803
376
How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-talk.html
8 years ago
706
232
Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing
https://krausefx.com/blog/mac-privacy-sandboxed-mac-apps-can-take-screenshots
512
127
The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps
https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-maps-insane-backward-compatibility.html
459
322
In web design, everything easy is hard again
https://frankchimero.com/writing/everything-easy-is-hard-again/
402
176
Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library
https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear
★ 14kC–8 years ago
301
74
Quiet for Android – TCP over sound
https://github.com/quiet/org.quietmodem.Quiet
★ 1.4kC–8 years ago
260
92
An opinionated guide to Haskell
https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2018/02/10/an-opinionated-guide-to-haskell-in-2018/
237
99
Concerns that social media causes childhood depression
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42705881
218
54
PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
https://popcornnotify.com/
198
52
E-Stop and Fuel, software that keeps you awake at night
https://jacquesmattheij.com/e-stop-and-fuel
192
224
26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969807/
190
40
Using k-d trees to efficiently calculate nearest neighbors in 3D vector space
http://blog.krum.io/k-d-trees/
177
180
97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals
https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/of-california-cities-failed-to-meet-state-housing-goals-and/article_a609ae5e-09d7-11e8-a94e-3b67baeaae8b.html
161
143
Foxconn unit to cut over 10k jobs as robotics take over
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/Foxconn-unit-to-cut-over-10-000-jobs-as-robotics-take-over
150
117
Multifamily Passive House in Vancouver
https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/multifamily-passive-house-completed-vancouver.html
142
37
Nematode Neural System Uploaded to a Computer and Trained to Balance a Pole
https://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/125597/
132
31
Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf]
https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/1996-jensen.pdf
131
A Tiny Hedge Fund Made 8,600% on a Vix Bet
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-09/vix-surge-hands-8-600-profit-to-a-tiny-hedge-fund-in-colorado
128
39
Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhtrRhNUHvQ
Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web
http://kvark.github.io/web/gpu/2018/02/10/low-level-gpu-web.html
105
Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cognitive-ability-and-vulnerability-to-fake-news
115
134
GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction
https://iconewsblog.org.uk/2017/08/09/gdpr-sorting-the-fact-from-the-fiction/
95
42
Putting 500k People's DNA Online
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/what-happens-when-you-put-500000-peoples-dna-online/543747/?single_page=true
91
110
The Rise of China and the Fall of the ‘Free Trade’ Myth
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/magazine/the-rise-of-china-and-the-fall-of-the-free-trade-myth.html
89
29
Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTQdOop-nU
14
Ejection Decision (2016)
http://www.verticalmag.com/features/ejection-decision/
88
7
Partisan: Enabling Cloud-Scale Erlang Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02652
86
79
Roam has constructed an international housing network for digital nomads
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/magazine/when-youre-a-digital-nomad-the-world-is-your-office.html
62
Opioid epidemic costs West Virginia $8.8B annually, study says
https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/health/opioid-epidemic-costs-wv-billion-annually-study-says/article_1cd8aaa5-78eb-5fd5-8619-3a0a1c086e66.html
77
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
http://sciphijournal.org/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/
75
49
Altered Carbon – All the DNA of great science-fiction with some missing links
https://www.criticalhit.net/review/altered-carbon/
A Tiny Hedge Fund Made 8,600% on a Vix Bet