24/ursula-k-le-guin-spare-time/
97
39
Maersk reinstalled thousands of servers and workstations to fix NotPeyta
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/maersk-reinstalled-45-000-pcs-and-4-000-servers-to-recover-from-notpetya-attack/
45
Tarsnap Support for Bitcoin Ending April First
http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00042.html
163
The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]
https://www.scientificamerican.com/media/pdf/197911_0158.pdf
26
Data Brokers: Online Game Revenue Models with AI
https://imgur.com/a/rhFuj
7
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06700
92
36
Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2018/01/alcom_reporter_may_have_found.html
16
Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
https://www.kaggle.com/getting-started/47096#post271139
21
Loss of Locational Privacy While Traveling in Your Automobile (2013) [pdf]
https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/Pukingmonkey/DEFCON-21-Pukingmonkey-The-Road-Less-Surreptitiously-Traveled-Updated.pdf
71
The User Experience of Lootboxes
https://blog.prototypr.io/the-user-experience-of-lootboxes-fcfe92206a6b
81
Tether Is Breaking Its Peg to the Dollar
https://mktstk.com/2018/01/28/tether-is-breaking-its-peg-to-the-dollar/
90
“Pump-and-Dump” schemes in Telegram groups drive penny crypto coin prices up
https://www.achtungtechnik.de/english/2018-crypto-pump-n-dump-telegram.html
43
Ask HN: I own a large adult business and am moving to the Bay Area soon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252568
87
72
In California, Where Cancer Warnings Abound, Coffee Is Next in Line
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-drink-coffee-in-california-be-warned-it-may-cause-cancer-1516795200
83
How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry (2015)
https://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-housewives-helped-create-the-pc-industry
33
Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL (2016)
https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/
79
12
Connections between high blood sugar and dementia
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-startling-link-between-sugar-and-alzheimers/551528/
31
Copyright Royalty Board Boosts Songwriters’ Streaming Pay Nearly 50%
http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/copyright-royalty-board-boosts-songwriters-streaming-pay-nearly-50-1202679118/
73
11
Using VirtualBox to install Debian onto an external USB drive for Mac
https://afterecho.uk/blog/installing-debian-linux-onto-an-external-usb-drive-for-mac.html
All Your IOPS Are Belong to Us: Case Study in Performance Optimization (2015) [pdf]
https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2015/sites/default/files/slides/all_your_iops_are_belong_to_usPLMCE2015.pdf
65
58
Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time
http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/15291-berner-finland-to-propose-that-eu-abolish-daylight-savings-time.html
63
10
Tools for Thinking and Tools for Systems
https://css-tricks.com/tools-thinking-tools-systems/
After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea