654
128
Show HN: Observable Notebooks
https://beta.observablehq.com/
8 years ago
497
237
AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/263110-amd-triumphantly-returns-full-year-profitability-forecasts-strong-2018
408
292
Why Create a New Unix Shell?
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html
336
167
Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/31/technology/social-media-bots-investigations.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/technology
316
127
Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
https://www.dstatuspage.net/
284
103
Amazon Health
https://stratechery.com/2018/amazon-health/
275
107
Show HN: A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications
http://upvote.pub
268
339
Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort
https://www.bna.com/tech-startup-fires-n73014474793/
266
156
LibreOffice 6.0 released
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/01/31/libreoffice-6/
264
289
Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
https://www.uber.com/ride/uber-bike
262
250
Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/facebook-falls-after-user-growth-fails-to-meet-expectation
255
99
Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund
https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-1-million-donation-from-pineapple-fund
235
210
Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists
https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/30/amazon-hq2-finalists-should-refuse-tax-breaks-say-nearly-100-economists-professors/
232
140
Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/31/orcas-killer-whales-can-imitate-human-speech-research-reveals
211
279
C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)
http://blog.greaterthanzero.com/post/58482859780/c-and-the-culture-of-complexity
208
152
Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/google-facebook-data-privacy-concerns-out-of-control-commentary.html
196
65
Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/andrew-ng-officially-launches-his-175m-ai-fund/
193
51
Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1B Deal
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-xeroxcorp-m-a-fujifilm/japans-fujifilm-to-take-over-xerox-in-6-1-billion-deal-create-jv-idUSKBN1FK025
83
Announcing TypeScript 2.7
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/01/31/announcing-typescript-2-7/
64
Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
★ 3.5kJavaScriptAGPL-3.0–8 years ago
165
37
GRV – Git Repository Viewer
https://github.com/rgburke/grv
★ 4kGoGPL-3.0–8 years ago
164
24
Programming the Linux Framebuffer
https://cmcenroe.me/2018/01/30/fbclock.html
Ticks may be the next global health threat
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/jan/25/forget-ebola-sars-and-zika-ticks-are-the-next-global-health-threat
162
134
“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42789610
149
74
Diablo creator David Brevik is back with a new game: It Lurks Below
https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/31/16952652/david-brevik-it-lurks-below-announcement
141
36
Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards
https://githubengineering.com/crypto-deprecation-notice/
139
166
Why Did a Billionaire Give $75M to a Philosophy Department?
http://nautil.us/blog/why-did-a-billionaire-give-75-million-to-a-philosophy-department
23
Do or undo – there is no VACUUM
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2018/01/do-or-undo-there-is-no-vacuum.html
138
Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (2007)
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/sleep-and-mortality-a-population-based-22-year-follow-up-study
136
41
How China Spied on the African Union’s Computers
https://mg.co.za/article/2018-01-29-how-china-spied-on-the-african-unions-computers
131
106
Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/01/31/ai-detect-sarcasm/
A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01370-1
28
The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (1986)
http://fei.edu.br/~rbianchi/daia/celula/cubo/rubik_magic_cube.txt
126
22
Mechanical Laser Show (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtBUiaAqRE&feature=youtu.be
Hans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing Algorithm
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/hans-peter-luhn-and-the-birth-of-the-hashing-algorithm
120
114
After alleged 'bait and switch,' Nevada DMV cancels $78M IT contract
http://statescoop.com/after-bait-and-switch-nevada-dmv-cancels-78-million-it-contract
116
81
Formula E reveals second-generation car
https://www.motorsport.com/formula-e/news/formula-e-reveals-second-generation-car-1000535/?s=1
112
14
Speedy Neural Networks for Smart Auto-Cropping of Images
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2018/Smart-Auto-Cropping-of-Images.html
25
Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment
https://gist.github.com/8dfb9c981a5b4a308cd33aa76c111104
Biker Protestor 'Throttles' Traffic Around FCC Headquarters
https://gizmodo.com/biker-protestor-throttles-traffic-around-fcc-headquarte-1822561036
77
Writing Complex Macros in Rust: Reverse Polish Notation
https://blog.cloudflare.com/writing-complex-macros-in-rust-reverse-polish-notation/
59
GDB 8.1 Released
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2018-01/msg00026.html
94
Archiving the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers
https://freedom.press/news/archiving-alternative-press-threatened-wealthy-buyers/
Can I buy a GPU yet?
http://canibuyagpuyet.xyz/
143
SF tourist industry struggles to explain street misery to horrified visitors
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/amp/SF-tourist-industry-struggles-to-explain-street-12534954.php
93
32
Drug companies alleged to have flooded West Virginia with opioid painkillers
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/drug-companies-submerged-wv-in-opioids-one-town-of-3000-got-21-million-pills/
92
71
Asana raises $75M Series D round led by Generation Investment Management
https://blog.asana.com/2018/01/asana-funding-series-d/
91
What’s North Korea like?
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/north-korea-101
90
18
Photo Metadata and Search on MacOS
https://28mm.github.io/notes/osx-photo-search
70
How much does it cost to build a home in Silicon Valley? (2016)
http://www.themiyoung.com/single-post/2016/11/03/The-Guide-Costs-of-Home-building-in-Silicon-Valley
89
Retrospective: Looking Glass
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/
87
9
A theory of the learnable
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/31/a-theory-of-the-learnable/
86
Twenty years of speedcubing (2003)
http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/history.html#last
82
A daredevil climber risking his life for breathtaking views
http://www.huckmagazine.com/places/vitaliy-raskalov-interview-daredevil-rooftop-climber/
85
135
Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/google-is-designing-more-in-house-phone-chips-to-take-on-apple
20
Launch HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – predictive models for app conversions and churn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16276045
79
10
Postgres Hidden Gems
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/01/31/postgres-hidden-gems/
78
New porn laws will mean Pornhub asks for your name and address
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/31/new-porn-laws-will-mean-pornhub-asks-name-address-wnking-begins-7275023/
44
RFC 8314: Use of Transport Layer Security for Email Submission and Access
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8314
75
12
Two Different Kinds of Illustration
https://www.subtraction.com/2018/01/03/two-different-kinds-of-illustration/
73
7
Bug of the Year (2011)
http://antonym.org/2011/12/bug-of-the-year-2011.html
Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists